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Originally Posted by NekoIncardine  The rules against troublemaking are relaxed for this thread if you wish to give me hell about my management for any reason. |
Ok.
I strongly disagree with the disqualification of entries for not including contact details in their readmes. The fact that an entry can have a long, interesting and well-written readme that lacks an author email address and be disqualified, while another entry could have a four or five line readme that only states the bare minimum details and make it through, just seems unfair to me.
I realise it was stated in the rules as a requirement, but should it not attract a penalty more proportional to the severity of the 'crime'? In this case your crap filter is not filtering crap at all, it is filtering perfectly good entries that happened to lack a contact email. When every other aspect of the file (including the rest of the readme itself, such as with Paranoia Survivor Min's) has obviously had a good deal of effort put into it, disqualifying the entire entry on an insignificant technicality like this just seems disrespectful to that effort. People who take the time to create quality entries for this competition should be rewarded, not shown the door.
I really do not wish to troublemake anyway, I am merely hoping that you will reconsider in the case of these entries. Is it really worse to completely disqualify quality entries that happened to leave out their contact details from the readme than it is to turn a blind eye for once and leave them in?