Originally Posted by ThumbLord (Post 11478063)

so next time an actual webmaster might win a contest?

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 11480425)

I believe Firehorse is a webmaster

Originally Posted by sacX (Post 11478307)

sponsors who repeatedly run the contests know what's happening imo.

Originally Posted by TexasDreams (Post 11477642)

I've been doing some automated looking at some of the contest threads of late, and I see some "most interesting" patterns in the IP's and refcodes in the sigs. And also running searches against the multiple apache web server logs of GFY.

Every time in the past, when I have shut down contest threads that were breaking the rules in just about every single way, there were some sponsors that got REALLY pissed off and complained to those above me. Now, I can understand top sponsors wanting views and mentions. But is it really worth it when the VERY few are leaching thousands out their pockets per month???

I don't want to start killing off contests run by GFY's top sponsors, but I really think it's time to start shit-canning the contest whores, and start publishing exactly just how often they are stealing money from the sponsors from the "legitimate" webmasters here on GFY. And if it comes right down to it, I don't have ANY problem with publicly posting the actual IP's and email addy's of those that are only making any money in adult as post whores.

If you are a GFY top sponsor and running contests, don't hesitate in hitting me up (my contact info is in my sig). I don't have ANY problem in auditing any contest thread for the GFY Top Sponsors, that will weed out those that are cheating, using multiple nicks, using automated (bot) software, not following the rules, or ANY violation of GFY's rules. And I don't have any problem banning the offender's, their IP's, or their domains for life.

Mark (aka TexasDreams)
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Originally Posted by Matt 26z (Post 11480765)

The dispute is if Firehorse and born4porn are the same person or not.

I haven't seen much suspicious stuff with prize posts involving those two names (such as back to back all the time), so it's really kind of a moot point for now.

Originally Posted by TopBucksTrixxxia (Post 11479335)

I personally would like to see the 'Thread of the day' prizes come back. Maybe have sponsors rearrange that idea into a 'contest'
Everyday - reward three FANTASTIC threads - voted by people viewing and discussing (keep the IP issue managed too so all the ghost nicks don't come in to vote for nonsense). If you take away the financial benefit for people to post in threads - they'll find another forum to go disturb :) Setting the bar higher - getting the 'brilliant' lurkers to come out of hiding too.

There was a time on GFY when people outdid themselves to think out of the box - start intelligent, coherent threads - if you knew your stuff, it was a POOL of fantastic tips & great discussions.

Now it's a competition on how inSIGnificant each post can be in order to maximize the posts made to get more sigs viewed and clicked. Sad really. I was hoping Playboy would turn this ship around and bring up the standards.

Come on TD - shake it up a little.

Either daily prizes or a point system. When they earn enough 'GREAT THREAD' points, they can exchange it for an item.