I've suggested that if you win one month you cant win the next. This would allow other people to try and take part. Lot of us are busy so actually trying to compete would be pointless as we wouldn't get anywhere near.

Roughly the same people have won it over a year straight, think about how much money they've raked in over it. Then you have the odd chance of also winning the comment lottory or the prize draw.

"It's not like anyone is stopping you"

Full time at Uni
Two Jobs
House work
Course work/Revision.

Why would anyone else try when they are busy when we know who the winners are going to be.

I understand why you are defending it, you've won over $800 since the April 2014 but maybe it's time to let others have a chance.

" as we do would negatively impact the traffic volumes of the site "

Then other people would most likely take over.

"There would be no point so I'd just meander about do the bear minimum to be eligible and hope for a grand prize win in the draw (which is where the majority, I think all, of the grand prize wins go)"

Well that's exactly like other people who don't see the point of trying. We've seen how many things you guys post, we simply don't have the time to even get 3rd place. So we don't try...HOWEVER if we had a chance then most people would give it a go.

It works both ways. It's not like we don't submit, we just don't have enough free time to search on the web for articles to post. For me I post what I can but most of the time before I can even click the button to submit I find out one of you three have already done it.

Your argument essentially is I don't have time to contribute but I still want to win?

Well that's what the comment lottery is for. You know these sites kind of live or die on a steady stream of content. That you admittedly have no time for anyway.

No one should be punished because they have put the time and effort to get a high CR rank. More so, these users didn't get such ranks overnight and rightfully so they deserve to be rewarded.

I noticed that the other sites like 11x2 and Techspy have Manager contests along with comment lottery and contributor awards like we do. So, whoever approves and reports the most gets into the top 3, which is usually like $30, $20, and $10 or something like that. And while the top contributors naturally usually get the top manager spots, it would be EXTREMELY easy for anyone else to also get in the game that way and beat us. All you do is click the approve button. Plus, us contributors can't approve our own posts, so when we post like 40+ times a day, it gives non-contributors 40+ posts to approve. BAM! 400 manager points that the contributor doesn't get.

I also suggest this because there have been a ton of times where my perfectly valid posts don't go through because no one approved them within 2 days.