Hi Everybody,
I don't have a lot of experience with judged Pinterest contests, so I'm hoping you all can give me some advice.
I created a board for a judged Pinterest contest where the idea is to pin examples of your self-expression through fashion. The most creative and unique board wins.
So I took quite a while searching for the right looks to pin and wrote my own or added to the existing pin descriptions for most of the pins. None of the pins that I pinned to my contest board came from another contestant's board.
Then I got a notice from Pinterest that someone had repinned four of my pins from my contest board onto her own contest board. The pins were the ones where I wrote or added to the descriptions.
The rules say you must pin 5 of the company's pins, plus add your own pins to show how you express yourself through fashion. Well, aside from the company's 5 pins, the only other pins this person used to complete her board were directly repinned from my contest board. So the "creative" part of her board is directly taken from mine.
How should I handle it, or is this a normal part of Pinterest contests that people poach from each other's contest boards for judged contests?
I suppose it would be different if it were a random draw, but the judging criteria here are 1) creativity and 2) uniqueness----so if somebody else has used my exact pins then my own board won't be considered unique.
Thanks for any advice--somebody please clue me in on these judged contests.
I don't have a lot of experience with judged Pinterest contests, so I'm hoping you all can give me some advice.
I created a board for a judged Pinterest contest where the idea is to pin examples of your self-expression through fashion. The most creative and unique board wins.
So I took quite a while searching for the right looks to pin and wrote my own or added to the existing pin descriptions for most of the pins. None of the pins that I pinned to my contest board came from another contestant's board.
Then I got a notice from Pinterest that someone had repinned four of my pins from my contest board onto her own contest board. The pins were the ones where I wrote or added to the descriptions.
The rules say you must pin 5 of the company's pins, plus add your own pins to show how you express yourself through fashion. Well, aside from the company's 5 pins, the only other pins this person used to complete her board were directly repinned from my contest board. So the "creative" part of her board is directly taken from mine.
How should I handle it, or is this a normal part of Pinterest contests that people poach from each other's contest boards for judged contests?
I suppose it would be different if it were a random draw, but the judging criteria here are 1) creativity and 2) uniqueness----so if somebody else has used my exact pins then my own board won't be considered unique.
Thanks for any advice--somebody please clue me in on these judged contests.