I stand by what I said earlier. The actual post was not edited but there is absolutely nothing that says the image itself couldn't be edited from off site. I have been able to duplicate similar results by playing around with images and image shack which I have now wasted a couple of hours at work on.
If this only happened on my computer I would be willing to be flexible. But it wasn't.
If this only happened to all imageshack images I would be willing to be flexible. But there were tons of imageshack pictures that were unaffected and working the whole time that never gave us one single problem.
If I wasn't using a new computer...
If we only checked once or twice....
If we only checked at one specific time and not at several different times.....
If I didn't leave it open for several minutes to see if it was taking its time uploading...
The truth is we didn't take this ruling lightly, and just brushed it off.
Even last night after NYS started complaining about it, it stopped working again. (HR can confirm this as well) If image shack is unreliable, don't use it from now on. That's my advice.
The challenge asks to display your pictures by the end of the challenge. It did not display for hours after the challenge finished, no one said anything about it working for them at the time the results were released. The image was still not working way after the results were released. It eventually started working yesterday, but then stopped, and now its back on. To me, Raw didn't uphold the requirements of the challenge thus they still lose this challenge.