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Originally Posted by Espy

1. Well, uh, that's easy to catch. Just potentially time-consuming.



2. What kind of avatar contest system are we talking about?



That's...an interesting idea. I can't speak for the coders in terms of how feasible it'd be.



3. That is very much not true. (Coming from an unbiased I-don't-pick-contest-winners-but-I-know-how-they're-picked POV)

Broke your message up into questions if that's ok.

1. It is easy to catch, but I'm just pointing out that it is time consuming and the fact that things have happened in the past where it can go uncaught rather easily as well. So unless there was some sort of extra surveillance or precautions in place I can see where a referral system would go sour.

2. I believe Ginger was referring to a more traditional avatar rating system (avatar arena) and I'm saying that if we would have something to what Gaia has we would need to think of a better foundation for the voting process. Like either up-voting a avatar or down-voting, users can't see their current rank or place in the arena. But that's just one idea, there are many ways around this idea. But that's if we would take the users vote tactic. But even traditional submit an avatar and let admins/moderators choose their favorite could work as well, but that goes back to the same old overflowing the site with too many contests topic I mentioned before. The main difference between the two is user voting, and a traditional blue ribbon contest system. That's why I suggest to keep two different versions of said contest. But when we go to user voting contests my biggest concern is how many people coming to the site now to vote.

3. It was more from my standpoint of things; and it's hard to judge. Trisphee does a good job of having multiple tiers of winners 'Staffs pick' 'Users pick' and 'certain persons pick', things in that nature. So this is more of a standpoint of things no one is really right or wrong to this question as it's perspective. :/