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04/28/2006 11:49:20 PM · #1 |
It has recently come to our attention that a user submitted 5 entries taken outside the challenge dates.
The five challenges which were recalculated, and the former ranking of the entries removed were:
Time Capsule (Challenge 367) - 54th
Complementary Colors II (Challenge 387) - 190th
Collections (Challenge 412) - 32nd
Shallow DOF II (Challenge 423) - 13th
Jump (Challenge 477) - 59th
In addition to these five images, we also discovered that a sixth image, which was previously disqualified for spot editing, also contained falsified EXIF data. Because of this, the entries in question have been disqualified, and the user who submitted them has been permanently banned from DPChallenge.
Situations like this are a rare exception in our overwhelmingly fair and honest community, and we consider it our obligation to you to treat this as a serious matter. We appreciate that nearly all the members of the community respect each other by respecting the rules of our challenges -- it is this fairness and mutual respect that makes DPChallenge a fun and worthwhile place to compete.
Thank you,
DPChallenge Site Council
Message edited by author 2006-04-28 23:49:41. |
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04/28/2006 11:54:47 PM · #2 |
| Thanks for staying on top of things! Taking care of things like this really helps DPC be a better place. |
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04/28/2006 11:55:40 PM · #3 |
Dang, Nice detective work. Makes ya wonder why people even bother joining a site like this if they don't want to follow the rules.
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04/28/2006 11:56:31 PM · #4 |
Wow...It is a rare thing indeed for something like this to happen. Kudos to the Site Council for apparently dogged detective work. Just one more mostly thankless task. Now we gotta start wheedling the details out... ;0)
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04/28/2006 11:57:04 PM · #5 |
Kudos to you and all of the SC members for all the time, effort and dedication to duty you devote to this wonderful site.
The truly altruistic efforts deployed by the SC members are truly appreciated by all DPC members.
Ray |
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04/28/2006 11:57:10 PM · #6 |
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04/28/2006 11:57:10 PM · #7 |
| Wow... cheated in 6 challenges? How the hell did you figure all that out? Oh and great work! Keep it clean! |
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04/28/2006 11:59:52 PM · #8 |
| Flaunting the rules is risky. You might get away with it once or twice, but you WILL be caught eventually. |
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04/29/2006 12:01:02 AM · #9 |
| I cheated once, but I didn't inhale... |
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04/29/2006 12:04:11 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by TooCool:
Wow... cheated in 6 challenges? How the hell did you figure all that out? Oh and great work! Keep it clean! |
To be honest, we can't be everywhere at once, and the community here does a lot to help keep things honest. A member found evidence of a possible date violation on one entry and brought it to our attention. As we investigated further, we discovered the additional violations.
~Terry
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04/29/2006 12:04:27 AM · #11 |
| I just don't get why the heck you need to cheat?! Is the free possiblity for a vitual ribbon that big!? Man, just shows how low people will go, excellent job SC on catching yet another Exif cheater |
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04/29/2006 12:05:43 AM · #12 |
oooooooooooooooh big brother is watching us! :) Good! I'll tell on you if you cheat :P
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04/29/2006 12:07:15 AM · #13 |
Wow. That is craziness. Far beyond that level of weirdness is that for the last two days, I had a name kicking around in my head. ALL DAY. I rolled it around and played with the letters, rearranging them and toying with alternate variations in the way our minds often do when otherwise occupied with semi-menial tasks (I did a lot of driving over the last few days).
It was that users name.
Extremely weird. |
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04/29/2006 12:07:25 AM · #14 |
Eeeks thats never good.
Maybe he did not understand the language, thus the rules? I dunno...I am not sticking up for him, and SC did an awesome job...just wondering why someone would cheat like that. |
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04/29/2006 12:43:18 AM · #15 |
| Good job! Cheaters never prosper. How the heck do you change the exif data? Wait, nevermind... I'd rather not know! |
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04/29/2006 12:48:00 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by idnic:
oooooooooooooooh big brother is watching us! :) Good! I'll tell on you if you cheat :P |
I'll tell on me if I cheat too! |
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04/29/2006 12:53:57 AM · #17 |
I've looked at the offending photos/profile, and I'm wondering if maybe the photographer possibly had troubles understanding the rules? maybe their english isn't so good?
just a thought.
E
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04/29/2006 12:59:13 AM · #18 |
Any chance I could get the ribboners in 2 sec and Water II to have to verify their EXIF ;-)
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04/29/2006 01:02:29 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by ericlimon:
I've looked at the offending photos/profile, and I'm wondering if maybe the photographer possibly had troubles understanding the rules? maybe their english isn't so good?
just a thought.
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We did consider that possibility, but the evidence did not support it. His first DQ came back in September 2005 for a date violation. After that, we requested proof on three of his other entries. He failed to reply on two, and when he realized that wasn't gaining him anything, submitted an entry with falsified EXIF. The fact that he tampered with his EXIF proves that he understood at least the date rule well enough to try to circumvent it.
~Terry
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04/29/2006 01:02:39 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Any chance I could get the ribboners in 2 sec and Water II to have to verify their EXIF ;-) |
They already did. Right? |
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04/29/2006 01:03:34 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by Riggs:
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Any chance I could get the ribboners in 2 sec and Water II to have to verify their EXIF ;-) |
They already did. Right? |
Right. I think she's joking, though.
~Terry
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04/29/2006 01:03:54 AM · #22 |
| He Pm'd me once and his english was fine. wow- his work was great too, too bad I won't be seeing it around here anymore... |
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04/29/2006 01:06:17 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by oOWonderBreadOo:
He Pm'd me once and his english was fine. wow- his work was great too, too bad I won't be seeing it around here anymore... |
It seems to always be the good ones that feel the need to cheat.
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04/29/2006 01:09:35 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by ericlimon:
I've looked at the offending photos/profile, and I'm wondering if maybe the photographer possibly had troubles understanding the rules? maybe their english isn't so good?
just a thought. |
Making an honest mistake is one thing, any of us could do that, and on an English-language site people whose first language isn't English are doubly vulnerable. But falsifying EXIF data is deliberate cheating - understanding the rules and trying to find a way around them, not an honest mistake. I think SC's choice of action was appropriate.
Yes, people shouldn't be banned lightly, and it's good to give people the benefit of the doubt when there is uncertainty. But this particular case looks pretty definite.
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04/29/2006 01:17:14 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Originally posted by Riggs:
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Any chance I could get the ribboners in 2 sec and Water II to have to verify their EXIF ;-) |
They already did. Right? |
Right. I think she's joking, though.
~Terry |
Yeah, for sure. I was just sorta confused by the comment.....and its late, real late.
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