Hi,
Well, I was going to post my entry here, but BB simply will not allow me to tell you were it is located. So, if you want an entry, please fix your BB and remove the "Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs.". With a contest like this, you have to be prepared to receive off-site URLs.
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Greetings Bertho
PS, I sent the entry to the "contact" link about 12 hours ago, but did not get any confirmation that it was received.
Try posting again, the anti spam measures will not allow links to be on the new users first post.
Noop, still says: "Your post looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs".
Also tried logout/login, but same result.
I'm sorry about the spam filter, but without it we get 100s of spams per day. If you submitted it via the form we received it and will post it on the blog shortly
Yes, that is fine. However, it would be nice to get a confirmation that the entry is sent and received.
The contact-form requires a valid email address, so I would expect to receive a "yes, thank you, got your message and we'll get back to you asap", especially with data that you want confirmed to be received, such as an entry in a contest. Web-forms have a habit of not functioning.
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Greetings Bertho
you can send a pm to myself or Ian, and we can respond to let you know that we got it.
I've also sent an entry over the weekend. Hope it went through.
[quote author="sqkybeaver"]you can send a pm to myself or Ian, and we can respond to let you know that we got it.[/quote]
I just tried and got:
Your message looks too spamy for a new user, please remove off-site URLs.
This "spamy message" is getting annoying. Maybe you could provide an old-fashioned e-mail address?
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Greetings Bertho
[quote author="Bertho"]Web-forms have a habit of not functioning.[/quote]
To quote myself,... The site has been down for several hours (at least seen from my location). So I guess that this might be a concern to take into account.
I do appreciate your concerns for spam received, boy do we all, but on the other hand, you did create expectations when publishing the contest. Making it (seemingly) hard to participate does not help your cause. All that said, I do think it is nice of you to organize the contest, so don't take my comments for something negative.
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Greetings Bertho
is this entry one of yours?
http://http://www.vagrearg.org/?p=capsens1
Yes indeed, it is.
edit: And thank you for checking up!
Sorry about the down time. The contact form is database-backed, so if it goes through we have a copy. Maybe we need a new contact form with an automated reply. This one is exactly the same, but should send a reply:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/open-740 ... entry-form (http://dangerousprototypes.com/open-7400-logic-competition/open-7400-competition-entry-form)