OH PLUS Membership Giveaway! April 2018

[allquixotic]

Here are the results! https://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=66425

The winners are:

• @Going Underground
• @interloper
• @TheWall
• @RZNJ
• @Beef Supreme

Thanks everyone for participating this year!

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Hi Everyone!

Due to the success of this giveaway last year, I'm doing it again!

I would like to give away 1-Year OH Plus Membership to five lucky winners who are at least semi-active contributors to OH but for whatever reason have not purchased Plus (or let it lapse).

Nominees who meet a set of criteria (see below) will be randomly selected by assigning each qualifying nominee a number, and then picking five numbers at random. The OH Staff will award each winner an OH Plus membership!

Dates:

Nominations open on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at the time this post goes up.

It ends on Friday, April 13, 2018 at 11:59 PM Eastern. Submissions after this time will not be considered.

The winners will be selected and announced on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at a time convenient for me (sorry, I am human ).

 

To qualify:

1. Contestant must be an OH member with at least 50 posts, account in good standing (no active Warnings), and account is not suspended.

2. Contestant must have logged in to the OH forums at some point during the 2018 Regular Season so far. So, inactive members who haven't logged in during the regular season do not qualify.

3. Contestant must not be a current Plus member (prior Plus members who lapsed their subscription still qualify).

4. Contestant must be an active participant (not just reader) in the forums during the 2018 Orioles Season (including Spring Training), as determined qualitatively by me alone. To give you an idea of my criteria: someone who has posted once in the 2018 season would not qualify, but someone who's posted about two posts a week during Spring Training, and has posted 10 posts in the past 2 weeks would definitely qualify.

 

Nomination Process:

Reply to this post with the following:

1. Link to forum profile of nominee, or just write "Self" if you're nominating yourself.

2. If nominating self: Brief description of why you enjoy participating in the OH boards (this will not be used to bias the chances of the nominee winning, as the drawing is random) /OR/ If nominating other: Brief description of your (hopefully positive) experience with this other person on the OH boards.

3. OPTIONAL (I've decided this is silly and unneeded) - Copy and paste this: "The contestant nominated in this post meets all qualification criteria to the best of my knowledge."

You may nominate someone else, or yourself. If nominating someone else, link to their profile, please!

Each person can only nominate a maximum of 2 people (including themselves, if they are not a Plus member).

 

How do I find eligible members to nominate?

Here is a URL that you can click on. When you do so, it will search the OH forums for registered users with the "Limited Posting Member" title, and it will sort them in descending order by post count.

That is NOT to say you shouldn't nominate people with low post counts. Feel free to do so, by all means! This might just be the list of people who, although they contribute prolifically to OH, are not currently Plus members.

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/index.php?/search/&type=core_members&group[8]=1&sortby=member_posts&sortdirection=desc&page=1

 

Winner Drawing Process:

On Saturday, April 14, 2018, I will edit this original post containing a list of all forum members who were nominated and qualified as a contestant, along with the list of winners. The winners will be drawn at random using the random number generator at https://random.org. In short: qualifying for the drawing is subjective, but winners will be randomly selected.

Weams has informed me that he will work out a way to manually award a 1-Year Plus Membership to each winner at the conclusion of the contest. I have arranged PayPal payment of the full price of all five subscriptions in one transaction ($125 USD) to the owners of OriolesHangout, and gotten the approval of Weams to post this.

 

Qualifying Contestants:

If your name appears in the below list, I have entered you into the random drawing. Good luck!

1. @Beef Supreme

2. @Redskins Rick

3. @RZNJ

4. @Satyr3206

5. @TheWall

6. @interloper

7. @esmd

8. @Going Underground

9. @Aristotelian

10. @El Gordo

[weams]

Very generous. Again. Appreciate the support. 

[allquixotic]

Bump........ since no one has nominated anyone yet

Don't be shy; find a Limited Posting Member and nominate them for a 1-year PLUS membership! This does not commit them to pay any money and it doesn't sign them up to pay next year. It's totally free to the winners.

You can find the differences between being a Limited Posting Member and a PLUS member here:

 

[Tony-OH]

15 hours ago, allquixotic said:

Hi Everyone!

Due to the success of this giveaway last year, I'm doing it again!

I would like to give away 1-Year OH Plus Membership to five lucky winners who are at least semi-active contributors to OH but for whatever reason have not purchased Plus (or let it lapse).

Nominees who meet a set of criteria (see below) will be randomly selected by assigning each qualifying nominee a number, and then picking five numbers at random. The OH Staff will award each winner an OH Plus membership!

Dates:

Nominations open on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at the time this post goes up.

It ends on Friday, April 13, 2018 at 11:59 PM Eastern. Submissions after this time will not be considered.

The winners will be selected and announced on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at a time convenient for me (sorry, I am human ).

 

To qualify:

1. Contestant must be an OH member with at least 50 posts, account in good standing (no active Warnings), and account is not suspended.

2. Contestant must have logged in to the OH forums at some point during the 2018 Regular Season so far. So, inactive members who haven't logged in during the regular season do not qualify.

3. Contestant must not be a current Plus member (prior Plus members who lapsed their subscription still qualify).

4. Contestant must be an active participant (not just reader) in the forums during the 2018 Orioles Season (including Spring Training), as determined qualitatively by me alone. To give you an idea of my criteria: someone who has posted once in the 2018 season would not qualify, but someone who's posted about two posts a week during Spring Training, and has posted 10 posts in the past 2 weeks would definitely qualify.

 

Nomination Process:

Reply to this post with the following:

1. Link to forum profile of nominee, or just write "Self" if you're nominating yourself.

2. If nominating self: Brief description of why you enjoy participating in the OH boards (this will not be used to bias the chances of the nominee winning, as the drawing is random) /OR/ If nominating other: Brief description of your (hopefully positive) experience with this other person on the OH boards.

3. Copy and paste this: "The contestant nominated in this post meets all qualification criteria to the best of my knowledge."

You may nominate someone else, or yourself. If nominating someone else, link to their profile, please!

Each person can only nominate a maximum of 2 people (including themselves, if they are not a Plus member).

 

Winner Drawing Process:

On Saturday, April 14, 2018, I will edit this original post containing a list of all forum members who were nominated and qualified as a contestant, along with the list of winners. The winners will be drawn at random using the random number generator at https://random.org. In short: qualifying for the drawing is subjective, but winners will be randomly selected.

Weams has informed me that he will work out a way to manually award a 1-Year Plus Membership to each winner at the conclusion of the contest. I have arranged PayPal payment of the full price of all five subscriptions in one transaction ($125 USD) to the owners of OriolesHangout, and gotten the approval of Weams to post this.

 

Qualifying Contestants:

If your name appears in the below list, I have entered you into the random drawing. Good luck!

No one has been nominated yet!

This is very awesome. Great job once again.

[Frobby]

This may be a dumb question, but is there a way to tell who is already a plus member, without looking at the profiles?    At least on my mobile, I don’t see any indicators.   

[allquixotic]

13 minutes ago, Frobby said:

This may be a dumb question, but is there a way to tell who is already a plus member, without looking at the profiles?    At least on my mobile, I don’t see any indicators.   

The easiest way that I know of to find non-PLUS members (on a computer, sorry, not sure about mobile) is to scroll through the game threads, or popular Orioles Talk threads. Look for people whose "title" on the left-hand side says "Limited Posting Member", "Advanced Member" or things like that.

I'm not sure but I think the staff have to manually remove the "Plus" title from people who let their subscriptions lapse, so we might have people with a Plus title who haven't paid up this year... if that's the case, they would also qualify to be nominated and get back into the Plus system legitimately.

[Luke-OH]

I'll nominate @Beef Supreme, we don't always agree, but Beef is an active and quality contributor to the discussion here.

"The contestant nominated in this post meets all qualification criteria to the best of my knowledge."

[allquixotic]

Here is a URL that you can click on. When you do so, it will search the OH forums for registered users with the "Limited Posting Member" title, and it will sort them in descending order by post count.

That is NOT to say you shouldn't nominate people with low post counts. Feel free to do so, by all means. This might just be the list of people who, although they contribute prolifically to OH, are not currently Plus members.

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/index.php?/search/&type=core_members&group[8]=1&sortby=member_posts&sortdirection=desc&page=1

[allquixotic]

6 minutes ago, Luke-OH said:

I'll nominate @Beef Supreme, we don't always agree, but Beef is an active and quality contributor to the discussion here.

"The contestant nominated in this post meets all qualification criteria to the best of my knowledge."

Added to the list. Good choice.

[OFFNY]

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NUMBER 5

NUMBER 5

 

NUMBER 5

NUMBER 5

 

NUMBER 5

NUMBER 5

 

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/index.php?/profile/17560-number5/

 

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[allquixotic]

6 minutes ago, OFFNY said:

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NUMBER 5

NUMBER 5

 

NUMBER 5

NUMBER 5

 

NUMBER 5

NUMBER 5

 

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/index.php?/profile/17560-number5/

 

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I'd be happy to put @Number5 in the drawing, but it says his title is "Plus Member" and "Advanced Member".

Usually, Advanced Member means you're not a Plus Member, and vice versa, so I'm a little confused. Can @weams or @Tony-OH please clarify: is @Number5 a Plus member currently? If no, I'll put him in the drawing for OFFNY.

Thanks!

[weams]

I will check. 

[esmd]

I'll nominate Redskins Rick.

"The contestant nominated in this post meets all qualification criteria to the best of my knowledge."

[allquixotic]

11 minutes ago, esmd said:

I'll nominate Redskins Rick.

"The contestant nominated in this post meets all qualification criteria to the best of my knowledge."

Added!

[Frobby]

There are so many good candidates, I’m hesitant to single one out, but I will nominate RZNJ.

”The contestant nominated in this post meets all qualification criteria to the best of my knowledge.”