BSU = Bulacan State University, in the Philippines. Google some of the names from Tofu's list. Here's one: http://profiles.friendster.com/21747424

I'm going with Gran's art class hypothesis.

Ok know whats the puree of all the comments up here...is it a spam or a testing or just some regular members???

What ever it is...just don't harm us

Zen (UnlimitedHoriZen) was an old member who regularly went psychotic. He finally got banned and pops in every once in a while.

Dude...that was like a week ago.

It is obviously Al Qaeda using secret encoded .jpg's to spread terror.

If it is some kind of joke...then has to be controlled....coz some serious votes are on the stake. You know what I mean.
See this
http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/130136/votes.html

Know why to waste votes on this.....if there are some serious chops out there.

Have to be considered by site moderators. IMHO.

A blatantly filter created entry that garners one vote has you worried?

Anyway you pointed out the anomaly and the mods are aware of it.

i tried crashing thier forum to see what they are playing at, but they dont have a forum

at least they bumped up the numbers for a few days, only one posted in yesterdays contest so far

I like a conspiracy as much as any body, but its probably just that people from that school liked the site and wanted to do a contest. Probably seeing who in the class will win, etc......

I agree, most likely a class of kids who we won't see again. If they had all been voting for each other and winning it would be a problem, but they haven't posted enough to vote. We certainly will keep an eye on it.

If it were some type of practical joke, they would have probably started flaming our forum and/or chat.

If someone is creating aliases, btw, they better be smarter than to use the same naming conventions when they register...

I don't think it's anything to worry about at this point, but thanks for calling our attention to it.

Splodge will keep an eye on it. I'm going shopping. You can find me at www.amazon.com.

At least 3 of the BSU's have stuck around. A couple are even putting a good effort into it. Give them a couple support votes huh?
I am really disappointed in the attitude of a LOT of you people around here.

not me, i've been very nice which is not like me

Might help if they posted thier comments in english so we knew what they where saying ?
http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/127968/fallen.html

Well scion...I started this topic, means I am one of those "LOT"...
See I started the topic by writing 'May be I am too overreacting about this...' so I was not sure.

And then I wrote 'If it is some kind of joke...then has to be controlled'......I used "IF".

So don't be disappointed with our attitude...coz we were just trying to stop spammers, if any.

I hope you understand...

http://photoshopcontest.com/view-entry/130248/display.html

I think we could say that they have identified themselves already, in the shooting gallery!!!