Hello, I am one of 3 administrators of UndeadXbox. The rest of my community and I are outraged at the final results of the contest. We can not see how the placement ended up the way it is, and feel that the contest was handled improperly in the first place.
For starters round 3, originally stated to be the top 5 voted forums (which would not even INCLUDE worlddesignz or geek police) was spontaneously changed to 10 forums.
Round 4, originally stated to decide the top 3 out of 5 based on votes, ended up being completely meaningless as you did not follow through with this. Once again changing the contest at the last second and making the votes that we worked so hard to get (believing that they mattered) were meaningless.
The response we recieved was that the votes "aided" your decision. However as Darren1 responded at the end of round 4 "Thank you to everyone whom has participated this this round, you have truely made our job of deciding the winner more difficult, even though it is clear at whom it will be," it seemed you had already picked your winner, BandA based on their number of votes. Yet at the same time, while we believed that we were AT LEAST getting third placed based on having the 2nd most amount of votes, we came in fifth. I've looked at all of the competing websites just as much as the judges it the past couple of weeks and I can not see in any way, shape or form, how
1. BandA wins first place. While we realize that it's entirely possible that BandA won legitimately, we are forced to question the results based on their votes.
Their sob stories in the competition threads must have had something to do with their win. Their number of votes also seemed very fishy. Within hours of each round they had 40-50 votes, and climbed to 90 votes. Yet during these rounds they did not even have enough user "log in within the past 48 hours" to match this. This would mean that they were getting a ton of non-BandA members to vote for them. This would mean that EVERYBODY else voted for them, because I know that the other forums including ourselves, could barely muster up 5 votes from non-members.
2. Fifth place? Are you serious? We saw the possibility of 2nd, maybe even 3rd, but fifth? There must be something you are not understanding about the depth and hardwork that goes into our community and our forum. There are many private sections of our forum limited to certain groups, and outside flash pages.
3. Just read the topic aimed towards us and our behavior. I am disgusted that you would factor in our "behavior" into your competition. The contest is based on the best forum of 2011, not who pissed you off (MAKING YOUR DECISIONS AS JUDGES BIASED). I apologize and have previously apologized for the replies on members and even staff members of my community before, but this is a competition and we are a very passionate community and to try and silence an entire community is impossible. This point alone should result in a change in final result.
4. It seems that the judges looked poorly upon our raffle. As stated before we took this competition very seriously. We had a raffle for those who voted, posted a thread on our website and even created a very well done youtube video to show our users how to vote. This is a competition and we wanted and tried hard to win it. Other websites who did not even post a topic on their websites (and probably even forgot they entered in the first place,) showed no interest in the contest.
Make no mistake, we proudly call ourselves number five in all of forummotion -- an appelation that we feel makes us unique. Our post here is not meant to be inflammatory or berating, we're simply outraged at the way the contest was conducted and we request some more information.
For starters round 3, originally stated to be the top 5 voted forums (which would not even INCLUDE worlddesignz or geek police) was spontaneously changed to 10 forums.
Round 4, originally stated to decide the top 3 out of 5 based on votes, ended up being completely meaningless as you did not follow through with this. Once again changing the contest at the last second and making the votes that we worked so hard to get (believing that they mattered) were meaningless.
The response we recieved was that the votes "aided" your decision. However as Darren1 responded at the end of round 4 "Thank you to everyone whom has participated this this round, you have truely made our job of deciding the winner more difficult, even though it is clear at whom it will be," it seemed you had already picked your winner, BandA based on their number of votes. Yet at the same time, while we believed that we were AT LEAST getting third placed based on having the 2nd most amount of votes, we came in fifth. I've looked at all of the competing websites just as much as the judges it the past couple of weeks and I can not see in any way, shape or form, how
1. BandA wins first place. While we realize that it's entirely possible that BandA won legitimately, we are forced to question the results based on their votes.
Their sob stories in the competition threads must have had something to do with their win. Their number of votes also seemed very fishy. Within hours of each round they had 40-50 votes, and climbed to 90 votes. Yet during these rounds they did not even have enough user "log in within the past 48 hours" to match this. This would mean that they were getting a ton of non-BandA members to vote for them. This would mean that EVERYBODY else voted for them, because I know that the other forums including ourselves, could barely muster up 5 votes from non-members.
2. Fifth place? Are you serious? We saw the possibility of 2nd, maybe even 3rd, but fifth? There must be something you are not understanding about the depth and hardwork that goes into our community and our forum. There are many private sections of our forum limited to certain groups, and outside flash pages.
3. Just read the topic aimed towards us and our behavior. I am disgusted that you would factor in our "behavior" into your competition. The contest is based on the best forum of 2011, not who pissed you off (MAKING YOUR DECISIONS AS JUDGES BIASED). I apologize and have previously apologized for the replies on members and even staff members of my community before, but this is a competition and we are a very passionate community and to try and silence an entire community is impossible. This point alone should result in a change in final result.
4. It seems that the judges looked poorly upon our raffle. As stated before we took this competition very seriously. We had a raffle for those who voted, posted a thread on our website and even created a very well done youtube video to show our users how to vote. This is a competition and we wanted and tried hard to win it. Other websites who did not even post a topic on their websites (and probably even forgot they entered in the first place,) showed no interest in the contest.
Make no mistake, we proudly call ourselves number five in all of forummotion -- an appelation that we feel makes us unique. Our post here is not meant to be inflammatory or berating, we're simply outraged at the way the contest was conducted and we request some more information.
