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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2008 at 16:48
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Ah I thought the best reviews win, not by random shuffle... mmm, well, I do have more chances to win now!


Yes, but please put a lot of thought into your reviews!  That goes for everyone!  Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2008 at 17:18
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Ah I thought the best reviews win, not by random shuffle... mmm, well, I do have more chances to win now!


Yes, but please put a lot of thought into your reviews!  That goes for everyone!  Smile


I would never be caught dead writing a poor review. Sweepstakes or not Stern SmileBig smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 04 2008 at 22:12

How would you  be able to do any sort of review if you were indeed dead whether it be good or bad? I write my reviews by memory. I wrote a Strawbs review this afternoon with  Twisted Sister blasting. I don't know what I'll write now. Whatever I pick out of my collection at random. Yes it will be a random review I think.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2008 at 09:27
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

The Winning Members of the Month of November are:

Amazon.com 25$
PROGLEGGS 

Doug Larson's Imports 25$
MOVINGPICTURES07

Robert Berieau Full Digital Album of "Selfishness: Source of War & Violence"
TORODDFUGLESTEG

randomly picked from 1095 reviews

Winners will be emailed details of their prizes.

Thanks to all participants, 
Good luck for the December reviewers, next draw, January 1st, 2009



 

Can we know which review of their won? ConfusedWink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2008 at 17:08
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

No. Pretend every review is a small piece of paper with the writer's name on it. Those are put into a giant hat and they draw one of them. It's not at all based on "which review is better"


I'm thinking that 'hat' wasn't quite the right choice of words here, wouldn't 'bag' have been a better descriptor of the alleged raffle container?

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"Go ahead and say what you say now"



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 09 2008 at 11:01
Good to see  this contest (or lottery, if you will) up and running!

I like the idea of reviews being judged by their content, but it seems a fairly subjective thing.  My favorite reviews that I've read here are usually the ones that make me laugh.  In the strict sense, they are not really always helpful to me in describing the music and the album itself, but I find purely analytical reviews to be dull and not worth reading.  Of course, that's just me.  I could easily see that 50 words is not enough to make a decent review.  As to other people rating our reviews..........I'm not sure that is a great idea either.  I've read some really good 1 star reviews, but I fear that fans of the artist in question may not appreciate them and therefore give the writer many negative votes (a certain prog metal band, who shall remain nameless, comes to mind here).

No, I think the raffle idea is the best one, since it gives everyone an equal chance without relying on subjective criteria.  Still, I do hope people try to write decent reviews and not just go for quantity.  I know I won't do that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2009 at 22:20
Hi All, 

Happy new year !!!

The draw of the new 3 random winner of december is coming soon and will be posted here and winner will be emailed the details.

Thanks for the participation, good luck to all

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2009 at 08:33
Here's the winner for december 2008 random draw.

Amazon.com 25$ Gift Certificate -> DavetheSlave
Doug Larson Imports 25$ Gift Certificate -> UMUR
Robert Berieau Full Digital Album of "Selfishness: Source of War & Violence" -> Pablo_P

Theses winners will be contacted by email regarding the details.

Thanks all for participating and good luck for next month.

Max
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2009 at 08:42
Congrats to all the winners!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2009 at 12:42
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Here's the winner for december 2008 random draw.

Amazon.com 25$ Gift Certificate -> DavetheSlave
Doug Larson Imports 25$ Gift Certificate -> UMUR
Robert Berieau Full Digital Album of "Selfishness: Source of War & Violence" -> Pablo_P

Theses winners will be contacted by email regarding the details.

Thanks all for participating and good luck for next month.

Max



No way!!! Big smileBig smileBig smile

Thanks a lot!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2009 at 15:32
Good News , will create another winner possibility from the same contest.

From suggestions received and a private one from Finnforest I have decided to add a new winner : THE BEST REVIEW AS DECIDED BY THE ADMIN TEAM.

The winner will win a 25$ Gift Certificate  @ Amazon.com

And now -- i'll ask the ADMIN TEAM to pick the December Winner of this new category !!!!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2009 at 15:36
Excellent idea M@X.  Best of both worlds.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2009 at 15:57
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Excellent idea M@X.  Best of both worlds.
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I second that. Great idea!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2009 at 16:14
Gruelling task, going through all those reviews....but good initiative non the less.
Websites I work with:

http://www.progressor.net
http://www.houseofprog.com

My profile on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2009 at 22:55
^^^ I was about to say!


Best of luck to the admin team on this one LOLClap


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2009 at 13:50
Sorry guys , buyt the first winner of the BEST REVIEW OF THE MONTH will be picked , Feb 1, for the reviews of January.

Good luck to all.

Thanks to the admin team for the work.

Much appreciated

Max
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2009 at 21:44
GOOD NEWS, another provider GEMM join us for the monthly giveaway with a 25$ Discount on order paid through their GREEN SHIELD program. More here http://progarchives.gemm.com/info.cgi?doc=guarantee


For now, it's going to be a random review author pick each month.

Good luck to all.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2009 at 07:39
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

Here's the winner for december 2008 random draw.

Amazon.com 25$ Gift Certificate -> DavetheSlave
Doug Larson Imports 25$ Gift Certificate -> UMUR
Robert Berieau Full Digital Album of "Selfishness: Source of War & Violence" -> Pablo_P

Theses winners will be contacted by email regarding the details.

Thanks all for participating and good luck for next month.

Max
 
Star Congrats to winners! But it would be good to have links to those reviews that were awarded, so we can all see them....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2009 at 15:08
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

The Winning Members of the Month of November are:

Amazon.com 25$
PROGLEGGS 

Doug Larson's Imports 25$
MOVINGPICTURES07

Robert Berieau Full Digital Album of "Selfishness: Source of War & Violence"
TORODDFUGLESTEG

randomly picked from 1095 reviews

Winners will be emailed details of their prizes.

Thanks to all participants, 
Good luck for the December reviewers, next draw, January 1st, 2009



 

Can we know which review of their won? ConfusedWink

Hi. It seems like I have won something here. Would you be kind enough to PM or email me with the logon details for that download ?

I am delighted to win something........... but I would very much like to point out that I am a winner everytime I fall in love with a progressive rock album. Either that album was released in 1967 or this year. 

Please PM me. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 01 2009 at 14:22
Hi Torodd,
 
Just want to let you know that the download link has been sent to your known e-mail on the following day of the draw, on december 2nd 2008.
 
I just sent you a new e-mail on your progarchives member profile a few minutes ago. Please check it and let me know.
 
Take  care !
 
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