situation

[tielan]

Right. So, there's a single prize available in a competition. It's a simple enough competition: complete the conditions and submit proof, along with your contact details, in order to win the prize.

In the first twenty-four hours, two people apply.

The first person to respond completes the conditions and provides the proof, but doesn't leave contact details.

The second person to respond completes the conditions, provides proof, and leaves contact details correctly - but their first response is one hour after a request for the contact details from the first person produces the required contact details.

[Poll #1201278]I know how I feel about it - I'm just curious about how other people feel about it.

I really dislike it when people don't read instructions - especially when they're not complex ones:

1. Complete the conditions.
2. Submit your proof.
3. Include your contact details.

It is not ZPM-science, peoples!

*grr*

Comments

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

hehe, so I dithered, I could see both options being correct. I would probably find it perfectly fair too if it had gone to the second person, but the deciding factor for me would have been if the first person had solved it and not provided complete proof or something. Of course, having said all that, if I had to be the one having to contact the person who did not leave proper contact information, I would have probably clicked on the second option, because it's all fine if it's hypothetical, not so much if I myself have to deal with people being stupid :)

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

All contests have rules in order to win. If you don't fufill them all you didn't technically win, this includes leaving contact details.

Kind of like those tests at school. You have an hour to complete 100 questions and your first set of instructions are to read all the questions first, to find at question #100 tells you all you have to do is fill out your name to win.

All those who didn't follow instructions kind of failed.

The first person, because the contest runner changed the rules...

[whiteroselover.livejournal.com]

What decided it for me was the fact that whoever was running the contest reached out to the first responder and asked them for the contact information. By doing so, they made the third point optional, not mandatory, making the first responder the one who had sufficiently met the requirements for the prize.

I agree with you 100%, tho', that having stated the initial rules, whoever was running the contest should have stayed with them, and ruled out the first responder. I'd be righteously ticked at the contest runner if I was the second responder.

[azure-horizon.livejournal.com]

This reminded me of studying for my law exam *holds head in anguish*

[ileliberte.livejournal.com]

hehe, so I dithered, I could see both options being correct. I would probably find it perfectly fair too if it had gone to the second person, but the deciding factor for me would have been if the first person had solved it and not provided complete proof or something. Of course, having said all that, if I had to be the one having to contact the person who did not leave proper contact information, I would have probably clicked on the second option, because it's all fine if it's hypothetical, not so much if I myself have to deal with people being stupid :)

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

All contests have rules in order to win. If you don't fufill them all you didn't technically win, this includes leaving contact details.

Kind of like those tests at school. You have an hour to complete 100 questions and your first set of instructions are to read all the questions first, to find at question #100 tells you all you have to do is fill out your name to win.

All those who didn't follow instructions kind of failed.

The first person, because the contest runner changed the rules...

[whiteroselover.livejournal.com]

What decided it for me was the fact that whoever was running the contest reached out to the first responder and asked them for the contact information. By doing so, they made the third point optional, not mandatory, making the first responder the one who had sufficiently met the requirements for the prize.

I agree with you 100%, tho', that having stated the initial rules, whoever was running the contest should have stayed with them, and ruled out the first responder. I'd be righteously ticked at the contest runner if I was the second responder.

[azure-horizon.livejournal.com]

This reminded me of studying for my law exam *holds head in anguish*