I hope some of the users posting for the sole purpose of entering the competition turn in to quality forum members. e.g. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/profile/?area=showposts;u=77747 vs https://www.eevblog.com/forum/profile/?area=showposts;u=85675
Do you think I joined the forum just to enter this contest, or future ones?
Yeah, for sure I did. I don't have anything to contribute--you guys are all eggheads compared to me. I just watch all of Dave's videos because I have a real interest in this, but no formal training. I understand why you might be frustrated that some people are just BSing posts to join in, but that's happening. I hope you can appreciate the enthusiasm for people who want to learn using some quality tools that Dave is giving away. I've already learned a lot, but learning more is what I'm all about.
just getting into electronics and some free shit would be awesome
I'm not really in the electronic business (despite how damn am i somehow started to watch videos in the main pages), so, yeah, for me, really not much to do in the forum
anyway, why not just take the chance and grab a freebie
BTW, there will be multiple drawing for each of the items/kit right? I'm afraid if Dave is gonna draw only one "quality" user and give away all to that single user
I believe Dave already wrote that there will be 4 draws...
When does the contest end? I can't watch the video atm.
i think the black amp hour shirt is better
I think a lot of the (relatively) old people are pissed off that a bunch of newbie f-wits are coming in and screwing up their chances of winning some pretty cool prizes. Can't blame them I guess, but the contest post did move me from just being a viewer to trying to participate more in the forums, with what I can offer anyways.
Some folks won't have a lot of mental resources in this area to contribute as the 'all knowing, all seeing eye of Sauron electronics knowledge' but that's part of the deal I guess. I'm certainly not that guy, but not a total newb in electronics either. I've already seen a few 'new guy' posts from other people that rate well above 'some dude ranting about noobs on the forum' so I guess that won't hurt the forum!
I'm grateful for the opportunity offered by Dave, but the anti-n00b sentiment around here from some folks is pretty unfriendly and just plain hateful. I guess some people have never been sparked in their interests by a minuscule event in their life and had something set them off that led them down a long road of learning and discovery.
I think the 5 posts idea was not a stick, but a carrot.
The 5 posts limit has always been just an arbitrary number somewhere above zero that is designed to weed out N percent of people who will just join the forum and post in the contest thread and then bugger off. Thus leaving behind a whole bunch of accounts with just one post.
Should it have been 0, 10, 50, 100?
50 would have probably weeded out all but a handful of eager spammers, but I know of plenty of good forum contributors who have less than that.
0 might have resulted in much less spam across the forum, but I don't like single post accounts either.
Where did the prizes come from?
Are they ex review units your not allowed to ebay on?
I would expect the manuf to promote their own give aways otherwise.
If the motivation of the competition is to recruit new users, it certainly is a good incentive to get the lurkers to come forward and sign up.
If you want to reward active forum users, you could either pick thoughtful responses or interesting thread creators, and put their names into a hat, or possibly a forum poll for users to nominate.
Last idea, might be to select active users from past 30, 90, 360 days, and do a random draw.
I have no advice for me-too competition entries. I assume you log ip address, and could identify suspect names.
Alternatively an embargo on new user creation during competiton duration, however this would prevent any intended recruitment drive.
edit: this post probably belongs in the other suggestion thread. Sorry i mixed them up.
I think the prices were from the previous reviews - i saw dave with a scope teardown..i wonder when will that go as a prize
edit: this post probably belongs in the other suggestion thread. Sorry i mixed them up.
Nah, it's OK. This forum is not very strict in that sense unless you create a topic very outside a category.
Dave, next time a contest is announced it would be nice to know right then the closing date/time of the "I'm in" thread. Have some kind of announced deadline.
I missed by a few lousy hours...
Dave, next time a contest is announced it would be nice to know right then the closing date/time of the "I'm in" thread. Have some kind of announced deadline.
I missed by a few lousy hours...
You're kidding right? It's been there for more than 2 weeks
It's not that you had to write an essay or something...
They'll be out of warranty soon
well just noticed my post in the contest thread didnt actually post at all
When is the winner announced?
^^ Wearing that hat, your already a winner.
am curious too, 74 pages this time
