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Michael.
No Wire Tampons!
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 Competition Spam I've noticed there are a LOT of spam accounts being set up soley for the purpose of enterting competitions. Too many people are signing up, posting in the competition threads and then not actually doing anything in the forums.
Moan Moan, Bitch Bitch, Whine Whine.
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insomniacdude
I just lost the game
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...that's the point. Cause awareness. Even if one of those people continues to come back to the forum, it's a success from the forum community standpoint. From a webmasters standpoint, it raises awareness on the web...more links, more hits, higher pagerank, more revenue from ads, better chance at exclusive materials, etc.
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that's not the definition of spam Michael.
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Eagle
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insomniacdude wrote: ...that's the point. Cause awareness. Even if one of those people continues to come back to the forum, it's a success from the forum community standpoint. From a webmasters standpoint, it raises awareness on the web...more links, more hits, higher pagerank, more revenue from ads, better chance at exclusive materials, etc. _________________
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BJ
Killing With Kindness
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Eagle wrote: insomniacdude wrote: ...that's the point. Cause awareness. Even if one of those people continues to come back to the forum, it's a success from the forum community standpoint. From a webmasters standpoint, it raises awareness on the web...more links, more hits, higher pagerank, more revenue from ads, better chance at exclusive materials, etc. awesome avatar  _________________The Force Awakens
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Michael.
No Wire Tampons!
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Okay so we sacrifice fairness for the end revenue factor of returning users?
Hmmm...sounds like a sweet deal to me!
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Eagle
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Fairness?
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Michael.
No Wire Tampons!
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If one person is creating several accounts to sign up for a competition, and everyone else is entering with ONE account. That makes the competition unfair.
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bABA
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all participants are checked to see if they have double accounts or not.
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
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Felicity Titwank wrote: If one person is creating several accounts to sign up for a competition, and everyone else is entering with ONE account. That makes the competition unfair. Certainly it does and that is forbidden too. I think there is a bit of misunderstanding in this thread. Double accounts are not allowed by anyone to enter the competiton and they are being filtered out as much as possible. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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