OFFICIAL Eorzea's Next Top Model Discussion Thread

[Tyriont]

Alright, so it's a Christmas miracle. I'm calling this round non-elimination, and I'm going to explain why.

We had people approach us concerned about a massive influx of votes for one model from their home server over the last two weeks. Last week even had we just gone judge votes totally, it wouldn't have changed things. This week it would, but would unfairly screw over a different model so I'm not willing to do that. Nor am I willing to throw out -all- votes from that server because there's no way to tell which are "legitimate" votes and which are just a model's friends voting for them.

There's been no hard and fast rule regarding this in the past because it's inherently unenforceable in any realistic manner. However when something this obvious comes up...yeah, we have no choice but to do -something-.

So for this week while I discuss things with Rongi and the judges for ideas, I'm calling non-elimination. This -does- mean that there will be a double-elimination round later down the line. I'll put up scores and feedback shortly.

Everyone - ENTM is not a popularity contest It's not "who can get the most of their friends to come vote". We operate on an honour system that people are genuinely just voting for their favourite shot. I don't know what the right solution is here right now and frankly, I'm annoyed that I have to try and come up with one. There's no prize at stake here. This is just to try and make the forums a little bit of a brighter place.

In brighter news, given the PSN outages I -am- going to extend the deadline for an extra day. This means the round won't go up until shortly after midnight Saturday (so early Sunday morning) due to the new deadline of midnight EST Saturday.