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How should this be interpreted?
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DarkStar_
on 22/05/2019, 22:13:22 UTC
User blenderio ran an iPhone X giveaway to promote their mixer. (archive)
To participate, you had to do various tasks, such as adding their signature on forums, retweeting/liking their tweets, reposting a telegram post, etc. You were awarded stakes for each task that you did.

TryNinja won in the first week and received their prize. For Week 2, there was a new change: (archive)

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For the Week 2 we have the additional requirement: you will need to post at least 10 messages before the next round for each of your forum's links, otherwise those will not be counted.

Good luck and we will see who will be the owner of another iPhone X after the New Year! Grin

They now required you to make 10 posts for each forum profile link that you put (one of the actions was to wear their signature on various forums, and a bunch of users made a new account and just added the signature without doing anything else).

A winner for Week 2 was never announced. I left them negative trust a few months later for never paying out what was promised.

On May 20th (about 5 months later), they said that there was no winner because no one qualified:
Giveaway for the second week didn't happen, because none of the participants successfully completed additional requirements as stated in the quoted post above:

For the Week 2 we have the additional requirement: you will need to post at least 10 messages before the next round for each of your forum's links, otherwise those will not be counted.

My interpretation of that term was that all forum signature entries required the user to post 10 messages. I believed that this specifically applied to forum links and nothing else, as the statement talked about forum's links. There were non-forum ways of entering, such as Telegram or Twitter. I personally entered via Twitter. This was their response:

Giveaway for the second week didn't happen, because none of the participants successfully completed additional requirements as stated in the quoted post above:

For the Week 2 we have the additional requirement: you will need to post at least 10 messages before the next round for each of your forum's links, otherwise those will not be counted.

So don't count the forum links, and do the raffle based on the Twitter entries? You only specify that the forum submissions would not be counted if 10 messages were not posted. (archive)

No, I meant the ones who didn't make 10 posts won't be counted as a participants. Unfortunately, there were too few ppl for 2nd week and none of them completed requirements. Stay tuned for the next event, it will be as big as this one, if not even bigger.

Did I misinterpret their post? I can't wrap around my head how the statement resembles the supposed meaning at all. Am I missing something?
Also, was leaving them a negative trust feedback is warranted?