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1 It's ToysWorld *has* teamed up, not *have*, because you are a singular entity
2. we'd appreciate being asked before posting notice of competitions, posted primarily to boost traffic to your site.
Thanks
1) you corrected our post for grammar, but seem to have a similar problem with your reply: "we'd appreciate being asked before posting notice of competitions".
Posting *a* notice / posting *notices*
2) We did not post to primarily boost traffic to our site. We posted because we thought your forum members would find the competition of interest - which they have, thanks to the volume of entires we have had so far. If it was purely traffic we were interested in, we would have directed people to the homepage.
Look, you guys have a great site and forum, and no ill was intended by our post. Can we just get on? After all, we are all fans of LEGO :)
Honestly, look back over our post and look at the reply we get. Would you be inclined to want to stay after seeing the reception?
People could either enter in the comments section on the competition entry or email us.
No press is bad press, right?
What is wrong is not contacting the site administrator first. Huw has always been more than happy for people to run competitions on the site and even cross promote other Lego sites and communities and this happens all the time, I've even run a few myself, but it's just good form to ask first, especially given the effort that goes into the upkeep of this site and its reputation.
If you are serious about Lego then you really need to be part of this community so maybe taking a breath and starting over might be a good idea, like many people I appriciate a good competition, even for an email address. But if you are starting a website, business, community forum, or whatever it happens to be, then you need to go about it in the right way and having a thick skin, broad shoulders and a sense of humour to brush things off and move forward doesn't hurt.
It would have been nice for Toysworld to introduce themselves into the forum and probably should have contacted Huw first.
Having said that it is now water under the bridge and mistakes happen. Welcome to the forums Toysworld and I look forward to your posts. I will be entering your competition shortly as well as we all love a chance for some free Lego
The issue is, whenever posting a link to your own site, if it's a site that could in anyway be viewed as competition then it's generally considered good practice to check with the site owner. Also I think Huw's had a hard few days after the pley debacle so I suspect that any hostile tone in his post was more a reflection of having been through the ringer a bit rather than actually meaning to be hostile.
I have to admit that when I first saw it posted I assumed that toys world might have already contacted someone at brickset to clear it, I forget that not everyone runs on the same practice. To their credit at least they were honest about who they are, people posting links to their own website/recommendations for their own company while pretending that they aren't someone with a vested interest really annoys me.
Either way we have dropped a DM to Huw to clear the air and hope to work closer with Brickset.