http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/forum/5 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Forum: Technical problems with our forums, blog or web-site - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:55:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11214#post-99307 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:47:54 +0000 JuniorWatch 99307@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Where to file a formal complaint against today&#39;s moderator? He/She is not doing the job at all. :-( </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11214#post-99300 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:40:39 +0000 Suze 99300@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Too funny! I just decided to post about &quot;awaiting moderation&quot; when I saw your post, JuniorWatch! My post has been &quot;awaiting moderation&quot; since 2:28 pm ET, and it&#39;s now 7:40 pm. Like yours, JuniorWatch, over 5 hours! Once our comments are approved, there most likely will be &#39;zillions&#39; of other posts to follow, but for now, nothing new since the last post at 12:59 pm . . .</p> <p>Thanks for your explanation, graylox :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11214#post-99299 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:16:02 +0000 JuniorWatch 99299@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Gray, thanks again for your help. :-)</p> <p>As of now, my comment (actually question) is still pending.</p> <p>I wish the moderators work as hard as you. It seems you are always online. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11214#post-99298 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:50:23 +0000 graylox 99298@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Let&#39;s say it&#39;s not &quot;abnormal&quot;.</p> <p>It depends who is moderating. Mostly in the beginning of the GOTD day and to the end, comments are moderated. In-between can be longer pauses. Some moderators are volunteers.<br /> The comments section has their own moderators. Only BuBBy is moderating/administrating the forums and the comments, he is a volunteer and not 24/7 in charge. </p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11214#post-99297 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:30:08 +0000 JuniorWatch 99297@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>My comment on the GOTD page for today&#39;s software was awaiting moderation for 5 hours. What does this mean? I am new to GOTD. Is this situation normal? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11111#post-98692 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:35:46 +0000 MidWestLady 98692@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Still had this game from the previous give away, so didn&#39;t download... as I love it! Altho I&#39;m &quot;hooked&quot; on this type of game, sure wish there were more like this. Noticed in the free games listed on here (thank you VERY much for them) there are few if any of this type offered. Being a female I&#39;m not into shoot &#39;em up and action type games. Do appreciate what GOTD does thos... as I don&#39;t look a gift horse in the mouth. Would appreciate some &quot;hidden object&quot; games from GOTD and here in the forum listed.<br /> Thanks &quot;mainly&quot; guys, Kris... MidWestLady </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11111#post-98663 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:53:32 +0000 graylox 98663@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Everything is fixed and we got the key-master&#39;s apology.</p> <p>Let&#39;s play now. <strong><font size="7">☺</font></strong></p> <p><font size="2"><strong><blockquote>Dear users,</p> <p>the download link is now available!</p> <p>We are deeply sorry for this hitch. The download period will be extended for several hours.</p> <p>Have a nice weekend (and enjoy the game)!<br /> GOTD project team</strong></font><br /> Comment by Giveaway of the Day project team — January 14th, 2012 at 3:00 am </blockquote> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11111#post-98660 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:30:51 +0000 graylox 98660@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Whabbit, is there any official statement from GGOTD or Playrix about the broken download link?</p> <p>The Playrix site is okay, I could download the trial of the game.<br /> It seems the Spirit lost it&#39;s way on the Wanderings <strong><font size="6">☹</font></strong></p> <p>graylox<br /> <font size="1">14.01.12</font> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11078#post-98540 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:15:52 +0000 ingemar 98540@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Broken links to FREEWARE page 2 (etc.):</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/freeware/page/2" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/freeware/page/2</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/freeware/page/3" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/freeware/page/3</a></p> <p>etc. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11026#post-98377 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:17:01 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 98377@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This also happened with the Game Giveaway, but I contacted one of the game project team within an hour of the giveaway and it was corrected. We had the same problem some months ago and it took several weeks to correct. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11026#post-98319 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:26:46 +0000 Bellingham 98319@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yeah, I hope out of fairness this GAOTD will be extended due to the premature unavailability. GiveAwayOfAlmostADay just doesn&#39;t have much ring to it ;)</p> <p>Gee.K </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11026#post-98301 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:22:36 +0000 Robert 98301@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Affirmative.For some reason the countdown timer was set to end today&#39;s giveaway sooner as usual.<br /> Happy New Year lady Gray! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11026#post-98300 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:02:42 +0000 graylox 98300@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I contacted the project team - maybe there will be a rerun.</p> <p>Things happen :(</p> <p>Happy New Year!</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11026#post-98299 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:02:51 +0000 The Kid 98299@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The GOTD always ends at 12:00am in CA. I logged on at 8:00pm and got the &quot;No Longer Available&quot; message when I should still have 4 hours left. Anybody know what&#39;s going on? Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11026#post-98292 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:36:02 +0000 CathL 98292@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I got the &quot;No Longer Available&quot; message too, though it&#39;s only 11.30am in<br /> Malaysia. Hope this will be corrected soon. Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11026#post-98291 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:22:02 +0000 milton12 98291@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This Dec 30 GAOTD reported itself as &quot;No Longer Available&quot; at 10:00 pm, EST (7pm PST), on Dec 30. There was NO GAOTD s/w showing as available. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10909#post-97594 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:46:32 +0000 skinni 97594@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I registered this program &amp; even evaluated it the day this was offered. I went to use it today &amp; when I saved the image, it left a huge watermark on the picture. What&#39;s up with this. Does me no good if it destroys the pic this way. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10776#post-97028 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:27:25 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 97028@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve been unable to access my moderators account for the game giveaway project all morning, so have not been able to moderate any of the comments made about todays game giveaway. I&#39;ve also not been able to post my review. I will endevour to keep checking and will moderate any comments just as soon as I an abe. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10465#post-95329 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:56:53 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 95329@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don&#39;t bother with the email service as it’s just as easy to open the giveaway site to check what&#39;s on offer. I visit the forums every day (since I joined the forums in Feb 2007), so it’s a simple matter to just click the link to the giveaway section when I&#39;m done with the forums. </p> <p>I wasn&#39;t bothered about the forums when I first discovered the giveaway project back in early December 2006 (there was an arkanoid game that was on offer called Arkanoid: The Virtual Isls - which I’ve still got because it was a free standing game - I did have a licenced copy, but lost the reg code when i lost one of my free emails due to inactivity, so couldn&#39;t recover the licence, so in the end was glad to get a free standing version). I only found it because I&#39;d been searching for more arkanoids (which at the time were my favourite genre of arcade game, which I only played as a break from the bigger games like Battlefield 2, Tom Clancy games and other shooters) so the name Arkanoid: The Virtual Isles came up in my search. (It was given away almost a year later via the <a href="http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/arkanoid-tvi/"><strong>GameGiveaway project</strong></a> as well. Since then I&#39;ve hardly missed a day visiting (sad really, lol) the giveaway project apart from when I was really ill and when I had to go in hospital plus vacations, but even then I&#39;d quickly check in our hotels internet cafes and since 2009 we&#39;ve always got a connection to our hotel rooms and I take a laptop, so usually checked each morning. (How sad again, lol). </p> <p>Thankfully I no longer download every giveaway like I used to in the first year of the project. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10465#post-95326 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:14:23 +0000 Inas 95326@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I had this problem at first, then I stopped using the email service (and would check the website everyday) but then I signed up for email agian, and it&#39;s been working ever since, thank God. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10465#post-95322 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:18:35 +0000 Suze 95322@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>riverboatsam, here&#39;s what I do &quot;since e-mail has proven unreliable&quot; -- I signed up for email notifications back in April 2007 and, once in a <u>great</u> while, I don&#39;t receive one. So . . . I never delete a giveawayoftheday email until I receive the current day&#39;s GotD email. Then, if todays&#39; GotD email is in my Inbox, I delete yesterday&#39;s email. If no GotD email is in my Inbox, I just click on the link at the bottom of yesterday&#39;s GotD email, and that will open the browser with today&#39;s giveaway. Either way, I always have one GotD email in my Inbox until the next one. I haven&#39;t missed a giveaway yet (knock wood !!) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10465#post-95286 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:46:10 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 95286@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Whoever updates the software informer on the giveaway site hasn&#39;t been doing a particularily good job of it over the past week. Sometimes it&#39;s taken over 14 hours for suggestions to show. Don&#39;t know whether this is becasue of a shortage of manpower to moderate or whether there is other problems afoot. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10465#post-95283 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:02:17 +0000 riverboatsam 95283@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I&#39;ve been using &quot;Software Informer&quot; to tell me about the GOTD for months now (since e-mail has proven unreliable). It&#39;s been working ok until last Friday, 09/16. Even when I do a &quot;manual refresh,&quot; it comes up blank. Any suggestions? Thank you! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10171#post-93238 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:47:21 +0000 graylox 93238@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Solved! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10171#post-93237 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:17:17 +0000 Danielx64 93237@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>HI,</p> <p>I&#39;m trying to reply to a PM and I can&#39;t :( Can someone please help me? It something that needs to be sorted out ASAP!!! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10134#post-92929 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:22:09 +0000 chazzo125 92929@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>May I explain - hot-linking, also known as direct linking, is where the download link links directly to the download file, ie you click on the link and the download file starts downloading.</p> <p>Clickable links to web pages are <u>not</u> hot-links! </p> <p>Hot-links - direct linking to executables is prohibited on the forums, (read Rule 5) <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2030"><u><strong>HERE</strong></u></a></p> <p>These are <strong><u>barred</u></strong> from forum/GOTD and GAOTD posts because 1) they could link to malware or prohibited sites, 2) they use band-width that third party sites can and often do object to as band-width theft, 3) It is wise to read and know exactly what you are downloading, 4) most third party sites want you to read their program or game info, 5) most third party sites want visitors to do so via their home page.</p> <p>If any hot links slip through, it is entirely by accident, as the Spam filter is set up to detect these where possible and block the post.</p> <p>Any posts that link to known malware sites are also automatically blocked by the sites&#39; spam filter.</p> <p>A likely explanation for most attempts at posting not working is simply very busy servers. There is a very large amount of traffic to the GOTD and GAOTD sites at busy times given their <u><em>very well-deserved</em></u> and enormous popularity! :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10134#post-92920 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:20:01 +0000 graylox 92920@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Art Kns, and welcome to the club of unheard users. We all have made that experience now and then. For me it&#39;s nearly impossible to post a comment for the gamegiveaway.<br /> Every few weeks we have a new thread with this old topic here in the forums. Here is just one of them: <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9565">Your comment is awaiting moderation</a><br /> I know the search-function of these forums is not the best, but when you start searching, you will find a lot of questions and answers ref. to the comments on the main page.<br /> To make it short: The moderators have of course some rules. Besides the moderators there is a spam filter (- sometimes following his own rules). And not to forget the technical glitches...enough suspects who can make a comment disappear.<br /> One of the volunteer administrators/moderators is <strong>BuBBy</strong>; of course he is not wearing his moderator hat all day long or even every day. However, he is, if possible, very helpful and often found, if possible, a &quot;lost&quot; comment.</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/</a></p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10134#post-92918 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:45:53 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 92918@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Most posts with hotlinks go to the spam folders. The same thing happens with the game giveaway site. thankfully because i have access to the admin module I&#39;m able to edit in the links that i post. Some do get through, but not very often and if there are more than one it will definitely not get through. One of the reasons the owners allowed me access to the admin module was because most of my reviews required hotlinks and I was getting fed up spending hours on a review only to have it chucked in the spam bin. </p> <p>I don&#39;t think size matters though as i&#39;ve posted very long reviews in the past. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10134#post-92914 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:26:31 +0000 Art Kns 92914@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>@Chazzo125<br /> I realize that the moderator is not always present. My question was why it didn&#39;t post at all (why it did not even reach &quot;waiting for moderation&quot;).</p> <p>As I stated, the size of my post was 3609 characters in 538 words. A subsequent post had 5773 characters in 944 words - over 50% larger! So size alone should not have been the issue.</p> <p>Hot-linking IS allowed. There were about 1/2 dozen posts containing hot links - many with multiple hot links. Do some posters have special privileges? However, my links were all &quot;cold&quot; - the URL was simple plain text.</p> <p>I would love to be able to communicate with a moderator. How does one PM him/her? I&#39;ve tried via the GAOTD forum to no avail.</p> <p>Yes, I appreciate other&#39;s comments. But if mine are for naught then there is no sense in trying.<br /> * * * * * *<br /> @mikiem2<br /> Yes, I learned long ago (the hard way), to compose, edit and save in a separate app before posting.</p> <p>I did post it twice without any feedback message but did not want to try again in case they actually went through.<br /> * * * * * *<br /> @GMMan, @chazzo125<br /> I did wait to repost but probably not ten minutes. It was my first post to that page (day) and I haven&#39;t posted anything in quite some time - at least weeks.</p> <p>My post never made it to the page so it appears that my best action is to try to contact the moderator if someone will post a &quot;how to&quot;. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10134#post-92911 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:07:00 +0000 pavid 92911@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Canada Post is staging rotating strikes atm. Therefore, posting is kind of hit and miss. This could be an explanation for posting problems on the front page. :) </p>