Post-a-thon, Starting now! Options

[CrEaTi0n]

Hi,

To celebrate the launch of the new vault9, we are going to be holding a post-a-thon to get things rolling. This time however we will be doing things slightly differently. Firstly, the first prize is a cool $250. Secondly, we are going to be giving away two $50 random prizes to random posters (this excludes the winner). The post-a-thon starts today (the 12th of December) and will continue until the 7th of January 2007.

Now for the rules!

• This is open to everyone. Even new members joining after today are legible, they just need to register and start posting!
• Only new topics posted will be counted. The topics need to be longer than a 1 liner and must have some discussion value.
• While you may reference other articles please submit your own works. Cut and paste jobs will not be counted towards your final tally
• The competition will begin at 00:01gmt on the 12th of December 2006, and end at 23:59 on the 7th of January 2007, a 3 (Three) week duration.
• Please allow up to a week after the close of the competition for totals to be published.
• The judges decision is final!
• Rules are subject to change.
• Posts can and will be moderated as per normal during the post-a-thon and if your post gets deleted, it wont count towards your total. If you disagree with a post or topic being deleted, you can raise that concern with either a moderator or management.
• This competition is open to anyone. Admins and Moderators are also welcome to take part in this.
• Full results will be published at the end of the competition and will be verified by at least 2 (two) members of the management team after the totals have been made.

Lets spread the word!!!!

The current list of participants:

cyfermaster
JuCa
Gitano
Carrots
Creation
RustPuppet
millenia
hunter
fx
toasted
Fudzy
W@rp@}{
Shi-shi
Krow
Fishfly
Rush
Cyberstorm

Reason for edit: Extended

[Fishfly]

welcome

[CrEaTi0n]

The post-a-thon is now over! Thanks to all the participated and the results will be published soon

Regards
Ian

[cyfermaster]

It was good yeah. Good luck peoples.

[Tyler]

The aim is to promote the site, but that doesn't mean we want spam topics all over the place. Posting a link to another article or a one- or two-liner post with little or no effort by the poster WILL NOT COUNT TOWARD THE POST-A-THON. I'm getting quite tired seeing threads thrown together in a lame attempt to make a few bucks. If you post something, have an OPINION about it at least, or start a discussion about the topic, rather than just copy/pasting a link you found on another site or got in an e-mail.

Without being mean or anything, but did you ever consider that some of us couldn't really care about the post-a-thon?

This thread ranks 8th on a Google Search.

I'm sure you could find many more posts that rank high on Google and other search engines. The point being the more content that V9 has (within the bounds of being worth while) the more visitors V9 will receive. What is one of the main goal of forum sites? To attract visitors which in turn increase the chances of more members signing-up.

Now feel free to flame me...

[docmoo]

if you don't care about taking part, then feel free to pass the opportunity of winning a prize for doing what you would be doing anyway on a forum

[Fishfly]

tyler it's not about spam topics that can get you lots of traffic... the arcade already generates tons of traffic yet these people don't even care to post anything in the forums... we trying to build a community of forum users not just arb spam topics which has no discussion points.

[Tyler]

Fishfly: ok true, I suppose if thats the admins view for the forum then hey, sharp just dont refer to it as users spamming, by all means do not allow those posts to count in the post-a-thon.

[RustPuppet]

The problem is that there are some spam topics, and they were made in an attempt to rack up post-a-thon points.

The real point is to have quality posts that make people participate and be active on the forum, not to fill it with spam crap that gets us Google results and draws in even more spammers.

[Tyler]

but at the same time you have to keep the variety of posts wide enough to keep people coming back... with all honesty I hardly check the forums as much as I used to because there isn't a lot of activity or topics I'm interested in are dead or not apparent. Something you or I might find to be a quality post might not be a quality post to another person.

[docmoo]

another point, we do make sure that the topics that are in contention for the post a thon are actually worth while. you can post a link and a little blurb and it might not be counted if it's not worth any merit.

but then again, you may do that and spawn a mass discussion on the topic which in that case it might be of merit. it's not just a case of who posted that most in a given time period. it's a logical process.

[CrEaTi0n]

By no means do we say that you arent allowed to post topics that only contain a single line, we just exclude them from the post-a-thon so that people who are competing dont complain that X user won by posting quick topics.

But as docmoo says, who says that something you post might not start a huge debate?

[Tyler]

Well there you go! Thanks docmoo for putting it all in one go..

[Gitano]

Tyler, dude, if there aren't many topics in your areas of interest, why not start some? Often its just a little nudge that people need to come out of their holes, I mean I'm sure there are loads of guys here that like what you do, so instead of complaining about lack of activity, become active!