1000 Instructables enterd!!!
The book contest has the most entered Instructables in the history of the site, over 1000 Instructables!!!
Now that is something to comment and talk about!
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American English, since it changes so frequently isn't ANYONE'S native language LOL
Dec 18, 2008. 11:30 AMfwjs28
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seriously( if thats even spelled right)....English is one of the hardest to learn languages....
It's slightly unfair though that the "Recent Entries", are not the most recent entries to the contest, but the most recently created 'ibles that have been entered into the contest. It kind of leaves older 'ibles out of the running... not too many people want to scroll through all (currently) 1200 entries. So, unless you have been featured and show up relatively high in the "most views", or are a new instructable and show up in the "Recent Entries", you're out of luck (Unless you've got a lot of friends to vote for you, which could be the whole point).
We've tried to address this with the contest header that encourages people to move between Instructables within a contest. Also, older Instructables will typically have more inbound links from other websites, so it's probably about equal in the end.
Jul 16, 2008. 2:58 PMcomodore (author)
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Will it just be the decision of the voters or will the judges play a part in this contest???
I hope so, after perusing through all of the entries, there are some really cool ones toward the back with absolutely no votes.
Post a forum topic with your picks of older Instructables that aren't getting the attention they deserve.
It's interesting to look at the most viewed and the most voted, it becomes obvious which instructables are really great and which have been around a long time, especially with things like the throwies which have made their way to the top of the votes as well... Looking at it I'd say that the end of contest list will also give us a great set of exemplary instructables to help attract people and have some sort of best of instructables page, just links, to mirror the book list online...
Jul 16, 2008. 8:22 AMcomodore (author)
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yea, I totally agree, that is why I am making a new instructables so i can enter it, it has a better chance of winning.
really its only like 1/14th of the projects have been entered so far and i will be surprised if we come close to 5000. most people who make a poor instructable know it so they are not going to enter it {and there are really no bad ones ,some are just small some may be repetitive} i have a couple myself that aren`t worth the trouble to enter cause they have no chance i expect some of the early contributers have moved on in interests and maybe wont bother. some of the most unlikely things have been popular here { i was really amazed at how far the throwie idea went :} } so you never know whats going to be popular. so if the contest beaks 5000 you all can call me idiot for my prediction
actually most people who make a poor instructable know it but they enter it anyway, along with everything else the have made :(
Jul 13, 2008. 4:33 PMKeith-Kid
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Whoa......I should remove mine then.....wouldn't want to make this any harder.....Then again it's decided by votes, so It wouldn't really make a difference....
Wow! There are about 13,000 instructable left to enter this contest, and this must be first contest ever to have 1000+ instructables! I wonder if there are going to be any contest that will have 10,000+ instructables...
Given the utter prestige involved in having your work appear in an actual paper book, for sale in real shops, I'm only surprised it's taken this long to reach a thousand.
Jul 10, 2008. 10:06 AMcomodore (author)
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Well yea, but some people are not that big fans of Instructables as us. :)
Not I. I specifically asked to be left out of the book, except of course for any ibles of mine that win (yeah, right!).
It's a big contest all the same, to have an instructable featured in a book that undoubtedly could sell... I wonder if some user created groups could have similar effects maybe like the recipe book created before... There's a lot on electronics in the place you could have a book chock full of projects for the aspiring DIY'er...
I agree with kiteman. And as more people continue to find out about this contest, I think that number will continue to rise.
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