to dislike people asking me to vote for their child?

[GraceAndKit]

Had someone today send me a message on facebook (not spoken to this person for a good 5 months) asking me to vote for their child - in some cutest baby of the year bullshit competition.

Because "it's only 50P and they are at least worth a quid"

Now if you want to enter your child into those kind of contest fine - go right ahead. But don't think they will win purely because they are the cutest, it's purely about popularity - and don't expect me to vote for them either.

You meanie.

Er, I think these competitions are creepy as fuck and won't vote in them on principal but I'm not getting that from your OP.

I would if I didn't have to shell out any cash for it, it's not my cup of tea, but if it means that much to them I wouldn't mind clicking a couple of things - it's hardly hard work.

I'm sure the people asking you wouldn't think a thing of you deciding not to vote, just ignore the messages.

YANBU. I'd click a couple of links if someone put it in Facebook and I felt so inclined at the time, but I wouldn't go out of my way, especially if you had to pay.

These competitions are morally dubious anyway, but then add in the fact that you have to pay to vote, and the whole thing crosses a line that there is no need to cross.

YANBU. A friend of mine entered her baby into a competition with the first prize of a modelling contract and posted on FB asking everyone to vote. No bloody way! Horrid and attention seeking. I ignore.

I challenge you to find anything immoral, creepy or morally dubious in these bloody gorgeous pictures (and none of them as beautiful as my DDs as babies - of course )

I won one of these when I was little no modelling contract though, but a framed photo!
I was also crowned Miss Mablethrope Mermaid! I still have the trophy;
With Facebook and stuff now though it all gets a bit out of hand, can't believe they've gone out of their way to email to ask people to vote. And I can't believe you have to pay
It isn't really a cute baby competition is it, it's more a parents popularity contest. I don't know which is worse!

Yanbu I hate it. Nobody votes for the cutest baby, everyone votes for their friend's baby. Even when the baby isn't that cute. The few I have been obliged to vote in have made me feel a fraud.

Ignore. I hate these things with a deep passion. They're all about making money for whichever local photographer has managed to hassle some local rag into promoting it. She'll never know you deleted her request.

AgentZigZag, that page of babies is gorgeous! The four pages of smiling babies in the local newspaper is gorgeous too, but then you are asked to judge all those equally beautiful babies against one another, and the whole thing becomes not as gorgeous any more.

I tend to look through the pictures and will vote for the cutest.

Worst ones are the ones who ask on forums. I think it's unfair and will always vote for another child.

Our local paper used to run one and without fail at least 3 or 4 times a week the unsold papers in the shop I worked at would have all the voting pages taken out of them when they were put out at night. Whoever used to do it would sneak round to the paper bin at the back of the shop between 11pm and 4am and take them all out then tie the papers back up. Now thats dedication.

I'd have done it if it was just a matter of clicking, but paying for a kid you don't know to win something you don't care about is ridiculous!

YANBU

It often back fires with me because I won't vote for their child if they aren't the best whatever. I actually vote for the best whatever.

If people vote for friend's baby then it just turns it into a popularity contest for the adults.