June Contest Winners

Thanks for your patience. I finally got some definitive review results this morning and we have our winners without there being any ties for user blogs now. So, here are this month's winners!

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TALKIE-TALKIE MONEY-MONEY
Three winners.

1st place: ninsigma has won a $250 Amazon Gift Card
2nd place: kiwi66 has won a $100 Amazon Gift Card
3rd place: HanCilliers has won a $50 Amazon Gift Card

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HAD THOUGHT, TYPED IT UP, WON SOMETHING
Two winners, each has won a $100 Amazon Gift Card

"The imprudence of a ‘campaign or bust’ attitude" by coolbeans
http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...

"Neo & Scorpio Are Not What You Think" by luckytrouble
http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...

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CONTRIBUTOR CONTEST
Four winners, each has won a $100 Amazon Gift Card

Geobros
Abriael
Pozzle
-Mezzo-

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Congratulations to all our winners. You can view the current monthly contest details here: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...

There is also a special contest that will be posted later this week. Keep your eyes open for those contest details on the front page or from my blog feed.

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Some Terms and Conditions:
1. Competition is open to all N4G users, except for employees of HAVAmedia and immediate relatives. Contests are not limited to the US/NA. Note: Moderators do not receive remuneration, are not employees of HAVAmedia, and are eligible for N4G monthly contests.
2. The closing date for all contests is 11:59 PM EST 30 June 2016.
3. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, N4G/HAVAmedia reserves the right to substitute the prizes for alternatives of equal or greater value.
4. Prizes are not transferable.
5. The winners of the competition will be notified by N4G ticket on or before July 7, 2016.
6. Failure to reply to ticket notification within seven (7) days may result in forfeiture of a prize.
7. All N4G TOU apply and may affect eligibility.
8. Lottery style winners are chosen at random from eligible entries. Spam or multiple accounts will result in disqualification.
9. All prizes are in USD, where prizes are awarded to winners outside the USD the exchange rate at the time of prize issue will affect prize amount.
10. Individuals may only win a single contest in a month (unless otherwise noted). In the event that a person is randomly decided, voted for, or otherwise determined to win multiple contests for a month, the person will instead win the contest with the highest value and will be eliminated from the other contests for the month.

[Christopher]

For once, we can blame the tardiness of this on coolbeans!

:D

[coolbeans]

lol

Ok, you have my curiosity. Did some blogs get through approval that shouldn't have or something? In any case, appreciate the nod and congrats to all other winners.

EDIT: I haven't received a notification atm.

[Christopher]

It involved constant tying in blogs where I had to say "Okay, ignore these two, now vote". Then, there were a few more ties. But, most of them were on those "other two".

[coolbeans]

Oh I see. I'll take the blame then! :P

[pyroxxx]

Congrats guys,.. Some of these guys are really active and well deserved,.. Hope I get lucky someday

[Overload]

Congratulations everyone. Now go buy No Man's Sky!!!!

[Deadpooled]

Damn :( oh well, congrats to the winners, no way I was going to compete with some of the article submitters being incredibly active on the site and having far superior CRanks (although I had 10k points for the month I saw the top guys with over 100k!). Abriael's is 91 and mezzo's is 112!

[-Foxtrot]

I know but you just need to hang on and see if you get lucky in the comment lottery. The submitting one is most likely a lost cause but the lottery is fair game, although I do wish they would put a cap on like "once you've submitted 100 comments this month THEN you'll be entered". It may seem harsh but there's been people who have won in the past despite hardly posting...would just increase the chances of winners being general N4G active users.

[Christopher]

I think we have some general N4G active winners this month :(

[-Foxtrot]

I wasn't really talking about this month I was just talking in general.

But if we are going to talk about this months then honestly, despite me being on here so much I think I've only ever saw ninsigma post the most out of the three.

In the past I've seen people win who post days apart, maybe 4-5 days or even the odd rare one who maybe have most a few times in that entire month, basically users who just log in to browse the pending news section.

[Kiwi66]

I'm on this site everyday but don't always post a comment as there may not be any article that i'm interested in so i don't see the point of making a comment just for the sake of it so am i not entitled to be drawn a winner in a random draw

[-Foxtrot]

@Kiwi66

I wasn't trying to make it about this specific contest, my original comment about was just talking in general, I didn't say "you know that user right there...he doesn't deserve it". I was just saying we have had people like that in the past.

However there is so many articles I doubt you would be commenting just for the sake of it, I mean a user would have an entire month to do it.

All I was trying to respectfully say is maybe they should add a certain number of comments before someone, not you, can be in the lottery draw. It would weed out most inactive users and actually would push people a little to get involved more in the comments drawing in traffic. Even if someone said "Oh I've gotten a 100 comments, I'm entered" and did nothing else then fair enough.

That's all. Nothing bad on you or anyone else. It was just a small part of the original comment...not the point or focus of that said comment.

[Christopher]

Here's the thing:

1. What you propose is harder to manage than just random and I've tried some different stuff, but it usually takes me 8+ hours just to do that. So, I prefer to keep it to a simple lottery. I've requested some tools that will help with this, but there are other important things being worked on right now.

2. I'd rather do a lottery contest than nothing at all when I can. I've tried my best to move away from it as I would rather reward active participation than anything else. But, every once in a while, a random lottery will pop up.

[-Foxtrot]

" I've tried my best to move away from it as I would rather reward active participation than anything else"

What would you call active participation ideas then? If it's things similar to the contributing one then I don't think many people stand a chance. I mean I'm on the site a bit despite having two jobs, having a smart phone makes it easy BUT trying to submit articles on top of all that where certain members have already nailed that down. It's not giving everyone a chance if other ideas are like that.

No hate on that contributing people, you do a great job but not many of us are going to bother to try since you all seem to know the ins and outs of it, kind of like a "why bother if X, Y and Z will most likely win again". Although saying that I guess it's better then Filmwatch, it's even worse on their, with the users who win every month you don't even need to announce them.

I can understand it's hard to come up with new ideas but I think the lottery at the minute is the only thing which is the most fair. Even things like art competitions and the like focuses on peoples personal skills where people might have better skills then others you know. If you have an artist who draws an amazing picture and another who can't draw for s*** but both still try you know who's going to win.

I can't even think myself what other ideas you could do

The haiku one you did was decent. I like the prediction ones but without knowing what you can do as you've said you might not have the tools for it then I don't know what to request.

[Christopher]

***What would you call active participation ideas then?***

http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...

http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...

http://n4g.com/news/1850882...

[-Mezzo-]

Yes, some...like me have high Cranks, but they don't mean anything as, a while back N4G put a limit of 50 posts on Submissions in place, so be it 50 or 500 Crank, you are only allowed to post 50 submissions per day.

[Deadpooled]

50 is still a lot of submissions, I've only gone up from 5 to 10 after June so got a very long way to go :)

[Germany7]

Never give up, trust your instincts.

[-Foxtrot]

*sigh*

I only need one more

[Fist4achin]

Oh well, June was not my month. Congrats to the winners!

[Geobros]

Congrats to all! winners or not! It was a great month with great news in our industry and really big discussions about them. Looking forward to the nest site contests.

[Caffo01]

Congrats to the winners! Wasn t july usually the indie games month?

[coolbeans]

Indeed, it was the previous two years. Due to so much effort being dedicated towards site updates + fixes, it's been postponed.

[Caffo01]

ok, thanks

[Fullmetalevolust]

Congrats to all winners, hoping to join your ranks someday soon :)