Originally posted by slosprint
Agreed, if the rule was changed to a 1 year membership, somebody could have two accounts that they used in contests each year.
If they use that account only for the contests... We'd still notice it by seeing the same ip addresses. Plus would some people really want to wait a full year to join a contest twice?
Also, that 50 post rule can still be avoided on the same way. Make a 2nd account with 50 non-spam posts over a year time and you're able to enter twice...
Both rules would require anyhow to let people wait at least a year (or with one rule, spam the forums) to join in a contest and I don't think some people actually would take the effort to go that far.
And as I mentioned above anyhow. Any suspicion of double accounts can always be checked by ip...