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This really isn't just sour grapes but there's clearly far too many junk photo's getting into competitions. Too many good ones are being overlooked, and too many rubbish ones beating those good ones.
The latest competition I saw has a finalist photo with an item badly superimposed over a background, with differing lighting, shadows and bits missing from it. This was a FINALIST photo out of nearly 6000 lol!
As someone else pointed out below, it's clearly who you know here, rather than your skill level.
I'm also a member of a photograph club (150+ members) where most others joined too. We all get the same emails, for example everyone's most viewed photo received a Spring Selection Reward, most of us had our most viewed photo with an animal entered into the Animal Kingdom competition, we often receive likes/awards from the same person (automated? Bots?), and some members who have deleted their accounts still receive emails saying they've had more likes or peer awards! Work that one out!
Unfortunately I paid for 2 years, but will now be requesting my money back.
***Update and response to ViewBug***
Thanks for the copy&paste reply Viewbug, it's the same one as you sent me via email. At least you were good enough to give me my money back and downgrade my account.
I understand that you have to tow the official line, and try to make it look like there's nothing wrong, but with many people leaving your service, some for the issues raised here, surely it's time for you to change your site?
Until that happens, I for one, am out.
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Hello Ian,
Thank you for spending the time to share your feedback with us!
We understand that when it comes to contests seeing some finalists and winners might be frustrating. As you know, it is very hard to please everyone and the judges take the process very seriously. Art is in the eye of the beholder and the judges as well as voters each has a different interpretation of the techniques and creativity behind each photo submitted. We see the contests as a great tool to explore our creativity and expertise behind specific themes.
Please know that ViewBug does not have sole control over contest finalists and winners selection. Depending on the contest guidelines, some winners are selected by members’ votes via the Photo Trifecta and others are judged by a judging panel. The Photo Trifecta is based on a proprietary algorithm that helps us choose the best photos based on the people's choice. Winning photos are selected based on quality, originality, and creativity in accordance with the contest’s theme.
While some awards are given to only certain members to recognize their hard work and provide exposure to their profile. There are also some awards like the Spring Selection Award that are given to all members’ most popular photos to show them which of their photo is our members’ favorite.
We’d be happy to learn more about how we could have improved your experience with us. Please feel free to contact our member support team via email at members@viewbug.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
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