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Amit  : agree with u . maybe its the stress of writing for 30 days continuously and even a minute of extension can just make it totally worse :P

sry abt that

even a minute of extension can just make it totally worse :P 

 It's okay, one can understand, writing continuously for 30 days is no mean feat  can be very stressful

Karthik,  Congratulations for the great effort. It is people like you who have the spirit of competition live up to the name of Marathon. Amazing work by people in the leaderboard and many others for their tireless efforts in keeping this ON.

I am feeling nostalgic after submitting my last post! Phew 43 posts. I am proud of myself. Quite a learning this contest was. All the best to everyone. it was a long and tough contest with writer's mood swings, for me.

congrats :)

i said so not for posting the entire collection. i meant as if someone wants to posts more than 60 posts, can post more. 

Your suggestion is good but imagine this is a marathon.. NOT a SPRINT. :D

Assuming that a person is writing 60 posts , it takes atleast 30 mins to write a 450-500 page article

That means thats 1800 mins = 30 hours non stop and you are left with only 24 hours

So technically its close to impossible to even write 40 posts in a day. 40 itself can be done if u dont eat, sleep or absolutely do anything

So if u have 60 to post, it means u have written before and ur mistake not to have posted it then and there..

Relax Karthik, calm down. No doubt you guys have worked really really hard for this marathon since the last 28 days or so, to be where you are right now on the leaderboard and that's truly commendable . No one can take that from you. However this sort of an edginess on your part (whenever someone asks for an extension or some other favour), you kind of jump onto him/her, that's disturbing. They mayn't be right in asking for an extension/or for lifting the "maximum 60 post submission" limit, but we can always reject their suggestion/proposal politely, can't we? 

 

So if u have 60 to post, it means u have written before and ur mistake not to have posted it then and there. 

Moreover, it's no where mentioned in the rules that one has to submit it on the same day that he/she writes it (even though it's a marathon). 

Do keep in mind that not always will things go our way, even though we would have done all the hard work. There may be last minute surprises. But to pin-point others taking a moral high ground doesn't look nice.   

DS  :  I have been telling that from day 1. that the ranking order is strange. if u,me and atul are equal , I am ahead of both of u

but with Bushra and me being equal, she's ahead

I really dont know the logic. Its not alphabetical , nor the no of rejections , nor the time entry . So what is it ??

Renie or the managers, kindly take off the limit for this competition. It will add on to more thrill to the marathon that is going on. 

Why would u wait till the final day to post your entire collection ?

Ppl either ask for contest extension or want limits taken off or something or the other. Rules were clearly specified from day 1 and given 30 days to post to your heart's content

and ppl still want to keep changing the rules for their benefit. :)

how many posts can be submitted in a day ? since i m trying now, it says after 24 hours. 

since it is a marathon, should be allowed to submit any number of posts. why limit ?

Bushra was on 111 while I and Karthik were on 110 posts each.

I submitted a post to go on 111 but i was placed at the second position.

Karthik then submitted one and he overtook me and I was pushed down to the third position.

What is the criteria in deciding the position when 2-3 bloggers have the same number of posts is still unclear.

I guess number of rejected posts play a part in it. At least that's what I've understood. If two bloggers have the same number of posts, then the person with less number of rejected posts stays on top. I may be wrong, but that's what I've inferred.

On Nelson now!! 111 

2 more, Jaideep sir,  and I will go to sleep. I have been refreshing the leaderboard page since more than half an hour now

I have got 196 posts ready. Considering that it takes about 3 minutes to submit a post, when should I start submitting?  I hope TC is not around, otherwise I may end up on the Newshour show with "Or-knob". Dhyaan se dekhiye iss hoarder ko

OMG! are you serious?

Yes, Dipti, I am serious  However they are not on my blog; to access those 196 posts for moderation, the moderators need to be very good at mind reading 

is there any limit to the number of entries we can submit in a day? :D 

I submitted 2 post (when total post count was under 900) but I still haven't received any approval/denial for them. :(

just hang on. 900 is a huge no and it takes time to moderate so many posts

So whats the hurry

Okie sir  :P Congratulations by the way!!! :)

Hi,

Is there a way to check "nos of our entries submitted and accepted" thus far?

Number of entries submitted is shown on the leaderboard when you are logged in. Number of entries accepted is not mentioned seperately.

no of entries = no of emails you received as "approved"

If IB had said that I should write 100 posts in 30 days I would have definitely given up. Instead I never kept track of the count and just wrote articles as and when some topic came to my mind. maybe at first the 20K or the car seemed like a big thing, but after writing 20-30 posts and seeing my name on the leaderboard, the money never mattered anymore

It was jus a race to the top in the marathon that was in my mind.

I think Atul and some of the other top leaders may agree with me on the voucher money point? right guys?

The funny thing is even being in 1 or 2, you can never rest easy. you know someone is always writing to beat you. Interestingly though we see only top 12 , pretty sure there are several who are just a single post  away or even tied at the same post count and hence below 12. The gap is continuously dropping and I'd kill to know the 10th position post count and the 1st position post count , but noone can know

Best part of all this, only 30-40 % of my posts have been approved with a sizable number still moderated. That's definitely going to be the googly in this  marathon :)

I have started adding commas even at the start of the sentences and ending of sentences in my post , so that Renie doesnt reject it for lack of commas :P ( Incidentally of my 40+ moderated posts, only one post was rejected , and reason given in email was  "punctuation marks missing" . Ada paavigala.. ithellam tooooo much :P.

None of my entries have been approved yet..no mail received yet for accpetance or rejection..I thought I would check the status here and then I saw the leaderboard and wowwwwww,some people have written almost 100 entries!!!! My God, no wonder the moderators must be having a tough time moderating them all! I could barely think 5 topics and here people have written almost 100! Kudos to all of you and may the best posts win :)

I guess the  Moderation is not on first come first serve basis. So it may be possible that your last entry is moderated first or vice versa.

It is mostly random . Depending on different moderators are allotted different blocks etc 

So Shravan wait for while .

Are all the first 1000 entries approved?  I had submitted 7-8 entries well within top 1000 entries. Still I got emails about approval only for 4. Anyone?

Thank you for your reply, Renie. :)

There are Some people who ask for extension every time. With bizarrest reason. Instead of wasting time in asking for extension .You should busy writing post with still couple of days left .

Asking for  Extending marathon is Joke .People are reaching finishing line have exhausted all their stamina . .And you want to start now so that you can to catch up with them ? Wow .

Now like every time  , Even  my parrot was unwell. Still i am not asking for extension .

Extension will be unfair to those who has given there 200% to be on the top places of leaderboard