Yeahaaaaaa, I finaly placed in something. Thank you for holding the contest Elizabeth and I reckon I would do another like this. Congratulations folks Darkerebus, FlybyNight and koakiss, some mighty fine pieces yaw did. Have a gooden everybody A.D.

Thank you for being mature about your mistake and taking measures to correct them.

I will not go to the contest gallery to do a contest. I entered for fun not to win anything, had a lifetime of competition, have retired from that. Will not spend a dime here ever. Heck will be easy for me, I paint most of my stuff anyway. Only reason I will continue to come here is the friends I have made. I will be posting at other sites and making friends there, eventually I may leave here completely. Have had enough lies from administrators to last me a life time. I do hope this site sinks to the bottom, with the type of decisions being made here, it will. Double talk, lies, what is best for you. Been told to the masses through history as a prelude to collapse.

Hisminky, I disagree, this is not a sandbox, this is a business site. It is all about money pure and simple. They make money from advertisments, from a portion of the sales and probably other ways I have no idea about. And as a business they want that almighty dollar, we (the posters) are the consumers if we do not spend our dollar here, yes they will listen or go out of business. Look at what Sears did years ago, took away the floor help, downsized, customers were disenchanted and took their money elsewhere. Causing them to reevaluate their policies. Will be the same here when the customer gets upset and does not return. Takes awhile but that is what will happen. We are not the beggars!! As far as portfolio's go, I would bet that 99% of everyone here has their works backed up in at least one other way than in their galleries here.

Ya know what gets me most about all this is respect, they had no respect for US posters. We just a friggen number on a page to them. Will be a cold day in hades before I spend another penny here. When the merchants that rely on this for a good part of their income start losing money, maybe the ADMIN. will see the writing on the wall.

This is the reply I got from my first inquiry, when I had no idea what was going on. Instant Message from Shoshanna: Contests are no longer permitted to be held in the Poser galleries and must now work from contest pages. The admin have removed many contest entries because of this decision. Shoshanna. This is my reply: Archive of message sent to Shoshanna: The arbitrary manner in which the administration took action in this case is despicable. At one point the administration was pointing out all the contest in its newsletter. For months now this has been going on and then to delete postings without an explanation is unacceptable and definitly not a way to run a business. We should have our postings reposted along with the comments and view counts. With an apology extended to everyone that was affected. I am sure posters would not be adverse to a change in title to stay within these new guidelines that have been imposed without notification. Thank you A.D.

Oh they are there, just if they want to go through all the trouble of digging them out.

I was not given any type of reason. From what I can gather most of us were not given a reason. Just bam, posting is gone. Sure would be nice to get our postings back with comments and views and such. This looks to be getting crazier and crazier

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They sure need to let us know what constitutes a legal contest and what doesn't. Awhile back Rendo was supporting contest in the newsletter. This makes no sense from the information we have so far. An Instant message to change the name would of been polite and respectful. I am sure they had more than an hours window or such that it had to be done immediately.

This is bull crap them deleting out images like that. Contest going on all over the place. This could of been handled in alot better manner than this. Most comments I ever had, and was very proud of that. This sucks.