StephenB wrote:Vace Cooper wrote:when the BpB runs contests that offer free premium, we actually give away a free premium. you should be given a formal warning for running a false contest within the forums and paying up a guaranteed premium which you promised. why not make good on your contest for free premium and pony up the cash for the winner? oh, you probably never intended to do such a thing.
It's ok, I PMed him telling him to get himself a couple of beers 'on me' with the 25$ I would've won.
actually, it isn't ok. you can't run contests within the forums, promising premium, and then not paying up. i guarantee had my clan done that with our Black History Month Avatar Contest, we would have received our second blanket ban for all members of our clan. a precedent should be set for this type of thing, because this is simply fraud. a bad joke that some kid never intended to pay off on. he wanted a thread with a high post count to feel important in the GD, and it backfired. a warning should be issued and an unwritten rule should be made or stated that future members that do this sort of thing will receive a lengthy ban.