Are you happy with "the way IndiBlogger Team chooses winners" in various contest

Hi Hunky - Participating in IB's various contests is really interesting + thrilling + memorable. Bloggers of IB network should participate in max number of such contests

Hunky can't participate unless it's about Byke Content and I think no one can beat him when it comes to bykes :)

@TF - Ya, the final decision is either by IB, or IB + Sponsor, or Sponsor only. But IB Team can guide/help the sponsors with certain tips or advices while choosing the winners.

Akash - Indiblogger can give tips. But FMCG companies are not in the literary business. Every company chooses winners based on the business objective of sponsoring contests. And in most cases it will be very tough for Indi Team to read all the entries for every contest - they are a small team and tend to be really stretched.

The other challenge of defining any criteria upfront may have the result of excluding certain participants - Usually one of the criteria sponsors look up is number of participants. So even if it is pre-decided that all winners will be women, it can not not be announced upfront, because then male participants will back out and that will make the numbers look bad.  Similarly different people like writing different kinds of posts - some like to write with photos and videos, some without, some like to write long posts, some short, some like to write about the product, some like to write some generic post. So all should be encouraged to participate in all contets. Later based on sponsor's interests, criteria can be set and winners can be filtered out.

True Arti

Well said, ekta, faith, to be kept in our writing. Let the companies crush our minds to a stage one starts to think "gosh, I am a rotten writer. But never loose faith in your self friends.  Write for enjoyment sake. That's all. You get something,  rejoice.  NO get something, congratulate friends and be happy. 

Hi Madhu, all done. Thanks

True nisha

And that being said, once the Apollo results were declared, I was kind of sad because I didn't even get a little thing in spite of great hopes. So, I thought I would make that up in the WeChat contest.

I started early (first post was one month before deadline). I came up with four posts- and they had variety. One very long with conversations (which won), one about mysterious personlaities, one a relatively short one about cartoons and another just a random five people without a conversation. I presumed that any type of posts the judges wanted, I had at least one to apply to it.

True shaumik

With so much effort. No wonder you won a big prize. I appreciate your persistence.

200 Posts in 2 years We are 2 posts old and already givingup

Those were bonuses bro.

Yo dude

Somehow I don't agree to what you said above. By what you are saying, it implies that newbees in blogosphere do not stand a chance to win a contest here, right?

lol...i think i shud start yoing everyone's comments too  and become forum king 

busss just for an online  rank/post Deka wants to be a king!!!

ek baar to banna banta hai, i prefer 'queen' though, but itna time nahi to read all posts and reply them 

hmmm king-queen leke confusion tha...  ab samajh gaya.... all the best Deka!

i was just kidding...i have no ambition to displace rajnikant  i mean forum's rajnikant 

our Rajni...one and only Rajni

indeed he is the one and only... He answers 6-7 problems in different threads, post 7-8 smileys in different posts, announces 3-4 contests threads all at the same time 

correct observation...!!!

Please dont hijack a thread!! Dont start your own topic within the thread!!!

now, is this against forum policy DS sir? [guilty]

You have proclaimed yourself guilty!! And I guess, its against the forum rules!! And I am no sir!

when a police catches you, you're bound to make an innocent-straight-face which is usually considered as guilty face by the passive witnesses enjoying the scene.... now I chose a simple expression 'guilty' over explaining all these before an Indipolice... no If you ask me, I don't have any sense of guilt...

Moreover, keep your eyes open cop, there are hundreds of threads with side talks and rich inferences [wicked wink]

and about that 'sir' thing, as far as I know you, you're no 'madam', so must be 'sir' only!

Hit the nail Anunoy,  I plead guilty.  Jo saza de manzzoor hai, bus ek laptop to dilwa do bhai phokat me, 

ye fakir sirf sath de sakta hai laptop nahi...

Ek tera sath hai to, ye duniya kitani hasseen hai, ni chahiye laptop.  Sath nibhana saathiya.

Yup. He is clawing his way back to the top but with Ranjith around. None of you hopeful dudes and duddettes have a chance in hell. So relax. :)

Madhu, one should keep moving without fal ki iccha, 

hmmm

I have said it earlier too. A little diversion from the thread is still OK, but hijacking a thread completely is not right. And that is equally true for all other threads questioned here. Somehow, it is becoming a trend to deress from the topic and convert every thread into entertainment. Though there is no policy about it, but think about it: you are facing a problem, you search for a solution on the forum and find only one thread related to it. And then sudenly you realize that most of comments in the thread are non-relevant! How would you feel then?

Cheers DS... All the best...very soon... i mean coming soon...

DS-  you seem to have given up. Cheer up man! don't talk like some old man... keep trying.. there is an adage - 'Try and try till you succeed'

Good luck !

@DS - I bet, you will be the WINNER in the next IB contest. Just take part in Ambi Pur &/or The Idea Caravan

Anunoy , false dilasa ni dete,

What idea caravan, which caravan , why caravan,  DS , sane advice, don't let yourself be used by imbecile nuts who care no damm for your creative passion.  Shun them. Think twice,  if by my writing poor people gets induced and invests in Franklin Templeton, and his money is washed away, all the guilt will be on your conscience. 

now you hit the nail Rio!

yes i didn't want to discourage an enthusiastic blogger (DS) with ugly truths... so told those....  I salute DS' patience and tenacity... but it's true, no wise men should (unless they want to timepass) let their creativity judged by a bunch of business heads (clerks to be more precise) and at the end return home with high disappointment just because they didn't sing sweet false songs about their blood diamonds...

Cheers buddy!

True Anunoy. 

Now I must tell the truth about these investment companies,  in the name of insurance plans, how they cheat people. I had given a cheque for fixed deposit in a bank, those guys invested it in ulip; to get extra commission with out my signature and consent. When I received policy documents I came to know I was cheated. I returned docz to bank and told them to cancel immediately.  Then they started asking fr time. Thiz way a year passed. They started phoning me fr next instalments of 50000, then I thought I should ask him how much interest you give me fr one year. He says all money will be forfeited. Then I asked if I give three years 50k each total 150k how much I get in third year. Friends amount was less than 70k, 

hmmm... quite a common and painful experience Rio

Sahi kaha vijay

Himanshu, I wonder what you mean by random here?

 They randmoly (though not randomly but I will say randomly) award any blogger 

I simply mean that I didn't understand their strategy and that's why it's random for me! May be Iam the one who is not happy with "the way IndiBlogger Team chooses winners" in various contest but the truth is that I never participitated :D

Anyway, I am happy... the one who is getting the prizes are one of the us. Only Indian bloggers are getting awards and that's simply nice!

You have a point deepan

Point.

Poonam, indiblogger too doesnt have any say in judgement process. All in company hands. They bring out creative topics that truly inspire to write. But they least care to be inspired by them at all. (Looks like)

I wrote about judges having an illogical upper hand for the judgement not IB.

its not necessary we have to write exactly 'who and why'....we cant create a story around it or conversations taking the basic theme, that doesnt matter. what matters is it shud be relevant to the product too, cos after all they want their product focussed. many people wrote conversations ( including me ) as it had more scope for creativity.

Then, it should be clearly about Conversations. The people could be fictional but not the chatting in the first place.

not necessary...some one can choose to write a poem too with the characters, we can choose any way to express on our blogs and not dictated at , lol

...in my earlier post it was  we "can" and not we 'cant create', typo

I'm sorry for my ignorance Poonam. Are you saying that winners of this contest were those who praised the product (though that is natural) but did not answer this question?

Animesh, No, it is not about praising (that is still OK) but about writing the whole group chat ( which was not asked in the first place - see image above ) and not writing the reason for choosing those persons - which was the main thing asked.(see image above)

lol...its a chat product, so showing a conversation was most natural and creative thing to do, and when u are chatting 'why' you are chatting with them becomes quite evident too. ( its another matter i found all chats except mine quite boring ) hehehehe 

I agree with Nandini here. Its just about the way of writing, some may like to write a narrative post to answer these questions. The other way is to write it as a conversation which shows who are part of the chat and the content shows the why part (though it depends on what is being conversed).

Just saw the winning entry. While the writer has posted the chat also, she has clearly mentioned five people she wants to chat with reasons before posting that chat.

Yo dude

Agreed.

True vishal

Vishal, if it is about investment I'd say we can't let it be. We also spend money (for self-hosted blogs) and most important, we spend time. Then there is reputation at stake as well.

Though I still by my statement that no judgement can please everyone. Ask those who have won, will they agree that their post was sub-standard?

It breaks my heart when I don't see my name on winners list.. but the thing is we can't blame judges about that... since we started blogging on our own choice (so cut off hosting money, since it is nothing to do with indiblogger) and about time "Yes it takes time and creativity to write a winning post" But also members have a choice "not to take part in contest and thus not blame indiblogger and judges." (..kidding) ....  

This is my perspective and other's have their own.. Luck too matters a lot in contests.. 

Just to make it real I want to add one more thing.. In apollo contest I have written a post called "10 Modern Gadgets that Will Change the World"  which illustrated ten gadget related to medical technology.. I thought that was winning post but soon realised that it was only worth a 4 gb pen drive.. and now it on Google top ranking for keyword "Modern Gadgets"   and still receiving more than 40 Unique visit per day...

Got your point Vishal and agree to that.