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The way this app is set up makes it a waste of time and potentially money if they lure you into it. Is sort of fun to enter contests, but in order to get your picture seen you have to vote or use boosts which they try to sell you to fill your “exposure meter”. If you don’t do that, the votes on your picture will level off and you won’t get voted on again until you vote positively on a certain number of pictures. This mechanic encourages mindless voting just to fill the exposure meter and therefore the best pictures aren’t what’s voted for, anything that shows up is what gets voted for because that is just what you need to do to get your picture seen. Also, it encourages not voting for the best pictures. Why pile on votes to the best pictures which are going to overshadow yours when you could vote for pictures that are less likely to reach the same level of votes as yours so that you stay higher up in the ranks? And the prizes are always just in-app purchases, which really isn’t worth anything if you ask me. TLDR; It’s just a broken system that in no way gives actual feedback or reward for your photography. Thought it’d be a nice change from Instagram but it’s even more disingenuous.

One thing I’ve noticed about the winners of majority of this app is the pictures are horrible not even close to a true photography picture or worthy of a Win !! Maybe a handful is most winners are in the experts an master n guru levels who are the ones who set forth the new games . They chose the winners among each other further more of you go to their pictures on their profile they are not even good pictures nor creative nor anything but a disgrace to us the real photographers I think it’s a cool game but if your looking for a real game with real winners worthy of winning well this isn’t it!! To top it off your exposure depends on ur voting ability an most pictures don’t even have anything to do with the contest so if it’s a red contest you have people putting up pictures with nothing to do Roth red but getting more voted then pictures that do all because people with no life gave all day to just sit around an vote. It’s pathetic an unfortunate then a lot of contest will say no sexual explicitness allowed but then you will see a picture of that nature being a top guru Pick disgraceful... I would give app a -10 if I could.

When I started Gurushots, I saw phenomenal photographs reaching the top votes and Guru top pick lists for a variety of different challenges. Being a growing photographer, it was definitely inspiring to see what makes a great photo and motivated me to improve my skills to earn votes and reach the top. Now, I see many poorly composed and off-topic photographs reaching the top votes for many challenges, there is no way that these photos truly reflect the votes of the users, period. I assume that the more money you spend on the boosts/swaps to use in a challenge it secures your spot in the top ranks. Are these fake votes?? This is incredibly sad, because it has destroyed the credibility of the voting algorithm and confirms that money, not creativity & skill with active voting, is what matters the most to gain exposure and win top prizes on this app. Please switch to selling ad space or a one time paid app version. This is a very social game, so I'd rather pay for the app itself and have voting be fair for everyone based on skill instead of always expecting someone to outpay me for votes in a challenge.