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I agree with the idea of trying to prevent pages from asking for likes, however I think marking a few as spam/abuse unfortunately won't achieve much if you look at the scope of what Facebook have to actually administer. I think doing it will still prompt the pages to stop if they see that they are marked as spam.christinadublin wrote: »I made a suggestion on the facebook site that the companies running the voting competitions should be named and shamed. If enough people reported the companies page or post as spam/ abuse of the terms, facebook would have to take action and the competition would then be run fairly for everyone. the facebook site seems to be a bit divided with people totally against those competitions and those who don't mind. I would love to know if the facebook group members WILL take a stand because its not the persons fault they have to ask for votes. I feel sorry for them myself and always do vote when I see a post because its basically impossible to win those. If people aren't willing to do anything about the problem apart from posting messages about how annoyed they are (which doesn't help anybody) they probably should keep those opinions to themselves. Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh especially for a Monday morning. I don't mean to offend anyone.
I would like to hear anyone else's thoughts.
However I think for a lot of smaller companies, another idea might be to actually leave them a mail/comment stating that they shouldn't be doing it. As I said before, I think the bigger issue is that the people running the like competitions are usually less tech savvy and it's much easier than setting up an app tab for a competition. Also, they're less likely to have read the updated Ts&Cs and are more than likely just following suit from what they've seen countless other pages do in the past.
I might be being narrow minded there, but I think if you were to outright tell them that they shouldn't be doing it but you won't be reporting them, they'd be more receptive than just marking them as spam without telling them first. (Might even be friendly come their next comp
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Anyway, that's my two cents, but if the majority think that marking them as spam is a better idea, we can try and get people to join in.
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Enter this competition for your chance to win a whole house makeover! Answer simple question: Where did you hear about Hillarys blinds?
http://www.hillarys.ie/your-chance-to-win.htm
Closing date for entries is 05/12/2011. The winning entry will be drawn on 06/12/2011 and the winner will be notified within 7 days after the draw by phone/letter
Just Googled the company to see if they were reputable. Going on these reviews, I'm not very impressed and don't know if I would want them doing work in my house .....even if it was a prize
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Reviews/Hillarys_Blinds__6694663/Start/15
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews184359.html0 -
Just Googled the company to see if they were reputable. Going on these reviews, I'm not very impressed and don't know if I would want them doing work in my house .....even if it was a prize
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Reviews/Hillarys_Blinds__6694663/Start/15
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews184359.html
I am staying well away from the Hillarys competition. I tried to get them to put some blinds up for me last year and they kept getting the measurements wrong so they didn't fit. It took about 4 months to get my money back but at least I did in the end. They were also on the program watchdog about two weeks ago because of the number of complaints and damage done to customers houses.0 -
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I have an issue with the fact that this thread is becoming a debating session about the facebook page, maybe try keeping the debate about the facebook group on facebook?
I agree with this, so apologies for carrying it on briefly.
If people don't want to join the Facebook page that is fine, if people join and then decide to leave that's fine too - we don't need an official statement
As was stated, it is the companies who are running the "Like competitions" are at fault, not the people who hope for a win! Good idea to leave a comment on their wall to let them know - I see it has already worked with the Bloom competition.
I had never entered a Facebook comp until last week and I have won a prize already
and it wasn't a Like Comp. Also the members of the Facebook page really want to help people win and even have tagged me and others to improve our chances of winning - so I am very happy with the Facebook page.
And the end of my "rant", would it be possible to keep the Facebook page for Facebook Competitions and that all other competitions would be posted here like before, that is email entries, "snail mail", website comps etc. At least then we would only need to post competitions once and for those who aren't on Facebook, all the "normal competitions" would appear here and they won't miss out!0 -
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Its not the people asking for the votes breaking the rules its the company's running it.
I didn't say the people taking part were breaking the rule but knowingly allowing people to promote the comp on the facebook page is complying with rule breaking.
In some cases the people taking part in the 'voting' comps are rule breaking and this is the problem with those competitions. They are wide open to abuse.
In response to someone elses post - i post on the fb pages of the companies running the comps as often as i can to highlight their rule breaks, some companies respond positively (ballygarry house hotel today) others delete my comments(chefs garden direct)!
If anyone is interested there is a group on Fb to help ban voting comps http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_155890447767520
I've posted here because the facebook page is linked with boards.ie and Darragh has asked for feedback re:issues with the thread and the direction it's taking
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