2012/10/27 Itzik Edri itzik@infra.co.il:
According to the rules, a user without email cannot participate, but before we ignore his winning, any idea or help tracking and contact him?
2012/10/27 Platonides platonides@gmail.com:
On 27/10/12 12:47, Roel Balingit wrote:
I had finalists who didn't have e-mails. I sent them messages in their talk pages, and posted their photos in our Facebook account only through that he noticed he was a finalist and communicated with us.
Roel WLMPH
I find that approach poses a problem if they don't appear, since you are publishing them as winners, then retreating. We had several ineligible pictures preselected, but luckily none of them reached the top positions.
Sorry to say that, but if contest's rules say you need to provide an e-mail to participate, you have to disqualify that user if she did not provide an e-mail. I know you may think it is very sad to be disqualified because of an e-mail address but: * First, bad consequences are well explained in Platonides'answer. * Second, rules are rules, and they are all equal. If we make an exception for this I don't see why we couldn't make an exception for photos of monuments not in the lists or photos uploaded 1 minute past the deadline of the contest (or, more realistically, the case where multiple photos where uploaded and some of them resulted uploaded after the deadline of the contest).
Cristian