gozaimaas 61 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 decoder ring Awesome band, google them Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Gentlemen and ladies. I cereated this post due to the fact that when I linked from, " http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/21321-snowjapan-giveaways-10-gala-yuzawa-niigata-lift-tickets/" it was to the understanding that I would be able to enter this contest. Before enterring the contest I was sked to register to qualify. There were no condidtions mentioned for qualification. I have now noticed that the administrator has made mention of some of the conditions but they are not properly detailed on the contest page. It is Japanese law that all conditions, private information stipulations, and legal requirements be avaiable for any applicant for any giveaway contest; even this private forum as your sponsors are fully qulified corporations here in Japan. The sponsors know this and if they don't the law firm they have contracts with know this. Please understand that my point of my post, aside form the obvious title, was to point out that the administrators of this forum on this site need to be aware that they were and are misleading individuals who would like to apply for the contest by not providing all the conditions for individuals who are intereted in registering for the contest. I would hate to see any private organzation to lose their sponsors over s simple matter of providing the nescessary leagal information to thos who request it. That really is quite a post, just re-read it. How did you score on spelling in junior high? Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 You should print it out and put it up on the wall! Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 You should print it out and put it up on the wall! Tubby had an engrish thread a few pages back. It would fit in there quite nicely. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Couldn't believe that persons second post even worse than the first! OMFG is he / she on drugs or something! Best just ignore them, they will most probably go away then! Still can't believe what I read back there! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Gentlemen and ladies. I cereated this post due to the fact that when I linked from, " http://www.snowjapanforums.com/index.php/topic/21321-snowjapan-giveaways-10-gala-yuzawa-niigata-lift-tickets/" it was to the understanding that I would be able to enter this contest. Before enterring the contest I was sked to register to qualify. There were no condidtions mentioned for qualification. I have now noticed that the administrator has made mention of some of the conditions but they are not properly detailed on the contest page. It is Japanese law that all conditions, private information stipulations, and legal requirements be avaiable for any applicant for any giveaway contest; even this private forum as your sponsors are fully qulified corporations here in Japan. The sponsors know this and if they don't the law firm they have contracts with know this. Please understand that my point of my post, aside form the obvious title, was to point out that the administrators of this forum on this site need to be aware that they were and are misleading individuals who would like to apply for the contest by not providing all the conditions for individuals who are intereted in registering for the contest. I would hate to see any private organzation to lose their sponsors over s simple matter of providing the nescessary leagal information to thos who request it. What part of active member did you not understand? Am guessing the active part. Hopefully the sj guys have either kicked you off this site, or you have seen how this community has come together and shown you the error of your ways. First and foremost, this site is based around winter sports in Japan, and the discussion of these places. Secondly, these forums are a sub part of that. People come here with a common bond of winter sports. We might not agree on things from time to time, and things might get heated but that doesn't detract from this site. Thirdly, if the giveaways were to stop, I would like to think most, if not all, of the members would still keep on coming back here because of our love for winter sports and Japan. Now either become and active member of this forum, or leave us in peace. Link to post Share on other sites
ILoveZao 8 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I think this person really misjudged quite a few things here. I don't understand why some people think and act like this. I can only congratulate the site on doing so many good things for Japan winter sports. I know for a fact that the managers at Zao here know about the site and are very happy that it exists. Keep up the fine work. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted February 12, 2012 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted February 12, 2012 To those of you who have shown it, thanks for your support. We have actually had a few people express a similar kind of opinions this season. While people are entitled to their opinions on this subject and we can't do anything about that, I really do not want to keep on hearing comments like this on here and I'm not going to let any more through. The thing is, such comments are not going to change the way we do things. If anything, listening to what we feel are very unreasonable comments often strengthens our resolve to do things the way we see best fit. We're quite stubborn that way! Just for the record, I am sure that most of the resorts who donate tickets for our Giveaways (or "sponsors" as they have been labelled here) and know the fine details are very happy with the arrangement. Some have expressed very positive thoughts about the idea of the Giveaways being open only to signed up members and people who join in the community. You see, it increases the chance of those people coming back and sharing trip reports and photos on the Forums. And therefore it benefits the resorts as well as the community. That is certainly better - for the resorts, for the community - than people simply coming on here to get their freebies for doing nothing and then disappearing with their winning ticket and never coming back, never to share the experience. We are not misleading anyone. We certainly do not mean to and I think it is very clear for the Giveaways as I noted yesterday. And to be accused of things like that is simply very, very annoying to us. Sometime you have to pinch yourself when you hear people complaining about something such as our Giveaways. You know, the bit where we put tons of effort into arranging things, where we send free stuff out to people for nothing. We try to keep disclaimers and that kind of thing on our site to a minimum, because frankly it's pretty sad when you have to keep on being on the defence all the time and seeing pages and pages of conditions etc. We want to try and avoid that. But again, the Giveaways thing is pretty clear. The Giveaways are open to anyone who is signed up to these Forums and takes part. It is free to register. We are not asking for any money. The only info you need to register is a valid email address, and furthermore that is not shown to other members and we do not use it for anything at all whatsoever. You do not need to divulge any other information. If you really do not want to take part properly in the Forums, you can get around it easily by simply posting a few totally anonymous - but non-troll-like - comments on the Forums, after which you will be able to enter the Giveaways. That's hardly in the spirit of the thing though. Regulars will have heard this before, but - if you don't like it, you're just going to have to deal with it. Before you complain, remember that we owe you absolutely nothing. Don't use our site... whatever.... we're fine with that. Really! We don't live haunted by page views, never will, and I would much prefer to have less of them than have to deal with stuff like this. I was debating whether to respond to this again. Obviously, I have done, but this is the last from me/us on the subject. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Ross 4 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Did not sign up for prize's But I do enjoy the info, picture's and humour.dont really need people like that on board. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I think the competitions should only be open to people who have over 8000 posts and live in the kanto areas. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Lets hope we hear the last of that lot then! I'm still not convince this was a 'real' comment, it's just hard to believe someone actually thinks like that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 I know what you mean GG, it is quite hard to believe that people think like that. I guess there won't be that many more weeks of competitions left now, so this issue will go away for a while at least. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Being a snow geek i dont spend too much time in off topic... but my my, what a treat i nearly missed. Can we have another round of giveaway complaints please. There must be a few new ones since the last lot. Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I think Ippy deserves a giveaway just for his War and Peace style reviews. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 ive won a couple. Ive been stoked out way more than i deserve. Gots the snowjapan stickers on my helmet and riot though to rep the team. Though they aint die-cuts, damn those things stay on! PS. Concussion number 3 averted. Riding the little path through the trees past the top high speed lift at kagura to get to the little pow field when i heard this "THUNK!!!" that spun me around and clattered my elbow into another tree... ooooh! also had near miss number 2 on the same path when i went too high to try and ride above a bunch of japanese dudes just sat on the path (****ing 6 of them on this path thats wide enough to fit one snowboard), unfortunately the path higher up is really unstable. Grabbed for a branch to stop myself.... the damn thing was a bungee tree or something... ended up falling backwards into a small tree sticking out horizontally which clipped my board, spun me around and then i took a massive tumble into one of them... oops! sorry dudes I tell you this though, remember when ragdoll physics first hit video games and people would fall in this weird manner where it was like they had the worlds bendiest spine? That was me that was. Face first into the slope, but it was so steep and icy that my board scorpioned way over my head like a ragdoll. Brilliant stuff, though i really hope i didnt catch the dude. I dont think i did, but then again he did rub his knee a few minutes later in a manner that would indicate i may have. No matter where i went i was plagued by that group just sitting on my line spending twenty minutes discussing where they were going and what theyd do. Every time i had to ride back on myself to get away from them. Actually since im in a ranty place id like to take thsi opportunity to mention that travelling in groups of six and buddying up is commendable, but bloody hell its annoying. Link to post Share on other sites
BillTheBinMan 0 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 I just don't get some people's sense of entitlement and where it comes from. That general attitude really does annoy me. The Giveaways are open to anyone who is signed up to these Forums and takes part.It is free to register. We are not asking for any money. The only info you need to register is a valid email address, and furthermore that is not shown to other members and we do not use it for anything at all whatsoever. You do not need to divulge any other information. If you really do not want to take part properly in the Forums, you can get around it easily by simply posting a few totally anonymous - but non-troll-like - comments on the Forums, after which you will be able to enter the Giveaways. That's hardly in the spirit of the thing though. This is spot on. Even if someone wants their freebies but doesn't want to 'join in' for whatever reason, they can easily post some stuff up here and get the ability to enter very easily. Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 But hopefully there is an "algorithm" that prevents such people from actually winning. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Notice how the OP has stopped posting too. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 but i dont want him to stop. I think he just misunderstood how this site is run, bless and tried to tap into a groundswell of complaints that the giveaways now require a few posts on the forum. Unfortunately what he maybe didnt realise is that a) the mods/owners actively participate in this site a LOT so they will defend their policy. and b ) when that free lift ticket pops through your mail box you are stoked the **** out and suddenly 3 posts to save 4000+ yen seems comedic. Come back OP, make a few posts, hang out, pop into the snow forums and chat about the places you love and hype everyone else. Its all good. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
nagoid 4 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Well, er, no. He/she obviously does not want to do that. Otherwise they would have done that. They simply want something for nothing and are annoyed that they have can't. It's as simple as that. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 but i dont want him to stop. You don't want him to stop... what exactly? His complaining? After all, that is all he has done. He hasn't made any other comment and has shown no desire to - in fact, that is why he was complaining. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 maybe hes realised the error of his ways Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted February 14, 2012 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted February 14, 2012 Unfortunately what he maybe didnt realise is that a) the mods/owners actively participate in this site a LOT so they will defend their policy. Of course, given that we are the ones putting in the many thousands of hours of work and effort each year into these Forums and website, we are perfectly entitled to. Anyone taking issue with that or anything else is free to go elsewhere, and at the same time not ask us to give them stuff for free. Just for the record, this poster has not been 'banned'. Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 ippy, did you see any kind of sign that this person was interested in 'making a few posts, hanging out, popping into the snow forums and chat about the places love and hype'? I sure didn't. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Hey OP come back....I like dog piles... SO much more fun than reading through Ippy's novel-esqe reviews.... ;) Link to post Share on other sites
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