Competitions Discussion Thread Part 17

weeowens

marcofoo wrote: »

Having researched the term 'trolling' I think this may be in reference to my comments regarding my Facebook block and the likelihood of winning these days.

Apologies if my views came across as negative but both are based on fact and evidence.

Facebook has blocked me for 30 days due to repetitive activity (comp entries) and competitions are becoming much more commonplace and what used to be worthwhile is, in my opinion, becoming far less so. We are all entitled to our opinion.

Hi,please be assured that it was in no way referring to your posts,marcofoo
To be honest I had not read them.I'll get reading now :-)

ducnan

Has anyone else been kicked off facebook. I have a second account which I use exclusively for comping, have not added any friends, but must have pee'd off Mister Zuckerberg as I have a 30 day ban for breaking one or other facebook rule of engagement. Don't think I have ever won anything via facebook, but a bit strange that I have been accused of spamming my "no friends"...

Barnabysue

Facebook rules say that you can only have one account. That's probably the reason. You were lucky not to have had both accounts closed. It's happened to others.

grannybiker

weeowens wrote: »

In the last few minutes I have sent an email to MSE admin re an established member possibly using AE's to "troll" this board.
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:rotfl: OK, Surely I'm not the only one...?

Please sir, what are AE's?

TIA :A

fire**fly

grannybiker wrote: »

Please sir, what are AE's?

TIA :A

hiya gb, from the forum rules..

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/forum-faqs

An alter ego (AE) is generally someone who's previously been PPR'd (see What's "PPR" under some people's usernames?) and has joined under a new username to cause dispute.


hth x

marcofoo

weeowens wrote: »

Hi,please be assured that it was in no way referring to your posts,marcofoo
To be honest I had not read them.I'll get reading now :-)

I must be paranoid!

marcofoo

ducnan wrote: »

Has anyone else been kicked off facebook. I have a second account which I use exclusively for comping, have not added any friends, but must have pee'd off Mister Zuckerberg as I have a 30 day ban for breaking one or other facebook rule of engagement. Don't think I have ever won anything via facebook, but a bit strange that I have been accused of spamming my "no friends"...

As per my previous post this is seemingly becoming a regular occurrence and there doesn't appear to be much that can be done about it.

I have two accounts as I do not want to clog up my original account with comp posts.

I intend to wait until the 30 days have passed, try again, then if it blocks me again, close the account and resign to the fact that I can no longer enter any FB comps.

CraSiEla

grannybiker wrote: »

weeowens wrote: »

In the last few minutes I have sent an email to MSE admin re an established member possibly using AE's to "troll" this board.
QUOTE]

:rotfl: OK, Surely I'm not the only one...?

Please sir, what are AE's?

TIA :A

Thanks for asking gb - I did wonder myself, but been too busy to ask

fire**fly wrote: »

hiya gb, from the forum rules..

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/forum-faqs

An alter ego (AE) is generally someone who's previously been PPR'd (see What's "PPR" under some people's usernames?) and has joined under a new username to cause dispute.


hth x

Thanks ff for the info - I had to have a look at what PPR stood for also, since I've not seen it before

StokieBecks

For these with two facebook accounts it is simple to manage one account and conp drom that. All you need to do is set up a list of comping buddies then just post the comps only to that list of friends. It is clear that you can only have one account (and the obvious fake names bug me too while i am at it lol)

Barnabysue

But surely if you only make 'shares' visible to a selected few, the Companies that post the comps can't see them to check that you've done it? A lot of them now say that you have to share them publicly for that reason.