From another thread...

Great idea.

So here's the thing. I think magazines and other media try to look all sweet and innocent and everything while really having an ulterior motive.

They run contests claiming that they are interested in sharing people's love stories, or cookie recipes, or summer vacation photos etc. and they offer prizes that they've probably gotten for free from advertisers (we used to do this all the time when I worked in radio.) Really, however, for most magazines (there are some not-for-profit zines out there) the motive is profit. Greed. So really they're deceiving people.

What do you people think of this kind of thing going on. I believe for the most part the people who enter these contests have good ntentions.