Groups Contest
clay
July 07, 2008, 07:49 AM posted in General DiscussionCreate or join a group - and be a winner!
To celebrate the launch of the Groups section, ChinesePod is running a group challenge contest with the founder of the biggest group* winning a chance to be interviewed by Ken and Jenny on a special podcast.
Simply create or join a group of interest to you and get chatting! The most active group's members will all be rewarded with the following prizes:
Prizes:
- Founder: Phone interview with Ken and Jenny to be broadcast in a special podcast + 2 months free Premium access
- Moderators: 2 months free Premium access
- Group members: 1 month free Basic access
- Competition ends July 31st, 2008.
- Winners will be announced in August, 2008.
Get Started now! - ChinesePod Groups
Activity is based on the number of members and discussions. Final decision will be left to Praxis Language's discretion.
roscovanbasten
August 18, 2008, 05:56 AMCongratulations to the Chinese Music Group, who are July's winner of the most active group on ChinesePod.com.
The founder of the group, Bazza, will have a phone interview with ChinesePod hosts, Ken and Jenny, whilst Moderators marcelbdt, hitokiri6993 and boran have 2 months free premium access.
The additional members will have 1 month free basic access.
bazza
July 07, 2008, 03:51 PMIt wouldn't be fair, that would mean he's had a 7 month head start on every else.
88groups aren't the same as community groups.
(Not that I want to win though, as you know how hopeless I am at interviews.)
henning
July 07, 2008, 04:16 PMbazza,
exactly: The whole "competition" is nonsense as Goulnik is the only legitimate winner. 88groups was "groups beta" and 88news is the only public group that survived. It will be the same here. So this really is a well earned "head start".
It is more than fair.
kimiik
July 07, 2008, 06:39 PM@Bazza, As "Activity is based on the number of members and discussions" we can consider that 88news discussion number will start from 0 here. But 88news should be part of this competition (and transferred here of course.)
bazza
July 07, 2008, 07:02 PMIf Goulnik was to setup a new group based on 88news and transfer everything himself, then that would be fair.
I might do that with my 'Bible Chapters' group actually.
azerdocmom
July 07, 2008, 07:11 PMBazza,
Have you seen this site?
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=3976
(Now why is the chain icon greyed out? In both Safari and F/F?)
wufeifei
July 07, 2008, 07:26 PMHow about tweaking the contest's award scheme a bit: Give Goulnik his well deserved prize for the excellent news 88group and leave the rest open for current competitors? Otherwise it would border on being 不公平. It's not like you'd actually lose subscribers by giving away too many free goodies. I reckon that quite a few users indeed "live off" the trials, so the honest and dedicated ones should get a reward....
azerdocmom
July 07, 2008, 07:26 PMThat's a REALLY user-friendly layout. Wow! Thx.
kimiik
July 07, 2008, 02:35 PMYes, 88news get the best content so far and Goulnik spend part of his precious time on it. It would be fair to have 88news transfered as a group here for this competition.
goulnik
July 24, 2008, 08:48 AMjust came across this, thanks guys. I'm not after any prize really, though the community challenge certainly gets me going. what I'm really after is a way to constantly improve my Chinese, across all channels (reading, speaking, listening comprehension).
what would make me really happy (call it a reward if you will) is an activity / job / task / occupation next time I go to China for 1-2 weeks, where I can practice and improve rather than just hang out and go sightseeing. Keep me busy is all I need, I'll take care of the rest. could be at any place really, Shanghai, Tianjin, wherever.
I'm not sure it's worth transfering 88news to the new groups environment, even if technically feasible, I guess the principle is quite different, and the news are quickly going stale.
But you may want to give my new NO to Cancer : 对癌症说“不” group a try, and check the corresponding book being copied
kimiik
July 30, 2008, 01:59 PM1 day left ?
roscovanbasten
August 05, 2008, 05:06 AMThe winners of this competition will be announced shortly
bazza
August 05, 2008, 09:35 PMMy music group still has the most members at 72, but it's no longer the most active.
calkins
August 05, 2008, 10:29 PMMy olympics group has the most comments by the founder with the fewest comments by others :)
RJ
August 05, 2008, 10:50 PMif content has anything to do with it, 红楼梦 has my vote (if I have a vote). I would join but I can see no difference between being a member, and not being a member.
RJ
August 06, 2008, 08:57 AMI stand corrected, due to a recent change there is a difference. Now one has to be a member to comment, but approval is automatic. This is better but I am wondering how a private group works.
roscovanbasten
July 08, 2008, 06:42 AMHere is a possible solution:
We continue the competition alive as advertised to give everyone a fair chance of getting involved in this group challenge.
At the same time, the work that Goulniky has done to grow 88news is unquestionable. ChinesePod recognizes that this is an invaluable group and thus, will offer Goulniky to appear on one of our shows or to receive ChinesePod subscriptions outside of the competition scope.
In this way, we are both recognizing Goulniky's hard work without taking away the opportunity for others to participate in this contest.
Comments welcomed!
henning
July 07, 2008, 02:16 PMTransfer 88news and declare Goulnik the winner.
Everything else wouldn't be fair.
285 meticulously prepared lessons, continued support for 10 months ("character insanity" --> 6 weeks??), full resonsiveness, compelling structure.
How to beat that?