This is random, but what is the Efficiency Rating under the number of Top 5's a user has?
Actual Top 5's / Expected Top 5's ; simple as that...anything above 1 is over average.
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What if, hypothetically our post is deleted BUT we have SS that shows what it is.
I can fake screenshots with friggin' Paint you know... Screenshots are out, too easy to fake, etc... How would you have a screenshot of your post if you didn't intend to have it deleted anyway? =P
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I know I'm dealing in "what ifs" but this problem can be solved for those that don't read the rules.
What if the topic is modded for being Off-Topic? What if the board is down? What if Gordon does win and the Universe implodes?
We'll deal with probably-impossible-but-technically-possible-no-more-than-once-over-the-next-ten-years problems as they arise.
There's no reason to get modded in here, seriously.
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It could be deleted for even something as simple as a sig wipe and not someone trying to cheat. (I seem to remember that happening in some contest the Icon was in. The sig about Link and Fairy and something like that)
OMG the evil mods are at it again! Seriously, I've got a whole ONE moderation in over five years, "Link with 65.43%" won't get modded, and since you're talking about a sig wipe, I'd say that would be your fault. If you break the TOS in your sig, you break the TOS in your post, you deal with the consequences. If you absolutely need to flame someone in the topic, do it in the early hours of the morning, you'll have plenty of time to make another prediction once you've been modded =P
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That's the idea... you go out of your way to do make a moddable post (say just for that one post you put some offensive link in your sig) and then mark it with an alt after you see your other one was better.

Sure it's stretching it, but I've seen crazier schemes.
We won't hesitate to go out of our way to ban someone who's voluntarily taking advantage of a feature of the board to cheat, but I think people have noticed...
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This is mainly what I was talking about. The first contest I was in I deleted one of my posts because a friend over AIM noticed that my new sig had a censor bypass in it. I explained in my next post why I deleted it and got a "just don't do it again" response because the match had yet to start, but I can imagine the dilemma if I hadn't noticed.
If you play baseball with your friends and break a window, you're responsible even if you didn't intend to break it. Same thing applies here. But obviously, like the grumpy old man who's window you broke, we'll bite a lot more if there was a malicious intent behind it.
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Obviously, we still reserve the right to change our mind, be wrong and/or disagree with you. We're trying to trust people and allow them to make mistakes. And people who have been with us over the past two years know we've been pretty lenient when honest and accidental mistakes were made.
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