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Originally Posted by hardair
What's the procedure for choosing the winner? are you simply going to pick a name out of a hat from those who entered? If so how can anyone be sure that you aren't just stacking the bowl with the names of personal friends or someone you have made a prior arrangement with?, or favoring someone who sent you 400 joins vs someone who sent only 5? Just curious because it's unusual for a couple of relatively small amateur sites to award prizes of this nature and it would be easy to rig for the exposure without an unbiased and non affiliated third party overseeing it and verifying things. Should i win though i'll post a followup confirming it's legit since i know i'm not in on it ;-)
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Well Paul, I guess since your
last attempt to stir-up controversy went relatively unnoticed and had you banned you?ve decided to register a new nick and try again. Since you have no entries into this drawing and have no stake in this contest it makes me wonder why you would be so concerned with the procedures and call into question our reputation.
To our affiliates who have sent their valuable traffic to NaughtyBank and actually do have a stake in this contest I can assure you that we?ve taken all the appropriate measures to ensure the integrity of this contest. In addition to what has taken place behind closed doors we?ve also opened the following aspects of this drawing to public scrutiny in order to avoid any speculation of the contest being ?fixed?:
1. All the tickets for the drawing will be placed in a CLEAR acrylic raffle drum.
2. The raffle drum will be on full public display in front of everyone in attendance at Webmaster Access for the entire day of the drawing.
3. Each ticket has the webmaster?s name and affiliate ID printed on the face of the ticket and will be visible to anyone at the show. Even a quick glance at the raffle drum will show at least several thousand tickets, each having a different name and affiliate ID.
4. A ticket will be randomly drawn from this CLEAR acrylic raffle drum in full view of several hundred webmasters immediately following the ?State Of The Industry Seminar?.
5. In addition to the several hundred people who will be physically present to witness the tickets in the raffle drum and the drawing itself there will also be a
Live Broadcast for anyone who is interested in the outcome of the drawing.
Last but not least, as with any business relationship there has to be a certain element of trust between all parties involved. Allie and I have been in this business for more than 6 years and have operated our sites and program with nothing but the greatest of integrity. Your reputation is all you have and once compromised there?s no going back. We?re certainly not going to put our reputation of 6 years at risk by attempting to influence the outcome of this contest in anyway.