Now that you understand the importance, I will show you where this comes in handy. When on our guild message boards, please use the term "competitions", and when advertising on the guild/shop boards (for your own good) use competitions as well. If you read through our guild, I'm always referring to competitions, opposed to contests.

Last but not least, I need you to also understand that raffles, lotteries, chain letters or any kind of giveaway, are all against neopets rules as well. Check this out, is was copied directly from neopets terms and conditions...

3. All user content and communications on the Neopets site is filtered and monitored. So that everyone has a good time, you understand and agree that you will not post or send through the site any words, images or links containing or relating to:

• profanity, obscenities ("swear words"), sexual content (express or implied, including inappropriate acts with or by your pets for "real" or in role play)
• dating requests or offers for yourself, other people, or your Neopets
• attacks, comments, or opinions about other people or things that slander, defame, threaten, insult or harass another person
• gangs, gang-slang, or the promotion of gangs
• chat rooms or links to sites with chat rooms
• promotions offering prizes of any sort (including contests, raffles, lotteries, chain letters or any kind of giveaway)
• materials created by someone else without their express written permission
• information that might identify another user (including posting a link to your personal guest book)
• material regarding political, social, or religious views or opinions
• links to or advertisements for third party commercial Web sites
• pet names, account usernames, store fronts, or any descriptions or names that would be considered inappropriate under our Terms and Conditions
• "cheats" or "hacks", or information or links to sites claiming to have these
• requests for user passwords (including offers for "Neositting")
• requests for money by using your Neopets, Neopoints or any other Neopets property on third party sites or your personal websites (including Ebay)
• scams of any kind (including requests to users to change their email address)
• "spamming" (repeatedly posting the same message) or "party boards"
• anything that suggests it's from a member of the Neopets staff
• trying to test Neopets' message filters (or encouraging others to do so)
• other information that Neopets deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate for this site

BEWARE: If you do any of the above we may freeze your account permanently or suspend you from using your account for up to 72 hours. Please note that depending on your account history and the type of infraction, you may be frozen or suspended for breaking the rules and that you WILL be frozen for multiple infractions.

*Pretty bad huh? So basically the reason I'm telling you all this is for the sake of our guilds, and our account. I once held a shop competition a few years ago, and with no warning, there went my account- and I still haven't been able to get it back. That is why for petpet adoptions, and for our guild jobs, I ask you to keep the items in your trade, so that it's fair, and abides by the rules. I hope this will help you out in the future. Thanks!