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In your description of the contest it is claimed "After a tank has been exposed to the contest, it stays in its initial state till the end of the contest period. Any changes in a user’s tank won’t affect the exposed work." This is in fact 100% incorrect. The tank I presently have entered in the contest has changed considerably since I entered it. The fish have continued to grow which most certainly does not come under the heading of unchanging as AquaLife3D has stated. I spent time and diamonds to buy the pills needed to make the fish in the tank the exact size I wanted them to be and now it seems that all that effort was in vain. This is something you obviously overlooked and needs to be corrected. You also need to add the ability to remove a tank from the gallery after it has been entered since the tank I entered is now not the one that is being displayed.

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I am very sad, and it is not because my tank won any thing.. It is because this was a contest that was to be voted on for the MOST BEAUTIFUL TANK IN AQUA LIFE 3D. you mean I spent 10 of my diamonds to see the winners that hardly have no art work and just fish that won? This is not a contest that is for the MOST BEAUTIFUL TANK (which is art work) but the MOST POPULAR CONTEST. Is't that the way. just like politics. You need to inform your contest players that this contest is not about BEAUTIFUL ART WORK but a POPULARITY CONTEST. I won't do this again.. and I know what you are thinking, well if you don't like it then you don't have to play. VERY SAD INDEED SO MISS LEADING...... :-(

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Originally Posted by Vickie Judge:
I am very sad, and it is not because my tank won any thing.. It is because this was a contest that was to be voted on for the MOST BEAUTIFUL TANK IN AQUA LIFE 3D. you mean I spent 10 of my diamonds to see the winners that hardly have no art work and just fish that won? This is not a contest that is for the MOST BEAUTIFUL TANK (which is art work) but the MOST POPULAR CONTEST. Is't that the way. just like politics. You need to inform your contest players that this contest is not about BEAUTIFUL ART WORK but a POPULARITY CONTEST. I won't do this again.. and I know what you are thinking, well if you don't like it then you don't have to play. VERY SAD INDEED SO MISS LEADING...... :-(

Well, I am also not satisfied with the contest results. We tried to make the contest as fair as possible - showing the exposed works for the equal periods of time and then providing the possibility to browse through ALL the contest works, but nevertheless some 'empty' tanks got a lot of votes and got on the Leader board. Note that there is no 'search for friends' option!
This week we enlarged the winners list to 100 and prohibited exposing the tanks with less than 7 decorations in them. We are also almost done with the option availabl for game administration to moderate the contest results.

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Originally Posted by Stephen Van Patten:
In your description of the contest it is claimed "After a tank has been exposed to the contest, it stays in its initial state till the end of the contest period. Any changes in a user’s tank won’t affect the exposed work." This is in fact 100% incorrect. The tank I presently have entered in the contest has changed considerably since I entered it. The fish have continued to grow which most certainly does not come under the heading of unchanging as AquaLife3D has stated. I spent time and diamonds to buy the pills needed to make the fish in the tank the exact size I wanted them to be and now it seems that all that effort was in vain. This is something you obviously overlooked and needs to be corrected. You also need to add the ability to remove a tank from the gallery after it has been entered since the tank I entered is now not the one that is being displayed.

I feel the same as Stephen Van Patten. I have not changed the size of the fish, but in my Predator tank should remain baby fish! Because I have 13 or 14 baby fish (Badis Rubber) in the tank, and now they all appear to be fully grown, they distract totally from the decoration and the Predators  :-(

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Apparently the administrators did not deem this complaint worthy of a response. This is unfortunate but has been the case in the past so I'm not surprised at all.

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I think the reason that some seemingly unattractive tanks are winning is the way you display entries. If you will analyze the situation, most of these winning tanks are among the first to enter the competition.

While you gave everybody the same amount of exposure, displaying a FIXED list creates a bias among voters. Voters tend to look for the top of the list where people with high votes are and pay less attention to other entries. Most votes are concentrated at the top because it is a fixed list. I think it will be fair if you RANDOMIZE your list per cycle, shuffle tanks every display cycle.