New Contest Idea's Hi Everyone
As all of us are looking forward for a new contest so request all of you to shoot up idea's for new contest here.
I am thinking about a article writing contest and looking for inputs from you guy's
I request all of my fellow spammers to join me in Yard, no spamming here
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do you have any pre-defined ideas for the contest or you want us to start from scratch ?
Like jee said, the article writing contest was the most succesfull, if only we could clearly define a way to declare/decide the winner then it would be great.
you can come up with new idea's and if you want to stick with article writing contest then you can stick with that too
@ smooth
We already have about 2 or 3 threads for the same discussion. I would recommend that we stick only onto one for better output.
Or you may merge all the threads into one.
then can you please include a multi choice voting option
What contest & How to choose winner
[choosing any of these implies the person supports having articles for contest]
* No of articles (in case of more than one article, the one with either highest ratings/posts can be taken into account).
* Quality of articles (ratings system or repo's system)
* No of "meaningfull" replies (no. of views is difficult to monitor hence left out)
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* No of posts by the user
We have only spent Rs25k till now this year and the budget we have is Rs300000 for this year ending 31st dec 2009. We have got Rs 275000 still to go.
Please come up with some good contest set up guys so we can continue with it.
I have a suggestion .... We can continue with the same old article writing contest but with better prizes... what do you guys say?
I dont know I would leave it to our members to decide what the contest will be and the prizes as well... please keep in mind we have to drag this budget till the end of the year so we wont have just one contest and spend all the money.
Thanks
PS: if you guys can prepare an extremely good contest setup which wont result in spamming or extra hassel (fights on the forum) then we can look at increasing the budget as well.
Mods have a veto power so they can overrule decisions made by all of us so please keep Just4kix and smoothie in confidence if you want your idea to implimented.
Here is the best part : who ever suggests and idea which is later implimented will win a prize of Rs5000 when the contest ends provided the contest goes smoothly with no spamming or hic-ups..
I am hoping to see a new contest begin on the 1st of may or before the 15th of may at the latest... we need to spend this money guys.
Thanks again
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yes thats a good idea Admin ...
But the same contest... i dont have any idea about that as i did not participate in that.
Ill surely think of some new idea's and will update when the bulb glows...!
Hi Adminji, I had a idea about the contest relating to IPL & i also PMed you about it. But I didn't get any response from you. I Will PM the idea once again. Kindly take time to have a look at it.
Article writing is good but i don't think/expect much participation in that.. We need to think just like higher poster wala contest, where the participation was healthy... How about Puzzle/Treasure hunting in forum?? I'm not sure about the procedure but we can put some clue/answers of particular question/riddle in different thread or sections of our forum.. In that way i'm sure the participation will be good and many other will explore our forum thoroughly rather than sticking in selected section..
What say??
hmm thats a good try but not so worth to me, as it will be like just searching something thats all nothing creative ...! its fun for others to search, but no use of brains ..! what i wish is the deserved one should win not just anybody...!
share your thoughts
Isn't solving riddle/puzzle comes under creative thing?? By the mean of searching you need to apply your brain "Where to search".. Well i think it would be fun...Originally Posted by kirankumargb
I would like to divert all your attention, including Admin's, just4kix's and smoothvibes'.
We had had a thread about suggestions and discussions about our old Writing Contest, which didn't bring spam here. The only problem it facd was lack of enthusiasm.
Please go through the thread, and give your reviews and suggestions, and we already have had a lot of ideas there.
Writing Contest Not Yielding Fruits - Problems And Suggestions
And, please note that I was not much into everyone in IBB at that time, and therefore please forgive me for some foolish words or phrases I have said there.
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I have no problem going in with the Article writing content, but I would like to make two amendments to it:
1) "Do not disclose the entries for the contest"
I have seen that, if two guys are competing against each other in the contest, they normally don't reply in each other's article/thread, just because of the fear that they will loose the lead, so if we won't disclose the name of the threads (entries for contest) no one will come to know about it. I know that most of you might not agree on this, but this is a fact, even it is not what's the harm in not disclosing the entries.
We just need to prepare an article and send that link to Admin/mod as a request to include that into the contest.
Later on, Admin / Mod can disclose all the entries with Results.
2) "There shouldn't be only one prize"
This is my second suggestion. This time, let's not have only one winner. We can have 3 or 5 winners depending upon whatever criteria we follow to decide the winner, be it no. of post, no. of views or replies etc.
Looking forward to hear you friends.
Anyway, we still have to think about the practicality of this.
Anyone so curious to not post in opponent's thread can easily get to look at all new threads and can identify which of thm might have been put up for the contest.
We can try holding more than one contest at the same time. As we focus on various topics and diversified talent are involved. The price money can vary according to value added to the site. If one contest is more useful, then that should secure a higher prize money.
Like good articles are surely to be an asset, but Google makes it irrelevant and a lot of feeds and blog subscription are also there. I am not undermining the idea. If there is an article writing contest, members should choose the topic they want to know about (under the supervision of Moderators & Admin ). Let us choose an initial pool of topics and start with them. The articles should be evenly distributed throughout the period of contest. We can add more topics to the pool as and when the trend changes. If the pool don't dry up at the end of the contest, we can try using them for later contests. During the contest, authors can suggest topics for moderator approval. Any topic selected and secures a certain amount of traffic can be rewarded.
I think we can also introduce referral scheme (please, it is only a suggestion) as I would have been happy if someone told me about this forum earlier.
Asking questions is surely a skill and it makes the thread more useful. So non authors should be given a chance to participate in posting contest. Otherwise we end up with a collection of articles which can be easily replaced by a Google search.
When someone search for a particular article and end up finding our article, the title should be attractive enough for him to choose. We can contribute to SEO and will be useful for our own blog. We can suggest a title for an article if we feel it is more appealing.
For Eg. I used " Copy text from images. New! ", " Torrents, seeding & Trackers "
I believe all of them are keywords and appealing. If we won't diversify and spread the responsibility, we will be asking too much from our authors and will be underestimating other resources we have.
To sum up.
1. Suggest good topics.
2. Submit useful articles/Start useful threads.
3. Ask questions and post reasonable doubts.
4. Choose the title.
5. New members referral.
Hope it will be of some use.
Sorry, I didn't read earlier posts, if any idea is recurring, please forgive.
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How about a composite points system
Each New post with at least 5 words: 1 point
Each Repo point received : 5 points
Each new Thread started that receives at least 2 replies : 5 points
Restrictions of earlier contest continues.
Min. period of Contest : 3 months
Winners decided by total points earned
Who will keep track of all the points? There isnt any automated process and doing so manually will not be possible. Only the last 500 posts of each user is shown under his/her profile's recent posts. Over the period of 3 months most contestants are likely to cross that mark. How will one calculate the valid posts then.
I am also wanting to have a modified and well planned highest poster like contest. The reasons i am not in favour of writing contest are many and i wont like to mention most of them here.
Who will judge the quality of articles!!? other contestants? - Doesnt makes any sense.
Number of views/replies? - Not practical.
Reputations on the article? - Dont mind but then this contest will turn in favour of daily users(friends on the forum) and Repo exchangers. (Plz dont take me otherwise here).
IMHO - only Admin and Just4kix should judge the quality of articles. No one else.
IMO - we can have another round of highest poster contest. I know this contest faced many problems (spamming, huge amount of post reporting, raising questions on the forums rules etc) BUT - all these problems were faced in the early days of the contest. As the contest kept going ... most things were clear to most people and such problems were reduced to negligible amount. Moreover, it was the very first trial of the highest poster contest. All the contestants and mods/admin slowly got to understand the problems which kept on arising during the contest and most were solved. There were hardly any issues towards the end(last 10 days) of the contest.
The highest poster contest used to keep the technical sections of the forum busy and interesting(which is the basic purpose of the forum). The amount of activity in the technical sections have reduced noticabley after the end of the contest.
Of course - we can have some modifications and new and strict rules. This contest gives equal opportunity to old as well as new members. Also, the fact that people who are not very good authors but can obviously contribute to various discussions and technical sections(specially troubleshooting) of the forum are not ruled out if we have the highest poster contest.
Anyways, these are only my opinions.
BTW, Rameshjee - i would like to know about the IPL contest idea you were suggesting to admin. Sounds interesting.
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He told me about his idea and its really intresting for a fair contest, spamming proof. But if we want to imply that contest, we have to hurry we don't have much time left, as the contest must commence before IPL
@ Admin, if you please get time, do read about the contest suggested by Ramesh
yep thats good ... we'll see what Admin decides
he have to be online by the EOD, to decide whether to go for it or not
Very valid point raised by Manish. I support this idea...
Thank you so much Ramesh, hope admin aproves your ideaVery valid point raised by Manish. I support this idea...
Till the time, admin comes back online (for a sizeable time), we can' do anything.
My thoughts about contest are like this:
- Last time we had a maximum poster contest. This was a success but also created nightmares and fights.
- I would like to keep the contest for new posts only.
- I would prefer to have the contest entries in one section only. After the contest is over, some of them could be moved to relevant sections. Even if this creates SEO issue, we could leave linkbacks so that the browser search will still lead to the correct URL.
- We should select a panel of fifteen to vote on the contest entry. These will be the judges. Judges will have to take the pledge to vote on every contest entry. I am willing to do the tallying up of marks at the end of the contest.
- Besides the judges, others could vote on the thread. Judges marks will count 75% and others' marks 25%.
- Contest entries to have minimum 100 words not counting common words like articles, prepositions, suppositions, etc.
- Excerpts of text copied from elsewhere (even if retyped) not allowed.
- No topics related to jokes, movie reviews, etc. We can expand the list with mutual consent.
- Heavy prize money to encourage participation. Top prize of Rs. 10K (?) with blessings from admin.
- No limit on entries per person.
- Judges may also participate but cannot vote on their own entry.
- Admin and Mods can revoke points or disqualify entry if it is felt that there is partiality.
The above are my suggestions. We can debate them, if we like.
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Great suggestions, especially
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But many users who were so active during that time went inactive after getting the prize amount, and some of the regular members, as Admin had already said, were pissed off.
Agreed, and have not much doubts.
But, where will the panel members and others vote?
Will it be through PM, or will we be having any new special add-on or mod for serving that purpose?
It can't be much reliable.
I would say that anywhere about 250-300 words (or, according to everyone's opinion) should be the minimum word count required to be eligible for the contest.
We have had this rule in our old Writing Contest also. And, plagiarism also needs to be controlled.
Nice ideas.
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