Thread: Vote for the N810 Winner!
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techdodo is offline techdodo
2007-11-28 , 23:33
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Originally Posted by ihavenothingprofoundtosay View Post
Here's what I don't understand: on the rules & initial announcement for the contest, it's stated that the final voting would take place on this forum. I though that was made clear, didn't everyone else? I hate to be so cruel as to say RTFM, but c'mon, at least some reading of the rules would have helped here.
Here are the rules pertaining to what you are talking about....
2. Eligibility - Contest is open to YouTube users aged 18 years or older. Judges and family of judges are not eligible.
5. Winning - One winner will be chosen from a pool of five finalists, rated by voters of the InternetTabletTalk.com community. Finalists will be chosen by Judges.

Where did it say you had to be part of the InternetTabletTalk.com community before a certain date, like 11/17 to be a voter? The rules were posted on 10/25. Why not before 10/25? Maybe between 10/25 and 11/17, someone could have registered a bunch of accounts?

The changes are fine though, it is covered by this statement...
8. Limitations of Liability .....the Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend this Contest and may select the winner from among all entries received to the action taken. So changing the date to 11/17 is perfectly legit, and as I said before, if it makes the contest fair, I am perfectly fine with it.

Originally Posted by ihavenothingprofoundtosay View Post
No, no - it just seems that there were more than a few folks who didn't register for this forum until after they'd already entered the contest (as in, join date prior to 11/17/07), and thus were unable to vote.
Well, I am one of those that apparently didn't RTFM as well as you did. Despite how clear it was to you, before the contest was even started, I was able to register on the 20th, and I was allowed to vote on the 21st. At that point there was still no indication that people had to be registered prior to 11/17 to vote. So it wasn't a requirement at that time and only was made a requirement after there seemed to be some apparent hanky panky going on with the voting.

At least that was the way I understood it, but obviously, according to you, I didn't read the rules as well as you did.