Sunday, April 18, 2010

Leapfish offering $100k contest

They have a points-based system, encouraging users to blog, refer friends, make LeapFish their homepage, make viral videos, and other items.  I'm doing this post to see how their points system works.  I checked out the privacy policy and it looks clean-- thus, doesn't seem like you have to worry about spam, unlike most of the other players in this space.  

You have to also hit 200 words minimum in your blog post, so it's not as easy as just doing a twitter update.  I'm curious to see if they have to manually review posts, since there may be folks who will say garbage (such as repeating sentences) or perhaps even post negative reviews just to get up to the word count.  There's also the issue of verification to ensure that the blog post being posted is actually owned by that particular user.

The act of posting any kind of contest will invite people who are looking to game the system, especially when there are prizes being offered.  The first 3 people to 500 points are to win an ipod touch, so it would appear that this can be easily done within 2 hours of easy effort.  I'm surprised to see that there aren't more people in the program yet-- then again, it's brand new.

Good luck to everyone to enters!

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