Directly, or indirectly, asking for votes or someone else asking for votes for your submission will result in an immediate disqualification, and a ban from the competition.
Advertising is allowed on this site only and you can only advertise the competition, submission threads, poll threads, and winner threads - not individual entries/authors. Failure to comply will result in an immediate disqualification, and a ban from the competition.
Poll thread results will be hidden during the voting period and will remain so. Only the competition organisers will be able to see the results and who voted for what. Anyone found viewing the poll results before they are released, excluding the competition organisers, will result in an immediate disqualification, and a ban from the competition.
You cannot vote for your own entry, and must use all of your votes.
If you are discovered to have breached any of these rules after entering , or indeed, winning the competition the submission that came second place will be entered, or in the case of poll results already ending, every entry will be moved up a position.