Hi, @hanggggbeeee. I can't answer for the team as to what they will decide to do about this contest. But I do think a lot of people were not aware of what was allowed and what wasn't. So you are not personally to be blamed.

And yes, I agree that exchanging votes/bookmarks amounts to more or less the same as buying upvotes/using a bot.

But exchanging is not something we can be sure about. There's always that gray area. So the obvious thing to do here is to ban upvoting bots, at least. So Tasteem has, early on, announced that upvotes by bots will not be taken into account. However, it has been very hard to catch up on everyone's activities.

And that is one reason why Tasteem is preparing for a re-launch. It will be back with a clearer set of rules and some kind of method to implement it better. Thanks for your feedback!