+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Last year at Christmas, I found myself stuck at my parents house with not much to do, no transportation, and no Caches nearby. I decided to spend some time in the forums, where a lot of new Cachers might be looking for help. The Challenge here is to provide some Helpful answers to questions from Newcomers during the Holiday. Here's how to play... Time Frame... December 24 through December 28 To Qualify... Provide at least TEN helpful answers to newcomers (Those who have joined the site AFTER Halloween '08). Anywhere in the GeoCaching.com Forums To Enter... After you are Qualified(but before the New Year)... Add a post here that notes your qualification, and that you are entering or, Add a post here that Nominates someone else that is qualified. (EACH entry or Nomination must be in a seperate post) Winning... Winners will be selected at random from all qualified Entries(Qualification will be verified by me after the drawing). This means that I will draw a winner, then, I will go and read their posts from that time frame to make sure there were ten "Helpful" posts. The Prizes... Two prizes of "Wearing of the Colors" will be awarded, and maybe some others Coins also, If those are not "Your Colors" You may choose a "Mr. Jiffy's Summer Meltdown" The Fine Print... After the winners are drawn, I will read the posts for the winning entries, and see if they qualify as "Helpful". You may nominate as many people as you like, but you may only nominate each person ONCE. You may only post ONE entry for yourself. There is no limit to how many nominations a person may reveive(From DIFFERENT people). I make all decisions, and they are final. If you make a Nomination, you will need to be able to provide a shipping address if they win. I reserve the right to adjust the rules as needed. Your "Helpful" answers can be anywhere in the GeoCaching.com Forums, and will still qualify if someone else has already given that answer, but it cannot be just a quote or copy. You must write the answers yourself. Link to comment
+DJ.J.ROCK Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 nice cointest Robert!! Link to comment
+Clan Doyle Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Definately in keeping with the season. I'll have to keep my eye out (not just for the coins). Link to comment
+Butterfly_lady Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 Way to go! I will out and about caching regretably, but may have a window on the forums, if it rains too much. (Summer time!) Good luck to all the nominations yet to arrive. And WSR - may your headaches be small ones that dissapate quickly! Ho! Ho! Ho! Link to comment
+drneal Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 this would probably be a good time (as a "newbie",) to ask how to get photos from desktop onto a reply...I guess I shouldn't expect a reply for a couple of days though! Link to comment
paganfrog Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 hiya drneal, as far as i can tell, you cant upload from your desktop. you can post up a picture from a picture hosting site like photobucket or flickr. once you have the picture on your photobucket account. you right click on the image url, to save. right click and paste it on your open reply page here highlight it then click on the insert image icon on the tool bar for your reply page then once you have written whatever you need to add, you can then post up your reply post. i hope i have managed to make it understandable. Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 If this works, using paganfrog's instructions, it will FINALLY be my first photo posted to this forum!! Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) Thank you, Thank you, paganfrog!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't tell you how pleased I am! Happy Holidays to you! Edited December 22, 2008 by acadiahiker Link to comment
Maine Family Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Nice pictures acadiahiker. How much snow did you get? Link to comment
paganfrog Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Thank you, Thank you, paganfrog!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't tell you how pleased I am! Happy Holidays to you! glad to been able to help. awesome sig tokens you have there. Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Nice pictures acadiahiker. How much snow did you get? About 14 inches, with huge drifts, but I bet you folks got alot more! I'll be out snowshoeing tomorrow! Link to comment
+Eartha Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Please remember this is a cointest, don't stray too far off topic. On topic, if you remove the photo from the server you are storing it on, it will no longer be viewable in your post. It will come up "Image Not Available" or image not hosted or something like that. So, store it somewhere that you can keep it for a long time. Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 Please remember this is a cointest, don't stray too far off topic. On topic, if you remove the photo from the server you are storing it on, it will no longer be viewable in your post. It will come up "Image Not Available" or image not hosted or something like that. So, store it somewhere that you can keep it for a long time. I always upload the images to one of my Caches or TBs to post them in these forums. Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 I was looking at the Calendar, and decided that many newcomers may not get around to asking questions until the weekend is over, so the "Helpful" period wil be open through the 29th. As one person also pointed out to me, there are many people who have always been "Helpful" even with no reward at stake, so if you know of such people, you can submit special nominations for long term Helpfulness(seperate consideration from the Cointest). Link to comment
+Rockin Roddy Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I was looking at the Calendar, and decided that many newcomers may not get around to asking questions until the weekend is over, so the "Helpful" period wil be open through the 29th. As one person also pointed out to me, there are many people who have always been "Helpful" even with no reward at stake, so if you know of such people, you can submit special nominations for long term Helpfulness(seperate consideration from the Cointest). I'm betting there'll be many newb questions coming in abnout how to use that new GPS, how to find caches etc... Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 I was looking at the Calendar, and decided that many newcomers may not get around to asking questions until the weekend is over, so the "Helpful" period wil be open through the 29th. As one person also pointed out to me, there are many people who have always been "Helpful" even with no reward at stake, so if you know of such people, you can submit special nominations for long term Helpfulness(seperate consideration from the Cointest). I'm betting there'll be many newb questions coming in abnout how to use that new GPS, how to find caches etc... That's the Idea!! Link to comment
+Toojin Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 What a wonderful thing to do! It is so cool to have people help with newb questions... My questions tend toward the "I'm apparently from another planet" arena, but I am always so grateful for any answers! Great Idea WSR !! Link to comment
+drneal Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I would like to nominate pagan frog for her help in getting pictures posted...thanks pf! Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I would like to nominate pagan frog for her help in getting pictures posted...thanks pf! Ditto that! Link to comment
+drneal Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I'd also like to nominate Maine Family...code activation, and assorted questions Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I also would like to nominate Maine Family, who taught me how to post a link in my forum posts. I so much appreciated it at the time. Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 OK, Time to start getting in those Entries and Nominations for players who had 10 Helpful Forum Posts over the Christmas weekend. Link to comment
+Tschakko Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Well, I would nominate myslf, but as I am not sure that I made 10 helpful posts to newbee questions, I will nominate fairyhoney instead, I am not sure she did either, but odds are pretty good that she did, as she always is a helpfull soul... Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 Well, I would nominate myslf, but as I am not sure that I made 10 helpful posts to newbee questions, I will nominate fairyhoney instead, I am not sure she did either, but odds are pretty good that she did, as she always is a helpfull soul... To look into someones forum Posts...Click over to view their profile page, and there is a link that says you can view forum posts for this user. That way you can see what they have been saying lately. Link to comment
+Jackalgirl Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 As I understand it, the conditions of the cointest are: - messages had to be posted between 24-28 December - messages had to be posted in response to someone who joined the Forum after 31OCT08. I come pretty close, if you stretch the definition of helpful: these messages meet the requirement precisely: - Totally Confused... - Magellen or Garmin - New to Caching... - Help me please... - Winter Caching? - What to do with a coin... - NooB question... I posted two replies that could conceivably be classed as "helpful" in that last thread, actually, which (if that counts) would bring my number up to eight. I posted one message in the Dressing up your Geocoin's thread during the required time period -- thought it was not actually in response to any new cacher's post, it might be considered helpful to a new person. So that brings me up to nine (if it counts). I've made a number of other posts I hope were helpful within the time period, but the posters had joined before Halloween, so they don't count. Why bother posting all this? Just in case you decide to loosen the requirements, WRR. Otherwise, though, I don't qualify. I'm still in the process of trying to find people who do, though, 'cause I would love to nominate someone. Hopefully by the end of the day I'll have something useful to post. : ) Link to comment
+Jackalgirl Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 If I may nominate people who are not regulars to this particular sub-Forum, then I'd like to nominate the following two people: StarBrand ----------- - Snow and Geocaching - Hints to GPS - loading cache sites - GPS help - TomTom? - How to download as GPX (two posts) - logging a find (2 posts) - Oregon 400 vwaldoguy ------------ - Hints to GPS (4 posts) - loading cache sites - How to download as GPX - logging a find (2 posts) - downloading caches to gps - Oregon 400 Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 I guess I'm really glad that there were not many entries in this one. Checking to see if the nominations qualify is not as easy as I thought. I will be working on it. Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 Well there was less participation in this one than I hoped for, and I've gotten so overwhelmed with things to do that I'm not going to research if the nominations actually met the qualifications. I will be sending prizes to all who were nominated during the right time frame. The Listed prizes will go to StarBrand and vwaldoguy Other coins will go to Hollara, Jackalgirl and fairyhoney Thank you all for playing. OK to close this one. Link to comment
+catsnfish Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Congratulations to all of the winners!! Link to comment
+fairyhoney Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 THANK YOU for the nomination and to the other winners - Hey, we are ALL winners in our own ways! I got my cool coin in the mail. THANK YOU , Robert. Now after this weekend and trying to do my tax return, I'll get them activated and on their way ! ! ! "Everyone's a winner, baby, that's the truth" Link to comment
+Eartha Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Closed at the OP's request. Link to comment
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