KittCatS! Halloween Custom Collar Contest - results!

[Priestess Firanelli]

Close the tread? Do you think that would lead to something good? Why is it wrong to be open about our questions? No one is refusing anything and no one is rude.

I don't think you understand Tad why people wonder. If a person feels their collar has been disqualified they should be told why in private. You cannot just exclude people without explanation. Yes I guess you can but that only leads to lack of trust in the process, just like Coverboy mentioned, if you yourself know you haven't cheated.

I see this tread as a great opportunity for everyone to understand a bit more and hopefully it leads to a better understanding about what has happened and how to move forward. I of course understand that KC only has the best intentions. However, if we together can come up with something where all of our collar makers feels they want to participate, it will benefit us all. Several are not in the contest because of earlier similar situations. Thanks to this tread and the explanation Callie gave we now know how the panel votes and public votes are counted. We did not know that before. That was not in the rules. I like that they have a combo of votes but as Eleanor said, ”If you are going to invite public votes then you have to trust the public and the entrants – or else scrap the public vote all together”.

I do understand that KC has all the best intentions. It is a great company and it cannot be easy to always know what is best to do in different situations. Thanks to this forum we can communicate when we feel something has been left out or when we would like to have something clarified etc. Maybe another way can be to let a panel vote be worth 2 times more than a public ones and then accept the votes that comes in as they are ?