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[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

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When looking at the Member Showcase Contest, one always sees private and commercial submissions in one place. I think it would definitely be better to split this into 2 separate contests. One for private sites that generate the owner no income and are created by a non-professional person.

The other one would be one that is solely for those submissions that are based on the creator doing the job for a customer or for own commercial purposes including also non-profit sites that are existing as such, meaning are not what the definition of a private site is. This would also mean any social networking sites and any other sites that have a commercial touch also when no goods are sold or direct services are sold via the websites and whenever those are submitted by professional users, also when the client is a private entity.

As to the prizes I also think commercial members should not be allowed to win a developer membership more than once a year and to the less time and efforts created by non-professional users the price should always be a club membership, holding balance of what is fair and needed.

But when one likes to give a non-professional user the ability to possibly go into the professional business with a free Developer membership, the option could be there that when winning the non-professionals’ contest at least three times in a year, the current membership of the private user may be upgraded to a free one-year Developer membership for bringing constant hard work and extravagant designs and the winner has shown that his ambition and energy put into the design pays out a real great price that will benefit the user on his new professional way into the Webdesign Business.

Long talk, but let’s see how others see this… 😉

[bennitos Friend bennitosJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1717Downloads:0Uploads:39 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 474 times in 407 posts]

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Dont see how this would ever work. Who’s to decide if someone is a “proffesional” or not?

For example i mainly make non-profit websites, but i have also done commercial ones. Some may say im a proffessional some may say im not. Would be rather impossible to divide it like this.

And myself i dont really see the need for this, the past have shown that a lot of diverse people have won the contest.

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[sunrise Friend sunriseJoin date: February 2007Posts: 920Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 103 Thanked: 166 times in 114 posts]

#285012

I don’t really see how this would work either. It gets to be a bit too complicated. Who comes under what category. Which site qualifies and personal or professional. I feel we would just keep it the way it is for now. If any change is needed, if in the future there are very many new sites, we could possibly award prizes to the two best sites. But for now, my suggestion would be to leave things the way they are.

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