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[Hydrogen]

There have been many new contests being created by members in the General and Neopets areas as of recently. This has led the staff to propose an amendment to the rules. I'm not saying that any of our members are scammers, but I'd really rather not take the chance. It looks better for us if no one complains about being scammed by a member of Neocodex. I'm sorry for this inconvenience, but it is necessary to help protect our members. The final wording of the rule is:

Please do not create contests of your own on Neocodex.
Contests are only endorsed on Neocodex if they are made by Neocodex staff. This means that if you are not a moderator, super moderator, administrator or do not have written permission from the staff to conduct a contest, you may not offer a prize of any sort to members for doing any kind of activity. This includes, but is not li'mited to, raffles, giveaways, scavenger hunts, etc. You may, however, seek endorsement for any of such contests through a staff member, in which case such contests shall be supervised or directly conducted by Neocodex staff members instead, should that contest be approved by the staff.

The staff has also decided to remove all reasons for why we do things the way we do from the rules page and will add to the bottom of the rules page:

Reasons for any of these rules can be requested by personal messaging a staff member.

[HoHoMaN90]

I hope everyone can follow these new rules. And please if you need to ask why, pm us or catch us on msn or ai'm

HoHoMaN90

[Alyssa]

They should follow them. XD

[Moo]

that's a good idea

[Funnlecake]

meh not that great

[SiLeNTScReAM]

Oh boohiss, that rule is stupid, this means I cannot have my 'Name That Tune' contest anymore?

[Krnsaber]

I think that the name that tune should be allowed. Silent Scream Pm hydro I bet he'll allow it

[HoHoMaN90]

uhh ur staff so you can approve it lol mods, smods, and admins can approve contests for you

HoHoMaN90

[Hydrogen]

uhh ur staff so you can approve it lol mods, smods, and admins can approve contests for you

HoHoMaN90

You may, however, seek endorsement for any of such contests through a staff member, in which case such contests shall be supervised or directly conducted by Neocodex staff members instead, should that contest be approved by the staff.

I believe it would have to be approved by the whole staff. Oh and check your PM box

[favredriver]

good cause I will not create any contest, lol. I was but maybe not

[Neo]

this is better cause we dont want members scammed!

[Robert]

what about if someone wants to givaway a items of neopets so they give it to a staff member and then the staff member posts the givaway or just approves it for them or does the person get to keep the item and post it then staff approve it?

by the way not only mods, smods, admins are staff but NU owners and codex editors

Edited by wjmroberst, 28 September 2004 - 07:37 AM.

[Def Cut]

Ahh..to bad I was planing to scamm people and ask for their passwords...
ROFL just kidding!!! 
That rule sounds kinda' fair.  And by the way wjmroberst scammed me with hist contest! He said the prizes were worht around 500np's, and I got a plain omelette who is worth 0 np's! 
KIDDING!!!!!!!! 

[Robert]

Ahh..to bad I was planing to scamm people and ask for their passwords...
ROFL just kidding!!! 
That rule sounds kinda' fair.  And by the way wjmroberst scammed me with hist contest! He said the prizes were worht around 500np's, and I got a plain omelette who is worth 0 np's! 
KIDDING!!!!!!!! 

lol by the way I said some or 1 didn't I ? lol

[Def Cut]

Uhh....I think so.....

[Xiphos]

why lol

Edited by King_Xiphos, 28 September 2004 - 01:05 PM.

[HoHoMaN90]

uhh I believe giveaways are voted on by entire staff too. You might wanna check with hydro though cause I'm not all that sure :blink:

[pyke]

Lol I think staff can host contest without aproval of other staff right now but I am not certain on this! Wouldn't make toomuch sense either, unless of course other staff could remove the contest...

[Gargar]

I think its ok stoppes people form scaming wich is a good thing and for the good harted people thay can still get permishion from the staff so its a good rule

[Fox]

This seems a good idea, I'mproves the safety of the board and contests haven't been made a complete no-no. So everyone should be happy.

[SiLeNTScReAM]

I presume all my contests organised as Priv Leader are excluded from this rule yes?

Doubt it; I got a OK from ShadowLink64 to have a contest called Name That Tune where I would give 10-30k to the winner, but I guess that ain't going to happen.

CENSOREDing bogus rules.

[SiLeNTScReAM]

Or maybe Matt just didn't realise you had the go ahead when he closed the topic...Did you tell hi'm?

No, but I asked for a good valid reason why he did it and he just copied and pasted the rule....

Thats no good.  :angry2:

(I just hate when I try to do something nice and good and I always get bullshitted)

Edited by SiLeNT ScReAM, 29 September 2004 - 08:50 AM.

[Dan]

That was a little out of order, Matt didn't even investigate.
If someone re-opens it..you can carry on doing your contest, as long as you do have authorization from sl64.

EDIT: About hi'm copying and pasting the rule..thats just the way he is..stubborn (no offense )

Edited by LemonyBrainAid, 29 September 2004 - 09:12 AM.