[mike-cardwell]

If they need the money, they should be looking for contract work or full-time work, not entering competitions. I'm for letting people try new methods of commerce and letting adults make their own decisions. Nobody was exploited here.

[rhizome]

Where's the "new method of commerce" in "send us stuff for free and we'll pay one of you?"

[mike-cardwell]

Inbetween your second set of quotation marks.

[rhizome]

Well then, someone should take that idea to a patent prosecutor and make some bank.

[mike-cardwell]

Trying to figure out what your point here was. I think you might be sarcastically suggesting that what I called "new", isn't "new"? If you are, then you've taken it out of context; I can try something new, without it being a brand new idea that nobody has done before. So can this company. That's what I was saying.

I have a full time job, and I do contract work on the side. I don't employ people. So I am one of those people who might have been "exploited". I didn't take part in this particular competition, but I'm glad for all opportunities, and I don't need protecting from them.