TATA ZICA; Win two TATA Zica Cars, #TATA Zica Marathon

true, strong possbility.

thankfully this marathon is not about zica but general stuffs so only snippet of code should be changed

It's confirmed ...http://auto.ndtv.com/news/tata-motors-to-rename-zica-hatchback-1272856 

So long as it is Peppy, features a Fantastico Ghost who likes Music that has an Impact on Navigation.

Beyond the realms of any human unless you have your friends and family writing posts for you too.

**unless of course you are Viru Sahastrabuddhe or Virus (3 Idiots) -- ambidexter of the highest order (I say of the highest order because he could write with both hands simultaneously ) I know this sounds chimerical but imagine if you too could write 2 different posts simultaneously - the right hand writing one and the left hand writing another   

DS, I am not able to write many articles because I need to write for a client plus for my blogs as well as need to go to college on some days..Only those who're having good time may be able to go for the top 10 prizes and the 2 cars as the top 10 winners may have at least of 150 posts. I hope that some new happy hours and other contests will be there soon....

Haha! Many of us would be wishing for that kind of ambidexterity in such times! But really Amit, those are only fantasies and not possible. Also the mind needs rest and refreshment, no one can write continuously. I love cricket and I can write and talk on it non-stop but still I need topics to write on it. I'm able to find 2-4 good topics for each day and I'm writing on them.
With the Asia cup and ICC World T20 coming up I'll find a lot more topics which will help!

Mohit, I disagree with you on that point. I have a full time job and living in Mumbai I leave home at 7 in the morning only to return around 7-8 in the evening. But still I'm finding whatever little time I have for writing on the niche of my blog. I have not deviated from my blog niche for this marathon.

my exact thoughts. Will be sad/funny if those spamming with 50-60 posts lose the car as well as whatever followership they had. 

Unless of course the blog is created to win freebies.. then no comment lol!

That's why IB sent us an email this morning detailing the moderation criteria and the very first condition goes as such - 

The 1st commandment: Thou shalt always be true to your reader A reader deserves to enjoy meaningful content on your blog. A reader should not read a post and think to him/herself “Hmmm… This looks like a bunch of keywords used in a bunch of sentences”. Blog posts need to provide value in an informative, entertaining and expressive way.

Thus the onus is on the blogger to construct a meaningful and informative post and not just string together random lines using the keywords now and then. Having said that, there have been quite a few qualitative entries submitted as well, I have read a few and those posts certainly didn't look like spam at all. 

To be honest, just because it is a blogging marathon, and a mail didn't come right at the start doesn't mean that Chalo, let's spam our blog with 10 posts a day.

DS's post on the quality of posts is what really matters.

I don't know if I said or meant anything (explicitly or implicitly) about the quality of blogposts. As far as spamming/not-spamming, it is personal preference. Some people like spamming their blogs, some don't, and so we are no one to take a stand on that for others. We can only take a stand about ur actions, and that should be enough. Again, reiterating what's a known fact - QUALITY IS SUBJECTIVE.

As far as I understand, I was just referring to the mail sent to us all, regarding the guidelines, when almost half of the contest is over. If I, some way or the other implied anything about quality of blogposts, I am sorry for that.

I never implied that your post had anything to do with Post Quality.

I merely implied that Common Sense must take priority in such conditions.

Are they approving only entries which don't have any keyword in the title of the post ? Becasue for me the approved ones are without any of the keywords in it.

Titles don't need to have any of the keywords!

Don't "Need" to have is fine, what if they "have" and the content is relevant and nowehere close to "keyword-stuffing". That should be fine with moderators I guess...

And for me, I have just got one approval mail, that too for a blogpost that I had submitted at number 5. Now I am just guessing about what happened to the earlier entries I submitted.

Yep, that should be fine!

@Renie: Will we only get approval mails or rejection mails too? because i haven't recieved any and i'm starting to get stressed. 

@CyberKID: same thing here, got for my 9th post, hence thought to check whether the Keyword thing was an issue.

@Renie: Thanks for the clarification :)

Please don't get stressed just yet! The entries have been split across several moderators, who will be moderating at different schedules over the next week.

And yes - every entry will receive a status email!

@ Renie: Thank you so much for the reply Renie :)

Thanks for clarifying that.  Please do give some vouchers to the mods too, they're going to be doing some mountanous tasks in the days to come.

@Renie, are you looking  at any minimum number in entries? And also a clarification on the 10 blog posts. Is it within the first 1000 entries you received or the first 1000 entries putting the maximum posts per blogger at 10.

*disappointed. 

I could hardly change the titles now as I can change the titles in my blog posts but they will remain the same on Indivine.(where I have no power to make amendmants).

You do have the power to edit your IndiVine entries, if that is what you meant. Go to IndiVine > My Posts >  Figure out a tiny-winy symbol of a paper-pencil right besides the title > Click that to edit.

Wow! Didn't know this!! 

For which post? Gimme the link, I'll cry for you, too... like Rudali used to cry for others...

You have time till Feb 21 to write more. Keep writing. Don't give up.

Hey Anupam, don't give up just yet, there is still some time left - about 16 days. You can still write for the contest. And be optimistic about your chances. 

Well, the height of optimism is when you have submitted only one entry and yet dreaming about winning the Tata Zica for that sole submission. That's me  I'm not even thinking about what if that sole blogpost of mine gets rejected 

Hehe Amit..you show height of optimism and I lean more on the opposite side, so I consider myself out of car race aur assured voucher ki 1000 entry khtm so no use of writing more.

But then the rate at which the blogpost submissions are being rejected, I have a severe doubt that entries in the late 1000's and early 2000's too might get the voucher.

Well, be optimistic, our future posts won't get rejected

thanks Katie. as you rightly said , I've always ensured i never force fit the keywords and think only on those terms :)

so fingers crossed..