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02/11/2011 12:04:38 PM · #1
Hello!

I have just joined in to DP challenge and submitted my first photograph to a challenge!

UNFORTUNATELY for some reason all my photos I have taken in the last few months show 2008! DUH! SO I am needing to un-submit it and I swear I have been looking EVERYWHERE and googling it, I just can't find the link! Can someone point me in the right direction?

THANKS! :)
02/11/2011 12:10:45 PM · #2
I don't think you personally can, but you might be able to send a ticket to the site council here
//www.dpchallenge.com/help_contact.php
and explain the situation.


02/11/2011 12:11:33 PM · #3
Nothing you can do now but unsubmit, change your camera settings, and then shoot for the future. Good luck.
02/11/2011 12:14:24 PM · #4
Meagan, is the photo in a challenge that is now in voting? If so, you do, indeed need to contact the site council. If the challenge is still in the initial stage and accepting entries, you can withdraw the entry yourself - click on the challenge title and your entry will be displayed, complete with a button underneath to unsubmit the entry.
02/11/2011 12:21:06 PM · #5
Welcome to DPC earsofa. It should not be a big deal to get the S C to pull your photo from the current challenge by using the link provided.
Keeping the date and time correct in your camera is a good idea in general, because it keeps a correct record of when you shot each image. It's a little, easily overlooked, glitch that has DQ'd many outstanding images from challenges here, even from the best and/or most popular DPC'ers.

If you can't get it removed from the challenge, at least having a DQ will get you lots of views, because a lot of people check the DQ images out of curiosity. My only DQ, my second entry, and the worst photo of my whole DPC adventure has gotten over 1,500 views for that reason.. : )
02/11/2011 12:38:22 PM · #6
Thank you for all the quick replys and welcomes!
I have been snooping DP for quite some time now, I decided it was time to jump in.

I have been getting quite a few views from the photo I submitted, but I would hate to get my first photo DQ'd!

But yeah, I have changed the camera settings and sent a request to have it removed.

I will have to start again, haha.
02/11/2011 12:50:52 PM · #7
Good think you caught it. A lot of people don't realize the mistake and have a very unhappy first challenge experience :-)
02/11/2011 01:15:08 PM · #8
Sorry to hear about your oops, but welcome aboard!
02/11/2011 02:04:05 PM · #9
Originally posted by tanguera:

Good think you caught it. A lot of people don't realize the mistake and have a very unhappy first challenge experience :-)

I am one of those. 1st Challenge = DQ. Awesome!
02/11/2011 02:56:58 PM · #10
RE: HELP!

Welcome to DPC! Keep in mind, a DQ is usually not a life or death situation. ;-)

Using bad grammar - that's another story.
02/11/2011 06:27:47 PM · #11
Was I using bad grammar?!

I sent the request to have them remove my picture from the challenge, and they just DQ'D IT! SO SAD! Now I have a big red bar to look at.. :(

Better luck next time U guess!
02/11/2011 06:28:01 PM · #12
HAHA BAD GRAMMAR!

I GUESS****
02/11/2011 07:21:14 PM · #13
Originally posted by NiallOTuama:

I don't think you personally can, but you might be able to send a ticket to the site council here
//www.dpchallenge.com/help_contact.php
and explain the situation.


You can always unsubmit an entry yourself as long as the voting period hasn't started. I get the impression that's the case here. It is true that once it's started you would have to get the SC involved with a self DQ. However, if your photo has already been flagged for a suspected violation and you try to do a self DQ I believe your out of luck in that case and the normal process would ensue. I've never had any of that happen to me though. Just typing this raises a question in my mind though for this scenario:

Say you enter an image, and you want to unsubmit because it's tanking. Everything is legal in editing, but still someone thought otherwise and reported a suspected violation. So, now the image has to go through the scrutiny process of the site council and you can't do a self DQ at that point. My question is if the SC finds everything legal and in order with the image does the photo now become eligible for a self DQ if you want it to be (assuming it meets all the rest of the self DQ criteria such as number of challenges entries you have submitted between self DQ's etc. )My logic says it does, but one never knows...LOL.

Dave
02/11/2011 09:28:41 PM · #14
Self-DQing because an image isn't doing well is frowned upon quite ferociously around these parts.
02/11/2011 09:58:46 PM · #15
Originally posted by earsofa:

Was I using bad grammar?!

I sent the request to have them remove my picture from the challenge, and they just DQ'D IT! SO SAD! Now I have a big red bar to look at.. :(

Better luck next time U guess!

It took me until my sixth challenge to get a DQ -- really it's no big deal.

In this case, even though you self-reported the problem, it is not a "Self-DQ" because there was an actual rules violation (date) involved. In order to have a Self-DQ, the picture must be completely legal, but is being withdrawn solely at the request of the submitter. No reason is required, people have done so because they don't like the score or comments they are getting, or because their model requested it be taken down.

The only other problem this might cause you is that you technically cannot ask for a Self-DQ until you've entered 25 more challenges. However, for an enthusiastic and talented photographer, that should not be an issue ... ;-)

This picture of mine was DQ'd because of the couple of rows of pixels at the top, which got there when I accidentally dragged the Crop tool past the margin of the picture, adding those blank background pixels at a time when the rules did not allow any borders at all.
02/11/2011 10:26:22 PM · #16
You should also note that a lot of DQ's are due to not keeping a pristine "original camera file" of photos that are entered in challenges.
There are several threads about that in the archives, including information about the necessary steps to insure that you have an "original" camera file saved that will pass scrutiny if challenged for verification, or if you get a top 5 image in a challenge.
02/11/2011 10:32:53 PM · #17
Originally posted by tanguera:

Self-DQing because an image isn't doing well is frowned upon quite ferociously around these parts.


Johanna, I was just using an example where it would be determined that the photo broke no editing rules and the person had a reason or another for wanting to self DQ.

However, let's be honest here....who is going to self DQ an image that is doing well in voting and is legal....no one. So the two most likely reasons to self DQ are that the person realized that they did steps they shouldn't have and want to DQ it before it's too late and they get a normal DQ if they place high enough and need to validate or get pegged for a suspected violation. The more likely reason is that it's tanking and they don't want it to hurt their average or they want to pretend it never happened it's so bad. LOL.

There are measures in place to prevent abuse of that system. I believe you have to wait 25 challenges (that you have entered) before you can request it again. That way it doesn't become an epidemic and people pull entries left and right due to scoring.
If you do a self DQ you also stand the risk of getting a regular DQ if you're not careful which means you would be suspended a week I believe for the first time and longer for continued DQ's. A system that seems to do the job for the most part.

As far as it being frowned upon, personally I think it shouldn't be...by anybody. When you submit and image it's your entry and you should be able to self DQ without justifying it anyone else as long as it's within the site rules.

After years of reading the forum and watching many people struggle with low scoring images and the contemplation of a self DQ it is far from being an unusual circumstance or occurrence.

That's just how I see it and as everything else on DPC...mileage may vary. :)
02/11/2011 10:36:44 PM · #18
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by earsofa:

Was I using bad grammar?!

I sent the request to have them remove my picture from the challenge, and they just DQ'D IT! SO SAD! Now I have a big red bar to look at.. :(

Better luck next time U guess!

It took me until my sixth challenge to get a DQ -- really it's no big deal.

In this case, even though you self-reported the problem, it is not a "Self-DQ" because there was an actual rules violation (date) involved. In order to have a Self-DQ, the picture must be completely legal, but is being withdrawn solely at the request of the submitter. No reason is required, people have done so because they don't like the score or comments they are getting, or because their model requested it be taken down.

The only other problem this might cause you is that you technically cannot ask for a Self-DQ until you've entered 25 more challenges. However, for an enthusiastic and talented photographer, that should not be an issue ... ;-)

This picture of mine was DQ'd because of the couple of rows of pixels at the top, which got there when I accidentally dragged the Crop tool past the margin of the picture, adding those blank background pixels at a time when the rules did not allow any borders at all.


Paul, but what happens in my example below. If a suspected violation was submitted and the SC deemed the photo legal could the entry be self DQ'ed at that point for whatever reason the photographer saw fit. Mind you I have no submissions in challenges right now, and it's strictly a what if scenario I was curious about.

Dave
02/11/2011 11:06:49 PM · #19
Originally posted by DCNUTTER:

Paul, but what happens in my example below. If a suspected violation was submitted and the SC deemed the photo legal could the entry be self DQ'ed at that point for whatever reason the photographer saw fit. Mind you I have no submissions in challenges right now, and it's strictly a what if scenario I was curious about.

Dave

Sure, if the photo is validated as legal then it is eligible for a Self-DQ, up until the end of the voting period.
02/11/2011 11:09:09 PM · #20
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by DCNUTTER:

Paul, but what happens in my example below. If a suspected violation was submitted and the SC deemed the photo legal could the entry be self DQ'ed at that point for whatever reason the photographer saw fit. Mind you I have no submissions in challenges right now, and it's strictly a what if scenario I was curious about.

Dave

Sure, if the photo is validated as legal then it is eligible for a Self-DQ, up until the end of the voting period.


That's what I suspected. Thanks for clarifying. :)
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