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Post by
Liquidor
...Malgayne, I'd like to point out that there doesn't seem to be a profile for "orcthac"
It's because they are linking incorrectly to the post he made with the following url:
http://www.wowhead.com/?/?forums&topic=41021.85#p395287
It should be:
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=41021.85#p395287
His profile:
http://www.wowhead.com/?user=Orcthac
Post by
211139
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Post by
Skosiris
So let me get this straight, we are asked to post our favorite WoW moment yet the winners will be picked randomly?
Did you read the rules at all? :p
Once a day for the next five days, we will
randomly
select two entrants from the thread, and award them a beta key for WotLK!
At the end of each day, we'll be picking 2 winners at
random
.
We want to encourage new people with this contest. We have something else in mind for this weekend (again, if you read the contest page or the sticky thread, you should know that we're having another contest this weekend) that should favor the long-time users more heavily. ;)
Post by
208948
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Post by
Skosiris
Will contest winners be notified by email? or will you announce it on the forums?
Both. Check our
thread
, the winners for Monday are listed.
Post by
211833
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Post by
Malgayne
It's a raffle. We're giving a chance to win a beta key to anyone who drops their business card in the little "Win a Free Meal" jar at the restaurant. To make it more interesting and fun to read and participate in, we've also asked people to write fond reminiscences about WoW on the business cards--but it's still a raffle. We just decided this was better than "please post in this thread for a chance to win".
We're doing everything we can to give these away in a manner that makes everyone happy. First we did a test of skill, but we had to cancel because users were cheating. Now we're giving them away at random. We haven't done a contest that rewards creativity yet, primarily because creativity is a matter of opinion--I'd hate to deal with the firestorm of users who weren't selected as winners, but who sincerely believe their contribution was the best, especially since there's no REAL way to tell who's right. One guy can only handle so many disappointed fans! At least this way, if you don't get picked, you know it's nothing personal.
On Saturday and Sunday, we'll be giving away something else, with some slightly different rules. :)
Post by
Atos
Well I am one of the guilty people that uses this site quite a bit for a long time but never registered until this contest invited me to =)... Anyways thanks for the chance to win even if it's a long shot, better than the odds of the opt in which obviously I did not win...
Post by
17744
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Post by
Malgayne
I don't know about anyone else, but I've gotten a great deal of joy from reading these posts. I was thinking tomorrow of possibly editing the first post to link to a few of my favorites. :)
It's real easy to cause drama with a contest that's not random, but that doesn't mean the contest entries aren't worth reading, and it doesn't mean that submitting a genuine, creative entry isn't worthwhile. If you had noticed in advance that the drawing was random, would you have posted "whn i loged in an saw teh grafix i was like omg! lol."? Or would you have posted your entry nonetheless, and damn the consequences?
If all you want is to win a beta key, then go ahead--but I had hoped people would see a little more than that. :)
Post by
24996
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Post by
Malgayne
The reason we didn't simply draw names from the entire member pool is because we have no way of verifying that the email addresses are still valid, or that the users even still play WoW, or things like that. So we gave people a method of entry, a way to drop their names into the hat. Because we wanted to promote some friendship, good feeling, and fireside reminiscence about a game we all enjoy, I asked for a particular type of entry--one that encouraged users to be a little creative, but we tried to be as clear as possible about the rules. The quote you posted from the contest page if you expand it to include the
very next line
, says this:
Once again, there is a sticky thread in the General Forums for contest entries. This time we want you to post your favorite moment in your WoW career. Malgayne has already posted one, to give you an idea of what we're looking for!
Once a day for the next five days, we will
randomly select
two entrants from the thread, and award them a beta key for WotLK!
I guess I don't see what else we could have done. =/
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