Ein paar bekannte Gewinner heute, im Gegensatz zu BeachWednesday, danke an die liebe @oceanbee
Some known winning faces again this time für #43
Congratulations to the winning top 3 and all others that submitted, thanks to our judge @oceanbee for selecting also these winners. The "vote prizes" are being delivered once the top 3 are commenting on this post.
🥇Winner #1 @kohsamui99
https://peakd.com/hive-192501/@kohsamui99/magical-colorful-sunsets
🥈Winner #2 @itmevu101
https://peakd.com/hive-194913/@itmevu101/my-beach-photos-collection
🥉Winner #3 @tinman88
https://peakd.com/hive-192501/@tinman88/just-more-glorious-sunsets-on
Below the rules for the upcoming contests
What to win
This is a fun contest where I was always searching for sponsors - apart from @dswigle and @ervin-lemark it was a single show and I currently have to pay for two other Hive projects from my own pockets so we skip the additional Hive prizes from next edition onwards but might handle the contest every week, same goes for BeachWednesday. So at least all three will receive a "little" UPVOTE by @theycallmedan - thanks for supporting this!
Looking (still) for community sponsors
Please comment or DM me if you want to support great photography content creators and we consider a new setup.
How can I win?
Please create a post using the tag #SunThursday showing your own original photography or video work covering the sun or write about positivity which I link to the sun which enabled and maintains the possibility of life in general. The three best submissions will receive their prize token after 7(or 14) days.
The rules
- Post photography, video or written content covering the topic SUN
- Use the tag #SunThursday as your first tag
- Add link to your submission in the comments ideally
v- Consider to "vote&reblog" this post to spread the contest (not mandatory but it might help)- Only original (your own) content will qualify
- GOOD LUCK!
Hi @uwelang and @oceanbee
The winner and the third price have been muted in the platform. They are supossed to be the same 'person'. In the thread of his entry https://peakd.com/hive-192501/@kohsamui99/sunsets-in-the-tropics is the proof from the hand of @livinguktaiwan and @erikah. He also seem to be multi-account cheeter.
On the other hand he was caught begging for votes for his contest entries by @hivewatchers in this entry https://hive.blog/hive-131609/@tobetada/love-the-clouds-finalists-139-36-hive-and-24-pob-prize-pool
He seems to be a cheating gan.
Are you 100% sure? If so I would be really upset as @kohsamui99 and @tinman88 both earned a lot rewards within my two contests during the last 12 months, not only vote prize but also liquid Hive earlier, they been the most often winners.
Is there a proof?
In the links are the proof of that. Follow the threads and you may see the info from @livinguktaiwan @erikah and also the account that prosecute cheeters on Hive @hivewatchers
Note that the five last entries the watchers have downvote everything from them.
On the other hand, If you analyze a little bit his photos, they are almost always the same, cropped, reframed, saturated and zoomed, saturated and zoomed and zoomed and zoomed and saturated till the infinity. Also, it would be useful to see how many of the photos he has uploaded are not of his authorship, it is very laborious, but it could be demonstrated.
Yeah the main things speak against him/her/them - was often a bit concerned on similar voting pattern when these two been judges - but I need confirmation - maybe @guiltyparties can help me and explain this memo thing I do not understand to be honest, I see different memos in these screenshot by @erikah - what does that mean? Did numerous of the mentioned accounts use the same memo?
Hello again @uwelang
I'm upset too. He stole a lot of money from honest organizers and contenders. I have seen this kind of thieves in other platforms, and the only answer we are going to get from him is the withdrawal of his money from his wallet. And he will most likely reappear later with another account name.
On the other hand, please may you give me your discord user? I have to ask you some little question about to judge the beach contest.
Hey, @xaviduran - thank you for bringing this to our attention. I was not aware. And it makes me totally sick to your stomack. Like you I'm a photographer and just thinking about the possibility that he/she/they might also be stealing the photos from the likes of us? And then milking/stealing the money from other Hive users who would have gotten the prize and reward instead? It makes me very sick...
Like @uwelang I don't really understand that screenshot with the transactions. @livinguktaiwan makes a valid point about the formatting - it is very unique.
Neither of them has posted since they were downvoted a few days ago. I guess if we don't see any more posts - we know the answer.
It makes me really, really sad...
Hi @oceanbee, @uwelang @erikah @nathen007 and @livinguktaiwan
I understand your frustration, it's exactly the same for me. But if we are on this ship we must assume that if there is money at stake, there will be scammers and thieves. All of us here must be committed to the anti-fraud fight, it's not just about uploading good images, commenting and giving likes to other users, we have to analyze and track the slightest suspicion of scam or theft. It is the only way to have this space clean of greedy thieves.
In the specific case of this criminal, days ago I began to suspect his ultra retouched photos, reframes of reframes and saturations raised to the limit of horror. On the other hand, following his entries, I noticed that he had reports from almost everywhere in the world, and I found it strange that he had such a variety of scenarios and types of photography, which leads me to suspect that on one or more occasions, he has used images that are not of his authorship. This is laborious to prove, but with time it can be done. That time that almost nobody has and that these "artists" of theft take advantage of.
I have more than 35 years of experience as a professional photographer, as a professor of photography and I have been a judge in multiple contests and I do not understand very well how those responsible for photography contests have awarded images of him and his "alter egos" that are clearly horrendous. I have seen his photos awarded that should be in the museum of photographic infamy, and in some contests they have triumphed. That is not justice. If we are contest jurors, we should have a minimum of photographic criteria to simply not be unfair.
Finally, I would like to encourage all those who feel somehow hurt by this kind of dishonest actions. Let's not let ourselves be dragged by their negative force, to move forward is to improve.
Cheers and greetings to everybody.
Since English is not my mother tongue, I have chosen to translate my entry in this magnificent translator, with some small corrections from my authorship.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Hi @uwelang, I can confirm the above screenshot shows all the accounts that send funds to the same wallet address as kohsamui99.
For further confirmation of this abuse ring, this is a snapshot from the post kohsamui99/the-beauty-of-sunsets
and here is a snapshot from tinman88/just-more-glorious-sunsets-on
I do a lot of curation for both Pinmapple and OCD, and I don't recall seeing this format appear in anybody else's post. All the above accounts belong to hangin who was caught abusing back in 2020. If you check his comments, you will see that he votes for kohsamui99 every single time. You will see all the Hive wallet transactions from him to his alts.
Trust this helps
I also did my own research and you are right - thanks mate
Awww... congratulations to the winners. Their shots were beautiful.
Thank you @oceanbee for choosing me as the second place and congratulations to the other winners.
Seems i owe you the voting prize still - hope we find a solution still here for the contest moving forward.
I hope so
It happened :-)
Much appreciated for the first place @oceanbee and congrats to the other winners 👍
Are you congratulating your other alt, tinman88? You have no shame! You're an asshole!
OMG! @erikah
tinman88 is yet another of his accounts?
Yes, unfortunately. This moron is capable of anything.
A shame indeed if that is really true, sad day for the contests
Sad day for the blockchain in general I'd say. This person has a lot of alts, most if not all blacklisted by HW for abuse and always creating a new one, fooling people to get support, while milking the reward pool. Every time he gets called out he vanishes.
Damn what a shit show - I have researched both wallets myyself and indeed they send Hive to same exchange wallets - unbelievable! Thanks for hunting
Keep an eye on those account and if you don't have the full list, let me know. He may resurface with new accounts.
Where can I see the list? Probably it might be clear when I see similar photo post patterns then we he/her/it comes back.
I can't believe this is true, it's a terrible day for competitions, as you say.
Hi mate, yeah this is a shame - please reply again so I can hand out your winning vote for no. 2, given no. 1 and 3 are disqualified you well get 100% instead of 75% vote.
Thank you @uwelang and I hope this kind of shit will not disturb this contest.
Hope not - but we need new folks to attend the contest
How long are you going to take to use another one of your many accounts to post your shitty pictures?
Thank you @oceanbee and congratulations to the other winners and thank you @uwelang for this great contest 👍
You mean your other alt, kohsamui99?