well i had arranged to have a nice GPU given away for hwbot members, i recived this email back from hwbot
Hello Casey,
Thanks for inquiring Mass Luminosity to give away a nice prize at
hwbot. We love community give-aways!
However, we don't want to hold competitions that have as only
objective to raise the popularity of an external site. In this
particular case, the Facebook page of Mass Luminosity. How generous
the give-away might be, it does not relate to anything we do with
hwbot apart from serving a community.
Best regards,
Pieter.
now with that said, i guess there should be no more prizes from gigabyte, msi, g.skill. etc. as each contest that requires you to use specific brand name hardware, only serves to raise popularity of that brand. with that said bias is proven thanks hwbot for removing my previous post announcing the giveaway, i will be sure to exclude notification of any future giveaways. thanks for proving to me what i suspected from the begining...