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Discussion Board -> Feature Bloat / Bug Squash -> Problem with contest submissions.
There's a box, with a drop-down menu listing your images eligible for submission.
Images don't appear on that list until approved by a moderator.
The box disappears when the contest closes.
Ergo, nothing can be submitted until it's approved by a moderator, no matter when it was posted. Because it's not there on the list.
Please tell me if I have any of these facts wrong. Otherwise it just seems like we're talking right past each other. I don't see what the timestamp has to do with it once the contest is closed.
Or maybe I'm still misunderstanding and it was intentional. I don't know, I give up.
Either way it is a problem. I didn't say anything when I first noticed it because I really don't like to complain, at least out loud. But if it was meant to solve one problem, it created another.
The problem with submitting images before they're approved is that they won't be visible to vote on. I don't know the solution for that, but it would help if one of the mods would make a mental (or physical) note to check for new images shortly before the deadline. It's only every 2 weeks or so ...
"Yesterday when the 'doors' contest still had some time to run the ‘enter the contest’ link disappeared and did not allow me to put a photograph into the contest. I am not too worried about it being there, but maybe the system needs to be checked to ensure that the link remains there."
Original discussion thread found under the "Contests" forums ... "Where did the link go?".
Thoughts, again copied and pasted:
" ... my initial thoughts were that the link ('enter the contest') was not showing up for you ... due to the fact that your image/photo might have been in the approval queue and had not yet been approved.
Referencing the time frame/window that you were logged on after posting/uploading, or even afterwards and had checked back at some point.
Not that of the time left to enter the contest, to be clear.
Seems to me that this is a bug of sorts. To my mind, as long as an image has been posted/uploaded while there was time left to do so for a contest ... that said image is still eligible for submission.
It just might necessitate the member coming back after posting/uploading ... then, once it has in fact been approved ... submitting it at this later point in time."