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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 13:24:29 GMT
Its not weird since melissas site is so big amongst avril fans, and the shoutouts are not by random but by the people donating that amount of mone. So I guess theyre just big fans like us It won't be (that) weird if they were Melissa's followers, since her site is a big deal. But my point was SHE is following 80% of the winners. Do you feel the difference? It's not symmetrical relations. She is somewhat a well known person in these circles, just like you xD. And they (the winners) should be (if all were clear over there) just donators who did the most donations. They might be bandaiders, melissa forum members, both or neither or avril fans from somewhere else. being followed by melissa cannot be a selective factor in this. The point is the distribution of donators among winners by their membership of some avril fanbase group should be equal and moreover it should be independent of such factors like who is following them on twitter. Even if all of them would be from the melissa's site, it would be strange, since it would mean that only those were good enough to give money for this gentle purpose. But here, we have even weirder factor - Melissa follows them all (80%). This is strange. If I were able to explain clearer, you would understand and agree with me.)
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Post by Amanda on Mar 25, 2016 17:29:30 GMT
Its not weird since melissas site is so big amongst avril fans, and the shoutouts are not by random but by the people donating that amount of mone. So I guess theyre just big fans like us It won't be (that) weird if they were Melissa's followers, since her site is a big deal. But my point was SHE is following 80% of the winners. Do you feel the difference? It's not symmetrical relations. She is somewhat a well known person in these circles, just like you xD. And they (the winners) should be (if all were clear over there) just donators who did the most donations. They might be bandaiders, melissa forum members, both or neither or avril fans from somewhere else. being followed by melissa cannot be a selective factor in this. The point is the distribution of donators among winners by their membership of some avril fanbase group should be equal and moreover it should be independent of such factors like who is following them on twitter. Even if all of them would be from the melissa's site, it would be strange, since it would mean that only those were good enough to give money for this gentle purpose. But here, we have even weirder factor - Melissa follows them all (80%). This is strange. If I were able to explain clearer, you would understand and agree with me.) She follows 14K people on her account, and it makes sense that thoose willing to donate a lot to Avrils foundation is big fans who most surely has asked her for a follow back like other hardcore fans And sometimes Melissa even follow back randomly, I know back in teh days she used to follow back all her followers but I guess she couldn't keep up with it in the end. Not to exclude the fact that she couldve followed all thoose people directly as avril tweeted. "The point is the distribution of donators among winners by their membership of some avril fanbase group should be equal and moreover it should be independent of such factors like who is following them on twitter" Dude I can promise you that Melissa has no role in this donation thing, she doesn't have more contact with either Avril or Avrils team than any other of the followed fans. Bandaids even have more emails and a better contact with the Foundation itself than any other site has. So don't worry. It's not biased or so. But Melissa was the winner if i remember correctly, for the link sharing. There was a online prize available for the person that recrutied the most donors through their individual link, and Melissa recruited a looot of people. So having a lot of donors a fan of her fansite sounds nothing weird to me, especially not when she was the one who recrutied most of the fans through her unique link. I tihkn Bandaids italia was 3rd place or something. To me it's not weird at all, because Bandaids, Avril-l.Org and Alavigne is the biggest fansites in this "world" and most people is well-known of both BAndaids and Avril-l.org, and Melissa shared that link many many times. I would to be honest not even be worried if most of the winers were following me or something, because I can assure you that the avril lavinge foundation are super professional and the one and only time they ever reached out to fans regarding their giveaways was 1. regarding album pelease party competition, they wanted Bandaids to help them reach out and could in return give us some tickets for the staff. I know Melissa even has asked Bandaids Staff for things because she herself has no contact with Avrils close team etc. So yeah bottom line, not surprised or worried at all about the donors following and being followed by one of the biggest fansites out there. And no need to worry about specific fans being involved in this and "choosing" winners etc :)Everyone has their fair chance, but what we do know for sure isthat 8-10 people wouldn't donate to avrils foundation specifically if they werent big fans. I hope you understand my explanation haha.
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Post by Amanda on Mar 25, 2016 19:13:56 GMT
Nice to see her out and about
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Post by vancityblackstar on Mar 25, 2016 19:41:25 GMT
Nice to see her out and about [br Is Steve Avril's music director for tours?
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Post by In Wonderland on Mar 25, 2016 19:43:40 GMT
Nice to see her out and about [br Is Steve Avril's music director for tours? He used to be. Don't know if he still is
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Post by vancityblackstar on Mar 25, 2016 19:51:00 GMT
[br Is Steve Avril's music director for tours? He used to be. Don't know if he still is I wonder if the two new members were temporary? And that the others will returnn for the record? Thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 19:58:23 GMT
He looks like Tre Cool (drummer of green day)
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Post by In Wonderland on Mar 25, 2016 20:04:36 GMT
He used to be. Don't know if he still is I wonder if the two new members were temporary? And that the others will returnn for the record? Thoughts? No idea. But Avril has spent time with Dan and David. Remember the videos posted on Instagram with the christmas tree But Feerlaz was with her on the past tour. It was Jim and Steve that left Avrils backing band, to tour with Cassadee Pope.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 20:11:54 GMT
She follows 14K people on her account... I only want assure you, I didn't try to cast a shadow on Melissa. or how it is to say - to suspect her in something bad. What I said was purely of the nothing to do reason. I just noticed that strange thing and wrote about it without any particular intention. It still remains strange but ok.
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Post by StrongSweet on Mar 26, 2016 2:12:36 GMT
Its not weird since melissas site is so big amongst avril fans, and the shoutouts are not by random but by the people donating that amount of mone. So I guess theyre just big fans like us It won't be (that) weird if they were Melissa's followers, since her site is a big deal. But my point was SHE is following 80% of the winners. Do you feel the difference? It's not symmetrical relations. She is somewhat a well known person in these circles, just like you xD. And they (the winners) should be (if all were clear over there) just donators who did the most donations. They might be bandaiders, melissa forum members, both or neither or avril fans from somewhere else. being followed by melissa cannot be a selective factor in this. The point is the distribution of donators among winners by their membership of some avril fanbase group should be equal and moreover it should be independent of such factors like who is following them on twitter. Even if all of them would be from the melissa's site, it would be strange, since it would mean that only those were good enough to give money for this gentle purpose. But here, we have even weirder factor - Melissa follows them all (80%). This is strange. If I were able to explain clearer, you would understand and agree with me.) what about that was one of the marketing stragety
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 13:01:34 GMT
what about that was one of the marketing stragety I don't know. It's just strange. I feel it would be a very good assignment/problem to solve on the theory of probabilities. But thinking on it I realized that I suck at setting this up, xD so I gave up. Additionally, I don't want to angry Amanda with this further. xD
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Post by Amanda on Mar 27, 2016 14:08:33 GMT
what about that was one of the marketing stragety I don't know. It's just strange. I feel it would be a very good assignment/problem to solve on the theory of probabilities. But thinking on it I realized that I suck at setting this up, xD so I gave up. Additionally, I don't want to angry Amanda with this further. xD No no I am not angry haha don't worry Just giving my version of why I don't see any issues with it, and plus to make sure none here think some fans are "favorited" or prioritized which could result in fans not entering these things because they have already given up etc. I can assure you they're proffesional
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Post by britanny30182 on Mar 27, 2016 14:23:47 GMT
Ryan also attended the Soundcheck Live with Avril this Wednesday He recently did an interview where they asked him about Avril but he decided to keep his lips sealed
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