hehe i'm sorry I didn't tell anyone that section was closed and hidden since around last week.

Rather than running too many contests I think its better to have only a few big successful contests. I agree with the idea that a poll (yes/no) should be made before a contest is allowed to run. And contest winner should be determined not only based on members vote but also from the judgement of selected members/mods.
The only problem is about the contest prize. It would be great if the prize is not something like +repu or rank but stuff related to friendstertalk, merchandise like t-shirt, stickers, etc. The friendstertalk t-shirts I was trying to make for some mods are still in progress, so I don't know the outcome yet.