How Should The EEVblog Giveaway be Run?

[SeanB]

Yes, but as he does drive a Mazdarusty..........

[tautech]

I know Dave is considering weighting the entries ... but that's taking it a bit too far, I think.

Really?

To quote Dave's reply a day or so ago:

If you don't post much then you aren't contributing to the forum. You can read it every day, but that's not adding value.

I know some posters who I'd gladly give the scope to for a single comprehensive post, so post cost in this instance is not a good indicator. But in general, post count is the only way to do at a general level.


And

In a way they do, but not nearly as valuable as those who actually contribute.

Doesn't this imply contribution to the forum is ranked high in Dave's view, I think it does and it does IMO too.
Isn't the knowledge base of the experienced members valuable to the forum?
You bet it is and it's the main reason behind my input into this thread in reply #28.

If the occasional prize/gift becomes available to those that have had a significant input, why's that a bad thing? 

Wouldn't it be an incentive for those that have not joined or their post count is low to further share their wisdom and improve the forum more?

It would seem there'll be a few goodies up for grabs in the near future and I don't see why Dave wouldn't want to reward someone that has made significant contributions with maybe some of the spoils in his goodies bag.

You seem to have completely missed the context of my post.

It was in response to the post immediately preceding it, namely:

Print out my username 800 times. Put all the prints into a fish bowl. Pull my name out on camera. Announce that rx8pilot has won the prize.

Right? Seems so easy. I will fly to AU to pickup, shake hands, and be very grateful.

I don't think my response was out of line in any way, shape or form - unless I missed something...


We all know rx8pilot has a deep desire (and declared need) for such a scope, but ......

No problem now, you've now Quoted it and it's now clear what you meant.

[Brumby]

Sorry for the confusion - but my post was immediately after the post to which it was referring.


Anyway....... 

[rx8pilot]

I know, I know. Totally over doing it. :-)

Trying to calm down now.....

Sent from my horrible mobile....

[RobertoLG]

Trying to think why me, but thanks anyway for the vote of confidence.
[/quote]

for being nice, isn't it a good reason? 

[FLIP]

id go with and similar to other comps that get run, depending on the prize at the time.

be it one open to australians only, or one for the overseas people only.
open to all except certain countries with silly import laws and atxes & so on.

or even explain why you should win in a 30second video or something similar or way out there kind of way

one comp i saw recently over on yt, used a script called youtube comment grabber or something similar to that, that picked a random comment
had rules like poster must have only 1 comment etc, but if one was to be run by eevblog on yt, this would be a good way to do it, rather than using something like random.org etc

[Towger]

Has Dave forgotten to draw a winner

[Muttley Snickers]

I expect that he may be waiting for the Keysight Scope month to conclude and then perhaps do a review on the found items before nominating a recipient, mind you those dumpsters can be a challenge to get out of with your hands full so I'm told.

Everyone's a winner......

[ez24]

Is it possible he is trying to come up with a way of picking someone and at the same time make it interesting to get views on the video.

After all video blogging is his business.  I am disappointed in members not being able to come up with something interesting so I am going to start a new post asking for ideas.  Unfortunately most of my ideas would get him thrown in jail but lots of views (like marking 700 bunnies and put them on a freeway and the "winner" would be the last one alive.

So any money he would make would have to be used for bail 

Seems with so many "minds" here - someone could come up with something interesting and funny.

[Brumby]

* Fire up Google Earth
* Spin the globe a few random times
* Drop a pin wherever it stops
* Take the latitude and longitude (DD:MM:SS) of the pin
* Convert these numbers to seconds of arc and add them.  Call this 'P'
* Take the number of entrants (in a numbered list).  Call this 'N'
* Calculate P mod N
* Look up the winner from the numbered list

For locations where a game of skill is required, the potential winner must calculate the shortest Great Circle distance from their computer to the coordinates of the pin to the nearest kilometre.

[sequoia]

Maybe Dave could build a true (hardware) random number generator, and make a video or two about building and proving that it works properly... Then simply use it to pick the winner(s)...

[RobertoLG]

pieces of paper in a hat would have the same effect lol

[ez24]

all would make a boring video - too bad no ideas 

[IconicPCB]

What of the used Keysight scope.. the March run?

"Live video draw will be some unknown date, sometime this month."

Which month?

[dr_p]

mid April, at least )

[ez24]

all would make a boring video - too bad no ideas 

My favorite method would be to take dark sheets of paper, number them. take them to a park.  Then when a pigeon shits on the paper, it gets counted.   Just think, it would only take 3 pigeon shits to pick a winner   

[SeanB]

Saturday 16 April at 9AM Sydney time.

Will be 1AM for me, will have to either stay up or set a loud alarm.

[Kjelt]

Saturday 16 April at 9AM Sydney time.

Will be 1AM for me, will have to either stay up or set a loud alarm.

When and where was that posted? 

[rx8pilot]

https://youtu.be/6GF-9ox6d0Y

[IconicPCB]

When and where was that posted?

A bit of a tits on the bull situation

[EEVblog]

When and where was that posted? 

The place where Youtubers post stuff 

[RobertoLG]

Soo...lets start the nail biting    good luck 

[station240]

When and where was that posted? 

The place where Youtubers post stuff 

The link from the description
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=EEVblog+Live+Giveaway&iso=20160416T09&p1=240&ah=1

[Brumby]

That's great.

I'd be able to pop over to do the meet and greet, pick it up and be home before lunch!   

[MarvinTheMartian]

That's great.

I'd be able to pop over to do the meet and greet, pick it up and be home before lunch!   

Can I come and have a look too (since you apparently will be the winner Brumby)?