A "lack of staff response" would mostly be due to the fact that staff are either a.) asleep at the time you posted or b.) unable to comment due to the fact that it's Christmas...

As for a link to the HoTM rules, I believe there was one somewhere but I cannot find the link at this time; However it is a rule that people should be familiar with due to the removal of a few hacks this year for breaking the same rule...

And, regardless of this, there is also the main site rule, the relevant part bolded:
I count 17 people as being Mass-PM...

As for rumours of "vote transferring", thats rubbish...

Chris

Then I should be warned/banned for doing that, but not remove my Hack from this poll ;)

Anyway, this is somehow ridiculous, as stated before other Hacks got promoted via Email and nothing happened, so "due to the removal of a few hacks this year for breaking the same rule" seems not to work everytime.

I even have no chance, in some situations I have to PM the same text to multiple users, like I did when spreading the Link to a new Test-Version to all Beta-Testers during Develoment of ibProArcade ...


I am looking forward to get this answered:as I believe there really is no such rule.


It was no spamming, no mass-PM or anything like that for getting any votes !
I even did and do more PMs when a new Beta-Version got released ect.



I think this decision is not good for community and not good for me either, I am not feeling well this way in this community and ready to grab my cases :(

What possible reasoning would the staff have to remove your hack if such a rule was not in place?

We don't have personal vendetta's here - We came to a decision between us, and I removed it, mostly because I have no mixed feelings over which arcade hack to use - I use neither, because I don't believe they are of any real use to me or any of my sites...

Chris

This whole episode is really bad for Vb.org

this is my suggestion.. I feel this is the best thing to do.. Why not reset the votes and let the voters re vote?

It was really very harsh on ibProarcade and zero page (although i love and prefer v3arcade)

I myself have received 2 or 3 mails from Googlemap hack owner to visit and vote.. Isnt that spamming?

Whatever happ is really sad

man just forget this hotm junk. u get nothing from it anyways, and we all know who is really winning and who will win so it doesnt matter.

Someone needs to have a muzzle put on him because blaming others for not knowing a rule that even he can't produce is assinine.

And sadly, typical.

What you've posted is total BS until you produce this "rule", and prove it was in place at the start of this poll. Emotions such as your "mixed feelings" should not come into play - making such a decision based on emotions IS showing that you are biased... all future votes will be tainted if you do this.

its over with already. this month is dead. the hotm for dec is corrupted and there is no point in even continuing with this argument. they cant produce anything. no rules. no mumbo jumbo blablabla. v3arcade was getting beat out and thats that. i swithced my vote and never got a PM.

its all horse shizzit and shouldnt have happend. who cares if he asks people to vote for him on the hotm. if they use his hack why the hell shouldnt they vote for him?

grow up people.

dont get anything but a label on the hack for the hotm anyways so whats the big deal? no money..no advertising spots, no perks

I'm removing my one measly hack from here. I'll release it on another website.

why is Hotm of the month is so important to you people? ppl being grateful giving donation isnt that the real reward? come one lets just forget about it....and lets enjoy each other's work :)

how about that?