Thank you, Dave....I was getting a little antsy, too.
I am one of those who loves to do surveys!!
Quirky, I know.
Take our survey!
will you post the winners one this thread? just so we can gradulate them ^_^
dave
Feb 18, 2009
Well, the winners will be selected at random from their email addresses, and in some cases may not be members already (we opened the survey to both subscribers and non-subscribers and will be drawing winners from both groups).
Perhaps we can post the names of the subscribers who win another year, and keep the non-subscribers' names secret.
Then again, maybe the winners want their privacy secured. I better think on this for a bit before acting.
lol, I see what you mean!
dave
Feb 23, 2009
I talked this over with Terry and we decided to announce the winners' member names for a variety of reasons (mostly to reassure everyone that we made good on our offer!) :-)
Out of all the people who submitted the survey, we randomly selected 25 of them to receive a free year's subscription. Here are the winners!
ginnylynn
JJsgarden
jmorth
hill5422
Jeffbets
ccknight
Catscan
iagardenwolf
aceroonie
billbruce
Licaine
huilotl
mrsphibb51
lindwood
GBNF
Kacklemo
greendog95
Dvtown
frask
nickynoodle1
ddeotte
retiredmom
patsotr
jonchester
ShallowGal
Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you everyone who took the time to fill out our survey.
In case anyone is curious how the winners were chosen: it was a completely random computer-generated system. The source code for the winner selection is shown below:
$winners = 25;
$data = file_get_contents("list");
$foo = explode("n", $data);
$bar = array_rand($foo,$winners);
if(is_array($bar)) {
while (list($k,$v)=each($bar)) {
print "$foo[$v]n";
}
}
Congratulations everyone!
Congrats for Winning and Partcipating!!! Now I will sit quietly in corner and sing the 'Loser, Loser, Looooser' song AGAIN
Me too DN...but congrats to all the winners!
We've already had a few very excited non subscribers contact us for their subscriptions. If you see them around the forums give them a big DG welcome!
angele
Feb 23, 2009
Congratulations to all the winners: 25! That is a bunch!!
ahmmmm LOL Dahlianut I know you are kidding but you are the furthest thing from a loser I know! No one who brings as much fun to this world as you do is a loser. Maybe unlucky in these games but not a loser, you hear me woman? harumph
plus she must be extremely lucky in love!
congrats to all the winners!
Congrats to all the winners!
Congrats!! (And btw, the not knowing was causing me serious curiosity twitches, so I'm doubly glad for the update!!)
25 - what a generous prize! Congrats to the winners!
While I don't see ads, Dave, I do see words underlined twice in blue. Are they Google Adwords? How do I get rid of them? Thanks.
dave
Feb 24, 2009
pirl, I don't know. It sounds like a spyware on your computer that might be doing that. We don't do anything that causes that (at least, not that I'm aware of)
Just out of curiosity, how many people took the survey?
Congrats to all of the winners!!
Thank you, Dave.
dave
Feb 24, 2009
We had almost 2,500 people fill out the survey. I had decided ahead of time that I would select one winner for every 100 respondents - thus the 25 winners.
Thanks Dave! Nice turnout that was...
That is a great response!
wow! congrats to all the winners!
ps.... EVERYONE who subscribes to DG is a winner! lol! look at all the wonderful friends, caring posts and great info we get here! so no more loser songs in the corner! teehee!
AnjL
This message was edited Feb 24, 2009 3:02 PM
You Tell Us, Anjl!! Wonderful place ya got here, Dave!!
Dave, are you going to share the results of the survey? Should be interesting.
dave
Feb 25, 2009
Farmerdill, that's a good idea. The survey contained a lot of interesting information and I have hardly begun to dive into it. There were some open ended questions like (paraphrasing), "What would you like to add to DG".
Once I get into the data, I believe I'll post the whole list of suggestions so everyone can mull them over. It's likely that there are many ideas that are unimplementable, but that there are recurring themes of requests that we can talk about here and then implement them.
Maybe if ya do another survey, you could put a would needs to be removed section.
I look at the ads, some I even click on that are interestign to me, but the ones that drive me insane are the one s like the belly fat ones. I feel like I lookign at the all day and all night inframercials ya see on tv and that pop up on some of the other sites.
Now I knwo I need ot lose a few pounds, but that not it, I just like looking at ads, that deal with gardening, or heck even things like cooking equipment or other hobby stuff. Anythign but them to me cheap inframercial ads.
I sure they may brign good money to advertise, but Dave's is about one of the only places you cna come, kick back and the ads are nice , clean , and pleasing. All but that one.
Wow! Many, many thanks! I never win anything, so this was a very pleasant surprise.
starlight, I checked your profile--you aren't set up to see any ads. We did have some complaints from the belly fat ad (I never saw it), and we worked with the ad team to have them removed.
I don't see ads on al the pages, just all the ads onthe home page. I liek looking at them, usually sometime time s can find good stuff offered . Like tillers and such. and burpees, new ads : )
Thanks, I had notice d I hadn't seen it for a few days and figure d maybe it was just a rotation ad time now.
If you have ads turned off then you shouldn't be seeing anything unless you're not logged in--do you have it set up so you have to log in every time you come to DG? If you change the cookie settings on your browser then you can stay logged in here permanently and then you shouldn't see any ads.
Yep, I log in everytime, if I log out from Dg, somtime s I don't then just type www in and hit go too, btu otherwis e I log in evrytime.
Yep I see the ads on when I log in, I like seeign them there. That the only page I see.
Maybe if there other good ads on the other pages, I need to turn mine back on and see what I missing.
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