What is the point in being respectful? Firstly, congratulations to the winners of Challenge 15. There are some seriously good snappers in the Steemit community. Like all art, photography is very subjective and we all react in our own ways ... thank goodness! My favourite is by @okkiedot because ... I can happily hang it on my wall and I very much like the composition.  But ... and here is the beef. The topic was not spiders or webs or anything of the sort. It was 'Mystery'. Then it was changed. The example given:  We are all allowed to change our minds and I have no problem with that. We should be more open than we are to being proven imperfect!! But ... when you do change your mind, it is normal to evaluate the consequences and act accordingly. Or is this just too old-fashioned? My submission simply got 'pulled' and the reason: "low ratings" ... perhaps "low ratings" is a euphemism. I wrote a few posts, as below: ebryans53 · 7 days ago Am I the only person to have submitted a 'mystery' photograph? If so, good, because I win! All those cobwebs ... this is a much better theme! I am still unsure as to why my entry was 'pulled'! Please let me know. Many thanks. ebryans53 · 3 days ago Excuse me @elewarne, could you let me know why ... ? and this to @jamtaylor : ebryans53 · 1 week ago Thank you for the update, I posted a photo as soon as I saw the theme - Mystery with an example included! My post got pulled due to lack of traffic or something. How do you get to win when you have been pulled and the theme has been changed? Traffic tough from where I sit, votes even harder!! Still no response has been received. The organisers managed to find the resources to create a montage of the competition and a visual, encompassing the entries:  In about 20 seconds they could have written this: "We are sorry, our guest judge has decided upon a different theme for Challenge No. 15. Thank you for your submission. May we encourage you to send in a spider's web." So, 'maitai' say thank you for the work you put in to the challenges @randyclemens, @jamtaylor and @berniesanders but tidy up after a mess! As for @elewarne ... grow some manners. I am fed up with being nice to people with absent standards of behaviour. It is simply not worth it. This post is not designed to be divisive or detrimental in any way. It is designed to add value to the Steemit community. I do hope I have succeeded in this and for any offence caused, I can only offer my sincere apologies, @elewarne included. Please point the corners of your mouth towards your ears and share some Lava! I shall move along to No. 16, with gusto ... shall we?
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hiveblocksHello there,
This was brought to my attention by someone, since we as yet do not have tag notifications natively and the Slack one doesn't work anymore (at least not for me.) so I don't see when people tag me anymore, unfortunately. If you commented on the SPC winners itself, I'm sorry that I did not see your message.
The official Steemit Photo Challenge comes from my account, with a certain layout and look. Anything else from anywhere else is not part of my SPC project unless there is some endorsement from my account.
So, not knowing what you were talking about, I decided to look into it through your comments. It seems as if you took [this post](https://steemit.com/steemitphotochallenge/@elewarne/steemit-photo-challenge-15-mystery) as a theme announcement, which it clearly was not. The theme was never "Mystery", even that post says 'how about...' as a suggestion. I decided on Spiderwebs in private chat with the judge on Oct. 25th after his suggestion in public, "Mystery" as the theme was never a suggestion or an option.
Now, the reason your 'entry' was flagged by myself is because it wasn't an entry to the steemitphotochallenge, since I was not aware that you had mistakenly accepted somebody else's challenge suggestion as the official theme. All I saw was an entry that wasn't even on theme while going through the tag. That's what 'low ratings' means, after a post has been flagged.
So, in the end — always check that you're looking at the official SPC announcement posts, which come from my account OR check that I have endorsed them.
#16 is currently under way, deadline having been extended to Tuesday night, and the theme is Food photography.
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Are you saying that you did not receive this: @jamtaylor : ebryans53 · 1 week ago Thank you for the update, I posted a photo as soon as I saw the theme - Mystery with an example included! My post got pulled due to lack of traffic or something. How do you get to win when you have been pulled and the theme has been changed? Traffic tough from where I sit, votes even harder!! I think that was sent to you. I certainly received no reply.
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I'm saying I did not see it at the time.
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