Apology accepted, on the condition that all deleted contest images are restored. I was rather pissed that one of my contest entries - one of my best images to date, and the one that got the most comments - was deleted.
But may I suggest some things for the contest area? The rules there are rather restrictive - no nudity, no violence - so a contest like Prog's H & H cannot be run there now. The way the contest area is set up now requires these strict rules.
I'd suggest expanding the contest area so that you can have a contest that allows nudity/violence, the whole contest being flagged. So people who don't want to see nudity and/or violence won't even know the contest is being held.
I recognize the need to change the rules from time to time. But if you do, please announce the change in a timely and unmistakable manner (put a link to the announcement in the page headers for instance).
People make mistakes, nobody's perfect, and I'm not going to fry anyone over a mistake - provided that everything is being done to set things right!

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