| Would you participate in an MB Forum Christmas contest? |
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| Marshall Member Joined Feb 7, 2002 1191 posts Location: Langley, BC |
 Would you participate in a Christmas contest here? |
Posted Nov 25, 2004; 8:37 am |
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The contest would be based on answering some Bible trivia questions, and hints for the questions would be hidden in various topics around the site. Edit: I removed the prize part.
Would you participate?
Last edited by Marshall on Nov 25, 2004; 2:32 pm; edited 1 time in total. |
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| McDLT Moderator Joined May 14, 2004 1451 posts Location: Toronto |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 8:58 am |
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Anything Christmas and you got me!  |
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| rudyhiebert Member Joined Oct 2, 2003 481 posts Location: Abbotsford BC |
| Bible Trivia? |
Posted Nov 25, 2004; 11:32 am |
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Nothing in the Bible is trivial. Isn't a contest gambling? I'll do the poll.
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| Marshall Member Joined Feb 7, 2002 1191 posts Location: Langley, BC |
| Re: Bible Trivia? |
Posted Nov 25, 2004; 11:43 am |
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| rudyhiebert wrote: | | Nothing in the Bible is trivial. |
Trivia doesn't necessarily mean things that are trivial. According to the dictionary, it also means "a quizzing game involving obscure facts". That's the meaning being used here.
| Quote: | | Isn't a contest gambling? |
Only if receiving Christmas gifts from some (but not all) people you know is also gambling.  |
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| Todd Moderator Joined Sep 9, 2004 1088 posts Location: Winnipeg |
| Re: Bible Trivia? |
Posted Nov 25, 2004; 1:04 pm |
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| rudyhiebert wrote: | | Isn't a contest gambling? |
I don't think so. I'm not sure the definition of gambling is always helpful. Investments of all kinds involve some amount of risk. Even keeping money in your wallet is risky. It could get stolen, it could depreciate in value, there is exchange risk if you have US currency. Not having insurance is gambling also. Declining a job offer when a better one could come up, is gambling. I better stop my actuarial analysis of the question. At any rate, there is zero downside risk for participating, and the prize is defined as a gift. It doesn't fit into the definition of gambling. |
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| vanislandwoman |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 1:39 pm |
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| I would enjoy the searching out obscure information part, and I don't think there is anything wrong about the idea. I just personally don't like to do competition for prizes, so I would l probably wind up not 'entering' answers. So I voted maybe. |
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| Marshall Member Joined Feb 7, 2002 1191 posts Location: Langley, BC |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 2:01 pm |
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My plan was to randomly choose a winner from all the correct entries. If anyone doesn't want to possibly get the prize, they could mention that on their entry and that way still participate.
Or, we could scrap the prize part and just run the questions. That makes it cheaper for me! |
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| Todd Moderator Joined Sep 9, 2004 1088 posts Location: Winnipeg |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 2:23 pm |
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| Marshall wrote: | My plan was to randomly choose a winner from all the correct entries. If anyone doesn't want to possibly get the prize, they could mention that on their entry and that way still participate.
Or, we could scrap the prize part and just run the questions. That makes it cheaper for me! |
Prizes are fun, but I'm voting for scrapping the prize. |
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| Marshall Member Joined Feb 7, 2002 1191 posts Location: Langley, BC |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 2:35 pm |
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Okay, since three people have mentioned it, I've removed the prize. It's still a contest, but the winners will have to reward themselves.  |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 2:39 pm |
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| Theprizes have been removed? Well that sucks! I love prizes - I'll do the contest anyway, but prizes are always, well, so much fun! |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 2:40 pm |
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| oops - I keep forgetting to sign in before I post - that last reply was from me, Jinxy :) |
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| Marshall Member Joined Feb 7, 2002 1191 posts Location: Langley, BC |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 2:47 pm |
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Something tells me I'm not going to be able to please everybody here. 
I agree, Jinxy, prizes are fun. Paul even compared sanctification to an athlete running a race to receive a prize (1 Cor. 9:24-27; see also Phil. 3:12-16; 2 Tim. 4:6-8). Maybe we'll do prize entries and no-prize entries. In any case, nobody will be forced to win a prize by participating in this contest. |
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| McDLT Moderator Joined May 14, 2004 1451 posts Location: Toronto |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 3:43 pm |
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| Prizes can be such a hassle, eh? On some other forums I'm a part of the prizes we receive are graphics we can add to our signature (some forever and others fo a month, until the next contest). Maybe that would be a good compromise. Although I'm okay with the prize. |
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| Bro Member Joined May 4, 2004 912 posts Location: Richmond B.C. |
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Posted Nov 25, 2004; 8:22 pm |
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| I'll play, but I think you dumped the prize idea too quickly.This is the first time I saw this topic. |
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| Bro Member Joined May 4, 2004 912 posts Location: Richmond B.C. |
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Posted Dec 9, 2004; 7:17 pm |
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| When do we start to do this contest? |
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