Hairstyle Contest winners announced!

[SakuraMidori]

What i'm not understanding is why did the one with more votes not win? don't that mean more ppl wanted it? this Contest was dealt with very badly i love SE and all but why call this a contest :P heyy you got the most votes but too bad troll face

[Urusamajor]

how is that even kind of close?
everything about it is different except the back having a high puffed up ponytail

1) Both have side bangs, with the runner up having slightly longer ones
2) Has a puffed up ponytail
3) have braids encompassing the head, just the hair style runner up has one of the braids flowing to the side
4) Both look like high school prom/wedding hairstyles
5) They're both blonde l0l

as I said, its not EXACTLY the same but the resemblance is uncanny. I mainly bring up this argument because everyone is hating on the side ponytail as being a rehashed lightning hairstyle and finding the runner more 'original' where in reality neither of them are that original, JUST SAIYEN

[Whiteroom]

What i'm not understanding is why did the one with more votes not win? don't that mean more ppl wanted it? this Contest was dealt with very badly i love SE and all but why call this a contest :P heyy you got the most votes but too bad troll face

If you missed it, it was stated in the rules for voting that only your last vote cast counts towards the winning piece. In other words one vote per person. A good portion of people didnt bother reading the rules and voted multuple times.

Of course, the smart thing to do would be to have it so that you were only able to vote for one, rather than just using the like function in a way it doesn't work well for, but thats for SE to put an actual polling system on the forums.

[KleeneOnigiri]

Congratulations to the winners!

I hope they include all the hairstlyes :3

[Zeonx]

Now that I think about it, that male hairstyle is from something else.

I can't put my finger on it but I wanna say Persona 3 but modified as curly. Though there is a anime or game series I have seen that before style before.

I have played a lot of games for my own good.

[Lillia]

What i'm not understanding is why did the one with more votes not win? don't that mean more ppl wanted it? this Contest was dealt with very badly i love SE and all but why call this a contest :P heyy you got the most votes but too bad troll face

I cannot agree more with the confusion of this, even their vote numbers are off... total votes were NOT that low by the 6th and I'm a bit disappointed but it seems like that wasn't what they were going off of.... I guess...

I'm going to be honest and say that i don't think people voted for the flower.

I voted for it because it was simple, nice looking, and it doesn't resemble something we already have.

In fact, i don't think i've seen anyone say anything akin to "Oh my goodness that flower is the greatest thing since sliced bread"

Not to seem salty but I didn't vote for it because it was too simple, it doesn't stand out to me. It's beautiful don't get me wrong but I don't see myself wearing the hairstyle on my Lalafell or if I went any other race but Hyur, maybe my feelings will change when I see it implemented and it'll be a hairstyle I really like but for now I'm just super disappointed and confused.

Also I personally feel it was chosen because of the simple aspect of it, I had a gut feeling 16 would get shafted just due to the fact that it was more complicated but I suppose congratulations to the winners either way.

[Naunet]

I don't think it'll be that big of an issue. While i was an au ra, i used hair number 2 (or maybe 3, it was the new pigtails one they got), and sometimes when i'd jump around the left pony would go around my shoulder and get stuck on my front, it never clipped with anything and it wasn't static either.

Not animated hair in motion. I'm talking about what you get with, say, the Lightning hair or those two braids that are pulled forward over the shoulders. The Lightning hair is the worst culprit.

[Nyalia]

Well, that is true. Being rude isn't against the TOS, but neither is telling someone to stop acting a certain way in a thread that I personally started.

(technically, it is against the forum ToS, but it's not enforced unless it's an extreme case)

[ExKage]

Of course, the smart thing to do would be to have it so that you were only able to vote for one, rather than just using the like function in a way it doesn't work well for, but thats for SE to put an actual polling system on the forums.

It was a fundamental issue with the fact that they wanted to use the official forums because it could eliminate bogus votes. The problem? It does not have a polls system, only a Like system so that was essentially the only way to make their contest work. Going off-site is hard because they can't verify the results as well.

If people had comprehended the rules the first time it would be a non-issue but because of that their forums system allowed for this. I don't expect them to come up with a much better plan. We still have /10char and issues with post length -_-

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

No comment. I'm used to things like these in contests after having entered a lot of art ones. This dissatisfaction happens 90% of the time, literally (and I don't blame people for feeling that way). Only 10% of the time is when most of the people think it's been fair. Personally I'm not pleased with the results, but what's done is done. Hopefully it will be better next time. Only thing left to do is to keep persevering.