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Regardless of what day you actually get around to officially closing the competition, it seems to me that there are already some rules in place to prevent fraud, etc.I would anticipate this thread being closed on Nov. 3; maybe the 4th, but don't bank on that!
Rules, I say! RULZ!!!!!! We needs 'em.
It should be a simple matter to reject photos that are posted in the wrong month, for instance, and I thought there should be a rule that the nomination has to be in the current month as well, even though I know that rule has been suspended at times.
(long-winded bump)
Yes, nominated photos must have been posted during the month of the nomination thread, so a photo posted on Nov. 2 would NOT be eligible for the October POTM thread.
And, yes, if a photo WERE nominated that didn't qualify, I would remove it and explain to the person nominating it why it was removed.
The point of waiting a few days into the new month is just to give those photos posted really LATE in the month a chance to be seen and nominated. For instance, someone might just take a stunning Halloween photo and manage to get it posted on Halloween night. But by the time a viewer sees it and decides to nominate it, it's already November 1.
Depending on circumstances, I might allow a photo posted really late in the month to instead be nominated for the following month's POTM--or, I might allow a photo posted in the wee hours of the first day of the month to qualify for the previous month's nomination thread. Those are a case-by-case basis.
But the EASIEST solution is to simply keep the thread open a couple of days into the new month, and urge everyone to pay careful attention to whether the photo you're considering nominating qualifies for that month's POTM.
And THAT is my even longer response to a long-winded bump.