Dear good admins of Digital Point. There are a lot of cases where contest holder abandoning their contest without any feedback and keep themselves quiet. I have here two examples. https://forums.digitalpoint.com/thr...d-72-hr-deadline.2653648/page-2#post-18585832 https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/70-in-prizes-logo-for-the-website-www-oeshopping-dk.2651901/ My suggestion is to let contests holders put up a small deposit, say 20% of the winning prizes for commitment. How will it work? Maybe a trustworthy admin to administer contests and its deposit? A joint account? I'm sure there's workaround to this. Cheers rolodex.
I don't like irresponsible people. If you already put a contest and you change your mind about it and you get it that you don't need a logo like in first example, fair thing is to say that you change your mind and to apologize to all for wasting theirs time.
True. Another way is to clarify the possibility of no winner, once they close the contest, DP will refund the deposit.
Agreed rolodex I had seen many contest creator that they never reply sometimes they said my client not responding sometimes they said we had changed our mind so there must be deposit system and yes if you really don't like any entries then you should atleast reply in thread don't need to disappear suddenly. Deposit or Infraction system - If contest creator drop contest in-between due to any silly reason. We have here 3 difficulties 1) Any thread starter can Lie I don't like any entries. 2) Where this money should deposit?? Do DP need to create any separate Paypal account for this? 3) At the end what happen with that money??
DP is never going to get involved in this. There is really only one solution to this and that is for the bulk of people who participate by entering into the contests get together as a group and establish rules. If those rules are not met, none of them participate. The problem is it takes a lot of work and organization to make something like that happen.