The results of the 'Feast III' challenge have been recalculated, due to the disqualification of the former 4th place entry for being taken outside of the challenge submission dates. Congrats to our new honourable mentions!
how is that possible, wasn't that challenge like 6 months long?
it was a 48 day challenge for a day or two. but when reading the DQ reason, it stated that it had to be taken AFTER the challenge was announced.
that really sucks.
sorry Marko
ETA: looking at his pic, it says it was taken the 22nd. which was the day it was announced.
I can't see EXIF info on my phone... so I'm not sure about the time.
"Due to your 2nd disqualification in your last 25 entries, you are hereby suspended from submitting to challenges for a period of 1 week. If you have any subsequent DQs in your next 25 entries, you will receive increasing penalties, so please read the challenge rules carefully!"
Damn it... Lol!!! I forgot I self DQ'd one for getting like a 3.8 mid way through... Lol.
Self-DQ counts towards the penalty? - Strange, I'd have thought rules violations yes, but having a self-DQ count towards it seems harsh.
Well it's not as harsh as you may think because they warned me prior to giving me the self DQ that it would count towards the "2nd DQ in last 25 submissions: 1 week suspension of submission privileges" rule.
So it's not as bad as it sounds. Besides... I'm on crutches anyways so I guess it's a good time for me to be DQ'd. Lol.
Sucks, dude. But your photography's coming along really nicely, and you learned a valuable lesson, and you're being a good sport about it. Well done!
Thanks! :)
And about being a good sport.. I really have no choice. Lol. Rules are stated pretty damn clearly about this whole "date" thing. Can't fight rules that say "NO exceptions." Lol.
First let me say that I, too, so admire your acceptance of both the DQ and the suspension. Even though you "have no choice" as you say, others have gone on and on ad nauseum explaining just why they should be the one to get an exception or why the rules should be changed now that their DQ points out the flaw. I've been a member less than a year, but I've learned to detest those threads and to admire those where members accept DQ's and suspensions with grace.
Secondly, that the self DQ counts toward a suspension has come up before in threads and it makes perfect sense to me. If there was not a penalty for a self DQ, we'd all run around pulling entries that were doing poorly (by our own standards) and that would wreak havoc with the voting system. With a penalty in place, members are much less likely to use the self DQ for this reason (though I would hope most would still invoke the penalty on themselves if they realized they had inadvertently broken editing rules).
Self-DQ counts towards the penalty? - Strange, I'd have thought rules violations yes, but having a self-DQ count towards it seems harsh.
Well it's not as harsh as you may think because they warned me prior to giving me the self DQ that it would count towards the "2nd DQ in last 25 submissions: 1 week suspension of submission privileges" rule.
So it's not as bad as it sounds. Besides... I'm on crutches anyways so I guess it's a good time for me to be DQ'd. Lol.
Such class! I'm impressed.
I'm bummed, though, for you... I had that happen to me. Not fun.
I have the eos capture think set to when ever I plug a camera in to my iMac it updates the time to the server time of my mac that way all 3 bodies are synced perfectly and no errors like this
First let me say that I, too, so admire your acceptance of both the DQ and the suspension. Even though you "have no choice" as you say, others have gone on and on ad nauseum explaining just why they should be the one to get an exception or why the rules should be changed now that their DQ points out the flaw. I've been a member less than a year, but I've learned to detest those threads and to admire those where members accept DQ's and suspensions with grace.
Secondly, that the self DQ counts toward a suspension has come up before in threads and it makes perfect sense to me. If there was not a penalty for a self DQ, we'd all run around pulling entries that were doing poorly (by our own standards) and that would wreak havoc with the voting system. With a penalty in place, members are much less likely to use the self DQ for this reason (though I would hope most would still invoke the penalty on themselves if they realized they had inadvertently broken editing rules).
I fully agree with both items. I think it's great how you accept the DQ and suspension and I also think that a self DQ is to be seen as a normal DQ. Otherwise I would have requested removal of half of my submissions LOL!
