Contest of Alienware
Why this happen?
Thursday, January 10, 2008 by TCAlienWorks | Discussion: Community
Two points and t2wave brought some valid arguments:
Firstly he was emailed to his email to answer if he really was a US Resident like he told me !
Why didnt we get emailed I mean you are discriminating people!
Secondly I dont see and it was brought by him that TheMasterBaron since he is a master skinner he do sympthasize and receives money from Stardock thus he is working for Stardock in a way !
Into the terms and conditions of the site it clearly states that no stardock employees or friends of stardock employees should enter the contest yet he did enter!
The Master skinners should have been locked to enter yet they didnt so I dont understand this aswell!
Lastly you have been very unpolite to cutting my speech out of the chat on IRC I was just following instructions that t2wave has sent me!
Isnt what the community is for to help each other well I followed his instructions and this is what we receive a kick in our butt!
How funny is that?
Reply #2 Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:01 AM
Why didnt we get emailed I mean you are discriminating people!
This week someone was claiming to be t2wave. After contacting the address registered to the account we confirmed that it was in fact not t2wave. The user was attempting to disqualify entrants in the contest.
Into the terms and conditions of the site it clearly states that no stardock employees or friends of stardock employees should enter the contest yet he did enter!
The Master skinners should have been locked to enter yet they didnt so I dont understand this aswell!
TheMasterBaron is not a Stardock employee. He is making use of the sales service WinCustomize provides to select members of the community. It is in no way similar as he is not paid by us to produce work. He produces skins, places them for sale, and receives a portion of the sale.
Imagine if CafePress held a contest and stipulated that employees could not participate. Would this disqualify everyone who has ever used the CafePress service because they have "been paid" by CafePress? This is a pretty clear difference.
Isnt what the community is for to help each other well I followed his instructions and this is what we receive a kick in our butt!
How funny is that?
You connected to IRC from the same IP address as our imposter from earlier in the week, and your speech matches his very closely. You are making some of the same claims as well. Exhibit the same behaviors as that user.
I have contacted TCAlienworks directly to clear this up.
Reply #3 Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:49 PM
Yet I agree with t2wave when he said:
Why didnt we get emailed I mean you are discriminating people!
What I can understand from this is that you had no rights into emailing him to ask for eligibility until he was announced as a winner as t was supposed to be 5th of this month!
Now the contest has changed dates to 11th of January!
I dont know if other changes are going to be made I hope not!
Second point when he says:
I agree with him when he says that Stardock is in a way leaving some individuals promote themselves!
Because lets think more about this TheMasterBaron is a master skinner and therefore when he sells dreams he wins money that money goes both for Stardock and for him!
So in a way like t2wave stated he is cooperating with Stardock that makes him at the very least a Stardock friend of Stardock Employees!
Therefore he is not eligible to compete as the terms and conditions of this contest say explicitely:
Employees of Stardock, Dell, Alienware, Microsoft, their friends and immediate families are not eligible to enter.
About this:
I cannot talk about this because I dont know what happenned to you!
To answer the following statement:
My answer is only yes they wouldnt have been allowed to participate because here the status of Master is something that is in a way very much different than other sites!
Reply #4 Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:59 PM
Taken literally,... that would exlude every member of this site.
Just let sore losers be sore losers and continue with YOUR life. ')
Reply #5 Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:57 PM
Note the use of English on all of these posts. Compare it against the use of English by these users on their skins and previous forum posts.
We are working on tracking down this individual.
Reply #6 Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:49 PM
Reply #7 Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:10 PM
Please update us. So far, Bichur is all we have for Troll Thumping Day. It would be nice to have enough Troll's to go around for all the Thumpers.
Reply #9 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:49 AM
...and real scarey...I'm never here, so if my nick was stolen, you wouldn't know if it was me or not...as it is, it's me, is it not?
Please let us know if you're suspicions prove correct, Zoomba...
Reply #10 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:26 AM
It was confirmed that a user had found a way to post as others. This hole was identified and fixed last week. Those affected were notified. No passwords or other identifying information were revealed, it was just a way to fake out the system to think you were someone else.
As I said, the hole was plugged, we're good now 
Reply #11 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:42 AM
Reply #12 Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:51 AM
Good to know...
Reply #14 Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:51 PM
Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
Reply #1 Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:47 AM