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This year, we turn 4, and well, being four means that we’re still in our toddler years, and as a toddler one may say that we can be quite the terror. You love us, right? You want free stuff, right? Good, because once a year we like giving crap away. Good deal, isn’t it? I think so. So, what is it that you need to do? Here’s the rules of the contest:
Submissions, they make the site go round. We just don’t grow if we do not have anyone submit stuff. Funny how that works, and well, we do have one heck of a community that loves to do submissions. Perhaps, with this contest, you’ll be interested in doing submissions as well. Submissions will garner you points, and these how are they are ranked:
Title Addition: 4 Points
Variation Addition: 4 Points
Page Edit*: 2 Points
Review*: 10 Points
Overview*: 6 Points
Image Upload: 10 Points
Submission Review**: 1 Point
Blog Post*: 10 Points
Blog Comment: 1 Point
Forum Post: 1 Point
Forum Karma: See Explanation
*Regarding the asterisk: For page edits, it is noticed that you are consistently only adding one field per edit multiple times for a single ID just to up your points, you will be disqualified. Any review or overview completed will count as a page edit as well the points for an overview or review. To get the points for an overview or review you MUST contact me via Personal Message so that I can keep a tally. A review or overview of poor quality could result in less points than stated being granted. The same statement holds true for blog posts.
Because we want the forum to be a lively place of fun and interesting posts, we’re enabling Karma during this contest. Karma rewards members that make good posts and smites those who do not. Your Karma will play a wildcard role in posts. Positive Karma at the end of the contest will increase your point total by a factor, while negative karma will decrease it. The equation used to decide how karma affects your points will be announced at a later date before the end of the contest.
As with any contest, there is fine print. Any submission that you make must adhere to the RF Generation guidelines / policies. We wrote these policies and guidelines for a reason, and well, we’d like everyone to adhere to them. Failure to adhere to the guidelines could result in a disqualification.
Any point reduction or disqualification can be contested. In the event that you wish to contest, you must explain why the reduction or disqualification is unfair. If you win the contest, we’ll restore your greatness, but if you lose, you shall be pelted with figurative rocks and garbage.
**KICKER! Normally, staff members could not be involved in these contests. That is no longer the case! Everyone, except for the directors of this site, is in this contest. There is a catch though for staff members… their final score will be halved. So, that should lead to a lively competition. I think halving their scores is fair, and I hope you do as well. Oh yeah, there is that 1 point for a submission review, that unfortunately only applies to staff members because they are the poor souls who must review your submissions.
What do you win? Well, we’re a poor bunch here at RF Generation, especially after the server move. That said, there are prizes for the first, second, and third place winners!
FIRST PLACE: Gaming swag not to exceed $100 and also a groovy RF Generation ringer T.
SECOND PLACE: Gaming swag not to exceed $25 and also a groovy RF Generation ringer T.
THIRD PLACE: A groovy RF Generation ringer T
Also, anyone in the top 5% of points gainers shall get some sort of recognition, to be determined later.
So when does this contest start? TODAY, APRIL 28, 2008. When does this contest end? SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2008 AT MIDNIGHT (late Saturday night). So have your cake and eat it too! Happy submitting!
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June 8th? Damn. I gotta get to taking pictures of my demos 
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Hmm sounds like fun. I've been needing rescan a lot of Mac games (original ones I did suffer from poor cropping and are a lower resolution that is recommended) and a lot of new ones since the last time I uploaded any covers. So this is the perfect motivation.
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I think this is a great idea, time to upload some images along with the information.
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*WARNING* PET PEEVE RANT AHEAD:
Actually, the saying is "Eat your cake and have it too.". Over the course of time, in casual conversation, it got reversed.
Because if you think about it, of COURSE you can HAVE your cake, and THEN you can EAT it. But if you EAT your cake, you CANNOT still have it (because you ate it).
So when someone says that someone wants to "have their cake and eat it too", why wouldn't they? They have the cake...so why CAN'T they eat it? There'd be no point in HAVING the cake in the first place, now wouldn't there?
So if you say someone wants to "EAT their cake, and HAVE it too." It implies that someone truly wants to have the best of both worlds. And the saying actually makes more sense in that regard.
***END OF RANT***
Great idea on the contest! 
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@phoenix1967:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Nice rant, man.
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Great idea, this should defintely get more people to contribute.
This contest comes at a pretty good time for me. I've only got this week and next week and I'm done with school until Fall, so I should be able to get back into submitting a ton.
I kind of wish I hadn't submitted those 1,925 submissions already, I don't know if I've got much left to submit.
Couple questions though. Is the overview from the back of a box considered worthy enough for the 6 points, or should it be an original overview? If we replace images that are the old 450px size with 550px, is that still 10 points?
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An image upload is the same point value as a review or a blog entry? C'mon!
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@phoenix1967:
Well, not everyone wants to write. Also, we pride ourselves on the number of images we have. That said, we do want people to try to get the 10 points in other ways.
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Hmmm, wsh I had waited to submit that couple hundred images I submitted recently... oh well.
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I mean like 750+ submissions, and then this is announced... why does Murphy's Law hate me so? 
I'll drop it now 
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I literally went through my entire collection like 6 months ago and checked to see if there was anything I could add to the games page. I added a bunch of images, UPC's, etc. I mostly just added the images though for newer games (like GCN and PS2) and not the UPC's even though they were in the image.
So I guess my 205 submissions aren't gonna get points. 
Oh well, guess no SWAG for me. I might be able to get a few points for submitting some images for some hardware and game submissions that I added a few weeks ago.
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Perfect time to tweak game submissions.
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