I'm proud to announce the lucky winner of our PDC 2008 HDD packed with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and various SDKs is Tsumana.For those interested in how we picked the winner, I asked a friend to pick a number between 1 and 513 and he came up with 383 which was Tsumana's comment.
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LOL
i went it so badly
This was really a very poor way to select, and heavily weights in favor of the frequent posters in the thread.
As a Vet, I was ineligible. As a Linux user, Windows doesn't interest me. But the selection method MUST be changed. And a person guessing a "random" number in a range is not very random at all, and is also weighted away from the start and end points.
(You know that the same rules will apply to the Neowin competition?)
for this giveaway http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...c=688430&st=960 do you think the same logic to pick the winners will be used? should i go in there and post as much as i can? wouldnt it have been better if neowin develops an online applicatin where somsone can submit their username and only verification needed would be to not allow duplicate names. save it on a database and then neowin admins can randomly pick a username? idk, just a quick thought. i like how neowin gives things away, but there isnt really a fair way and any rules as far as i know. can i post more than once? will replies like 5.1 ever work? people who we know have 2 usernames, and submit with both, can we appeal it when they win?
Also, i might not agree on how the winner was picked, but still, congrats to Tsumana.
The child selection method is flawed. A child post (or a parent that has been replied-to) are less likely to be selected, since they had to go through an additional random selection.
Statistically, this selection method is very poor and not all posters had the same probability. I think that Neowin might want to use a more fairly distributed method to prize selection in the future.
this is exactly the point i want to bring up. maybe the neowin admins, and mods and vets should have a simple chat about what would be a better method next time that makes it 100% fair for everyone in the community.
I also want to bring up that Raa said that people that post very rarely should not be able to win. I visit neowin every day, read the topics that grab my attention by their title and make sure to cover the news in the front page. I dont post much as u can see, 5 years and under 1000 posts. i have always liked to think of myself as a very very small part of this community. i dont think that posting rarely should be a disqualification.
I don't either. I never mentioned post count, or membership sign-up date as a matter for consideration. I like Neowin's openness and community focus (Y)
5 years under 1000 posts? Thats not inactive IMO. 5 years and 50 posts? Yeah, that's getting a bit low.
I think it's worth revising at the least. I'm not saying a "hard rule" should apply.
See comment #37 below. Point proven? Maybe.
Who knew.
Oh well, congrats to the inactive member who won... :whistle:
Congrats to the winner though.
Dont forget to do a Neowin review
Where? The one guy who did have it said "I'd be fired if I leaked the build."
hmmmmm thawyts awdd
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How long does he/she have before it gets taken back and someone else is picked?
Agreed.
Last edited by creamhackered on 03 Nov 2008 - 14:24
Congrats anyways!!
Thanks for the kind words and even all the other words.
I read all the replies and just wanted to say that there are reasons for my inactivity although I don't think I need to go into them. I've been reading the news here for a long time and don't venture into the forums much as you can tell. Sometimes I'm reading the front page and don't even notice I'm not logged in.
So for any of you that feel slighted because of my post count then I'm sorry you feel that way. I can't really say much else on the subject without coming off as being patronising, I think.
And yes, I'll post a bunch of screens and do my best to write a review for the people who asked.
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