Sounds to me like another pooly designed beta key giveaway thing. Seen a whole bunch of them these past days. Most of these fansites just don't seem to care a lot about the userbase, new or old. Fansites just seem to be after increased traffic, ad revenue, bigger user numbers and whatnot. I speak as a new user, long time reader of news here but that had never read the forums before. I'm here for the keys only and probably will never return after the contest is over. This is why I'm doing my best not to disturb the content, creating topics and such. I'm just doing the bare minimum to be eligible and leave the house as tidy as possible for the real users of the forums. My advice to the site's admins: next time just design a better contest, preferably one that doesnt't affect your current loyal userbase.
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