*WINNER ANNOUNCED* Win Xbox 360 250GB + Forza Horizon with MyGaming

[Ike_009]

Granted we all had our lame comments but generally its been in convo through the forums and not spam like people have been predicting, surw maybe excessive but mostly on a relevant side. Check Missileitoe he hasn't been making stupid comments like others first timers trying to ramp up their count.

[MetalSoup]

Granted we all had our lame comments but generally its been in convo through the forums and not spam like people have been predicting, surw maybe excessive but mostly on a relevant side. Check Missileitoe he hasn't been making stupid comments like others first timers trying to ramp up their count.

The only person I noticed getting out of hand was Reubz, but it looks like he got an infraction and stopped posting when he reached 20 anyway.

[Juice]

The scoring system being used here to conjure up a winner might not be as exquisite as, say, pantothenic acid or candle-holding statuettes, but it does have its merits. If you consider that we've been using a very similar, yet vastly different, system to elicit the unworthiest of winners in the Whatizzit thread, then it doesn't seem so bad. A better scheme might have been to ask people for pictorial proof of their self-lambasting techniques in reverence for this forum, but I fear a week of such behaviour would plausibly cost some members here most of their personal blood reserves, ie. death. So, no.

However, an XBOX in conjuction with Mary's undergarments (apologies in advance)...might just be worth the hoo-hah.

[Ichigo]

True. You stand a greater chance of winning with this kind of competition. Given you post as if it's a chatroom

Thanks and yes isnt that a point of a forum is to converse and have fun chatting and in the end helping people when they have problems and use to use Mirc a lot so been use to Mirc way of chatting.

I'm not saying the 'current' top25 are problematic, though with exaggerated self-patting-on-back going on the lead they would otherwise have for the activity of those in the top25 'by default' is only exacerbated. All I'm looking for is some quality control from the admins that will go over the top25 in the end to ensure the scores are normalized to account for such self-congratulating/agreeing.

Ichigo, I obviously don't use this forum much so I wouldn't know if the behaviour I'm referring to is 'normal' of the users concerned, but it's not a behaviour I see on the MyBB forums except when users want to ramp up their activity for a competition that has an activity requirement. I'm talking people that are usually fairly quiet that can't think of anything better to fill up a post quota for than to quote a post, say something along the lines of "yeah, I agree, and yams are also quite tasty imo". A post like that has no substance. They could as easily have given rep to a poster for saying something they agree with or a post that they appreciated (where rep given and received contributes towards *this* competition's scoring, but not a simple post quota requirement competition).

Well I have been saving up things to type about for months of reading on mygaming so just posting things I wanted to post but never got around to cause of work and other stuff taking up my time.

How do you have 303 points. I'm not even angry, I'm impressed -.-

Quite easy use mygaming as a chat forum and just talk like you would normally to a friend next to you at work or at home or anywhere else for that matter.

[Juice]

Just because some teachers and the calculator says 'cannot divide by zero', divide by zero.

[S1ght]

Just because some teachers and the calculator says 'cannot divide by zero', divide by zero.

You lost me here. I hear divide by zero and I think of limits >.<

[MissileToe]

Granted we all had our lame comments but generally its been in convo through the forums and not spam like people have been predicting, surw maybe excessive but mostly on a relevant side. Check Missileitoe he hasn't been making stupid comments like others first timers trying to ramp up their count.

Stupid, maybe. Relevant, yes.

[B1nary]

very true spamming to win something. i dont know how i feel about that i read all posts but most times i dont post due to the topic at hand :/ guess the only way is to spam

I concur with this statement , the problem is its going to be even easier to spam by just randomly opening 50 forum threads every 10 min or so if the system were to allocate points for reading.

Hey James has this got anything to do with generating more ad revenue? why exactly did this happen anyway?

[James]

Hey James has this got anything to do with generating more ad revenue? why exactly did this happen anyway?

We wanted a cool system that promotes forum activity. That is why we now have achievements and awards and stuff. I want to tweak that a bit more when I have time. The activity system allows us to run competitions based on forum activity. Forums are fun and happy places when they are active, and isn't it cool that the most active people stand a chance to win a prize as well? We can also build different types of awards in future, which I'm putting some thought toward.

Of course MyGaming operates entirely on ad revenue and so we will always want to increase our traffic - that's just how online works. It's a great job and a privilege to bring the MyGaming readers news and foster a cool community, but we still need to put food on the table and pay our rent as well.

With MyGaming doing well we can organise more cool stuff for the forum community like competitions with prizes that MyGaming pays for, organise events like the ongoing Dota 2 tournaments, and expand our news content and coverage.

There's no exact reason why the changes have been implemented, just that we are always striving to improve where we can. We do tend to think decisions through and things aren't done arbitrarily.

[Ike_009]

We wanted a cool system that promotes forum activity. That is why we now have achievements and awards and stuff. I want to tweak that a bit more when I have time. The activity system allows us to run competitions based on forum activity. Forums are fun and happy places when they are active, and isn't it cool that the most active people stand a chance to win a prize as well? We can also build different types of awards in future, which I'm putting some thought toward.

Of course MyGaming operates entirely on ad revenue and so we will always want to increase our traffic - that's just how online works. It's a great job and a privilege to bring the MyGaming readers news and foster a cool community, but we still need to put food on the table and pay our rent as well.

With MyGaming doing well we can organise more cool stuff for the forum community like competitions with prizes that MyGaming pays for, organise events like the ongoing Dota 2 tournaments, and expand our news content and coverage.

There's no exact reason why the changes have been implemented, just that we are always striving to improve where we can. We do tend to think decisions through and things aren't done arbitrarily.

I just assumed that the petrol increases were taking their toll on your wallet