I foolishly decided to join another contest. Alli "and" Ali decided to have one. Their instructions were to take a picture with their hair, and then enter with that picture. There weren't too many rules listed. The prize was to be $500L and be the design model for the next released hair.
Sounds great, sounds easy, right? Well..
The first day the contest seemed fair and went well. The second day, obviously it became a competition between me and someone I'll refer to as Sleaze. Sleaze started to bring tons and tons of people in to vote for her. Later that day she bragged to me that her realty group had 800 clients. I think that was an intimidation thing, because it worked. I was now trying to think of all the people in my groups, and how I could get away with bugging every one of them to come vote for me so I could at least keep up.
Over the next few days I had some wonderful friends of mine show up everyday to vote. I had one friend who brought all her gorgeous man friends to vote too. I kept a relatively small distance behind Sleaze the leader.
The next day turned ugly. Ugly like Sleaze herself. The first time it happened I told her in open chat to not do it again. She acted like she didn't know what I was talking about. The next day, she did it again. She imed a friend who was clearly there for me, and asked them to vote for HER. The NERVE of Sleaze! So, again, I told her nicely in open chat to not do it again. The next day, she did it again. By then I had had enough. I told my friends present what she was doing and one of them went off on her on voice, after Sleaze said some horrid things on voice. I didn't hear any of that, as I don't use voice. It got really ugly, and someone let management know, and shortly after, they disabled voice.
Unfortunately, it didn't stop Sleaze. She resorted to creating new alts for more votes. She at one point was 100 votes ahead of me and yet she resorted to creating alts, trying to steal my votes from my friends, and it is also rumored that she was paying for people to vote for her. Pathetic!
To make a long story short, the contest was just not fair to anyone else in the competition. After a few days of drama and script issues, the managers decided, with my urging to disqualify both me and Sleaze. It was a move that I welcomed. I didn't really care to win, and I am not unhappy about losing. Now maybe the contest is fair to those left to compete!
Contests need to be arranged so there isn't any cheating involved. Right now can't be helped, but little adjustments to scripts can help.
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