Comments on: Metropolitan College Blog-It Competition

By: Cheryl Ho

Cheryl Ho — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:10:03 +0000

Hi there, I stumbled upon your page here and I must say, I totally agree about the terrible judging criteria. I was nominated to join the competition, and I so did. I was a contestant too.

When I browsed through almost all the blog designs, they were either pre-made layouts, or free blogskins.. none was original and fully designed by the blogger. Got pretty ticked off and thought that it’s merely no use joining that competition anymore. The panel judges should seriously consider re-planning their criteria, rules and regulations..

By: Nasir

Nasir — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:57:56 +0000

The design that won grand prize wasn’t close to be a good one at all! and the other two winning ones (except blurrx) were ugly too. Sorry, but, that’s what I personally thought.

Think, web design competition is mirroring Malaysian AF already….. most popular vs. best talent.

By: Nasir

Nasir — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:51:51 +0000

This is interesting… Let’s see how many plagiarists we can catch…

By: aCyX

aCyX — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:10:55 +0000

the whole point of the competition isn’t really there.. they say blog design, but it’s more of a “who can get more votes” competition.. there’s nothing much on designing, more on plagarism..

By: whazoole

whazoole — Mon, 07 May 2007 02:09:12 +0000

they’re just trying to make it more accessible to the masses. for those not computer/tech savvy, it would be hard(er) to come up with a blog design and template of their own.

they’re valuing number of contestants over the quality and originality of blogs. simple reason. obvious too, since they’re a business college. all business minded people there =)

By: ShawnKid

ShawnKid — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:40:40 +0000

Oh well, didn’t expect much for the competition. Just for the sake of joining it. Totally agree about the flaw in the judging part.

By: ikram_zidane

ikram_zidane — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:11:46 +0000

that’s what i would call unfair..

By: LcF

LcF — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:36:22 +0000

@ikram_zidate: the winner is fully based on the number of votes. So, one can pay people to vote for his/her website to be a winner. No judge at all.

By: ikram_zidane

ikram_zidane — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:50:07 +0000

i’ve already mailed the guy… but the reply is that, “you could ask youf family or relatives or friends to vote for you”….

wtf… are they qualified as judges..

By: Blog it! Metropolitan College blogging competition at Blog . Jiboneus

Blog it! Metropolitan College blogging competition at Blog . Jiboneus — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:24:36 +0000

[...] A fellow blogger, LiewCF however had pointed out one silly flaw in the blog design rules and regulation. The is no mention of anything that says your blog design must be your own creation in order to be in the running. [...]

By: Tarlia

Tarlia — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:17:33 +0000

That’s disgraceful. With such huge sponsors, you’d think they’d look through the rules a bit more carefully. Or hire someone who knows what he is doing.

Rule #9 made it blatantly clear that it’s not the design that matters; it’s the number of votes.

Now that we’re all done agreeing how unfair this is, is anyone writing to inform the organisers of this little flaw?

By: e-tech

e-tech — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:28:53 +0000

Yea agree with Friedbeef, they should have taken a judge from the blogsphere, i mean common how hard is it to find a good blogger from malaysia when you have places likes malaysiabloggers and petalingstreet to name a few.

blur people

By: Friedbeef

Friedbeef — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:55:49 +0000

Yeah – organizers is a bit blur…. if i were them i would take out the blog design category… it’s too easy to rip someone else’s design and take out the author credit just to win the competition

By: wooncherk

wooncherk — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:18:25 +0000

This is really very unfair… they should prevent such things from happening… downloaded theme wordpress? haha… funny… then everybody can use professionally-designed themes… oops…