Poll
Question:
Which email should be used as the SMF 2.0 birthday email?
Option 1: Submission 1
votes: 41
Option 2: Submission 2
votes: 15
Option 3: Submission 3
votes: 29
Option 4: Submission 4
votes: 45
Option 5: Submission 5
votes: 72
Below are the finalist for the birthday contest. The results will be hidden until the end of the contest. Please vote on the one that you think should be used as the SMF 2.0 birthday email.
If you know who wrote a particular submission keep that information to yourself. This is not a popularity contest.
And now the submissions in no particular order.
Submission #1
Subject: Birthday Wishes to {REALNAME}
Dear {REALNAME},
Another year in your life has passed. We at {FORUMNAME} hope it has been filled with happiness, and wish you luck in the coming one.
{REGARDS}
Submission #2
Subject: Your Birthday Greeting
We hope your birthday is the best ever cloudly, sunny or whatever the weather.
Have lots of birthday cake and fun, and tell us what you have done.
We hope this message brought you cheer, and make it last, until same time same place, next year.
{REGARDS}
Submission #3
Subject: Happy birthday, {REALNAME}!
Do you know who's having a birthday today, {REALNAME}?
We know... YOU!
Happy birthday!
You're now a year older but we hope you're a lot happier than last year.
Enjoy your day today, {REALNAME}!
- From your {FORUMNAME} family
Submission #4
Subject: Happy Birthday!
Your friends at {FORUMNAME} would like to take a moment of your time to wish you a happy birthday, {REALNAME}. If you have not done so recently, please visit our community in order for others to have the opportunity to pass along their warm regards.
Even though today is your birthday, {REALNAME}, we would like to remind you that your membership in our community has been the best gift to us thus far.
Best Wishes,
The Staff of {FORUMNAME}
Submission #5
Subject: On your Birthday...
We could have sent you a birthday card. We could have sent you some flowers or a cake.
But we didn't.
We could have even sent you one of those automatically generated messages to wish you happy birthday where we don't even have to replace INSERT NAME.
But we didn't
We wrote this birthday greeting just for you.
We would like to wish you a very special birthday.
{REGARDS}
//:: This message was automatically generated :://
As a reminder the following replacements will be done:
{FORUMNAME} - The forum's name. (I.E. Simple Machines Community Forum)
{REALNAME} - The user's display name. (I.E. Thantos)
{REGARDS} - The salutation line. (I.E. Regards, The {FORUMNAME} Team)
Good luck finalists!
Is there a required post group for voting? It would explain why I can not. :(
Sorry about that. Turns out that this board didn't allow people to vote in polls. That has been corrected.
Nice job, finalists..
Voted :) Thanks again to SMF development team for their enduring endeavor in this fabulous project.
*votes* Awesome xD
I love the irony within Submission 5... :)
My favourite never go through :(
Quote from: Kwek on September 08, 2007, 03:20:54 AM
I love the irony within Submission x... :)
don't reveal your votes
this topic must be locked, users must be allowed to vote only :)
Well my fave got through, good luck number X
Congrats to all the finalists.
My vote is in. Whatever it is. :P
-ALM
Mines to :)
This was a tough choice.
What's with "another year in yourlife have passed" cr@p? Gosh like I would need to be reminded of that?!
Voted. I voted #6 :P
I'd prefer it to be do-able by the owner of the forum.
I think there might be a thing where you can edit the language files as you want, but I'm not too sure on it.
Even if there isnt, you can still edit the language files manually if you want.
-ALM
To be honest, I can't really say I find any of the alternatives suitable as a default greeting, so I think I'll have to pass on this poll...
Not that I think we'd actually use this feature on our forum, so that's probably just fair, but whatever happened to the "Simple" in SMF? :-X
Yeap. Voted!
I voted for Submission *explosion drowns out my voice*. :)
when does the voting end
According to the poll:
QuoteVoting closes: 15 September 2007, 02:18:48
That's GMT+1, my local time. :P
Quote from: Aäron on September 08, 2007, 04:47:42 PM
According to the poll:
QuoteVoting closes: 15 September 2007, 02:18:48
That's GMT+1, my local time. :P
And in Eastern Daylight Time the poll will end at...
QuoteVoting closes: September 14, 2007, 08:18:48 PM
They are all brilliant :D
I voted for-- oh wait....
lol
Good luck to all the finalists though.
May I ask how many entrants vs entries there were in total? ;)
72 total entries from 38 members.
well thats probably quite alot considering they probably only have a handful of people writing all the duff greetings cards for Hallmark. ;)
I wanted to submit
"You're the birthday,
you're the birthday,
you're the birthday boy or girl <tail falls off and catches fire>"
But I'm a team member. And was disqualified from entering. :P
-ALM
Quote from: ALM on September 09, 2007, 01:22:22 PM
I wanted to submit
"You're the birthday,
you're the birthday,
you're the birthday boy or girl <tail falls off and catches fire>"
But I'm a team member. And was disqualified from entering. :P
-ALM
You gotta wonder how far that would have got in the first round of voting considering how many times we've seen it before :P
I would've given it top marks. :P
-ALM
yeh but we would have known its from you
voted ;)
I voted! My vote goes to the one with the word "Birthday" in the Subject. :) :D :P
Quote from: ALM on September 09, 2007, 01:22:22 PM
I wanted to submit
"You're the birthday,
you're the birthday,
you're the birthday boy or girl <tail falls off and catches fire>"
But I'm a team member. And was disqualified from entering. :P
-ALM
I think that would get atleast 2 or 3 votes :P
Even though I've voted, I didn't like any of the 5 submissions... Cmon they could have been better!
My choice sure was the one that is between 1 - 5 :P
Brianjw
DuGH! I revealed my answer >:( lol
is that inclusive or exclusive ;)
Quote from: TheUniqueTiger on September 10, 2007, 05:34:42 PM
Even though I've voted, I didn't like any of the 5 submissions... Cmon they could have been better!
Yeah I agree. I not to be mean didnt like any, the one I picked was bad, none were good. They were boring :|
I hope for the fact if you did not like any of them that you had at least entered a submission a month ago when it started :P
I voted for... mmh... don't remember... :P
Quote from: SleePy on September 11, 2007, 12:32:41 AM
I hope for the fact if you did not like any of them that you had at least entered a submission a month ago when it started :P
Yeah I submitted three :)
nitins60: post your support questions in the support boards and don't spam a completely unrelated topic with them.
Deleted the post.
Voted.
Here is mine
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Hey Dude!
;) Congratulations to see that you are still a living body
8) Have fun this day, you are one year near to death
:o I see you more older this time, really
;D You are coming to the end with every new breath
{FORUMNAME}
We look into your eyes and tell the truth
Visit us for more...
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Optional Note :
We do not care who you are, {REALNAME}
i wonder if the end of this poll will bring a 2.0 beta to public one step closer or not? :-\
anyhow. i voted for well. ul never know will u? :P
Quote from: uberjon on September 11, 2007, 10:42:58 PM
i wonder if the end of this poll will bring a 2.0 beta to public one step closer or not? :-\
It won't. There's still plenty of bug fixes to be done and plenty of juicy features to go in yet. ;)
-ALM
Voted.... I personally liked number 4.
Voted. GL!
Submission 5 won!
Surprise Surprise..
Quote from: Sverre on September 08, 2007, 03:58:45 PM
To be honest, I can't really say I find any of the alternatives suitable as a default greeting, so I think I'll have to pass on this poll...
Not that I think we'd actually use this feature on our forum, so that's probably just fair, but whatever happened to the "Simple" in SMF? :-X
I agree, the whole thread seems unfortunately like those post whoring threads you see on lesser forums.
oh well, at least somebody cares.
Well, that's ridiculous.
Just shows how (not) grown up the SMF community is.
I mean don't get me wrong, it is funny and such, but including it in the software? That's ridiculous.
Do you really want to send out this message to your friends? How about if your users are not friends?
Congrats for the SMF team for a very nice initiative, less congrats for the user community for being so childish. :P
One more item in my smf install todo list. :-\
Quote785.) Remove Silly Birthday Greeting
Quote from: Rudolf on September 14, 2007, 09:51:06 PM
Well, that's ridiculous.
Just shows how (not) grown up the SMF community is.
I mean don't get me wrong, it is funny and such, but including it in the software? That's ridiculous.
Do you really want to send out this message to your friends? How about if your users are not friends?
Congrats for the SMF team for a very nice initiative, less congrats for the user community for being so childish. :P
One more item in my smf install todo list. :-\
exactly!
Honestly, of all of the submissions entered, the winning one in this poll is the one that scored the highest in my book.
For those of you complaining (aside from SMF Teamies and Friends, since we couldn't submit any entries), did you even bother submitting your own unique entry? If not, then you have no grounds to complain, as this contest was open to *everyone* not on the SMF team or listed as a Friend.
For the record, I was less than impressed with 95% of the entries. Whomever submitted #5, congrats, you got me to chuckle at that one. :)
Good luck
I definitely laughed at it :)
im just not sure how well received it'd be.
I don't think it'll matter
I'm getting way too serious :P
Quote from: Douglas on September 14, 2007, 10:07:46 PM
For those of you complaining (aside from SMF Teamies and Friends, since we couldn't submit any entries), did you even bother submitting your own unique entry? If not, then you have no grounds to complain, as this contest was open to *everyone* not on the SMF team or listed as a Friend.
No, I didn't bother to submit an entry because this is a feature I don't intend to use (I really don't see its value as a default feature either), and frankly, I thought you'd get hundreds of simple and neutral greetings to choose from anyway... Looking at the entries which got through to the poll, I guess I was wrong though, and even if it doesn't matter to me personally, I can't help but feel a bit embarrassed on SMF's behalf.
Quote from: Douglas on September 14, 2007, 10:07:46 PM
For those of you complaining (aside from SMF Teamies and Friends, since we couldn't submit any entries), did you even bother submitting your own unique entry? If not, then you have no grounds to complain, as this contest was open to *everyone* not on the SMF team or listed as a Friend.
Stop attacking. If I had submitted something you would say that I'm complaining because it wasn't mine that won the contest. Only the ones who submitted entries have the right to complain?
I am not english speaking person so I left the submissions to do someone else, hoping that someone will submit something good. And they did, the number 4 seemed pretty good.
Besides, I do like the one that SMF has now.
My complaints are towards the SMF user base, not the team.
Anyway, as a voting result it's really not significative. If you look at it only a third of the people want that submission, and 2 third doesn't wants it (or want something else). It would be the winner only if it got more then 50% of the votes. Having one third requesting it is not a majority.
Usually there's another voting poll for the two highest ranked. The one that ranks higher between the two will be the winner.
There's going to be another round?
Quote from: zwaldowski on September 15, 2007, 08:48:42 AM
There's going to be another round?
I don't think so, I think that submission 5 is now the default birthday greeting. :(
Or how about trying to mix good parts of all submissions into one perfect birthday greeting?