Would it bother you?
My LQS had a challenge to use the Kona color of the year in a project (there are prizes, not sure what they are). The project could be a quilt, wall hanging, bag, table topper, home decor or clothing item; it had to use 25% of the Enchanted color in the project and measure at least 20" X 20" not sure how that works with a garment or home decor item but that was the challenge. There are 11 entries and are posted to Facebook for voting (you have join the Facebook group to vote) the vote list does not list the maker of the item just a picture and a brief description.
One of the projects has a cleaver use of fabric in a wallhanging that played off the Enchanted name (dragon scales) and was leading the voting and then yesterday 35 votes came in for a project that had previously been at bottom of the list.
Before anyone calls me out for being a poor loser let me state that I did not vote for my own project - there were 3 or 4 that I felt were more deserving and I voted for 1 of them. I showed to my husband and he even said he liked one of the others better than mine and it didn't hurt my feelings to know he thought someone else's was better.
It just seems to me that it is obvious the maker of the item which is currently in the lead lobbied for the votes that were cast as they all happened at once. It just seems that its not fair to the rest of the contestants in the challenge.
So my question is - Would it bother you?