04 January 2006, 17:00 UTC#1
At the moment this competition is being run on disturbed films-
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Think you can get alot of hits? Heres your chance to win a prizes. If someone can submit a video during the month of January and have reach 20,000 by Febrary 5th 2005 they will win six months of free web hosting, after which if they continue their account will get 50% off the normal price. If any fraud is involved, trust me, we can tell, the video under question will be reset to zero hits and will be disqualified from any chance to win.
Anyhow, buckwild has sent out a bulletin through myspace to try and get people to watch his videos so he can win. As we have fairly tight connections with disturbed films through here, I don't know about anyone else, but I think its a scandal. He draws people to look at the inital bulletin, then directs them to the video on disturbed films to bump up the count on his video. I call cheat, or at least a poor and desperate attempt for buck to win who obviously doesn't have enough confidence in his videos or group.
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04 January 2006, 17:03 UTC#2
Haha, maybe so, but that Russian team on Dfilms who are currently in top place dont deserve it, they cheated. Wipe the Russians out first!
04 January 2006, 17:03 UTC#3
Thats not cheating though is it? Its advertising dfilms..
04 January 2006, 17:04 UTC#4
who cares?
04 January 2006, 17:04 UTC#5
Dont matter much. Dfilms is after hits and if everyone does this then they get hits... so why not everyone do it? Its not in any rules you cant is it?
04 January 2006, 17:05 UTC#6
Its not cheating, its promotion.
04 January 2006, 17:05 UTC#7
Yeah, surely its a good thing for dfilms..
04 January 2006, 17:07 UTC#8
Meh. I suck. It is a bit of a desperate attempt though..
04 January 2006, 17:15 UTC#9
6 Months free hosting is good though!
04 January 2006, 17:20 UTC#10
04 January 2006, 17:22 UTC#11
QUOTE(adEm @ Jan 4 2006, 07:20 PM) [snapback]259635[/snapback]
what away to kill a thread!
04 January 2006, 17:23 UTC#12
*closed* Image file not present in the recovered backup
04 January 2006, 17:39 UTC#13
Why does he want to win so bad? The prize isnt that great. I guess he really wants to be "the best"...
04 January 2006, 17:45 UTC#14
QUOTE(WEAK @ Jan 4 2006, 06:39 PM) [snapback]259651[/snapback]
Why does he want to win so bad? The prize isnt that great. I guess he really wants to be "the best"...
Since this thread isn't going anywhere, I just wanna say I love your new sig
04 January 2006, 17:47 UTC#15
haha thanks, milkman made it
04 January 2006, 17:49 UTC#16
Guilty, as charged
04 January 2006, 18:01 UTC#17
It is unfair if he won it though.
Then again he's not like refreshing it every 2seconds, he's doing it the right way, just realised. I hope he beats the russian.
04 January 2006, 18:09 UTC#18
QUOTE(LouZy Hero @ Jan 4 2006, 12:22 PM) [snapback]259637[/snapback]
QUOTE(adEm @ Jan 4 2006, 07:20 PM) [snapback]259635[/snapback]
what away to kill a thread!
nah, it's sign language for jealous. I believe it's on topic.
04 January 2006, 18:21 UTC#19
Thats a really intellectual reply
04 January 2006, 18:57 UTC#20
QUOTE(The Milkman @ Jan 4 2006, 07:21 PM) [snapback]259661[/snapback]
Thats a really intellectual reply
Whats happened with your sigs man? I always look at yours cos of the chicks... now its a guy.... not fair
04 January 2006, 18:59 UTC#21
I dont think hes cheating at all....how else is he supposed to get hits? He's promoting his group and Disturbed films. So whats the prob?
04 January 2006, 20:23 UTC#22
QUOTE(Mono @ Jan 4 2006, 05:05 PM) [snapback]259606[/snapback]
Its not cheating, its promotion.
Exactly.
04 January 2006, 20:38 UTC#23
QUOTE(Mono @ Jan 4 2006, 05:05 PM) [snapback]259606[/snapback]
Its not cheating, its promotion.
04 January 2006, 23:06 UTC#24
If you have your video auto-playing on your myspace profile, you get mad hits to it. I remember word had like 2500 on the old dfilms from doing that.
04 January 2006, 23:30 UTC#25
No rules against this, as long as the video isn't hyperlinked to an embedded player.
04 January 2006, 23:31 UTC#26
QUOTE(itsallinthehips @ Jan 4 2006, 11:06 PM) [snapback]259833[/snapback]
If you have your video auto-playing on your myspace profile, you get mad hits to it. I remember word had like 2500 on the old dfilms from doing that.
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04 January 2006, 23:37 UTC#27
QUOTE(Word @ Jan 5 2006, 12:31 AM) [snapback]259865[/snapback]
QUOTE(itsallinthehips @ Jan 4 2006, 11:06 PM) [snapback]259833[/snapback]
If you have your video auto-playing on your myspace profile, you get mad hits to it. I remember word had like 2500 on the old dfilms from doing that.
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Naughty boy.
Ah well, we'll be enabling hotlink protection soon with rewrite rules.
05 January 2006, 00:23 UTC#28
So gaz if I had a video to that page on my myspace would that be "hyperlinked to an embedded player."?
05 January 2006, 00:29 UTC#29
QUOTE(Word @ Jan 5 2006, 01:23 AM) [snapback]259910[/snapback]
So gaz if I had a video to that page on my myspace would that be "hyperlinked to an embedded player."?
Yes indeed. I could ban myspace as an inbound refferer and probably would. I'm waiting for the new version of dfilms to discuss it though.
Once again, try avoid directly hot linking as it costs dfilms bandwidth and lost ad revenue from a bad CTR rate for advertisers. Until now it's been an honor system, but people don't ever comply.
05 January 2006, 00:32 UTC#30
I know that some sites manage to change the filenames of certain files over certain periods of time so hot linking doesn't work. Does dfilms do this too?
