Had this exact experience. I was clearly being throttled, but they couldn't confirm my usage, my penalty, or even the fact that my service was still on. They have no answers, even after I escalated multiple levels. A full month came and went at throttled speeds, and I finally left after realizing they are selling service without any way to make sure the service exists / is turned on.

Can I use it without a Facebook account? Just for the Chat Heads over SMS?

The scribble select looks similar the how AfterFocus let you select areas of an image: just dragging/tapping/coloring in the areas you wanted in the foreground, middle, and background of the photo. It was pretty handy there, so I could see this being useful too, but I'd need more time to really know if I liked it or not.

Sometimes you gotta take a break from being the boss and just be the boss of dancing.

Should I disqualify for that post or what?

It's a combo of those things. We're a tad behind, folks are slow to reply, some not at all, some aren't in eligible countries, etc.

Thanks for the patience!

Hehe, no problems. I wish I had three of me.

This build of the site is sort of in limbo while I've been working a newer, fully-responsive version. Just don't tell anyone yet...

Need to do a bunch more coding to finish mobile but I'm the only dev we've got.

PS: Merry Christmas, guys.

Lots to respond to here so I'll do it all in one post. Enjoy the behind the scenes look into my brain:

There has been 3 basic requirements they’ve used

We've also used connect to Twitter and entering your first/last name.

My question is this, out of 25 days, these are all they could come up with? How about number of threads or comments?

Ideas aren't hard to come up with, coding them during the month of December is.

My point is, they could really use this and other contests to get people even more involved. It doesn’t have to be so one dimensional.

My point is, we ARE using this to engage users. How fun would these challenges be to the AVERAGE user if only power users could enter? While we like to show some love for the power user, this contest is about getting everyone involved.

I liked the Haiku day, maybe more fun stuff like that to get some variety.

The haiku was fun, but the winner was still chosen randomly. We've almost completely stopped running contests based on merit, because looking through thousands of entries and trying to judge them is no fun. At all.

Today kind of sucked. I have have been here a year, but I have a rank of 74.

See my point above, about how these challenges are supposed to get everyone involved. When users are left out, it sucks. Except, of course, for those users left alive. Please 50 users or please 1,000?

Today sucked for me – I’m at 75 and have. been a member for well over a year (probably closer to 2 years) and I was unable to post

I got your message through the Contact Us form and spent time trying to fix it, only to find you had used a bum email address with the message.

I’m not complaining about it being too easy. How bout you troll somewhere else?

The guy is sooooo not trolling. Keep your emotions in check.

Last year’s included connecting twitter and setting an avatar and things like that. So that’s something.

We did Twitter auth this year, but skipped the avatar because there's no way to programmatically test for it. Most of our users use gravatar, which returns an image whether they've set it up or not. If they use Twitter avatars instead, we might as well just do Twitter auth as the challenge. The avatar challenge allows all comments, then we have to make sure to pick a correct winner ourselves, which is something we're trying to avoid this year (see above).