kabonfootprint contest cancelled

[inspiration]

This thread is becoming non-productive Temi, I suggest we close it now.

Closing the thread and called it non-productive is really non-professional because it look like people here are only protecting one side of the people without looking/considering others side. We had spent 1 month and can you imagine how much work is that?.

Hi temi,
I does not matter if the sponsors are funding or not. Forget about the Prize money, you can do one thing at this moment, let this contest run and just announce the Winner on due date.
Do remember money is not every thing.

Regards
John

Sure, money is not everything but if this seo is mainly for fun, the organizer has to make it clear at the first place.

What annoyed me is hxxp://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/seo-contest/13744-seocontest2-0-a.html

Temi changed the link from
to

For me, it is really an intention because why Temi changed it and don't even bother to reply on this thread?

And why did TEMI change the rules knowing this seo contest is canceled.

[syscom]

This kabonfootprint contest is scam from the first place ....

[tukang]

To be honest, of course I am disappointed. I think we all are disappointed to know this contest was canceled. Not only us as the participant, but I am guessing also all the people behind the scene on this contest.

I have received many PM, email and also comments on my kabonfootprint.com blog telling me that the contest is over. Yeah... I know, I am the one who PM Temi and ask him to announce the news.

The money price is not the major issue. Yeah, we all would love the cash, but sometimes we also like to be recognized. I join this contest to play, and I know with the Busby still going on (at the starting time), all the great player would be still playing on Busby.

That is why, as someone new in these kind of contest, my most disappointment was that I am not able to play with the great names like the IMFreakz team, the French Sphere team (that I somehow got to know with some team member in their forum) and Pogung.

Many told me, dude, you have waste a whole month optimizing and creating content. Yeah... well, I like doing it and if you could see some on the work, time and energy that has been put for it. It is not small....

But somehow decision has been taken, and I am also sure those guys are not proud of themselves right now... (Am I right Temi...?)

But well, I am just having fun... At least I have a new blog now
And I made some new great friends along the way... So I did not lose anything...

And looking at the result now, I still feel proud.. But sad...

So what the heck... Let's continue our lives and just be creative...

[tukang]

I don't understand why you have to thanks me Bagi...?

[Bagi Zoltán]

I don't understand why you have to thanks me Bagi...?

It is simple, I like the attitude reflected by your post above.

[scoobby]

Hi to temi and all that participate in the contest.Please Temi or a person from the contest please send me a private message and tell me the terms and conditions to take the place of the sponsor and the advertising options that i have.I may back up the price.
Thanks.

[seonotes]

It is simple, I like the attitude reflected by your post above.

Zoli, it's really encouraging that this forum care for attitude, here i have something to say.

I could have sponsored the contest or I have investors who can spend money on these type of contests. But all depends how they got the deal, every one is looking for ROI and that helps them to invest time and money. But development these days as well as attitude of new admin raises many questions in my mind.

About kabonfootprint contest: it's the sole decision of the organizing body to continue or not, no one has right to say anything. Their may be some reason behind the scene that forces a contest to close down without any notice. i did put forward my trust towards Temi and crew in my blog the day temi announced sale of forums and new admin took over the things. I also posted few options Temi may consider to continue to the contest.

The mistake is, members are not aware of sale or this sale may be postponed for one month so that kabonfootprint contest will be over. Updating every bit of information in time helps to generate more trust rather than having few annoyed members.

What I am more depressed is the attitude adopted towards the participants and the forum members. The new admin has it's own views towards using nofollow tags and feels dofollow is only good for spammers, where as if you analyze deeply, you will find only 20% people does spam a forum where as 80% are seriously interested in discussion. Putting them at par with spammers hurts a lot.

The last thing is attitude, if this is one reason cited above to impose nofollow tags, i disagree, but if he has another solid reason and feels his members are not spammers, we would go for even no links in forum as we are here to discuss and love UKWW more than any other forum. it's attitude that matters most!

Secondly, few comments are really itching. A commentator says people do few posts and leave the forum once they got the link where as reality is different, if people find interesting discussions they will participate in forums.

People are busy and most of them comes to forum on free time or if they need something, and one has to care for them. Remember most people are here for fun and a bit of brainstorming, I haven't seen any one who did few posts and run away.

Their might be a reason they don't find any interesting discussion to join on. All reasons should be properly analyzed before blaming any one.

In fact I feel forum admins and mod must think from the member's point of view and implement some innovative strategies to bring them back to forum, instead of branding them as spammers.

I do understand the pain one had running and maintaining the forum, i did owned a small forum with 1100 members back 2003 and I have to close the same as i don't have enough time to manage it, even moderators got the job and they find it difficult to manage and we have decided to close it. We did receive lots of mails and we did sent tons of regret letters citing the reasons on why we have close down the site.

zoli my last say is a homework is needed before organizing a contest and should be launched only after careful analysis of it's pros and cons.

[inspiration]

Actually i don't want to make this thing such a big issue. Just could not understand why Temi update the rules for this seo contest in this thread yesterday (31/8/08) hxxp://forums.ukwebmasterworld.com/seo-contest/13744-seocontest2-0-a.html
(updating the link from link to this forum and now has change to forums.linkbidscript.com) At the same time open up this thread to announce the cancellation of this game?

[ikalangita]

I think blaming is not solution, but Did you think time wasted for this contest ? some guys wasted their time, left some projects for this contest, i find professionnalism is requerd when organise contest!
It's not a blame but my point of view !

[seohp]

some guys wasted their time, left some projects for this contest,

I agree with you, not fair at all...