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12/21/2007 12:11:40 AM · #1 |
How many people have cheated on challenges. Like dis-obeying challenge rules and getting away with it. Not that I expect you to actually announce this on the boards risking your account being banned, but I just wanted to see what would come out of this topic...
Message edited by author 2007-12-21 00:12:05.
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12/21/2007 12:17:26 AM · #2 |
After you pay your $25, its not cheating anymore ;P
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12/21/2007 12:36:06 AM · #3 |
Cindi... we weren't supposed to show that to anyone that registered after 2006!
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12/21/2007 12:49:44 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Cindi... we weren't supposed to show that to anyone that registered after 2006! |
I heard audio-book version will be available soon at www.dpcradio.com
also, I wouldn't worry about that issue, you can't get more than yellow. I heard the second issue guarantees at least red ;) |
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12/21/2007 03:22:49 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by ColemanGariety:
How many people have cheated on challenges. Like dis-obeying challenge rules and getting away with it. Not that I expect you to actually announce this on the boards risking your account being banned, but I just wanted to see what would come out of this topic... |
I'll come right out and say it - I cheat on every challenge. I photoshop everything! Hell, I don't even own a camera! And "friend voting"? Don't get me started! I have over thirty six thousand ghost accounts - including 10 Site Council seats! How do you think I get validated??
..and yet, not a single ribbon! Just proves what they say about cheaters. :/
Well I feel like a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders! Thank you! |
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12/21/2007 04:48:55 AM · #6 |
In the rubber ducky challenge in 2005.... my rubber duck ..... it wasn't made of rubber. ..... it was plastic. Heck, even the grapes were plastic (the water was real, though).
There, I've confessed, and like Art says, that's a giant weight off my shoulders. |
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12/21/2007 05:21:33 AM · #7 |
I am how do you say....regular.
I cheat at least once a day, usually right after I wake up.
I eat a high fiber diet, and drink beer to wash it all down. I think that is why my internal clock is so regular.
I get inspired a lot when sitting on my thrown while taking a cheat. It's kind of a yen thing.
Does this help.
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12/21/2007 07:54:27 AM · #8 |
Does it count if you didn't know?
Pretty much all of my early stuff was "Damaged" by Microsoft Picture Manager because I didn't know the proper way to download my images.
Then I got PS2, started shooting RAW, and learned how to do it right.
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12/21/2007 08:02:15 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Well I feel like a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders! Thank you! |
I thought that 'giant weight' was your HEAD!!!!! Muwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!
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12/21/2007 08:35:44 AM · #10 |
My table shot wasn't taken with my camera on a table! The shame!
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12/21/2007 08:37:16 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
My table shot wasn't taken with my camera on a table! The shame! |
Oh, I cheated on that one too. The camera was on a tripod very near the table :P
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12/21/2007 08:39:18 AM · #12 |
| i am SO relieved. And i was concerned that Nobody cheated. Now I know that i don't. |
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12/21/2007 08:44:05 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by idnic:
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
My table shot wasn't taken with my camera on a table! The shame! |
Oh, I cheated on that one too. The camera was on a tripod very near the table :P |
So was mine.
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12/21/2007 08:46:58 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
My table shot wasn't taken with my camera on a table! The shame! |
Oh yeah, well my table shot wasn't on a table OR shot. ;-) |
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12/21/2007 08:49:54 AM · #15 |
I must confess that my street smarts shot was not taken on a street...
I feel so much better now. The weight of the world has been lifted |
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12/21/2007 08:53:25 AM · #16 |
On the very first challenge I entered, I had cloned out a distracting object in the corner of the image and entered it, before I bothered to read the rules. Eh, I don't think anyone will worry about taking away my mediocre score for that...
I've been very conscious of the editing rules since then. |
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12/21/2007 08:57:51 AM · #17 |
| Every one of my shots prior to the Image Grain II challenge would have been DQ'd, as I took them before I starting taking RAW images and uploaded using Adobe. I didn't know it corrupted files until my 5th place got DQ'd in that challenge. Sorry, no weight off the shoulders, though :-) |
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12/21/2007 09:03:26 AM · #18 |
Cat - that is a pretty sneaky way to try and get all your older images DQ'd so you can end up with a higher average than me. You really are a cheater!!!
Originally posted by noraneko:
Every one of my shots prior to the Image Grain II challenge would have been DQ'd, as I took them before I starting taking RAW images and uploaded using Adobe. I didn't know it corrupted files until my 5th place got DQ'd in that challenge. Sorry, no weight off the shoulders, though :-) |
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12/21/2007 09:04:36 AM · #19 |
I think most people don't purposely cheat, but the ones that do get axed pretty quickly... now as to cheating during voting... well that's another matter.. and if you mention the name Rikki a whole new can of worms opens : )
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12/21/2007 09:16:00 AM · #20 |
The rule is
it's not cheating until U are caught.
still - just to be sure I suggest a drug test to every ribbon winner.
Message edited by author 2007-12-21 09:18:07. |
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12/21/2007 09:28:57 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by bassbone:
Cat - that is a pretty sneaky way to try and get all your older images DQ'd so you can end up with a higher average than me. You really are a cheater!!!
Originally posted by noraneko:
Every one of my shots prior to the Image Grain II challenge would have been DQ'd, as I took them before I starting taking RAW images and uploaded using Adobe. I didn't know it corrupted files until my 5th place got DQ'd in that challenge. Sorry, no weight off the shoulders, though :-) |
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Sweet, Site Council, are your reading this, and would you please DQ every one of my entries prior to Image Grain II? Oh, wait, maybe not, I'd have a pretty stiff penalty for something like 30 DQ's... |
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12/21/2007 09:45:00 AM · #22 |
I got caught not cheating on challenges, but cheating the rules. I create another account just to have a different personality on the boards. I was even going to enter challenges to work for that brown ribbon.
I was caught and the Site Council didn't think it was as funny as I thought it was. I was unable to log on for a month (or was it 3 months).
Basically, don't do it. I'm sure they track IP addresses and crack down on it. It only took them a day to figure it out, but it's not worth it. |
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12/21/2007 09:46:46 AM · #23 |
| OK, I admit it... I started injecting my camera with steroids in June, 2004. *sob* The difference in performance from earlier seasons is striking. I'm not proud of it, but I feel better coming clean. My current camera is all natural, I swear. The prescription lotion just, uh... keeps the grip from drying out. Yeah, that's it. |
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12/21/2007 09:48:11 AM · #24 |
Yankee fan, perhaps?
Originally posted by scalvert:
OK, I admit it... I started injecting my camera with steroids in June, 2004. *sob* The difference in performance from earlier seasons is striking. I'm not proud of it, but I feel better coming clean. My current camera is all natural, I swear. The prescription lotion just, uh... keeps the grip from drying out. Yeah, that's it. |
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12/21/2007 10:16:05 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
I swear. The prescription lotion just, uh... keeps the grip from drying out. Yeah, that's it. |
Shannon, the image of you in a dark room with hand lotion, especially with a camera present, really isn't something I needed in my head. :P
And sorry Catherine, but you don't get to dump those early entries. Cheating is different from not being able to prove you didn't cheat. ;)
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