Second.... the "spirit" not having "objective" claims is not completely true. The original rules of the contest state that people shouldn't worry about grammar, typo's etc. It also states that you can add information to the wiki pages by adding something to what someone else made or start a new catagory. Those two rules together imply to me that making "cosmetic" changes to inflate your count isn't really what they intended you to do even though it's not officially mentioned. So people who actually see it like this aren't as delusional as you might think . Now to add to this. I am not saying that this contest was made perfect...... it was pretty silly to do it just on the amount of contributions and should have been done on quality from the start. Regardless of this, if the contributions made by DoA were of that much quality then it shouldn't have been an issue right? The wiki section that was deleted by the official, why was it removed? As a creator I would actually be more stressed out about someone just removing unique and quality content then the contest as a whole. Unless this wasn't the case. I know, more speculation....... It all comes down to the fact that they expected quality to be given, apparently that wasn't the case so they specified that in the "rule change" which I don't really see that much as a rule change but more as a specification of the original rules. I hope this makes my point a bit more clear on why I think like this.
I can clarify that.
If you meant that the wiki was removed, it wasn't, it is still
here, and, actually, my content (which was kept saying here that was copy/paste, low quality, useless, whatever) is still there; further more, since the end of the contest there were only two new edits done to the wiki. I imagine that if my content would have been useless and added only to inflate my post count, it would have been fixed, changed, removed by now, isn't it? I think that the fact that it is still here and it wasn't fixed/changed/edited/removed neither by admins or by any other contributors, is the best proof that it was actually qualitative enough so they are happy to have it there.
If you meant the section about which I discussed in my initial PM argument with DME (the one I linked in the OP, from one day before rule changes), there was no complaint from her about quality of said category (called "Monria Events"), just that she didn't wanted said info in the wiki, but only on forum and only posted by admins, not by regular contributors, even if it was for past events. Personally I found that silly, but I had accepted that and moved on (and yeah, I told her in PM both these things - that I consider silly to remove some good content from the wiki, but that since she's an admin I don't want to argue that, just that I don't feel like hear your explanations either - I did agreed with the ruling, but I didn't needed the details; nowhere I our PMs I ever mentioned the competition).
Other than that, all my content is still in place and anyone who is used with looking at wiki format (edits) can still see exactly what I contributed and if it was content made to inflate my post counts or it was genuine, quality content, at least at the level of the other wiki contributions. I had created totally new pages and categories, I had added big batches of content, I had added small batches of content when I found something was missing and yes, I also had a couple of minor/cosmetic changes, but these were definitely not the majority. Actually, even if you remove my edits with only cosmetic changes and with low content (<100 characters), and even under the circumstances that I stopped making contributions in the moment of the rules change, so at half-point of the event, I'm still ahead of the second place in terms of number of contributions, which was the judging criteria in the first place.
Again, as it was said already a couple of times here, if you repeat a lie or you do it louder, that doesn't make it less of a lie... if you (or anyone else) feels I did cheated even the "spirit" of the contest, then I challenge you (or anyone else) to actually go to the wiki, analyze my contributions then come here with proofs, not with empty words and bust me out. Just saying that, as Spawn already said a few times, last time when I asked for this on Monria forum and Antithe tried to produce those edits which were copy/pastes or empty edits he was able to come with exactly ONE such post (which was indeed just adding an empty line of text to bring said page format in line with the other pages in the category). Sure, there are a few others which, while legit, are still low on the content side, but they don't represent a majority and even counting them out, I'm left with more content than the other participant.
And about grudges... you know the truth... excluding the posts where you're promoting your events you hardly ever post on forums (especially here - 55 posts in three years), still, every time when I made a post (none of them targeted at you) you felt the urge to jump in, state your opinion and try to shut me down. Just amused how can you still say that you didn't took this at a personal level... take a step back and look at it... on how many of your posts I came criticizing you and on how many of my posts you came criticizing me? Alternatively, how many other people got the same "preferential" treatment from you? So who's the one taking this personally? To be honest, yeah, I don't like you either (and I told you that in PM already), but I don't feel any urge to jump on all (or any) of your threads and rub it in your face on every occasion; neither bring your RL problems into discussions as you many times did with mine.
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