Digital Media Thoughts Contest: Must Be Present to Win

[Jason Dunn]

I'm noticing something as I do these contests to give away prizes: some people aren't claiming them! I don't know whether they're not getting the email (I'm not getting bounces), or they're not interested in the prize. Who wouldn't be interested in something free though? ;-) One factor could be that most people seem to use Hotmail or Yahoo email accounts, and likely don't check them very often. We've modified phpBB, our forum software, to completely hide your email address - it's protected from spam bots and can only be accessed by the administrators of this Web site. I'd urge people to put an email address on their account that they actually check every day. :-)

In light of this, I'm modifying the contest rules: if the prize isn't claimed within seven (7) days from when the drawing was first done, the prize will be given away to someone else, either chosen at random or given away in a method of my own choosing.

We have a lot of prizes to give away, so make sure you check your email!

[Jason Dunn]

I'm noticing something as I do these contests to give away prizes: some people aren't claiming them! I don't know whether they're not getting the email (I'm not getting bounces), or they're not interested in the prize. Who wouldn't be interested in something free though? ;-) One factor could be that most people seem to use Hotmail or Yahoo email accounts, and likely don't check them very often. We've modified phpBB, our forum software, to completely hide your email address - it's protected from spam bots and can only be accessed by the administrators of this Web site. I'd urge people to put an email address on their account that they actually check every day. :-)

In light of this, I'm modifying the contest rules: if the prize isn't claimed within seven (7) days from when the drawing was first done, the prize will be given away to someone else, either chosen at random or given away in a method of my own choosing.

We have a lot of prizes to give away, so make sure you check your email!

[bdegroodt]

I check daily...Waiting for Jason "McMahon" Dunn to show up on my doorstep 8O

[James Fee]

Damn, you'd think people would check back for this kind of stuff. 8O

[Busdrver]

I'd answer. Throw one of them prizes my way and I'll show you. :wink:

[shanafme]

Is there somewhere you can go to see a list of all the winners?? I'd be afraid that the email got blocked by someone's SPAM filter or something.

How about an RSS feed of winners? That would be awesome.

[sundown]

Although I don't use Hotmail for my registration to this site, I do on some others and sometimes I miss emails because spam fills up the lousy 2 MB of space I have there. At that point, MS disregards email to that account until I clean it out.

7 days seems reasonable.

[Kent Pribbernow]

Originally Posted by shanafme

Is there somewhere you can go to see a list of all the winners??

Just go back in archives and look for Contest Winner news posts, which should contain names of the winners, I believe.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by shanafme

Is there somewhere you can go to see a list of all the winners?? I'd be afraid that the email got blocked by someone's SPAM filter or something. How about an RSS feed of winners? That would be awesome.

Well, we have an RSS feed of the site, and when winners are announced their usernames show up in the feed, so that's kind of the same thing. ;-)

[David Prahl]

Speechless. What could make it easier to win? COME ON! :roll:

It really makes it sound like those (temporary) winners joined just for the gear and then forgot about it. Kind of insulting.

Will new prize winners be announced this week, Jason?

[Suhit Gupta]

Originally Posted by David Prahl

Will new prize winners be announced this week, Jason?

Yes, answer given here.

Suhit