Editors impersonating other editors to win prizes?

dwchang · Post by **dwchang** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:56 pm

Garylisk wrote:
dwchang wrote:Kind of the opposite scenario and I won't go into the gory details, but someone has asked for me to make an AMV for them for a contest and then have them enter it as THEIR OWN work before. They offered me payment, but I obviously declined.

I guess what I'm saying here is, I'm not at all surprised folks would do such retarded things...
But damn, I bet you felt like the king pimp editor.

"You videos are so good, you are sure to win, pleez maek me one and so I can win ok ok ok?"

I dunno...if you saw the e-mails I received...ugh. It's actually surprising how much more readable your humorous quote is to the real thing...

I thought about entering the contest with my own video just out of spite, but laziness took over...

Org Profile · Post by **808-buma** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:07 am

JudgeHolden wrote:TKO

well, some good did come out of it...

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:57 am

I recall awhile back AquaSky saying a beta of Popularity ended up being played in a contest before its official release at a Florida con she attended.

I contacted the convention, and they assured me that it wasn't one of the winners, but if it had been, I would have received an apology and recognition, if not an equivalent of the prize, even if they had to pay out of pocket to provide me with it. This seemed good enough for me, so I didn't pursue the matter further.

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:23 am

Kionon wrote:I recall awhile back AquaSky saying a beta of Popularity ended up being played in a contest before its official release at a Florida con she attended.

I contacted the convention, and they assured me that it wasn't one of the winners

So what you're saying is that before you ever released it you knew the video was a loser and you released it anyway?