Some people must be blinded by the killer titles of some posts or maybe they simply don’t care. But why do people feel the need to not read my posts and still try to give their two cents? People like that are just proof there are just some people out there who do it all for the wrong reasons. For instance, trying to win a contest or just to get a backlink from your top commentators plugin.

My first instance, my current Market Leverage sponsored contest in which people decide to just ignore the rules on how to enter assuming their comment of “Oh, I hope I win this contest!” will count as an entry. Well, because of their inability to follow a simple rule, none of those peoples’ entries are going to count.

Why won’t their comments count?

I’m not a big fan of constantly repeating myself but I mentioned this one too many times and yet, people still manage to just ignore the entry rules. If you look at the image below, I circled one of the ways to enter the contest. All you have to do is leave a comment and answer of the following questions provided.

First of all, I can understand if someone was to enter my contest by subscribing to my RSS Feeds and then unsubscribe, that’s fine. Whatever. But if you’re going to try to win a prize from someone’s contest, you should at the very least read the post and the ways to actually enter the contest, right?

Yeah, see, I thought so too. But wrong!

People are doing the same thing so I even decided to be nice and leave a comment on that post just to remind those folks to answer one of the following questions to actually be entered into the contest. Yes, that was out of courtesy but I bet you those people won’t read the comments because if they don’t read the rules in the post, why would they bother reading the comments? Matter of fact, how do those people expect to win when they probably won’t ever come back to this site?

Out of another courtesy, I decided to edit my contest post and type in the first paragraph in red bold that if they do not answer the question(s), their entries will not count. I figured if I mentioned it on the first line, then people would follow the rules.

Wrong again!

It seems as though there will always be a handful of people who expect something when they don’t listen at all. I mean, I’m holding this contest (and any of my other contests) for my readers but don’t expect me to just give it to some random person who will stop by once and never come back. Well, if they win but never come back, they won’t see the prize(s) either. I do not contact winners individually, I make it their responsibility to claim their prizes.

And yes, there will always be people who don’t claim their prizes but that just makes it better for the other contestants.

So, to the handful of people who commented stating they hope to win or trying to play the “oh, feel bad for me” card, don’t expect to win when you never officially entered.  Honestly, I don’t feel bad especially if you cannot read the first line of the contest post.

Sorry for this rant, but it’s getting annoying trying to remind people to follow the rules or just read the post.  And I know I don’t have to remind people their entries won’t count but I think I’m a nice guy.