Can we consider accepting a participant who didn't have a forum account, but who has had an account X for at least a year, for example? Otherwise, what's the point of sharing the contest on social media?
You are talking a lot like a bounty campaign.
But even here, if they don't have an account on the forum, how can the contest manager be sure that they are not abusers or scammers?
The participant needs to prove they are not a scammer or an abuser and that's why they also require proof of authentication, which is not possible without an account on the forum.
Proof of authentication , POA is required to verify the validity of the users. And where the bounty program is published here for the users of this forum, how can someone join the bounty campaigns without being a user of this forum? Different types of bounty campaigns are run on different platforms with different reward systems and rules. Similarly, the bounty campaigns run on this forum also have a set of rules.
Could you tell me what's a copper member please ?
Buying a copper membership will allow a newbie rank holder member as the same power of a member rank holder.
Mainly it will allow a newbie rank holder to post images on their post.
Copper membership is not required for bounty campaign participate. The reason for keeping the Copper Membership system is that many companies come here for promotion purposes and need to post an ANN with many images attached. For them, this Copper Membership plays a very important role. It is generally not needed for Bounty campaigns.