Do I complain when one of the rules for entering is to upvote the contest post so we can earn enough to compensate for the hours spent upvoting people only to see that 400 people entered and the post only got 89 upvotes?

That has to be frustrating as hell... and I can see how that rule is not efficiently enforceable. Could some sort of automatic filter identify non-voting entries before you spend your man hours giving them attention? I mean, I know it's all there for everyone to see, but I'm not the guy who knows how to make a bot to do it for you.

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