[The Yaz]

I think Jason ought to roll this prize into the current giveaway contest.

It would be "lucky" prize #21!

The contest should be: "Explain in your post either

1) how much equipment in your home/office the dragon will replace (making your techie world a happier place)

or

2)note how the dragon will embolden you to change the way you live"

Either way I have to hand it to HP for stepping up and investing corporate dollar to raise awareness about their product in such an unsual manner!

Great job to Jason for once again having such great sites to attract HP's attention for inclusion in the program!!

Steve

[The Yaz]

I think Jason ought to roll this prize into the current giveaway contest.

It would be "lucky" prize #21!

The contest should be: "Explain in your post either

1) how much equipment in your home/office the dragon will replace (making your techie world a happier place)

or

2)note how the dragon will embolden you to change the way you live"

Either way I have to hand it to HP for stepping up and investing corporate dollar to raise awareness about their product in such an unsual manner!

Great job to Jason for once again having such great sites to attract HP's attention for inclusion in the program!!

Steve

[Alber1690]

Nice...how exciting!

[David Horn]

Jason,

I'm sure you've already picked out an excellent competition strategy for the Dragon giveaway, but after visiting the other blogs participating in this I'd like to make a plea:- please don't do what nearly every other blog so far has done and effectively limit it to either their readers or a specific subset of their audience.

Ars Technica has instantly slashed anyone who doesn't have professional game and graphic development tools on their computer out of the competition, and JK and OSNN are asking such convoluted and site specific questions it's unlikely that anyone but a reader who's been following their site for years will know the answers.

To give an example, the JK giveaway is asking the names of family members (which even Google can't find on their website, and I don't think have ever been posted there), along with other esoteric stuff.

To reiterate, I have no objection to putting in a bit of work for each entry, but so far all that's happened is that I've seen three competitions I've got virtually no chance in, and developed a fair bit of resentment for three excellent sites.

Cheers,

David.

(PS - please feel free to delete this post if you don't think it should be in this thread!)

[txa1265]

David:

I completely agree. The first site had you do some writing: that was great! The others are basically 'prove you are a site insider'. Heck, why not just say 'must have been a member before May1st to enter'. I added 'absolutevista' to the list of sites I visit, but the other three have been nuked for me.

Mike

[barb@stx.rr.]

I have looked high and low and can't find the page telling me what to do in order to win this beast...what am I overlooking?

[tescott]

I stopped by to enter the contest. While here, I have registered and would like to find out more about this site. I think a little scavenger hunt would be a nice way to discover some of the site's features and to get to know the members.

I don't know if I will stay or go, but I would like to see what's here.

BTW, it's May 10. Where are the contest rules?

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by David Horn

I'm sure you've already picked out an excellent competition strategy for the Dragon giveaway, but after visiting the other blogs participating in this I'd like to make a plea:- please don't do what nearly every other blog so far has done and effectively limit it to either their readers or a specific subset of their audience.

I agree with you David - hopefully you've found my contest to be quite simple. I wanted to do something a bit more interesting than "post your comment here", and I wanted it to involve YouTube, but I still wanted to keep it fast and easy for everyone involved. The worst anyone has to do is register a YouTube account, which I don't think is so bad.

I can't speak to why some Web sites have chosen to do their contests in a more...complex fashion. Every Web site owner has their own viewpoint about how they want to use this contest to generate traffic, awareness, etc. HP and Buzzcorps left it up to each site owner to decide how they wanted to give the Dragon away, and for better or worse, here's where we are.

[barb@stx.rr.]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

I agree with you David - hopefully you've found my contest to be quite simple.

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I think you did an awsome job indeed Jason...you didn't need anybody's help if you ask me. Why, I would have never thought of something like this. Thank goodness I already had an account-I just hadn't visited there in a while.

Whether I win or not (which I really hope I do); I had about the most fun doing it.

Barb

[JonnoB]

I suggest picking a random poster from this thread... Say for example, pick the 20th post....

[tianh]

Hey Jason Dunn, yes I love your giveaway so much. Other sites ask you to post the birthdate the OS of the servers they use and such. What a drag! Also I posted on the thread on the give away to doubly my chance, but I don't see it show up? Is something wrong?


Thanks