HP star wars fun side challenge

Hey everyone, you should have recieved your Flipkart vouchures last night. Congrats :-)

Yes, received my voucher. Thank you HP & IB!

Thanks IB and HP  for 

If anyone has got HP voucher and is interested in selling it, let me know. Add me on www.facebook.com/ankitchugh

Hey Ankit.. Selling vouchers.. not a good idea and definitely frowned upon :-)

I just wanted to buy that Star wars mouse. No bad intention here. 

Received the vouchers. Thank You.

@Rennie - The issue of how winners are choosen is raised almost always and will continue to be in future as well. I just have a small suggestion: If judges could simply write a few statements regarding why the winning posts stood out from the crowd and the same is shared whenever winners of any contest are declared, I think it will make it relatively easier for bloggers to understand what was the expectation from the XYZ contest. The sole intention of it being, to make our writting better and more relevant for upcoming blogging drives.

Hey Sumit, These things are quite relative. Maybe we can work on some common knowledge sharing that gives a few tips etc, get some statements from previous contest winners, judges etc. I think we can work on this..

Cool. Thanks for the reply and for the forum thread on "Ask Indi anything" :) Great initiative.

Thanks for the badge 

Congratulations Winners... Well Deserved Win...  Loved Every Post :) 

Many thanks IB and Sponsor for almost second Indivine hatrick winning chances  

Congratulations to the winners! Cheers. :D

Wow ! my first major win... thanks a lot  Indi and HP :) .  Thanks to all my readers, the Force is strong with desi :)  ... Congratulations to all the winners :) 

Congratulations to all the winners! 

The winning posts are well written and worked hard on, therefore congratulations winners!!

I do agree with @TechChumz too; the instructions should be clearer.

Yes, but I do feel I could have put my views in a softer and gentler fashion especially when IB has ensured even well crafted posts without votes or comments are getting selected on merit, a herculean achievement. Sorry IB, I should have posted only after my beauty sleep.

Congratulations to all the winners......

Congratulations to all the winners! Well deserved :)

Congrats winners. Swapnil, I see you've won a voucher. And thanks IB & HP!

Congrats Winners! :)

in my personal opinion, once again,  marketing quotient and number of views or reach garnered has become the main criteria of winnings and not the relevance. I've seen so many better posts, which actually talk about what was asked in the first place " how the laptop can bring out your fun side" .. as in what all creative stuff can be done with it.. and not about simply talking about star wars movie characters, or describing what the laptop possesses. 

The top three entries have only 18, 4 and 2 votes. Not many people viewed those entries.

IndiVotes is not an indication of the popularity of any article.

What I meant to say, Ankit, is that the article may not have won due to the number of votes or views, but due to other merit. I hope you're not misunderstanding my view.

I'm not talking about the indivine votes. that anyway don't matter as is given in the regulation. I'm talking about the reach of the blog sites. the point i'm trying to make is any novice blogger with not a lot of reach in his blog site, but with a very creative and relevant blog piece will be given less preference as compared to a blog piece from a professional blogger,  which might clearly not be as good, but since her/his blogsite garners a lot of reach (due to it being a professional blog or well viewed blog site). This is the case i've been seeing in many competitions here. If they wanted to make "reach" of the blog site a criteria, they should have mentioned explicitly. 

REMINDER TO IB ABOUT LONG-PENDING REQUEST ON CONTEST THREAD - LET COMPANIES BE UPFRONT ABOUT WHAT THEY WANT INSTEAD OF ALWAYS SAYING FUN AND CREATIVITY

Well, I think that it would be really great if some other things would be more explicit. For instance, I did not have the skill to understand that the article should be realistic and not just creative. This is partly because it was mentioned, what "fun" things would you do? This is something we oldies have talked about on the contest thread again and again. 

I would like to request IB once more to make the instructions a bit clearer. I mean HP needs to explicitly say that hey, we are coming up with this product, we want you bloggers to help boost sales. What do you think the common man would do if he were to buy our lappie? Why is this still not being done, IB? Not all of us are advertising geniuses? And if you think it looks bad or greedy for HP or other sponsors to say this, believe me, it looks MUCH MORE greedy and dishonest when HP and other sponsors do the very thing they find it so shameful to say.

At the end, I am happy that content with just two votes is winning a major prize because we cribbed a lot earlier that only entries with votes and comments were winning and you, IB set that COMPLETELY right, so thanks a TON. Now just resolve this honesty issue please. Anyway the motives are clear and not at all wrong business-wise, what is wrong is pretending ONLY creativity matters when what matters has to be guessed by advertising brains not all of us have. Why not ask sponsors to be direct. What is wrong in wanting to sell laptops? When will you rectify this, IB? The others, please do not think I'm talking about the judging, the judging's been quite OK. I'm talking about INSTRUCTIONS at the BEGINNING of the contest, long before the judging, and we have repeatedly talked to IB about this in the past, just bringing it up at a relevant timer. 

Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :D

Congrats on a wonderful win!

The wait is long on this one!

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future...

the number of entries of the contest used to show as 141.. now it is showing as 139 .. why ? ... 

Someone's profile was probably deactivated for some reason or the other!