A Long-Winded Rant Concerning the New York/Speak Up Contest

We feel kinda bad now, because we’re thinking that we certainly helped to aid this growing anger among the community. Back over the summer, maybe because of the heat, when everyone seemed to be talking spec work this, and unfair contests that, and so on, we got into it a bit and added our two cents here and there. But now it seems like the equation works like this: “any contest = bad, bad, bad.”