** This competition is now over - congrats to all the winners **

I am pleased to announce an exciting competition for the Message Boards!

The prize is Free Lifetime Membership of Gaire. The winner will also get a snazzy "Firestarter" badge added to their forum posts if they wish.

To be in with a chance of winning you simply need to start some Hot Topics. At the end of each month, the five members who've started the most Hot Topics will be elligble to win.

Of these five, the member whose topics had the most unique participants will be declared the winner. Basically, it won't be possible to win by starting lots of topics that only you and a friend respond to.

You can keep track of the competition by clicking Stats in the message boards menu above. As you can see its currently a close run thing.

The winner will be announced on the first Monday of each month - therefore March's winner will be announced on April 6th.

The competition will run for a year and I must ask members not to disrupt new and existing topics with chatter about the competition. These posts will be removed by myself and the moderators.

You can of course talk about the competition in this topic but please try to keep it positive and helpful. After all, nobody wants to read snarky comments everytime someone starts a new topic that may or may not be part of the competition.

Soooooo if you missed out on Lifetime Membership all those years ago, now is your chance to grab it while you can! Good luck everyone!


Competition Rules

For now I'll keep the rules as simple as I can but I may need to add more conditions as the competition rolls on.

Chat / Quizes topics are not eligible (From May onwards)

As topics are constantly being added to, the cutoff point will be midnight before the results are announced.

In the event of a member winning more than once, the prize will be given to the runner up.

If a winner already has lifetime membership they can gift it to someone else or accept a gift token for €50 instead.

Members who create duplicate accounts for posting on the boards will be permanently disqualified from the competition.

What exactly constitutes a Hot topic?

Thanks.

a hot topic is a thread that goes over 4 pages i think Intrepid

Great idea, Thomas.



Oooh, I like it!

I'm not much of a hot topic starter, but it's time to get my brain juices flowing and get busy thinking of ideas to win...

Ive started loads of threads but I'm too boring to get a hot topic ha ha ha!! No fair!!

Looks like Otaku Girl is fighting the way to the top tho ha ha!!

So, is a Hot Topic, just one that goes over 4 pages, as Limkmike said?

Yes it automatically becomes a hot topic with 60 posts (4 pages). You see the little fire symbol beside it on the message boards.

Thats a gas idea. You could add little scout badges to peoples profiles when they get different things like hot topics, 1000 posts, 3 bannings and the most std's picked up from meets in the classifieds

I like being a twisted fire starter.

There will be lots of opportunities to win - particularly towards the end of the competition when all the good posters have already won.

Don't forget if you can't find your recent topics just click Follow Up in the menu above.

Very good idea.
Hopefully it will bring fresh blood, and a new take on/revisiting of past threads that went stale.

As for the multiple accounts, apart from the fact that banned members will find it hard to compete, I would not worry too much about them: it would take a lot of work and IP cloning to get to any noticeable effect.

I think I'm doing ok in the fire starter category already

Sounds like a cool comp. Doubt I'll come even close to winning it. I find it hard to post sometimes... let alone think of a topic

I suspect they must be started in the month... not all times...
But you could catch up :-)

Those Orange Order Lodges dont count