I have found some people are having difficulty finding the new contests and also some can't seem to enter contests either.

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thanks for the tips ! I keep forgetting about the contests

Amazing!! I love it. It's perfect!

Aw, thanks for the featured shoutout!

I will be keeping an eye on the contest and will ping Dawniefer's Ping group when voting starts and tagging the creator in this forum

There is another contest open I'll add it to post 1

have entered 2 so far!

I appreciate you to the fullest :) I've entered all eligible contests. I wish I could enter mine lol. . Wait, can I? I would name it "Creator Entry. Do not vote!) Lol

I think Keith has changed it now but you could have done a little time ago

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LMAO! I just read this post ;) I was naked for 2 days :)

your contest is up for voting.

There is 4 more contests on Kumos site

I'm having so much fun making avatars. It took me a while to get into the new HA contests, I literally have been buying clothes for years, without really doing much with them, just keep circling my saved outfits. This forced me into making new ones, and I love it. The thousands of clothes finally come in handy. I'm definitely not the best in making elaborate layered outfits, I like "simple" ones, but I so much enjoy using items gathering dust for years in my wardrobe. I don't need to win, just the fun of participating is enough. Thanks for the overview, hopefully this gets people joyning in on the fun of creating, or even just voting!

Your Animal chance Machine contest is up for voting

Thanks for the ping, and the new group. I am absolutely loving building new HA's, but this is my first time creating a contest. Can't wait to see who is voted for.

Thank you for this thread! It's so useful. I have a question for anyone who has run a contest. Are the entries completely anonymous, even to the runner? I'd think about starting a contest, but only if I know I can't see who is entering.

I can confirm the creator can see who it entrering if the anonimous voting is active. Please reply back as I use this for creator vote tagging

I just realized THIS is the thread you wanted me to post on in order to update. 10,000 apologies!

I actually only realized this because I have a question about the current voting situation.

Maybe you can answer.. On the voting page, each contestant has a 1, a 3, and a 5 below their entry. I voted for the first one, then everyone had a 1, and a 3 underneath, not a 5. So I choose another, and everyone had only a 5 below their entry. I chose a third and now the remaining contestants all have a 1 below them, and I can't choose or un-choose.

Am I missing something? I realize it's a top 5 voting scenario, but does the system recognize which ones I chose, in the correct order..regardless of which number I clicked? I clicked these numbers in this order 1, 1, 5. What's going on here? Lol

Also, does the Contest creation page accept html or sCode? I have an EPIC contest in the works and I need to get my descriptions in order somehow. Because, for some reason, no matter what I try (double space, or a simple < br > or < p > it merges everything into one huge paragraph and it looks a mess. This description is also much longer, and includes waaay more details than my average contests. So, I'm worried it will either be clumped together, or show all the code tags. Please let me know! Thank you!

I've only been able to see the entrants names on an anonymous contest one time.. but that's only because I changed my mind and removed a vote. I re-voted because I had previously missed a single entry (the one I wound up choosing) due to an oversight of page 2. I think it was a glitch though, because I was only able to see the names of the voted, and un-voted. Weird huh?

Me too! These contests hype me up and force me to open up drawers that I had forgotten about ;) blows dust away

My next contest will be up A.S.A.P. once I get the kinks worked out. I apologize if you're double tagged here (group and name)

I'm almost certain that the 1, 3, and 5 were meant to be how many votes you allotted to that HA, but I think it is currently broken. Tried selecting 3 on one but it only counted as one vote 😔

~ I'm having the same voting issue.

And I was able to use sCode when I hosted my kumos contest :)

So the runner of the contest CAN always see who has entered? Even if they're the ones doing the judging? I'm asking because if I were to run a contest and judge it myself I want complete anonymity of the entrants.

But you weren't running that particular contest?

the contest runner cannot see who entered their contest.

as long as that box is filled entries are anonymous