User blog comment:DoctorBleed/A Million Little Things of Bleach: On Rejection, Disappointment and Contests/@comment-10789912-20151122173920/@comment-10789912-20151122184330

Our administrators in general have to deal with this constantly. Even when they are completely correct, and even kind to the users, they still are on the receiving end of events from users that think they're completely right, and that the administrator is wrong. 90% of the time, it's the other way around.

One setting I certainly don't understand this sort of conduct in, is a contest.

1. Voicing that you're upset only ruins the mood for others, and puts a buffer on the excitement of those that did place.

2. Not everything is about you. If your story wasn't good enough, it wasn't good enough. That's it. End of discussion. Again, be happy for those that placed, and don't put the spotlight back on yourself.

3. This was hoping to accomplish what? There is not a single beneficial ending from any event like this.

That, in an extreme nutshell, is why this sort of conduct from contest-running users is nothing but upsetting.