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PLease see the first post, the rules have been updated

And the idea that people might just enter as often as they wish, like your original rule stated never entered your minds that someone just might?

I think everyone that entered in each time up till now should count as an entry. You can't go changing rules in the middle of the game!

And the idea that people might just enter as often as they wish, like your original rule stated never entered your minds that someone just might?

I think everyone that entered in each time up till now should count as an entry. You can't go changing rules in the middle of the game!

Of course you can, their competition and no - Just because some no-lifers went crazy, shouldn't give them an advantage. A fair shot for everyone is how it should be,

massive kudos to bdsams for seeing reason (Y)

Haha poor Maz all that time wasted.

And the idea that people might just enter as often as they wish, like your original rule stated never entered your minds that someone just might?

I think everyone that entered in each time up till now should count as an entry. You can't go changing rules in the middle of the game!

Of course you are going to say that, you just wasted 1 day of your life spamming the damn forum.

And the idea that people might just enter as often as they wish, like your original rule stated never entered your minds that someone just might?

I think everyone that entered in each time up till now should count as an entry. You can't go changing rules in the middle of the game!

Haha it's fine by me actually. I thought it was ridiculous as well (something like 10 entries a day or useful conversation only in the giveaway description would have worked), but didn't want to have a terrible disadvantage to anyone else who tried entering 100+ times xD

I'll play the game however anybody else plays it as long as it's by the rules :)

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Haha it's fine by me actually. I thought it was ridiculous as well (something like 10 entries a day or useful conversation only in the giveaway description would have worked), but didn't want to have a terrible disadvantage to anyone else who tried entering 100+ times xD

I'll play the game however anybody else plays it as long as it's by the rules :)

Good attitude :)

i guess when a subscriber cries, neowin listens.

you had all the time in the world to establish the ground rules and you renege on them half way through the contest. Why?, because people were actually following your rules !!

I was working from home, randomly refreshing the page and adding an entry as I saw an opening. Now you consider it spam...but for anyone who entered twice, their second entry wasn't considered spam. I bet no one cried over the guy who only entered in twice.

i guess when a subscriber cries, neowin listens.

you had all the time in the world to establish the ground rules and you renege on them half way through the contest. Why?, because people were actually following your rules !!

I was working from home, randomly refreshing the page and adding an entry as I saw an opening. Now you consider it spam...but for anyone who entered twice, their second entry wasn't considered spam. I bet no one cried over the guy who only entered in twice.

Boohoo, you spamming is down the drain; get over it.

i guess when a subscriber cries, neowin listens.

you had all the time in the world to establish the ground rules and you renege on them half way through the contest. Why?, because people were actually following your rules !!

I was working from home, randomly refreshing the page and adding an entry as I saw an opening. Now you consider it spam...but for anyone who entered twice, their second entry wasn't considered spam. I bet no one cried over the guy who only entered in twice.

200 posts is bloody spam, 2 posts is not whatever way you look at it, you are just crying because you wasted all that time.

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