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Hello.
In this passage, I will to refer to many things, this is what they mean.
"Regulars" - These kind hearted people come onto your website, and have fun talking to eachother, and post some great topics about games. Examples of these are: Ant, Elitesniper, Dan, Fogmaster, Fantasymeister. These people hardly win games, compared to the amount of work they do.
"We" - This also refers to the "regulars".
"Newbies" - These are the people that come on here SOLELY to win games, 95% of these will write one thing, steal a game from you, and then leave. The remaining 5% will stay after winning a game. These people do less work, and win more games.
"Staff" - This refers to anyone that works at Special Reserve.
We are getting very tired, and agitated at the fact that people come on here and win games, and never come back here again. This portrays the feeling of the forum simply being "used". We do not treat this forum like the 95% of newbies do. I.E. We do not have one night stands.
We care about the forum, and we enjoy returning to it, to post more things about games, and to talk to eachother. It is a social gathering as well as a games forum.
The staff, I believe, fail to see that we put much more effort and work into the site than the 95% of newbies, and also fail to realise that the newbies put no effort into maintaining their status in the forum.
Therefore, I propose this compremise. The newbies are unable to win, UNLESS they post at least 10 decent posts, which all refer to the name of the forum.
I have no say on the status of the reviews. I am happy that people can win with one review. I am unhappy with the fact that we put more time into the site than they do, but I understand that reviews have a better chance of winning a game.
However, it seems that newbies have a better chance than we do of winning a game. It also seems that whoever chooses gameaday fails to fully take in what has been written, and will ignore it if they have won before.
To summarise: We are unhappy with amount of newbies which simply leave after winning; we want newbies to post 10 decent topics before winning, to make the forum more effienent; and we want to have the same chance as winning as the newbies, which will also encourage more people to stay.
Thank you for reading. Any comments from the regulars will be welcomed.
In this passage, I will to refer to many things, this is what they mean.
"Regulars" - These kind hearted people come onto your website, and have fun talking to eachother, and post some great topics about games. Examples of these are: Ant, Elitesniper, Dan, Fogmaster, Fantasymeister. These people hardly win games, compared to the amount of work they do.
"We" - This also refers to the "regulars".
"Newbies" - These are the people that come on here SOLELY to win games, 95% of these will write one thing, steal a game from you, and then leave. The remaining 5% will stay after winning a game. These people do less work, and win more games.
"Staff" - This refers to anyone that works at Special Reserve.
We are getting very tired, and agitated at the fact that people come on here and win games, and never come back here again. This portrays the feeling of the forum simply being "used". We do not treat this forum like the 95% of newbies do. I.E. We do not have one night stands.
We care about the forum, and we enjoy returning to it, to post more things about games, and to talk to eachother. It is a social gathering as well as a games forum.
The staff, I believe, fail to see that we put much more effort and work into the site than the 95% of newbies, and also fail to realise that the newbies put no effort into maintaining their status in the forum.
Therefore, I propose this compremise. The newbies are unable to win, UNLESS they post at least 10 decent posts, which all refer to the name of the forum.
I have no say on the status of the reviews. I am happy that people can win with one review. I am unhappy with the fact that we put more time into the site than they do, but I understand that reviews have a better chance of winning a game.
However, it seems that newbies have a better chance than we do of winning a game. It also seems that whoever chooses gameaday fails to fully take in what has been written, and will ignore it if they have won before.
To summarise: We are unhappy with amount of newbies which simply leave after winning; we want newbies to post 10 decent topics before winning, to make the forum more effienent; and we want to have the same chance as winning as the newbies, which will also encourage more people to stay.
Thank you for reading. Any comments from the regulars will be welcomed.
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Thanx mate!!
Mattyboy wrote:
> Hey Tony man - I just want to check that you got my Gameaday prize
> claim. It was for my Mario Tennis review
> a couple of Saturdays ago - I claimed Super Smash Brothers on the
> N64, but still have no way of checking if you recieved it or not
> as my computer seems to be playing up and I cant check
> winners/list claim info.
> My other game of choice was Jet Set Radio, but obviously that isnt
> released till 24th. Anyway please get back to me!!
No need to worry Mattyboy, on the Gameaday list it has your game displayed which means Ali recieved your e-mail and put it up so it should arrive soon.
And mine took around 2 weeks to arrive!
> Hey Tony man - I just want to check that you got my Gameaday prize
> claim. It was for my Mario Tennis review
> a couple of Saturdays ago - I claimed Super Smash Brothers on the
> N64, but still have no way of checking if you recieved it or not
> as my computer seems to be playing up and I cant check
> winners/list claim info.
> My other game of choice was Jet Set Radio, but obviously that isnt
> released till 24th. Anyway please get back to me!!
No need to worry Mattyboy, on the Gameaday list it has your game displayed which means Ali recieved your e-mail and put it up so it should arrive soon.
And mine took around 2 weeks to arrive!
Well said Grix! Anyway when I first came on this site I will admit I was trying to win a game, but after I did I was one of the 5% who stuck around.
It gets very annoying when the regulars(Grix, Ant, elitesniper etc.) write very good topics but do not win that often,l and on the list there are people you have never seen writing their first thing and winning.
And anyway I don't see why they don't stick aroung this is one of my favourite web sites.
It gets very annoying when the regulars(Grix, Ant, elitesniper etc.) write very good topics but do not win that often,l and on the list there are people you have never seen writing their first thing and winning.
And anyway I don't see why they don't stick aroung this is one of my favourite web sites.
> On Monday I will check to ensure that Gameaday winners are getting
> their prizes sent out at the same time as all other pre-orders.
> We don't want you guys to have to wait for all the luverly new
> games you win
Hey Tony man - I just want to check that you got my Gameaday prize claim. It was for my Mario Tennis review
a couple of Saturdays ago - I claimed Super Smash Brothers on the N64, but still have no way of checking if you recieved it or not as my computer seems to be playing up and I cant check winners/list claim info.
My other game of choice was Jet Set Radio, but obviously that isnt released till 24th. Anyway please get back to me!!
> their prizes sent out at the same time as all other pre-orders.
> We don't want you guys to have to wait for all the luverly new
> games you win
Hey Tony man - I just want to check that you got my Gameaday prize claim. It was for my Mario Tennis review
a couple of Saturdays ago - I claimed Super Smash Brothers on the N64, but still have no way of checking if you recieved it or not as my computer seems to be playing up and I cant check winners/list claim info.
My other game of choice was Jet Set Radio, but obviously that isnt released till 24th. Anyway please get back to me!!
Edgy wrote:
> Thanks Grix for mentioning me as a regular!
I didn't get a mention though. *sobs*
> Thanks Grix for mentioning me as a regular!
I didn't get a mention though. *sobs*
I want to know where Ashley and Soup dragon went, i could swear that grix was Soup Dragon, but he doesn't talk about biscuits, not sure about that, he has an N64 though. I can't remeber who was here when I started, I know you were EDGY, but I don't know if I was here before you or not. Everyones changing names!
I said it once and i'll say it again, they don't give you games as much as they do to these 'low down scum' that come here just for a free game, I get free magazines for some reason, but they know that you will stay here for a long time and that you don't need games, you all say that your not here for the games so why would they give one to you? I havn't even got my second game yet so i'm not all that bothered, but it would be nice, can't think of any amazing topics i've started recently, oh, none.
Tony, is your last name Soprano? when ever I see your name, it pops into my head, mafia bosses running websites, sounds strange but could happen.
Tony, is your last name Soprano? when ever I see your name, it pops into my head, mafia bosses running websites, sounds strange but could happen.
When i won PDark it came after a week of release, that was excellent. There were some people that won the game after me and got it about 2/3 weeks afterwards, if the game is free I can wait as long as possible, there are other things to do with my time. Has anyone got Cubase VST? it's so good, making lots of tunes, SR I realised you don't sell this! you have some nasty looking keyboards and some nice soundcards but no decent music progs.
Dan_uk wrote:
> As the staff will be reading this, who won the Naming contest?
I'm not telling you who won the naming contest but unfortunately is was not somebody with an alias starting with Dan!
> As the staff will be reading this, who won the Naming contest?
I'm not telling you who won the naming contest but unfortunately is was not somebody with an alias starting with Dan!
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