Over there, a complete ban should be put on WIP posting for any contest, I think. Too many people have too big a fan-base that they would win on that merit instead of on the actual work put into the project. Argue this all day long, as is your wont, I don't have time for that, just saying, as one who has had his hackles rubbed up wrongly over there in the past. I like to pick at my scabs.
The part about WIP posts that are unlike the finished article has really baffled me, though, I don't see how that could even be possible. Do you post just one blade of grass as a WIP, one px of atmosphere sample? Anonymous should mean just that, hell, should I post under my Rendo-Incognito profile(the one used to check stuff out that people post elsewhere about RR that I might like to read/view), no, probably not because someone has pre-won that contest already.
I must stop before I get my back up again over that farce.
Sorry, Andy.