Pissed Off With Tom's 10th Anniversary Contest

10th Anniversary Contest
Contest Rules

I'm pissed off with the rules regarding Tom's 10th Anniversary Contest.
The contest prizes are only available to citizens living in USA.
THG is an international publication.
Contest prizes should be made available to anyone who vists THG.
If contest prizes can only be awarded to a specific nationality then the contest is biased.

I'm so pissed off about the contest I want THG to make the rules of eligibility for a contestant specifically for American WASP's only.

F.You Tom. I'm sick and tired of reading about how you and some other nerd discovered the flaw with the PIII 1133. It was six years ago. Haven't you done anything since then? And the new news articles are too long and repeat the same crap over and over again. I read the first few pages, skip the bullshit benchmarks and read the conclusion.

The only thing I like about THG today are the Forums. Oh and I think calling the Forums "Forumz" is too geeky.

Why not change your sig to...

Tom's Hardware Guide UK & Ireland It's the hip place to be. So it is, unless you want to enter any competitions. *sighs*

But I like the quick link to Hooters in a crisis.

I admire your dedication to hooters, but I can't use your link. I hate that filthy stinking rag with a passion that rivals your love of hooters.

I wanna' Know why no topics from "The Other" make it into the Forumz Crawler??

Alright!!!
But seriously, it really is true.

It's by design ... do you really want these "conversations" being advertised and promoted by the main web page?

(Hint: NO!)

Addendum: The Other is also not visable on google ... your jobs are safe for now ...

Well, hopefully it will have some kind of impact. Zyprd just needs to change the sig, and possibly others who share our opinion on the issue.

I'm currently participating in this thread. Same thing, just more responses and people (forum newbies mainly) telling of how stupid the rule is.

Absolutely YES!!!

I think it'd be great just once for someone to be checking out the latest
news and see "Why does it burn when I pee?" scroll up the homepage.

8O 8O 8O 8O 8O

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ROFL

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Reality bites... :-|

Mike.

The glass is neither half full nor half empty. It simply has excess capacity.

I will freely admit that I didn't read the rules, but is the whole contest opened to US only, or only the Computex trip? I could totally see the airfair / security issue, but if the whole contest is that way, that's wrong. Shipping the prizes to Europe / Aisa / Africa / Canada can't be that much more than shipping within the US. Plus, I'm sure that won't be the first time Tom's paid for international shipping...

Add the text too, it does not really make sense with only the link. Then I'd like to see Aaron's reaction!
Hey, I had nothing to do with this. Honestly, I get into trouble for rolling out of bed in the morning... and umm, my hard drive is dead, so leave me grieve in peace. *runs*

bulldozing your way out of bed is the best! I used to do it often when I forgot that my alarm was set and didn't need to be

My rant is in regard to swag being available to Americans only including the notebook computer prize.
For example if one of the swag prizes were a 1GB USB key I don't think it would be very difficult to ship the prize to a winner in Brazil.
As for winning a prize that was travel orientated why even bother to offer it with all the difficulties involved?
I doubt the prizes in the now defunked contest were purchased by THG. I would think all the prizes were donated by companies for free advertisement.

The contest is dead so the thread should be locked to new posts. The forum's members voices were heard and THG did what was appropriate and cancelled the contest.

Am I missing something? I just checked the link and the contest seems very much alive. Is there a link to where it's cancelled? A notice?

Yeah the links work, but you tell me if you can find it anywhere else through the News page, Hardware page, etc. I couldn't, so some noob probably couldn't (maybe I'm blind).


SO it has been called off then, and our voices have been heard?

I sent a PM to Fredi to find out what is happening with the contest.
I also asked Fredi to lock the thread.

I'm in a better mood today.

The contest is still on, just moved to a banner ad notification - if you block ads, you won't see it. Zpyrd asked that this thread be locked (he PM'd Fredi), so I am locking it now per Zpyrd's request.