mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Rank Points: 5056
Registered: 02-04-2003
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Re: No-monster hold voting poll (+1)
Ugh...seems like we have some miscommunication with 13th Slayer here, so I'll be happy to help clear this up.
For this unofficial contest, I've contacted lopsidation to provide a registered copy of DDDD on CD. I have a couple copies of this CD left, so I'm fine with awarding one of them. I can't always bail out unofficial contest holders in this fashion, though. In the future, here are the rules Caravel expects everyone to play by:
* Caravel will only award prizes available in the Prize Pile, since these items are what are officially available to contest winners. Caravel may make its own exceptions under special circumstances, and you're always welcome to request one if you have something specific in mind. I'm trying to be generous and helpful and make the Caravel Forum an enjoyable place for everyone to hang out and create good things.
* If some desired prize is unavailable (e.g. someone wants an old SmS on CD that is not in print and no longer in inventory), then we can't offer that. I can't really make an exception for this, because I just don't have the material on-hand. (Erik was in charge of all that until last year, and I can't recreate past SmS CDs.)
* Before you run your contest, you can try to arrange with me for Caravel to provide a licensed downloadable copy of something that Caravel still sells, but I won't agree to provide prizes if you don't agree with me on this before starting your unofficial contest. Sadly, I don't have time personally to keep up with all of the cool, active projects going on here on the Forum, so please don't expect me to notice that you want to give away a game in your unofficial contest and expect I will contact you personally to approve it, or that I will approve a prize after the contest is ended.
* If a forumite wants to run an unofficial contest, then they may offer their own legally-obtained prizes of any sort. You may mail someone a physical item you have, whether it's a DROD CD or something else, like a book or some other game. For example, if you have an extra TCB CD, then you can mail it to the winner. If you have an extra SmS credit in your user account, you may ask Schik to transfer it to the winner of your contest. However, under no circumstances does Caravel permit making pirated copies of CDs or software to give to other forumites. Please don't ever offer someone a copy of a game you pirated, or to give someone a copy of software you bought previously if you plan on keeping a copy for yourself. If you are really serious about offering a prize (other than rank points) for your contest, you must be willing to obtain a dedicated legal copy of the prize to give to the winner. Otherwise, what are you promising a legal prize for when you don't even have one? This is the way all forum contests -- official and unofficial -- have been run in the past, and will continue in this fashion.
* If you don't have a legal copy of our software, then please ask me if I'd be willing to provide an official, licensed copy to the winner of your contest. We rarely do this for unofficial contests, but you are welcome to talk to NiroZ about the possibility of running an official contest one month, where the winner will receive a prize from the official Prize Pile.
I hope that explains everything. I might have missed some detail here, and I'm willing to elaborate if it's needed.
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Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.
[Last edited by mrimer at 06-13-2009 07:55 PM]
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