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Old Nov 19, 2008 | 9:18 am
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Originally Posted by Randy Petersen
This might be resolved by asking you to answer this truthfully. The 12 times you posted on the recent thread to win free business-class style tickets to AMS - was that because (like all the others) did actually hope to enjoy the generosity of FlyerTalk and go to AMS or were you the only one there that was thinking the entry was actually a post pad and you were hoping to be 12 posts smarter than the next member?

I've chatted with the three winners and they are all extremely happy to be going and seem to have nothing but great things to say about the chance they had to gain even more things from FlyerTalk than just increasing the knowledge of their travels and as well make positive new friends out there in the skies.

So, was it AMS or was it the vanity of just trying to have more posts than the next guy/gal. Just wondering ...
I've been to AMS 4 times and would love to go back again. I don't enter contests I don't want to win.

The way you drew the winners rewarded post-padding and encourages it in the future. Congratulations, I guess.

And I gotta say that if you think that 12 posts constitutes "post-padding" then, well, I think you need to examine your thinking just a little bit closer. You couldn't be any more off base.
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