Alright, now it’s personal because there’s shame involved. The company I used to work for (Lycos) used a project in which I was originally involved (a redesign of HotBot) as a base for a CSS skinning contest (Hack Hotbot). I don’t care what the internal debates and politics have been between HotBot product management and Lycos Legal, but this situation totally blows:
Terra Lycos ran a CSS design contest open to US residents only. I complained on [mezzoblue.com] and linked the contest. An employee found the link and e-mailed me, telling me I should enter, but obviously didn’t bother reading that I was Canadian and therefore ineligible. I responded. They told me to enter through a US citizen. I did.
Dave won, and is now being informed that original rules still apply: he is not eligible to win any part of the contest because he is Canadian. Even though Dave was targeted with an open invitation to enter by one of the contest organizers (Lincoln Jackson), and assured ahead of time by Lincoln that it would be ok to enter through a U.S. resident. If Lycos needs to be a stickler on a technicality which Lincoln did not thoroughly research and clear with Lycos Legal, then I say it’s on Lincoln’s head to act with integrity and rectify the situation. Either by convincing Lycos to pony up. Or with his own wallet.
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Seems a bit harsh, but I agree with you. I mean at some point people need to stand behind their word and frankly this thing seemed to be all screwed up from the beginning and Dave really got the short end of the stick. Hopefully someone will step up to the plate and make it right.
I mean, really? Come on, this almost seems like some sort of joke…and it’s not funny.
Well, either another reason to think about recording yur calls (heh!) or just the proof how the world of today works.
When will people learn to tell when they have no idea?
“yes you can.”
“Sure?”
“um, no..”
PS: I came for the article with pro/cons of the wired redesign linked to from http://sastools.com/b2/post/79393839 but it seems the site has changed its structure hasn’t it *gg*
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