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Introducing the Forem Shop! New Merch, Giveaways, and More.

dev.to staff on March 07, 2022

Editorial Note: This giveaway is now closed. We have emailed everyone who entered below — if that's you, please check your email for a spe...
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GrahamTheDev

OK so this was a big reminder that I have $100 worth of vouchers for the DEV store (I hope they are still valid, they are old now).

If they are valid, what is a good way I can run a competition that adds value to the DEV community to give them away (I don't do merch) and would anyone be interested?

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Word up! Your code should indeed still be valid.

what is a good way I can run a competition that adds value to the DEV community to give them away (I don't do merch) and would anyone be interested?

This is a super cool idea and I really appreciate you asking for feedback on a way to do this that would have a positive effect on the community. 😀

I'd love to see a competition that encourages folks to do something cool like:

  • Who can create the most engaging discussion?

I'm thinking this might be measured as the discussion with the most comments... that said this could be game-able and cause folks to create fake accounts to boost their own comments. You could of course try to filter out comments that feel low-bar or like they're from fake accounts, but that'd be tricky and potentially error prone! Alternatively, you could choose the discussion here subjectively based on what ya think is the most interesting prompt.

  • Who can create the best post #a11y post?

Yeah, this ones subjective, but I think you would be well qualified to judge these posts and pick out a valid winner.

  • Who can provide the most helpful comment to someone looking for help (someone that has posted under #help)?

I'm definitely coming up with a lot of ideas that are tricky to measure. 😅 This one is probs subjective unless you wanted to quantify it by number of likes, but when there's a quantitative way to win, I just slightly worry about folks gaming the numbers...


I'm sure that you can come up with some good ideas here so feel free to take or leave these!

As a logistics thing for these, you could require submitters to use a particular tag that you create on each of their posts or have folks embed their post as a comment in your post about the competition. Getting folks to comment on your post would boost visibility of your post, so keep that in mind!

And if you would, just make it clear that this isn't a DEV official contest. You can mention that I have given you permission to regift your Top 7 code in this way though! I think this is an awesome idea. 🙌

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GrahamTheDev

Thanks a lot for the great suggestions and how to go about it!

Obviously something around #a11y would be right up my street!

I don’t mind them being subjective (my vouchers my rules 🤣) but I will see if I can come up with some simple rules that are hard to game / cheat!

Thanks so much for taking the time for such a well thought out comment, competition will land in the next couple of weeks then! ❤️🔥

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Michael Tharrington

Happy to help out with a bit of advice. 😀

I think it's an awesome idea and am excited to check it out when it goes live!

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Kavisha Nethmini

that will be great!

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Posandu

👀

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Mahmudul Hasan

Sure, You can start a giveaway competition! That will be great!

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Jackson Kasi
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Mia :) (she/her)

Congratulations on the new shop! It looks great!
twitter.com/miaauch_/status/150160...

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Andrew Bone

That's really generous give away 😯

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Jess Varghese • Edited

Awesome merch!
https://twitter.com/jmvargoose/status/1500945294707642368?s=20&t=2nrs94oyrzDqLYpOoMoYRQ

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Bhagya • Edited

Congratulations Team forem🙊❤

📌Link to the tweet:
https://twitter.com/bagya___/status/1501110615875928065?s=20&t=8q5W1gManDcs1TSnFfl56A

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10x learner

Congrats on your new redesigned shop @forem ! 🥳🎉🎉
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Asmit Malakannawar • Edited

Congratulations Forem!! This new site looks 😎

tweet

Link to my tweet!!
https://twitter.com/Asmit_2952/status/1501245566503702528?t=syLmAN8vQ19HAQ5HMLibrA&s=19

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Timo
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Leví Arista • Edited

Mugs are great!
Tweet
DEV mug

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Thomas Bnt

Awesome 😎👍

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Mahmudul Hasan • Edited

I love your mug and pad ❤😘 and share my affection to my twitter community! 🎤🔊 check out
---> twitter.com/mhasanmeet/status/1501...

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Gokul_Zuzu • Edited

https://twitter.com/GokulZuzumaki/status/1502697096641921024?s=20&t=2uC5GYgSmQkZfh7By-TFlw

Looking forward to the voucher

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Gokul_Zuzu

I haven't received the gift card yet

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Jay Parmar • Edited

Excited for my first goodies from Forem
link to my tweet :twitter.com/_Jaystwt/status/150112...

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Update: The Forem team will be in touch with your swag codes the on or soon after Tuesday, March 15, 2022!

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Anamika

Congratulations to the Team! 💜
📌 Here's my tweet:
twitter.com/reachtoana/status/1501...

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Elsa
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Andrew Baisden

Love new gear 😍

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balu308

Excited for my goodies thank you and congratulation for your new launch.
twitter.com/Balaji8565/status/1501...

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psai0011

congratulations for new launching the shop
I am so much excited for my first goodies from forem shop

twitter.com/Psai1100/status/150192...

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Thomas Bnt

It is here !

Tweet

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Bobby Iliev

This is super cool!

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Madza

Congrats, team Forem! 🥳✨👍

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Andy Piper • Edited

Exciting!!

… now, do I choose the Forem wink, or the word logo… 🤨

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Ella (she/her/elle)

Why not both? Since you've been waiting so patiently, and there will only ever be one Launch Collection... Lmk if you need more help justifying this decision 😉

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Dhairya Shah

Here's my tweet

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Mariano Rentería

https://twitter.com/marianorenteria/status/1501808613677015044?s=20&t=Noq6bsK2bcwh3Q4W2w6pdg

When I took the screenshot the image was not rendering, but look at the tweet :P

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Suave Bajaj

Not able to add screenshot, anybody else???

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baran

Wooo 🎉 congrats on the launch, looks amazing!

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Anamika

Hi! I have not received any email till now. I kept a check on my spam too. Kindly look into the matter :(
@thepracticaldev

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Tanvir Rahman
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Gokul_Zuzu

I haven't received the gift card yet. Could you look into it?

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Dhruv Patil

Best giveaway🎁

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Mr. Bud • Edited

Congrats Team, you're on Rock 🤘

Really cool stuff, but empty pocket 🤷‍♂️
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Arpan Adhikari
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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

That's wonderful.

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Mohit Yadav

Hey, just tweeted about you many days ago, I hope it counts!

Link: twitter.com/Just_Moh_it/status/150...

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Anamika

Did anyone get any updates..?? 👀

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Syafiqah Hisham • Edited