Just joined the site - just left it too

Just because you cannot enter a contest does not give you the right to be angry or abusive.

he won't  be back

I was going to stay out of this But he does a have a point if you read the rules.

i agree he has a valid point concerning the contest rules. his language and abusive comments are not warranted, though.

I Agree with that.

Like me, I bet JJ has a non-moderated acceptance level on Wincustomize. This allows any submission to be immediately approved and the show up on the site. This allowed him to enter the contest without question from Stardock.

I'm sure it will either be removed or will be disqualified after the contest deadline.

As for the Splode dream, is Seabass a Stardock employee or a contractor?

Splode, I do not think is an official entry. It was created as a demo to help those entering the contesst...

I think you're right - Seabass mentions it's an example of what not to do - for an article not yet uploaded

Quick Lesson in Dreams

Thats what I was thinking until I read this comment on the dream page from him:

I guess it's possible he may have decided to keep working on it even if he didn't plan to submit it for the contest.

Yes but does he have the right to do it I don't think so!

Because he may have spent a whole month doing the theme the thing now that he is going to get disqualified and I hope he will because if I knew I could easily have submitted my entry as in the other post they were seeing that you can submit no one is looking at them!

I hope that is the solution and everyone JJYing that is from the same country as I am gets disqualified there are friends of mine that could have win this easily!

And contestants that have more than 18 not like some that are here!

Anyway the other ppl and organizations will be knowing this

Why havent you and your friends entered the contest?

Like JJ Ying, they are from China, and the contest is for US residents only.

Maybe you don't read the rules when you enter into a contest:

Let's see where is it ah yes here it is:

Terms & Conditions

Eligibility:

* US Residents Only (except Rhode Island)
* Must be 18 years of age or older
* Employees of Stardock, Dell, Alienware, Microsoft, their friends and immediate families are not eligible to enter.

So I am not from US I'm from China my friends also are
JJYing is a chinese and is in China
the other is a Stardock Employee
Some have not 18 years

Well but ppl don't read the rules or just try to be blind and not see it and then
they invest so much time on the work and then they will start to complain
because they are from some other foreign country and his work must have won the contest

Common gimme a break

"easily" and "no one is looking at them" are not the good terms
JJYing is a Master (level 5) on Wincustomize.com, so his submissions are not moderated. (see About for anymore info).
All others, who are not submissions by journeymen or higher levels (4 to 9) pass by moderation.
that's also the case of Seabass, BUT in Seabass case his submission is not really a submission it's a part of a tutorial i linked above.

Quick Lesson in Dreams

Anyway, you should understand: like in every contest people give their work and after contest judge decide who are the winners (and who are disqualified) the Rules of 18 years old, US residents, and no MS, SD and alienware employees was given by alienware. AND they will be followed by contest judges

* US Residents Only (except Rhode Island)
* Must be 18 years of age or older

As a matter of interest, who came up with these rules? Seems rather draconian  :NOTSURE: 

Ok then several rules are being broken

I thought this was going to be like for all the same but it seems that you are violating once again the terms

First:
"Eligibility"
"Employees of Stardock, Dell, Alienware, Microsoft, their friends and immediate families are not eligible to enter."

that means that every friend of someone that is here and has a friend from a Stardock guy or girl is in breach of the term many employees here of Stardock have friends among here I believe!

So unless the contenders are not the friends of ppl that work at Stardock they shouldn't even be qualifying but once again JJYing has!

Second: (and not to repeat all my points)

"Submissions"
"Submissions must be the original work of the person uploading."

After seeing some works my doubts showed and you can see some ppl made a cut and paste I don't know how it idd past through moderation

Third:
"Submissions"
"All entries must be new work, not previously posted to WinCustomize or any other website."

Again some are not new work they are just edited and this its copy and paste violating the rules
And some works are now being displayed into another sites other than wincustomize

Fourth:
"Judging"

"Winning submissions will be selected by contest staff made up of representatives from WinCustomize, Stardock and Alienware."

I don't see where's the differenece between staff from Stardock and staff from Wincustomize that's just stupid"

Fifth:
"Eligibility" the most important one
"Eligibility:

* US Residents Only (except Rhode Island)
* Must be 18 years of age or older"

Ppl have not 18 years old or older and some are not US residents (take JJying) im from his country and could have if I wanted easily submitted

Sixth:
"Submissions"
"All submissions to the contest will be reviews by contest staff before being made public. "

Yes right it is so certain that chicken will start to kill bears
Nah seriously It wasn't reviewed and ppl prefer to just be blind and let other submissions go on that's the truth
even if you are a master as Quentin said it should have be reviewed!

If they don't read the rules, then that's their fault. Not something you should be spouting off about to Stardock, they will, I'm sure, handle all the unqualifying entries properly. Settle down.





The state of Rhode Island doesn't allow much in the way of contests and such. The U.S. Residents only...not sure about that limitation on this contest.
The 18 years of age or older restriction, most (read that as MOST) contests have an age requirement associated with them for legal reasons, I'm sure this has the same legal mumbo jumbo.

1.  Splode is not an actual contest entry

2.  JJ Ying's entry is not elligible for judging. 

When we do the judging next week we will be sorting out who is and isn't elligible and judging based on that.  Just because it was submitted and posted, does not mean it's necessarily elligible.

The limitations on who could enter were requested by the sponsor.

Please hold your anger until we actually select the winners.  Until that happens, everything is just conjecture and guess work.

And we have the GUI Champs coming up in 2008, and you can bet there will be a Dream category.  For the GUIC, we open the contest to everyone everywhere (including SD employees, folks from China etc)

Stardock Staff are folks on the Stardock payroll.  So that's people like myself, Island Dog, Frogboy, KarmaGirl, T-Man etc. 

WinCustomize staff are volunteers who help keep the site moving along.  That's people like Fuzzy Logic, Quentin94, elvee, WOM, CerebroJD etc.

I just read this and Dude :NOTSURE: take it easy.

Confucius Says

  

This is a Problem. IT clearly states that it would be reviewed before made public.
There for since it was made public it was already reviewed . Given it that it is being Accepted in contest.

The complaint is easy to see. And is a valid Complaint.


JJ Ying's has been made public.

Granted, but some folks don't completely read the rules/fine print all the time. Do you? Look at it this way, the best submission isn't going to win. The Dream that wins will be the best QUALIFYING submission. Have faith in the judges, I'm sure the first thing they'll do is to see if the submission qualify's or not.

Now I shall answer some questions and put more proofs:
See below




1st:If Splode is not an actual contest entry it shouldn't have been put reviewed and the moderators have let him be into that section the appropriate section should have been Animated Wallpapers or should I say Dreams!


2nd: Well if it isn't I am glad but some people do not think so the same whom you might ask let me tell him and others I shall post the proof below!
But seriously you should contact him because he might be upset and I am talking the truth see below

Proof1:
From site:jjying.cn

But maybe even without having eye diseases I am reading not well or it's my imagination I forgot that JJYing use glasses into his pick maybe who submitted this might be needing needs or already have glasses but need to change them

Proof2:
From site:deviantart.com

So here as you see they were already questioning if maybe he/she couldn't enter that's my interpretation

Another proof and one of the most valid and I hope that the guy that made the rules before or after execution of them wasn't drunk that guy Michael

Now answering question of Snidely:




1st:I'm here to express my anger because ppl from all the whole could have been entered but the rules are strict US only and not any stardock employees or less than 18 !
I just showed the fact that something was wrong and was against the odds!


2nd: Do I need to upload any screenshots or skins to be part of here into this site! When I register I can tell you that I believe there are ppl that might be registered and haven't uploaded anything so don't come with non-sense talk!


3rd:Because the fact that I didn't download anything I can't be here is this racist discrimination!Your should have review what you write before it is posted! Also who says I haven't downloaded before you do not need to have an account to download yet to be registered! More non-sense talk!


4th: Because I joined the site today I don't have the right to post something or even reply! That's bullshit that means that when you register into a forum or you join a site you will never have the right to talk! I don't know how many rules you have broken in your comment


5th: No I did not specifically because must I remind you I am Chinese I was just talking for many people that have seen that contest but weren't eligible to enter the contest yet some ppl don't read the rules!
I was trying to someone saw this big mess

6th: Out of curiosity I think it is plain curiosity could you rephrase?

That six points for me
Snidely = 0
Huang Choi=6