You were saying?
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this is what happens when people donāt chill
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What are you going to do when thisā¦wins?
Edit: nevermind. Congrats on the win, Iām honestly thinking about entering the art portion just so I can hopefully make helry- sorry hoseryx have joint armor, no other reason.
Edit: Nevermind this never won and Iām coming back almost six months later to cover my tracks
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It hasnāt won yet, partner.
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Really stoked about this model. Really represents my biosona in the community.
It hasnāt? Iām still a bit confused how this last portion works.
Theyāve got to eliminate bot votes and total the amounts afterwards. This means verifying every single account on every single entry, which still hasnāt happened yet since the contest goes on for another 12 hours.
Then itās up to Greg whether or not it becomes canon. If he disapproves he is presented with the runner up, which he may also disapprove.
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They check for any accounts using the same email address, basically checking for dupe accounts.
Which is logically sound: otherwise, if someone wants an entry to win, they can just make a whole bunch of accounts and all vote for that entry.
I actually have a deep pit in my stomach seeing this having a lead so close to the end of the contest. Even with the auditing, Iām worried that this will still win. This āsetā will be supposed to āstandā (for lack of a better word) among the same team as Lesovikk. Remember that everyone.
Two accounts with the same mail could just be a parent and his child
I dont know how anyone could really know the difference 
The idea of someone deciding what votes are legit and changing the outcome makes the contest kind of pointless
And also siblings. Itās happened before, and is an issue theyāre aware of. People are able to get ahold of the moderators through email or another means if an account has been falsely banned for being a duplicate. Iāve seen people comment that their account got banned because their brother made an account or something, and the mods mistakenly thought it was a dupe account, and as far as I am aware, they got unbanned once they explained the issue.
And yes, it still isnāt perfect. No system can be. Someone could just claim they have a sibling who doesnāt actually exist, and have two accounts. There really isnāt any way to prevent that. They just have to do the best they can.
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Another option would be to just let the voting happen and not changing things midway
Im new on this side, i came over from a facebook group to vote and the experience was not really good
First i was forced to do spend some time reading on here (or leave) and now the deadline was moved just because the simplistic build is leading
This feels very messy
why not lean back and just let people vote
i dont understand whats the problem here
The deadline is the same as always, but the poll replies were locked because people were arguing a lot. Personally, I agree that the best thing is to just let people vote, but duplicate accounts do indeed need to be vetted.
If the main concern is one of transparency, it could be possible for the moderators to let us see the list of voters before and after the bot removal, but again I doubt that would be possible.
Regardless, we still have just 10 hours or so more to go. Iāve voted for Noodle myself, so really I just hope the win is legitimate.
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Lesovikk and Helryx were never on the same team. Iām fairly certain they never even met each other.
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Iād also add the rule ājoke entries are not allowedā and it would be perfect
(Edit: I know that the author said that his Hoseryx is not a joke, but cāmon that canāt be true)
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Firstly, this isnāt anything new. Dupe accounts have always been against the message board rules.
Second, the checking for dupe accounts was not done on the first poll, because the moderators didnāt think they had to. They trusted people to vote legitimately. Should they have done a check for dupes? Maybe. Would it have impacted the results? Maybe. But they did as you said, just trusted people and let them vote.
It wasnāt until the second poll, when there was a huge influx of new accounts, that they felt they had to check for dupes. Particularly when people pointed out two accounts with the same avatar, that joined at the same time and voted for the same entry ā more than a little suspicious (although apparently not actually a dupe?) There were many people saying the mods needed to count for dupes, so they did. And there werenāt just dupes voting for this model, but others as well. One model only won because of dupes, and it wasnāt this one.
As for why it matters, if people are allowed to make all the dupes they want, then the contest no longer matters. Itās no longer a question of who can make the most popular moc, but who can make the most accounts to support their favorite.
One last thing I want to say: if you donāt trust the moderators here to host this contest as fairly and legitimately as possible, if you truly think they would manipulate the votes, Iām not sure what else I can say to convince you otherwise. Only that I trust them, many people here trust them, and to the best of my knowledge, Greg Farshtey trusts them.
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Iāve seen a few people now, who are angry this moc is doing well, not even know who the character is.
Really makes you think.
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You seem nice and If you trust them, i could try it too.
But i dont understand why my first post was set to private 
Sorry about that; I flagged it to see if the mods wanted to move the discussion to the canon contests topic, since itās gotten a bit off-topic here. Your post is fine.
I think you can just edit it a bit after a few minutes and undo the set to private thing.
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Really? Youād figure that the first toa would be on the first toa team