Jawbone, your contest ethics are horrible!

The company Jawbone is currently holding what they call a "Stimulus Funny Video Contest." However, the way they go about picking a winner, and also the way they posted the videos on their site, are totally irrational and unethical.

1) Rather than being judged on originality and overall quality, the videos are judged based on the number of views a video received. Since web views can be faked, this was a horrible way to judge the videos.

2) Jawbone posted a group of what I like to call their "favorites" on their site, then a week later posted the others. This is both unfair and unethical because it gives the first batch of videos a week longer to gather views. If they read this, then try to justify it by saying "we posted them in order of how we got them," let me explain to you why that argument would be false. I submitted my video two weeks before the first batch of videos were posted on their site. Yet my video wasn't posted to their site until the second batch, a full week after the first batch, were. By the time my video was on their site, ready to be viewed, the top videos from the week before already had over 9,000 views!

3) By paying people to "share" the videos on their site with others, people will end up sharing ALL the videos to earn the most cash, rather than just share the ones they like the most. This means that even videos people hated will be shared because of greed. This is again, no way to run a contest.

Jawbone, as far as contest organization goes, you fail! You are unjust, unfair, and unethical with this contest of yours.