Age: 36 Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 53 Location: Arizona, USA
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:07 am Real money/prize "games"
Today I see in the exchange a link for cutestdogcompetition.com. This isn't a game... it's an actual contest where the winner receives a money prize... is this really an appropriate use of the link exchange?
I also have a question about this game at animalut.net - I don't read Romanian so it's impossible for me to know, but it looks like the players actually gain real-world prizes once they reach a certain number of clicks? (please correct me if I am wrong!) if that is the case, I also personally feel like such a link shouldn't be permitted...
I know it's at the discretion of the admins, but I was just wondering what they and other users think.
Helped: 2 times Age: 48 Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 407
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:37 am Re: Real money/prize "games"
Xazy wrote:
Today I see in the exchange a link for cutestdogcompetition.com. This isn't a game... it's an actual contest where the winner receives a money prize... is this really an appropriate use of the link exchange?
Hi!
That link was accepted by me. So if an Admin thinks, that I was wrong there feel free to delete the link again.
Imho it is a game where you need to get many clicks to your pet.
About animulet.net: I dont know ...
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Age: 38 Joined: 12 Aug 2009 Posts: 41 Location: Greece
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:37 am
yeah I don't like that either.. I mean, if you can make money out of link exchange, we're going to be full of accounts buying credits just to do that. Plus, it's not a game anymore...
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Joined: 09 Jun 2008 Posts: 241 Location: North Carolina, USA
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:05 pm
The cutest dog link isn't benefiting the person showing the link here. The dog being voted on belongs to the owner of the Unicreatures/Unifaction sites.
Don't have a clue about the Romainian one, but I also wouldn't have a problem with it--we get a credit for clicking it and the person showing it loses a credit----exchange made.
Yep I'm with Barb - as long as the link isn't trying to get money from me - besides the cutest dog contest is over, Jasper won so the link holder isn't helping anyone anymore.
The Romanian I don't know either I see I give a vote to level up a pet.
About the Romanian site - I will try to contact member "alukz", she was in our dynasty and I know she is Romanian, so maybe she will able to help with "what is the site all about", but I see that she was not online for a few days, so it might last some time.
Age: 36 Joined: 21 Jan 2009 Posts: 53 Location: Arizona, USA
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:42 am
Someone has a link now for this contest with a dog that is completely unrelated to Unicreatures.
I don't think whether this person will actually win anything is relevant, my question is meant to ask if it is appropriate to allow links that potentially give you a real money prize.
besides the cutest dog contest is over, Jasper won so the link holder isn't helping anyone anymore.
Well, yes, Jasper won and now UC people vote for Kikka ......
and now Kikka won too
I did see Hippie made a link to a third dog, I don't know if it's his own but I wouldn't mind helping him win.
I can understand though if there are others here who has a dog in that contest that they would mind - off course they could make a link to their dog too but since you can only vote once per IP per day it would be a race to get the link out first so now I'm not sure what I think about those links - I don't mind helping any to win real money or stuff but I can see a problem if several has dogs in that contest.
besides the cutest dog contest is over, Jasper won so the link holder isn't helping anyone anymore.
Well, yes, Jasper won and now UC people vote for Kikka ......
and now Kikka won too
I did see Hippie made a link to a third dog, I don't know if it's his own but I wouldn't mind helping him win.
I can understand though if there are others here who has a dog in that contest that they would mind - off course they could make a link to their dog too but since you can only vote once per IP per day it would be a race to get the link out first so now I'm not sure what I think about those links - I don't mind helping any to win real money or stuff but I can see a problem if several has dogs in that contest.
actually - you can vote for every single dog on the site everyday if you want to. the one vote per ip is that you can only vote for each dog once - I vote for about 30 a day now
actually - you can vote for every single dog on the site everyday if you want to. the one vote per ip is that you can only vote for each dog once - I vote for about 30 a day now
Ahh - well in that case I have no problems with the links
Age: 56 Joined: 25 Jun 2009 Posts: 97 Location: Germany
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:41 am
The thing with animalut and several other romanian sites is this:
when you are very close to win that prize most of these romanian servers go down and you get a 404 error message.
So no need to worry if anyone is taking a personal advantage of these links.
Nobody ever wins.
I've tried it out myself and as that cube was ready (after about 2000-2500 clicks and votes) I didn't got that promised email or any other form of message.
All I got was a small text below the completed cube that congratulated me and told me I should write an email to the site owner.But there was no email adress anywhere.
This animalut and whatever sites are FAKE and nothing else.
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