ATTENTION
Regarding all future Signature of the Week Competitions, they will be officially canceled. The reason for this is because it has recently come to my attention that some of the competitions have become unfair to those who enter. AKA, cheating.
I had had my suspicions for some time, until I received an anonymous PM from a user that basically told me that there were discussions being held on the basis of which signatures to, and not to, vote for. Regarding this, I took it upon myself to test this theory in a few competitions.
After over viewing many former and recent competitions, it came to my attention that some very low quality signatures were winning competitions against very high quality signatures. Another thing I noticed was how many votes were mere copies of other votes, repeating words and phrases on the basis of why they felt an entry deserved to win.
Given this, the SOTW is canceled until I determine a ‘fair’ way of hosting this and other contests (the BOTM, WOTM, and DOTM; which may have also become unfair). I do not want to create a contest in which people are not allowed to vote, but it appears that at this point I must create a board of Judges in order to choose instead of regular members.
On my own note, I would just like to mention that this will in no way make a person look any more skilled in terms of signature just by winning this competition. It will also run across as an insult to anyone who thinks of entering, to never enter ever again if they are only going to lose over and over.
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