Personal Giveaways at Forum- A Small clarification

[Samuel]

By reading all the conversations of this thread. I see that Personal Giveaways are NOT Stopped! All you have to do is to tell Avinash or Ashwin (Mod), about your giveaway and prove that you have licenses, genuine ones, and you won't cancel the giveaway in middle. So, it would be better to change the Title of the thread first!

By reading those 2 rules many of you may felt bad about it, but in next line Avinash says :

If you do not full-fill the above conditions and still want to giveaway something, Ask me or forum MOD.

I think that line should be bolded and should be clear, so that this thread conveys the message correctly.

The other solution to this situation is :

Remove all these rules. These rules look like punishments. Min. count of 500 and 6 month duration, will not encourage new members. So better allow giveaways. If anyone fail to fulfill his promise, like if he fail to give licenses as he told in giveaway, then these rules should be applied to that person only. So, that he'll learn from his mistake.

These are my suggestions only. Hope to see better rule

---------- Post added at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 AM ----------

It has been an embarrassing situation today.

All those members hoping to win licenses would be dissapointed. This rule was brought in place to avoid such situations.

Like Avi said, it can be amended. We just need some opinions first.

Gave my opinion Ash

[Ashwin]

By reading all the conversations of this thread. I see that Personal Giveaways are NOT Stopped! All you have to do is to tell Avinash or Ashwin (Mod), about your giveaway and prove that you have licenses, genuine ones, and you won't cancel the giveaway in middle. So, it would be better to change the Title of the thread first!

Avi and I have never asked anyone about the genuineness of licenses.

But I agree about new rules like

1. No cancellation of giveaways
2. Ensure that the licenses are not already used on any other computer. In case the license can be transferred without problems, then its fine

By reading those 2 rules many of you may felt bad about it, but in next line Avinash says :

I think that line should be bolded and should be clear, so that this thread conveys the message correctly.

The other solution to this situation is :

Remove all these rules. These rules look like punishments. Min. count of 500 and 6 month duration, will not encourage new members. So better allow giveaways. If anyone fail to fulfill his promise, like if he fail to give licenses as he told in giveaway, then these rules should be applied to that person only. So, that he'll learn from his mistake.

These are my suggestions only. Hope to see better rule

Well, these rules are not punishments, but merely precautions.

[Corno]

Avi and I have never asked anyone about the genuineness of licenses.

But I agree about new rules like

1. No cancellation of giveaways
2. Ensure that the licenses are not already used on any other computer. In case the license can be transferred without problems, then its fine



Well, these rules are not punishments, but merely precautions.

Seems a wise decision. If it does not work this way you can always tighten the rules. IMO it would be good idea if the person who gives away the license(s) makes clear how the draw will be conducted. Will he use random.org, or just give them away to whomever he likes? Also, 500 posts may be a bit much, but a minimum of, say, 10 or 30 posts would keep quite a few spammers out. On Raymon.cc I have seen newbies with just one (1) post dealing out license keys that were definitely phishy.

[Avinash]

Seems a wise decision. If it does not work this way you can always tighten the rules. IMO it would be good idea if the person who gives away the license(s) makes clear how the draw will be conducted. Will he use random.org, or just give them away to whomever he likes? Also, 500 posts may be a bit much, but a minimum of, say, 10 or 30 posts would keep quite a few spammers out. On Raymon.cc I have seen newbies with just one (1) post dealing out license keys that were definitely phishy.

yes, I just lowered the min. number to just 50