Contest & Sweepstakes Forum Guide - Please Read

Okay, thank you for the responses! I was just curious because I had read this, "Personal Contests
A personal contest in our definition is a contest where you are giving away an item that you have in your possession at the time of the post. A personal blog-run contest is not "personal contest" and should not be promoted via SlickDeals.net.
Please make sure any contest that you plan to run has been OK'ed by the Moderators, and mention the approval in the post. Any contests that have not be OK'ed by a Contest & Sweepstakes Mod will be deleted.

-Contests requiring any monetary transactions what so ever (charity, paypal, referral, etc.) is not allowed!
-Contests requiring rep points and/or certain number of posts is also not allowed. If post count is a restriction, then screen at your own discretion. No not do it publicly."

..but was not sure if it falls in the same category. The business does have the prizes in-hand currently. It does not require any purchasing & no one is getting paid for the "Likes" on FB.

Other Facebook businesses are doing sweepstakes as well, only difference is this is not a sweepstakes because we don't have people giving up their personal information. *shrugs*

Kind of a complex issue.. Lolz.

Quote from djl3e : Okay, thank you for the responses! I was just curious because I had read this, "Personal Contests A personal contest in our definition is a contest where you are giving away an item that you have in your possession at the time of the post. A personal blog-run contest is not "personal contest" and should not be promoted via SlickDeals.net. Please make sure any contest that you plan to run has been OK'ed by the Moderators, and mention the approval in the post. Any contests that have not be OK'ed by a Contest & Sweepstakes Mod will be deleted. -Contests requiring any monetary transactions what so ever (charity, paypal, referral, etc.) is not allowed! -Contests requiring rep points and/or certain number of posts is also not allowed. If post count is a restriction, then screen at your own discretion. No not do it publicly." ..but was not sure if it falls in the same category. The business does have the prizes in-hand currently. It does not require any purchasing & no one is getting paid for the "Likes" on FB. Other Facebook businesses are doing sweepstakes as well, only difference is this is not a sweepstakes because we don't have people giving up their personal information. *shrugs* Kind of a complex issue.. Lolz.

I say go for it. I don't see this as being a "personal" contest and no different than others who post sweeps that are on their own sites. It's a sweeps and I personally see no problem with it. If in doubt PM one of the moderators.

Thank you all for your time! Much appreciated. I will hold off for now as I have not received any okays from the moderators. =) Been a member here for a long time. Don't want to change that. =p

Quote from djl3e : Thank you all for your time! Much appreciated. I will hold off for now as I have not received any okays from the moderators. =) Been a member here for a long time. Don't want to change that. =p

Earlier this year, or last year I mentioned to one of the guys from CampingGearTV (on their Facebook page) about our forum and he came over and posted one of their giveaways. They were banned, when I inquired it was pretty much any form of self-promotion wasn't allowed. I was welcome to post it as long as I had absolutely NO affiliation whatsoever with them, other than being a fan.

There have been a few self-promotion giveaways on here over the past couple months, but I don't think it was so much acceptable as none of the mods noticed and no one bothered to flag them. I think like most rules, they just err on a zero tolerance policy so they don't have to judge them on an individual basis. With that, I'd definitely wait for approval before posting.

-MJ

thanks

Earlier I posted a link for one of the 100 Grand Sweepstakes sponsored by Hearst Magazines. While I knew there were multiple links, I didn't know when I'd get around to posting more/finding more and just wanted to post it. So now I'm back and ready to post more. My concern is that others who've already visited the thread, won't be aware of the new links if I post them in the OP and/or the wiki and/or the body of the thread (I'm not one to revisit posts unless I need to check them often for additional info like daily clues). I saw that heyjupiter found some additional links and kindly posted them in that thread, but, would it be better if she made a new post with those links and I made a new post with my new links? I searched and saw that other links for this same 100 Grand Sweepstakes had been posted in November, so having multiple posts of the same sweeps, under different links, isn't unheard of.

Quote from KMA : Earlier I posted a link for one of the 100 Grand Sweepstakes sponsored by Hearst Magazines. While I knew there were multiple links, I didn't know when I'd get around to posting more/finding more and just wanted to post it. So now I'm back and ready to post more. My concern is that others who've already visited the thread, won't be aware of the new links if I post them in the OP and/or the wiki and/or the body of the thread (I'm not one to revisit posts unless I need to check them often for additional info like daily clues). I saw that heyjupiter found some additional links and kindly posted them in that thread, but, would it be better if she made a new post with those links and I made a new post with my new links? I searched and saw that other links for this same 100 Grand Sweepstakes had been posted in November, so having multiple posts of the same sweeps, under different links, isn't unheard of.

Seems to make sense to post in a new thread so that it is easier to see
Thanks for thinking of all of us and Happy New Year

Quote from KMA : Earlier I posted a link for one of the 100 Grand Sweepstakes sponsored by Hearst Magazines. While I knew there were multiple links, I didn't know when I'd get around to posting more/finding more and just wanted to post it. So now I'm back and ready to post more. My concern is that others who've already visited the thread, won't be aware of the new links if I post them in the OP and/or the wiki and/or the body of the thread (I'm not one to revisit posts unless I need to check them often for additional info like daily clues). I saw that heyjupiter found some additional links and kindly posted them in that thread, but, would it be better if she made a new post with those links and I made a new post with my new links? I searched and saw that other links for this same 100 Grand Sweepstakes had been posted in November, so having multiple posts of the same sweeps, under different links, isn't unheard of.

I wouldn't worry about it over much. The Hearst sweeps are a creative presentation. They have about a dozen magazines that will all have sweepstakes for only one prize. I had posted all the different links to the same sweeps in one of the threads ages ago and got blasted here as everyone here says that each different entry should have it's own thread. Whatever. BTW I don't waste my time entering them. They usually last longer than a year, only have one prize, and no matter how hard you try with Hearst you end up accidentally subscribing to one of their magazines even when you know you used the non-subscriptin form.

I am having problems getting 15 additional entries for liking SD on Facebook. It's already set to like and I am still getting the error message "You must like us before you get an entry"

It's the same no matter which browser I use Chrome or IE 9.

Quote from apjung : I am having problems getting 15 additional entries for liking SD on Facebook. It's already set to like and I am still getting the error message "You must like us before you get an entry" It's the same no matter which browser I use Chrome or IE 9.

Might be an obvious suggestion but try unliking and then liking again.

Quote from Jang : Might be an obvious suggestion but try unliking and then liking again.

Yes, I tried that.

Quote from apjung : Yes, I tried that.

Same thing happened to me. I think you now have to link your Facebook account to your SD account to get the extra entries for "liking" them on FB.

Quote from apjung : Yes, I tried that.

Ok. I hope MLx3's suggestion works then.



Once in a while I don't get the points for Twitter. It's so random and uncommon that I don't know what the problem is.

It's not working, I have gotten the 20 entries for linking my FB account to my SD account. It's just the recent days I can't get the 15 entries for liking SD on FB.

Another thing is I can NEVER get any bonus entries for time logged on SD. Any ideas?