Sergeant Cid Posted:

I’m actually waiting to hear input from other Mods in a separate discussion. At first glance, while the rules do not specifically address this particular issue, it seems to fall under Rule #9 under the Contest Rules. Encouraging multiple people to create false contests (which, in essence, these would be) would, essentially, be ’harbuming, griefing or generally annoying another player’, since anyone attempting to enter these contests would probably be annoyed to find out that it’s all fake. Plus, it could easily interfere with legitimate contests as well. Add to that the general clause of ‘These rules are intended as guidelines’, and that’s really why the contest was paused.

In other words, your contest is under review, not actually ‘cancelled’. I do agree, however, that you should have been notified about the ‘review’ soon after it was pulled.

Ah, an argument I didn’t see coming. The entire point of the “male reproductive organS IN MY bum” line was to show, in the OP, that a contest was created solely for the chance of winning my BP. The contest entries couldn’t outright say “this is for Hobart’s contest I don’t intend on paying out” because they would qualify for toxx as soon as they were made, and people would get banned for nothing since someone could easily “outbid” them on the last day while they were stuck serving a toxx ban.