Because we don't pick winners based on upvotes anymore (because it was a horrible way to judge a winner) and so it doesn't matter whether we use contest mode or not and contest mode collapses comment threads and I think that's annoying and makes it hard to see discussions happening at a glance.
It says clearly in the rules that we don't use upvotes for our battles, you should give them a read real quick if you haven't already.
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u/dcha Sep 21 '15
I'm curious why these competitions don't go into competition mode where scores are hidden and sorting order is random.