How To Verify Winners?

[mttnet]

Maybe I didn't read or listen carefully. But, when the contest ends, how do we verify the winner? Its not enough to just announce the winner and say contact us. Heck, anyone could send an email and say it's them. For example: I could say, "The Winner is JOE SCHMO! Joe, just send us an email from the email address you used to enter the contest with the following information...." But, if we don't have access to their email address when they register, how do we verify them. I hope this makes sense.

[guardinator]

I make them follow me on Twitter and send me a DM with the contact information. That's how I did it in the past.

[willilance]

When you use the select winners feature, it selects the winners, but does not display their account info.

If you reload the page and click the winners list tab it'll display their email address and you can contact them.

[pwen]

Thanks for the info on how to sort the winners and get their emails.

In addition to this is there any way of getting the stats on how, when and where they got their points from as I cannot find any of the comments postings, likes or emails etc the contestants sent to get the points?

Regards

Peter

[donthate]

I am extremely interested in this as well:

Originally Posted by pwen

Thanks for the info on how to sort the winners and get their emails.

In addition to this is there any way of getting the stats on how, when and where they got their points from as I cannot find any of the comments postings, likes or emails etc the contestants sent to get the points?

Regards

Peter

[tbotech]

I'd like to see this info also. In one day someone jumped to number 1 and I'm not seeing anything that could account for it.

[bloom]

We are seeing some insanely high points and do not see an influx of traffic as measured by unique IP addresses.

I suspect single user created accounts joining the contest. Looking into how point were earned would help.

Requiring unique IP's would also help.

[amakarski]

That's the reason I stopped entering most of the JV giveaways (especially those offering big cash rewards for referrals) and have super-careful about picking my adswap partners. Several not-so-smart asses have been caught scamming these by a bunch of fake accounts. I can see how this contest thingie can be prone to such attacks in particular niches like "make money online".