RF Generation.  The Classic and Modern Gaming Databases.RF Generation.  The Classic and Modern Gaming Databases.

Posted on Apr 29th 2010 at 05:13:23 AM by (NES_Rules)
Posted under Birthday, Site News, Contest

Can you believe it? 6 years old. A lot has changed in six years. In just six years we've grown to a massive database with over 52,000 games and 84,000 images. Between our 1664 collectors, we own nearly half a million games. We couldn't have gotten here without you, our loyal members. Through the years, you guys have made hundreds of thousands of submissions and edits to make our database, THE classic and modern video game database!

To celebrate our 6th birthday and all your hard work, I'd like to announce PAIN YOURSELF WITH SUBMISSIONS CONTEST 2010! This isn't an easy contest, that wouldn't be any fun. To win, you'll literally have to pain yourself with submissions. Last year's winner had over 3000 submissions in May alone. But don't let that discourage you from attempting the contest. Everyone has a chance to win!

Of course, this contest has some rules. Basically, you win the contest by submitting and being active in the community. Just about everything you do on the site will garner you points, the member with the most points at the end of the contest wins!
This is how the points will be gained:

   Title Addition: 4 Points
   Variation Addition: 4 Points
   Page Edit*: 2 Points
   Review*: 30 Points
   Overview*: 10 Points
   Image Upload: 15 Points
   Submission Review**: 1 Point
   Blog Post*: 30 Points
   Blog Comment: 1 Point
   Forum Post: 1 Point
   Forum Karma: See Explanation

*Regarding the asterisk: For page edits, if 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. In addition, the review or overview must be on the actual game / hardware page. 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.

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!  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 since we're on a dedicated box, but we've got a lovely prize for the top winner:

Gaming swag not to exceed $60 and an RF Generation Ringer T***

And new for this year, a special prize! The top 5% of points gainers (minus the top winner***) will be entered into a special drawing to win a piece of my personal collection! The drawing will be a completely random reverse drawing to determine the winner of at least one prize package.
***The top winner of the contest can choose to decline their prize listed above in exchange for not one, but two entries into the drawing.


If you want to win, you better get to it, the contest ends at MIDNIGHT, JUNE 8th, 2010. (Tuesday 12:00AM)


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Comments
 
This is one of the reasons why I love RFgen.  Goodluck to everyone in the contest.
 
Ah, the good ole Karma system is back.  Good luck to everyone in the contest!
 
Sounds like fun.  Im glad I already updated the 3DO database :-/
 
And let the games begin!
 
This should be a lot of fun and give the database a lot more coverage. I'm curious to see who ends up with the top score.

In the least, it'll give me a good reason to wrap up all of my collection updates and start scanning stuff Smiley
 
WWWWHHhhhhhooooooooooooo!!!! I get a 6th chance to loose.
My cuz one i think the second birthday bash. It really doesn't seem that long ago....

I can't believe i was 16 when i found this site...
 
@Izret101: You young'un.
 
Happy 6th. It's been about 3 years since my friend showed me this site, best thing I found on the internet. Good luck to everyone in the contest. Can't wait to see how it turns out.
 
Happy Birthday, RFG. Really glad to see the community doing well still.
 
6 years I've been posting here.... Damn!

Remember when my and Anthony added every game via a submission thread?

LOL, good times!!!
 
@captain_nintendo:


Ugh... I meant "remember when me and Anthony"

Damn hand is still sleeping.
 
I think I'll give this a miss this year Smiley
 
Go RFG!
 
@captain_nintendo:
I think those were the good ole days for me.

Nothing else(really) to worry about but gaming and working on the site. Smiley

My how things have changed. :-D(sometimes)
 
really? 6. really doesn't seem like it's been that long.
 
Happy 6th year of existence RFG!

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