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Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby tasadam on Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:01 pm

If you are inclined... Feel free to visit my entry in this photographic competition and click on "vote for me" up the top.

You may vote once a day, for another 2 weeks or so. Yeah, I'm desperate... :wink:

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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby biggerry on Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:46 pm

I am seeing this with increasing regularity across forums - soliciting likes, votes, thumbs up etc for images in competitions. Is this ethical?

Adam, i am not by any means trying to tarnish your character here and if you want I can start a new thread on this topic.. :up:
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby tasadam on Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:15 pm

No, it's cool.
I made the topic title perfectly clear what it was about, so it was entirely discretional for anyone whether or not they bothered looking. I very much doubt my chances anyhow, but thought people might be interested to take a look.
If it's against forum rules (which I didn't take the time to read again before posting this) and I am disciplined as a consequence, so be it.
If it should be against forum rules, perhaps that's something for another topic to discuss.
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby biggerry on Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:35 pm

tasadam wrote:No, it's cool.
I made the topic title perfectly clear what it was about,


and I for one appreciate that :up:
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby tasadam on Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:48 pm

biggerry wrote:
tasadam wrote:No, it's cool.
I made the topic title perfectly clear what it was about,


and I for one appreciate that :up:

What, you mean you wouldn't have appreciated one of these? :wink:

Image

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I digress....
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby surenj on Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:58 pm

biggerry wrote:Is this ethical?

If you need to ask that question (either from others or to yourself) then it probably is un-ethical. YMMV.

I've voted however.... :roll:

In saying that, if you didn't ask people to vote for you, how would they know to look in that site? :wink:
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby the foto fanatic on Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:17 pm

surenj wrote:In saying that, if you didn't ask people to vote for you, how would they know to look in that site? :wink:


I think that is the point.

I'm happy to be notified like this - whether I then vote for Adam, or vote for someone else, or not vote at all, is up to me.

I don't see anything unethical about it.
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby Chaase on Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:07 pm

#49

Unethical if you paid us!

However I am open to offers :lol:

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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby tasadam on Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:50 pm

Chaase wrote:Unethical if you paid us!
While I'm a bit sheepish to offer it among the talent on this forum, best I can offer is a desktop wallpaper image?
I wasn't going to release those (and more to come) images until I had the new website up & running, but it's taking too long... :(

Thanks to all who voted (and continue to vote) :P :cheers:
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby tasadam on Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:11 pm

A quick note to say that voting finishes on Friday.
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby Killakoala on Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:14 pm

I voted for two reasons;

1. You are a fellow Tasmanian. ;)
2. The photos you entered are really nice and I like them.

So there!!!!!

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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby surenj on Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:53 pm

Good luck and please let us know the results.... :cheers:
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Re: Photo comp - a blatant plug for votes

Postby tasadam on Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:48 am

Just an update, the results have been announced.
http://www.artistswanted.org/site/winne ... mi-2011-2/
No luck this time. Thanks to all who voted.

Some interesting choices in that mix.
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