freebies vs. competitions? | Improve dotTech | Forums

I have a small suggestion I hope you may consider. As a self-confessed search & download junkie, I have noticed recently a surge of websites, blog sites, tech sites etc. which are posting competitions as 'giveaways'.  I am not churlish about this, more competitions are great, and I understand the reasoning behind it all. But these are, after all, competitions and not genuine freebies or giveaways. Invariably these competitions include the request that one signs up to a website, post one (or more) comments etc. as a precondition of 'entry'  As an avid dottechie reader (if not a prolific poster) my humble suggestion is that the freebie section has a sub-forum for these competitions and have them separate to genuine freebies/giveaways.

Yes, I understand that and more power to them for offering the chance to win software. My point was simply that they are often being described as a 'giveaway' when in fact they are competitions with specific rules and a roll of the dice. It seeems to me, to be a device increasingly adopted by websites to boost traffic. Just my opinion, but if people are happy with it, fair enuff.