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Rads
from Virginia |

Hey, Am an old timer-n00b sorts (been here awhile but not active) and am trying to change that, so posting here :-) 

I wanted to check if there was a separate category for the contests that Indiblogger hosts. I was trying to look for afew and it is hard to wade through the forum. Of course I get emails, but you know, having a separate category/topc thread would probably be clearer and more orgnaized. 

Of course if it's already there, then please ignore and point me to it?

Thanks! 

rads 

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Arti
from Mumbai |

Hey Rads, it's good to be speaking to you - how are you doing? :)

I totally '+1' your suggestion, I have myself vouched for the same thing earlier, we definitely need a separate category for contests to make tracking of things a bit more easier.

Rads
from Virginia |

Am great Arti, trying to understand IB ;-) 

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

There are threads for every contest. If you are looking for a specific contest thread then you can easily reach it.

1. Go to the contest page (from the home page)

2. On the Right hand side there are contest rules.

3. Below the rules there is a link discuss the contest.

Hope this helps.

PS - Use this method if you have problem browsing through the forum thread. (Though I enjoy it Laughing)

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

Gaurab, but what the contests that no longer feature on the home page and it's difficult to find them in the forum?

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

I think all the "running" or active contests show up in the home page and their threads show up in the "Important stuff" in the forum page but if you are trying to find the thread of some old contest there are two easy ways -

1. If you have already commented on that thread then you can track it. There is a "Track this topic" link on the right hand side of every thread, even on this one.

2. If you have never commented on that topic then go to the forums page -> There is a search bar on the right hand side "search the forum"

Hope this helps. Laughing

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

I'm talking about old threads...problems with both the suggestions

  1. I never use the option of 'Track this topic' because I don't want my email account to be bombarded with 600-700 emails which ususally happens with the contest threads. So this option is useless for me.
  2. When the contest becomes old, you forget the exact name of the contest but you remember whether you participated and what it was about. In this case finding the thread becomes difficult. Case in point, couple of months back Dabur conducted 2 contests...if you search with the word Dabur you won't find a single thread. You have to search with the word "traditional" for one contest and for the other contest, I still haven't found the exact word that I can use to find it. Undecided Hence, if I want to check the thread, if it isn't on the main page of the forum, I go back to the article that i wrote and then click from there to reach the page I want to Embarassed Too much trouble in my opinion for a simple thing.

Due to these reasons, I think having special category for contests would be great Cool

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

small p...i dont think she wants to find threads of expired contests....ongoing contest threads are easily avialable on top of forum made 'sticky'

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

ND, but I wanted to find it and I couldn't Undecided

And so whatever I said, it was my experience and my frustration Foot in mouth

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

I think having special category for contests would be great 

they already have 'drives' tab for that to check old contests

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

Great ND...didn't know about that...I guess from there we can copy the title of the contest and then search on the forum! Maybe the thread for the contest should be mentioned in the drives too? Innocent

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

i think nowdays they started adding the thread in contest page itself where it says 'discuss this contest' though i think its added in only a few, not all....after results are declared whats the use of seeing its discussion anyways? lol

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

@fairy - I don't want to debate it, it was meant for help. Innocent Undecided

You gave the example of Dabur that after writing a detailed post about it you have forgotten everything and have just remembered the word "Dabur"...so I searched it and it just showed 4 results. You can have the link here -

http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/search.php?q=dabur

I think you didn't search it before commenting. Hope this helps. Laughing

PS - Nandini is right there is Drive tab for the contests already.

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

Ok...I don't know where my first reply went away. Again here it is!

@Gaurab, first of all, I don't know from where did you get an idea I was debating. I was simply discussing the issue under disuccssion. I'm under the impression that forum is the right place for that Innocent Correct me if I'm wrong.

Secondly, for searching threads, I used the box "filter rows" which appears on the top of the threads along with the title "latest activity." There the threads don't appear and I don't know any other way to search it. I don't know how to put screen shots over here or copy an image over here, otherwise I'd have put it to prove that I ain't in the habit of putting my foot in the mouth. Undecided

PS: I deeply resent that debate jab. Neither I have time to debate nor any inclination to do so. Never knew I couldn't discuss things on the forum anymore. Yell

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

Then you replied to my comment without reading it - (I quote)

go to the forums page -> There is a search bar on the right hand side "search the forum"

I can well differentiate between discussion and debate. Your comment was a point-wise rebuttal to my help. Discussions are never done to score brownie points. If you think your were discussing then that's fine with me. Innocent

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

@Gaurab, I understood it as the filter row, which too is on the right hand side on the top of the threads, and that I've been using.

Secondly, I'm quite organized and logical. Hence, even when I'm discussing, I go point wise. I don't meander in my discussions or thoughts. And I don't know you and so I don't have anything to say about your capability to differentiate between a discussion and a debate. I'm not interested in scoring any points, brownie or otherwise. I'd rather buy the cake and eat it on my own.

Thirdly, now I'm not going to give any clarification or make any point regarding this discussion. This is turning ugly for me.

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

"Brownie points" here meant earning petty points by trying to impress others. I think there is no need to know me or my capabilities.  I don't know what are you writing. Undecided You are free to do whatever you want. I wrote my points to help Rads. You asked me a question so I replied to help you. Innocent Stay blessed.

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

Yes....apparently you missed the entire joke in the brownie thing. Nevermind.

TF Carthick
from Bangalore |

Doesn't Ranjith have anything to say on this?

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

he is sleeping so we are trying to do his jobLaughing

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

ND No, I woke up at 7 Tongue out a bit busy Undecided

TF I'll not disappoint you. kuch blah blah likhunga Money mouth

Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |

Its a good idea to have a separate page dedicated to contests old and newCool nice to visit old contest entries for nostaligia sakeSmile

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

I think the person who started this thread was trying to find contest thread in the forums Innocent

And there is the drive tab to find contests Innocent

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

http://www.indiblogger.in/drives/ Innocent InnocentInnocent

Vijay Prabhu
from Mumbai |

still din understand drives Embarassed

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

Vijay On the top of IB, there is a tab named Drives which shows all the contests. Innocent

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

uupar.. near the fan Innocent

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

@TF Here's my answer Tongue out

Use this Google Search. 

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

That's cool Cool One can also use this way -

go to the forums page -> There is a search bar on the right hand side "search the forum"

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

Gaurab ... but Google search is more intelligent than IB Forum search. IB Searche for 'contest' or 'contests' hardly returned any contest threads while Google gave around 30-40 contest threads. Cool

Vijay accha answer hai Yell

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

nahi very bad answer haiTongue out

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

ND It is a very good answer Yell

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

You give a better answer. Then, I'll accept that it is a bad answer Tongue out

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

2 people said its a bad answer, only 1 is saying good...so majority wins...its a bad answerSmile 

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

No. This is IB. Majority loses. Cool

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

IB is in india...hence majority winsCool

Aditya
from New Delhi |

It's a good answer..

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

Aditya Laughing

NSV Yell

TF Carthick
from Bangalore |

I raise both my hands in support of Ranjith.

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

TF, raising both the hands is not allowed Undecided Your vote becomes invalid Tongue out

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

With TF's two hands, it is 3-4 Cool I win Cool

Pankti It's allowed. You can raise your three hands also for me. Tongue out

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

vp...also said twice bad answer again....so its two extra votes from vp...now its 6:4...so majority is oursCool

Narasimha Sharma Veturi
from Hyderabad |

How can u win so soon? the counting goes on till the thread is locked or buried or when i'm dead

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

ND But he didn't raise his hands. Money mouth

NSV It's impossible to tell whether a thread is buried or not. It might surface again at any moment Tongue out

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

Tongue out

Rads
from Virginia |

Thanks to all who replied addressing the original questions :) Hey Arti, Fairy Princess and Gaurab *waves* Well, of course I can search! I can also use google search. I understand that route.  So, going through all your answers it looks like the site is not set up to group or organize all contests under one umbrella or category? Is that safe an assumtion? 

Am surprised. IB certainly has a large following AND many contests going AND many avid contest players, and from a back end POV, this shouldn't be hard to intialize and set up? This is interesting. 

The work around does the job, but it isn't the accurate way and not for all. It's just convenient to click a tab called "contest" and see a string of forum topics (all that requires is organizing and listing all the "discuss this contest" forum threads, under it) 

That would be an awesome value-add no? 

Okay then! thanks to all who chipped in. Later folks *waves* 

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

if you read my answer perhaps you'd have found nowhere i mentioned to search like the others...but alas *sigh*

1. check home page slider for on going contests.

2. check forum 'sticky' threads ( i.e top threads ) features the related contests

3. check 'drives' tab for past contests

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

@Rads, totally agree with you!

@ND, until all the contests in the Drives tab have forum threads attached, it has pretty limited usability!

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

small p....current contests n their threads are more important and everything is out there..forum sticky threads are right on top

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

ND, it's not only about current threads. Get that straight yaar....it's about all contest threads.

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

i'm just helping out wats easily availableSmile

Rads
from Virginia |

Nandini, I did read. Blame morning rush and my own vision of how I'd like for a forum to be organized for missing out on replying to each of you individually :) AS FP said, unless links are active, what's the point with the mages in the drives?

What you say above works great yes, if all I want to do is hop in and check the latest contest and quickly write a post for it. What if that isn't my goal and all I want to do is figure out how IB does its contests and what are the kinds they do, will they work for me, more from ahistorian and quicker bigger picture perspective?

Am I explaining it right? Coz it's not a current "must-do" thing am looking for, but to ahve them all grouped under one place so I can just go spend time on how each have been done, conducted, the various posts under each and who won and why etc. It's a study ;-)  

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

spend time on how each have been done, conducted, the various posts under each and who won and why etc.

The list of contests is available here. 

And if you want the contest thread related to it, search for the earliest version of the page here. If the forum link isn't available, you can search on Google using the contest title.

Laughing

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

r...i gave that link too above...regarding lists of contests...doubt if she checked

Narasimha Sharma Veturi
from Hyderabad |

R just rehashes all the answers that were given earlier and makes a big reply out of it Tongue out

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

ND I didn't see Innocent

NSV No NSV.Tongue out I added the web archive link also Cool

Saket Kalikar
from Hyderabad |

ND, I usually find that Drive page is not updated well. See, the current contests are not shown. Also, one of the closed contests 'Dove Hairplay' Too is missing. .????

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

saket...i said drives is for 'past' contests..dove play will be probably be displayed too soon, the results were recently out 10 days back

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

For the last time ND, contests mentioned in the Drives do not have forum threads necessarily. What's the big deal if somebody wants to check all threads? Why is the task so difficult? Sticky threads ki baat nahi kar rahe idhar Yell

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

she wants to see all these >> so I can just go spend time on how each have been done, conducted, the various posts under each and who won and why etc.

and all these are available on drives too....and recently they started adding discussion button on the contest page itself too

can you see the posts or winners in forum thread eh? or the contest page thats available on the drives?

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

Rads, Nice suggestion. This way you can get to read my first contest post at indiblogger three years ago, For" Soch Lo" contest,

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

I think the gist of the discussion is that there should be a separate category for contests on forums. Smile Though it's cool for me even now Cool

Nandini Deka
from Bombay |

for me tooCool..once you are used to the forum...everything seems fineSmile. otherwise there is always ranjithpedia to dig up lost threadsLaughing

Gaurab
from New Delhi |

True that Cool. Hope nobody starts a thread to find an old thread Wink Laughing

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

Cool