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We see a lot of last minute and large qty vote increases in the last few seconds of the contest.  How is this possible?

Does your company manipulate things to keep the same people from winning the contest over and over again.  Is there some type of program you have that shuffles votes around or something?  

I am not so sure that all the problems we are seeing are a result of cheating, i have to wonder how much of it is induced by your company.

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Originally Posted by Deborah Gebert Garland:
We see a lot of last minute and large qty vote increases in the last few seconds of the contest.  How is this possible?

Does your company manipulate things to keep the same people from winning the contest over and over again.  Is there some type of program you have that shuffles votes around or something?  

I am not so sure that all the problems we are seeing are a result of cheating, i have to wonder how much of it is induced by your company.

I answered this your question in a personal message. If you like, you can copy it here.

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I know Michael Roach submitted a NEW tank - including the bats which came out after the last contest - so it is very unfair of you to have pulled his entry. I am so disappointed in the administration of this game. Cheaters with multiple accounts are allowed to win and Michael and Dennis D Menace are denied their honest entries. You should get rid of the contest entirely since obviously you cannot run it fairly.

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Originally Posted by Barbara Carpenter:
I know Michael Roach submitted a NEW tank - including the bats which came out after the last contest - so it is very unfair of you to have pulled his entry. I am so disappointed in the administration of this game. Cheaters with multiple accounts are allowed to win and Michael and Dennis D Menace are denied their honest entries. You should get rid of the contest entirely since obviously you cannot run it fairly.

I wrote him already that I might have been wrong about his tank participating in the contest on the previous week.
I don't remember any of Dennis's tanks.

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You "might" have been wrong? Yes, you were wrong, and you should publicly apologize and reinstate and award his entry. Saying you "might" have been wrong is really a weak apology. I suspect his tank and Dennis D Menace's were removed because they have been vocal about the unfairness of the votes from multiple entries. This put a target on their backs. Their tanks were new and constructed of items that weren't even available until right before the contest started. So it's obvious that you DID make a mistake.  I don't have much confidence in the contest any more.

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Sorry, somehow it got posted twice and I see no way to remove one except by typing something else.

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This is where I see the problem lies. We have all complained many times about cheaters winning. We have all given suggestions to fix the problem. And we have all complained about the way they are trying to fix an already imperfect system.

I see that they take some of what we suggest and make it work however they can. They can not warn people they are doing this, because who knows who all of the real cheaters are, and as they stated, they can not figure out how some are staying up top week after week and it not be from multiple accounts.

What happened this last contest was horrible...I have been personally attacked for days, and as far as I know, "I" am the only one that has been accused of cheating. Billy Ruddick was blocked from the game for defending me from the people that were continuing to slander me. So in the end, he is the one that paid the biggest price of all, and he was not in the contest. Something needs to be done to reinstate his account please.

So when we look at the BIG PICTURE...we can either accept the decisions 3D makes where the contest is concerned, or not enter...I know it's screwed up, but I like that I have a fighting chance of placing each week, because I know I work had on my designs and I know I do not cheat. NOT BECAUSE I WRITE IN THE FORUMS, as had been stated in a certain group.