http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/comments Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: comments - Recent Posts en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:18:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-59304 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:35:13 +0000 BuBBy 59304@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for pointing out #56 - I've edited it to make it more GOTD Friendly.</p> <p>I suspect the moderator just skims the comments (at times there are a lot to read through) and some slip through that should probably not.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> The Big Banana. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-59302 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:53:04 +0000 Buzz 59302@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I saw that #56 comment too, rezidue. Maybe they are randomly selected for posting,<br /> then that's it. Cause that one is quite bad imo. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-59300 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:30:12 +0000 rezidue 59300@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Archangel - I guess maybe it's just too big now - maybe more than can be handled LOL - I used to really like coming here - Regards </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-59299 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:21:07 +0000 Archangel 59299@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>After reading the other thread and the experience's I had (and that of others that I value), I simply quit trying. Don't post here much either anymore. Oh well............LOL </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-59293 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:30:12 +0000 rezidue 59293@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Okay it happened again yesterday and I was trying to help GAOTD by alerting them to a post that should have been removed. I even commented that I didn't understand why only about 50% of my comments make it. I wonder if it's the same moderator every time?</p> <p>This was a bit different as I didn't expect this particular comment to be posted but did think GAOTD would take the other down.</p> <p>I'm sorry but I'm starting to get quite upset when I read so many crappy comments that get through (repeats, copy pastes, etc.) and yet when I try to help I'm shot down. AND if others can leave stupid remarks why can't I? - LOL</p> <p>Check it out here: </p> <p>Comment #56 <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/</a></p> <p>Regards,<br /> Damian </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-58018 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:58:35 +0000 watcher13 58018@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Some clarification please, WR, or anyone else. How would I, or anyone willing, go about this? My interpretation is that you would use the contact form to send an e-mail to GOTD requesting this status. Am I understanding that correctly? </p> <p>The impression I'm getting is that you and Bubby, and maybe some other people who I haven't seen identified in the time that I've been coming here, do as much volunteer moderation as you can. Then, GOTD staff drop in, occassionally, just to make sure there isn't a horrific backlog of unmoderated comments. The problem that I have with this is that many of us would like to see GOTD staff (how many actually are there? I sometimes think only 1 or 2.) become MORE, NOT LESS, engaged in this project.</p> <p>It's not that I'm criticizing, it's just that if some new member asks me how aware GOTD is of the comments people post over there, after a year of coming there, I would still have to say, "I don't have the slightest idea". I don't mind someone here setting me straight, but in my 7 months as a forum member, I still haven't seen any evidence to whether or not they actually spend much time reading anything posted over there. I've seen them step up and try to solve certain problems, but I don't even have any way of knowing whether that's because they saw a bunch of comments on that problem, or whether somebody like you or Bubby zipped off an email to them. Unless they have VERY few staff, I'm not sure of the wisdom of volunteer moderators. I figured you and Bubby were doing it because you were on really good terms, at least through e-mail with the team, because of the good service you both had given to the project. That you were exceptions to the rule, not just that you were one of few who were willing to volunteer, altough I doubt it's THAT simple.</p> <p>Also, I'm not following you on the tags. Maybe, I need to look at some other forum posts, but the only ones I saw just now had links to the GOTD freeware library. Are there others that go to out of house sites, or is GOTD getting some payment from members who post to the freeware library if they get a search engine hit? I'm not up on the mechanics of earning payment through search engine hits, so I'm probably just ignorant, but I'm not following you. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-58015 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:10:03 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 58015@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>There is a site that gives download statitics for the giveaway project. I've forgotten the url though. </p> <p>As for commitment; you don't really need to commit, just moderate the comments whenever you feel like it. At least then there would be more moderation. If a few community members did this, it would make things better.</p> <p>To Rezidue,</p> <p>The giveaway site makes money via the forums as well. If you look at any post in the forums theres a Tag to the top right of each thread, which lists genuine tags for the post and then a pile of others that link to other sites. the giveaway project has got a high standing with the big search engines, so it's used as a vehicle to generate revenue through these tags; though you'd probably never guess.</p> <p>Post a phrase on the comments section and then make a search. You'll see what I mean with respect to the giveaways high standing.</p> <p>regards</p> <p>WR </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-57998 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:07:54 +0000 watcher13 57998@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>But your points valid, regardless. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-57997 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:05:35 +0000 HOSS 57997@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Whoops! You're right watcher, I was comparing votes to comments not downloads. I would have no way to know how many people downloaded the software. I am guessing that there are a lot of the thumbs down votes that did not download. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-57996 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:58:50 +0000 watcher13 57996@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hey, Hoss. When you're giving those stats, do you have access to the number of actual downloaders, or are you just talking about comparing to the thumbs up/down votes? I'm assuming there are probably many who don't even vote thumbs up or down, so, if you're comparing to the votes, there's probably even less that comment. Which only serves to reinforce your point.</p> <p>Damian, I've seen a lot of ups and downs here. Considering that around a thousand people voted on Online Armor, I'm not sure that the site's having problems. I sympathize with you, it's hard to tell, really. As I say, interest seems to ebb and flow.</p> <p>WR - today's giveaway is, perhaps, the perfect example of what you're saying. Only 9 comments, apparently because nothing's been approved since the first hour and a half. Perhaps I'll volunteer, but right now my schedule's unsettled, so I'm afraid to make a committment I might not be able to keep. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-57994 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:44:09 +0000 rezidue 57994@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Maybe it's getting close to the end? What kind of revenue does this site make anyway?<br /> I can't see it as viable unless there's some kind of profit - Damian </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-57993 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:40:44 +0000 HOSS 57993@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Another thing to consider is that only about 9% of downloaders actually leave comments. I went back to the last 5 or 6 giveaways to check and there was 1 that surpassed the 10% mark. That was Paragon Drive Copy 9.0 which had a 15% comment rate. There was also 1 that only reached the 6% mark. The average was about 8 or 9%. So, while the 2% you mentioned might seem low, there isn't as many commenters as one might think. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-57987 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:56:55 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 57987@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi opensourcesoftwarefan</p> <p>The same thing happened with the game giveaway site. It got to a stage where the comments were being moderated only 3 or 4 times a day; so I volunteered to moderate the game giveaway comments section and made sure I moderated as often as possible. Within weeks of doing so there was a big increase in the number of useful comments being made. I don't moderate the applications side of the giveaway though as I'm not willing to devote enough time to the software itself. I think you can only moderate fairly if you know the software. Moderation seems okay on the giveaway site during the week; it seems to be only at weekends when the comments aren't moderted much.</p> <p>The comments section for both the regular giveaway page and the game giveaway page are staffed by volunteers. It gets a bit tedious spending the whole weekend moderating for free, but I love the site and have gained a lot from it, so don't mind helping out; besides I've got lots of time on my hands now that I was forced into retirement by a motorist who wasn't paying attention.</p> <p>Maybe you could volunteer to do some moderating occassioally at weekends. Even a few extra moderating sessions would be helpful. That would be great and relieve the pressure off the likes of BuBBy, whose's been moderating for most of the giveaways life.</p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Whiterabbit </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5506#post-57986 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:04:52 +0000 OpenSourceSoftwareFan 57986@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>It seems to be a pattern and trend that very few software users' comments are posted by the GiveAwayOfTheDay team on the GiveAwayOfTheDay software-download site.</p> <p>All comments meeting the forum's commenting criteria should be posted quickly and should be given an equal and fair chance to be read and seen by others. For example, 379 people downloaded today's GiveAway software, but only 9 comments (2%) were posted.</p> <p>Why? Why? Why?</p> <p>The whole point of allowing customers to post their feedback is so others may benefit by their comments. However, if this feedback is not posted at all, or if this feedback is posted late in the day, then this defeats the entire purpose of the feedback.</p> <p>The GiveAwayOfTheDay team must satisfactorily resolve this matter very soon.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-57912 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:13:37 +0000 watcher13 57912@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>One other thing occurs to me that I think Bubby has also said, at least indirectly, before. Sometimes if a moderator is going through a lot of comments, most of which are similar, I imagine some start to prune out the same thought after it's been said a lot of times. Don't get me wrong, when you posted it, it may have only been said once or twice, or often not at all. But, if your post is down nearer the bottom of the moderation pile and 3, 4, or 5 above you say the same thing, some, not all, moderators might drop it. Some let most through, but others try and not turn the comments section in to a voting section on 1 or 2 issues, but try and pass comments that bring out new points. Even if you're point looked new when you wrote it. In other words, some try and avoid beating a dead horse. (Which I'm probably doing with that last sentence. :( ) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-57843 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:03:41 +0000 BuBBy 57843@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>banana banana banana (note... if I see that post, it won't go through, but I know who started it). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-57838 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:02:30 +0000 watcher13 57838@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I had one rejected today. It's been about 50-50 for me over the last month. Today, I posted a joke based on Bubby's biting criticism. I was satirical, not mean. However, I'm not surprised or bothered by the rejection. I was anticipating they would stop taking posts sooner or later today making fun of the software, since it was getting off topic. Of course, I'm not saying that would apply to any of your comments.</p> <p>I posted, however, to try and clarify one thing. The difficulty with this discussion is that there's more than one moderator of the comments section and the only that I know of that is involved in the forums is Bubby. I'm not even sure that Bubby even knows who else does it. I know from what he said that he doesn't know who it is at any particular time. He's posted here on his philosophy of moderating, but he's also made it clear that there may not be any hard core rules and every moderator is different. He's joked that sometimes you could post "banana, banana, banana" and it would go through. Lately, though, the other moderators seem to be getting more selective.</p> <p>So you folks may be correctly asking a question there isn't currently an answer for. Maybe a lot of people will have to use the "contact" email form to express their views on moderation. At least we know they reacted to the large amount of email contacts they got over the late email problem. </p> <p>Unfortunately, one thing we know for sure. GOTD hardly EVER gets directly involved in this forum and we still haven't seen much, if any, evidence that they know what we're saying here. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2891#post-57831 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:00:02 +0000 rezidue 57831@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'd like to know the same thing as they are no better or worse than others that do get through.</p> <p>Damian Spooner </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5153#post-55121 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:10:21 +0000 copmom 55121@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>In firefox under tools it's I.E. view 1.4.1 and no.. haven't tried update on microsoft.com yet, so don't know, will check that out</p> <p>For that matter, my USB 2.0 hub and my USB 2.0 All in 1 card reader stopped working too. I've tried the reader both with and without the hub. It shows on control panel, system, as 4 letter drives with a yellow question mark and says it failed to initialize and might not work properly, code 10 (which means unknown), and yet on "my computer" those drives don't even show up anymore. It DID work before. My machine must have a ghost floating around to sabotage things. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5153#post-55119 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:13:46 +0000 GMMan 55119@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>@copmom: What Firefox extension are you using? I use IE Tab. And also, does update.microsoft.com automatically switch to IE mode and operates correctly? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5153#post-55026 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:31:18 +0000 copmom 55026@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Bubby, since you mentioned opening in IE, I have a question. I use Firefox as my browser, and have the option to view pages in IE.. but for some reason, nothing will open in IE. Did I 'unset' something?? I know I need to use IE to upgrade a couple of things such as McAfee. Any ideas? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5153#post-55010 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:35:24 +0000 bem 55010@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Literally a day late and an hour or two short to help anyone else, but I downloaded the whole package again, extracted the Activation wrapper and ran it. Worked in a blink. </p> <p>I hope that helps any future sufferers with that particular error message. </p> <p>Nite all... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5153#post-55003 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:27:32 +0000 BuBBy 55003@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>@meowzz - suggest you empty your browser cache - you seem to be looking at an old copy of the page - at the moment the moderation queue is empty.</p> <p>@bem, as a quick check - is your Internet Explorer working ok - can you open <a href="http://giveawayoftheday.com/" rel="nofollow">http://giveawayoftheday.com/</a> using IE?</p> <p>If it is set to work offline and you didn't notice because you use Firefox or Opera to surf the net - Activation will fail with a connection error. So Check that IE is ok and can connect to the download page. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5153#post-55000 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:24:21 +0000 bem 55000@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have the same issue as #'s 60 and 68 on the download page. I cannot activate this for anything. Laptop, desktop, run as admin, went through every setting in my modem, router and machines. netlog shows it trying to connect, but no activity through the modem. </p> <p>"FAILED TO CONNECT. TRY AGAIN LATER." I've tried off and on for over 10 hours. I guess I'm not getting to keep this one unless someone has a last second fix. I'll keep checking for awhile, but time's getting away on this one. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5153#post-54998 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:10:07 +0000 meowzz 54998@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Am I having some kind of browser refresh issue or did today's comments just stop at around 3:30pm EST? I know I even wrote a brief one and it still says "awaiting moderation" - on my end anyways -<br /> just wanting to know if this is unique to me or is everyone getting no comments past this afternoon? Thanks. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1064/page/2#post-53433 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:27:50 +0000 hotdoge3 53433@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>How to resolve the thumbs up, thumbs down issues: Yes but how do you tell if it up or down like <a href="http://www.sothink.com/product...The" rel="nofollow">http://www.sothink.com/product...The</a> program is available for $79.99, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer.<br /> Does this mean it’s only a free trial, and can only be used free for a limited time? Or just that it’s only available for a limited time?<br /> Thanks.</p> <p>Oh, this program is old!<br /> Now, we used FLV instead of SWF</p> <p>About action, we now use Java, not SWF</p> <p>Hi,</p> <p>I expect to get dummed out for asking but can anyone tell me who would use this and why.</p> <p>Giveaway of the Day - Secure Evidence Scrubber 1.1 March 22, 2009</p> <p>64!comments! look likes 4 try<br /> User Rating: Rate It! </p> <p> * 170 (28%) Yes<br /> * 433 (72%) NO<br /> so is 72% not try so not like, 4 try &#38; like! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1064/page/2#post-52797 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:31:04 +0000 Archangel 52797@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ad another to your list skcodes. "Who Cares" </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1064/page/2#post-52770 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:10:35 +0000 skcodes 52770@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I really like theleecher's idea. So many comments are of the "who needs this?" sort. Well, if I'm reading the comments, I'm interested in the software, so I don't care who else needs it; I want to know how well it does what it says it will do.</p> <p>For the site overall though, I would think it would be useful to have some stats on what people want and don't want. If each of theleecher's radio button questions was followed by a why/why not comment location, perhaps commenters could manage to respond in the correct location.</p> <p>For example:<br /> ( )I'll take it<br /> (X)I'll leave it<br /> Why/why not? another @#$in screensaver</p> <p>Or:<br /> (x)I'll take it<br /> ( )I'll leave it<br /> Why/why not? </p> <p>( )Good program<br /> (x)Bad program<br /> Why? doesn't have as many features as GreatProgram 2.1, which is free </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4818#post-51483 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:55:19 +0000 g@rgoyle 51483@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Debra,</p> <p>The activation process connects to GOTD via IE... even if FF is your default browser!<br /> If you've uninstalled IE or if you have IE set to stay offline then the activation won't work. So, Buzz is right... try IE! Once you've got it working in IE then you can use FF or any other browser again.<br /> Hope this helps ;-)</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Lan</p> <p>P.S. Please make sure you get antivirus again asap. There are lots of free options available if you don't want to renew Norton. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4818#post-51478 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:44:51 +0000 debra 51478@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>i have windows xp i had norton anti virus but did not renew it </p>