Goddamn, wouldn't it be nice to run a contest without any bullshit?
It would, Mister Procyon, but you don't get to have nice things!
But at least the new shenanigans rule comes in handy.
So, user OthellotheCat is a participant in the Doomsday Contest. He upvoted the vast majority of another team's works.
And then that team tied his own. Said upvotes disappeared in short order. Three members of said team noticed and contacted him, where he proceeded to provide inconsistent and unlikely explanations for exactly why he'd changed his votes. Said matter was then referred to me by a member of that team.
I contacted Othello to hear his side of the story. I will not be publicly providing logs (they are, however, available to any curious staff member). His explanation, and I use that term loosely, involved such things as having upvoted the works without reading them and a claimed Wikidot error that is so impossible as to be baffling that he thought I'd buy it.
If he had just copped to it, I would have banned him for a single contest, as in the scheme of things, this isn't that massive a deal. But given his utter, brazen dishonesty to both the people he was trying to screw with and myself as someone who really doesn't want to deal with people lying to my face right now, ARD and myself have mutually decided on a ban for three further contests, 4000 inclusive. His entries are not being disqualified with the understanding that the votes he changed are restored.