13 November 2008

Vote for Member of the Month
Win SanDisk 8GB microSDHC Card
And Handy MobileMate Micro Reader!

Over the last couple weeks the SF Moderators, Admin and Members of the Dev team have discussed what to do with the SF’s 'Member Of The Month' award that we are running for the past few months and tried to solve a couple problems with the current process.

To be honest we are still not quite sure what to do but at least we came up with some great ideas on how to improve it and what is even more importantly, how to involve more participation in process of nominating, voting and awarding.

As you may have already noticed, here at Symbian Freak, we really care about our visitors, and we love being able to reward community members, each one of who have done remarkably a lot to make this site stand where it is and not be a dream broken very soon.

We would like to spread joy, friendship and good-will among members by investing the site revenue back in the community and awarding members as often as possible.

You see, Symbian Freak traffic going crazy lately, thousands of the unique visitors per day altogether with increased activity over at our forum section that now counts almost 100 000 members causes lots of problems on the server side and requires fast hardware and huge bandwidth which costs a lot but fortunately revenue from adds is getting better lately and we are earning more than this whole SF thing costs.

You see, SF is basically a hobby that's gotten out of control lately but it is still nothing more than enthusiastic site that I managing in my spare time. I am not a paid blogger and I didn’t started this site to make me fortune I would like to invest dollars that coming from Google’s adds back into community.

Despite the global economic crisis my work goes well, and I can earn enough for a decent living through my own hard work in design and prepress business so I really don’t need anything from the SF at the moment and therefore I simply want to share this revenue with you because we earned together actually.

So, in short, we need your help with the member of the month, and basically all you need to do is to vote for the member who is the most helpful, polite, or just give a thank to a member for any other worth while reason.

The luckiest voter among you will win SanDisk 8GB microSDHC Card with MobileMate Micro Reader as a main prize at the end of the competition, that’s it, simple as is, just don’t forget to leave comment over there so that we know that you vote. You don’t need to say for which member you voted, it’s enough to say I did it!

Of course, the member with the most votes for the month will be promoted as the Member of the Month and will be given a special award which will remain secret till the end of competition.

That’s it, we just like the idea of recognizing and rewarding solid community members for their hard work but also we would like to thank everyone for their participation in our community so even with a zero posts on your account you’ll be able to win cool prizes!

We’ll also probably have a yearly award as some kind of recap of the monthly awards and make it into one big competition. If you have some ideas or suggestions please don’t be hesitate to reach us over at forum section, send me PM, mail or whatever.