IB of the Month May 2009 - Category Selection

it is showing 1day from last 2dayz ??? howz that ??? i think something wrong with it

Http://orkutmarathi.blogspot.com

Hi Renie,

I had nominated the following posts for the "IndiBlogger of the Month May 2009" contest, "Original Humor" category:

1. "Swine Fluuuuu" and the grunt(side) stories!!!

2. The Charge of the 'Gilly Brigade'... !!!

3. UP, UP and (UP)AWAY... UPA Aala Re... !!!

4. IPL Mantra: "Bill u bar bar"... !!!

5. 'Chicken-hearted'... ??? Cluck! Cluck!!

Today, I have received a mail from Indiblogger stating: "We are sorry to inform you that your nomination for IndiBlogger of The Month May 2009, Original Humor could not be accepted. Most likely, your nomination was not accepted because your entry did not fall under the category of Original Humor."

Please help me understand... where is the disconnect.

notapennyformythoughts

Hi Roshmi, The only disconnect is that I Over Dosed on too many humor entries and for a while I went Insane :) . I have explained details of my insanity in my blog :) . And you will definitely be approved soon.

Yayyyy!!!!!!!!! *Clap! Clap! Clap!*

Hi there,

Roshmi - in the words of Axl Rose from November rain - You're not the only one :)

I too had nominated 5 of my posts for the Original humour category and I too received a similar mail saying -

"We are sorry to inform you that your nomination for

IndiBlogger of The Month May 2009, Original Humor could not be accepted.

Most likely, your nomination was not accepted because your entry did not fall under the category of Original Humor. If you have any questions, please ask on the forum and we will help you out."

My blog does comprise of posts on a variety of topics - mostly releated to poems, observations and humor. But the posts that I submitted were related to the humor category.

So I too, like Roshmi, wait for a reply as to why my sense of humor which is often perceived as a sense of tumor (to those who suffer the wrath of it) was rejected? :)

My blog is crashpoint-zeros-brain.

Thanks for taking out the time to sort out our queries.

Hi! It feels 'great' to know... I have company!

BTW... on seeing the mail, I thought it was April 1st... then realized it's well past...!

Anoop's blog says... 'seriously joking'... hope we are not his current 'victims'...

Over to you Anoop

notapennyformythoughts

LOL! Roshmi .. "current victims" ha ha ha .. I'm sorry you guys.. but is it ok if I am having fun reading through the replies .. I say dont judge humor at ALL! Everyones approved! LOL

Thanks Anoop!

I am now flaunting my pearly whites... !!!

I got successful entry for the Orginal Humar

My Blog is

Http://orkutmarathi.blogspot.com

yay!

I got a reject too this morning....Boo hoo sob sob....some mail that said, "Loooserrr, you are not funny enough!" or something like that! Anyways, relenless as I am, I painted my face fullto joker style after that, and have been falling over the same banana peel over and over again, so that people laugh! But It is also not working! Oh, I forgot to tell you, I am on hunger strike too! You listening, Renie!

Anyways, congrats Pankaj, for making it to shortlist! And Roshmi and Saurabh, 'chill guys', we wil rock next time!

Hey Gaurav, thanks for sticking up for me bro! I think you are darn funny and your blog will be approved soon and that goes for everyone else who thinks that their blog is funny :)

yayyyyyyy.....Thanks Anoop....yayyyy...oh wait, let me go and jump on my bed! yipeeeee!!!...(catching my breath)....

But yeah Anoop buddy, you owe me for mental pain (experiencing phsycological trauma at facing rejection)  and physical agony (broken hip bone for falling over banana peel again and again) now!

We've had to push the date for voting a couple of times, which is why you all saw 10 hours, and then 1 day, and so on. Sorry about that - let's just say that the reasons were far from technical.

we thought ur clock battery went out....

As for the moderation, I'm on a short vacation at the moment, so Anoop is the one who rejected you guys - I'll let him provide the answers.

%#%$#@% No more vacations for you :)

And here I was taking the your-nomination-confirmed mail too lightly, marking it spam actually. So is it time for 'shameless self-promoion' ?

http://summer-diary.blogspot.com

by the way, gaurav had me in splits.

You marked an IndiMail as spam? That hurts dude... I wouldn't mind you pushing my grandmom down the stairs, but this is too much to bear!

ok, make that almost

I slave and I slave and for what ? LOL

Hi Anoop,

Thanks for the update and reverting back promptly.

Now that I think about it, the rejection-boohoo-approval-smileysmiley cycle in a way gave us some market visibility. It was as if  we were the Rakhi Sawants of this forum, crying hoarse for being left out and fanning the flames of the controversies. Heck, I could even throw in a cheap hindi news channel flashing the headlines of "Bharatiya yuva ke mazakiye blogo ka mazaak" (blogo - sick). We could be interviewed, shed crocodile tears, and be a reason for morchas and news channel debates. We would be the "wide-eyed-why-me-why-me-boohoo-waaah" victimized media darlings.

Anoop, now I see that you were secretly planning this publicity stunt to shoot up our blog market ratings, but we had to mess it up without waiting for the opportune moment. Why, o why, did we complain? Why didn't we contact that news channel and initiate a sting operation? But there's no use crying now. Sorry Anoop, we couldn't comprehend the big picture.

Yaay, my blog is approved - where the yaay sounds more like a whimpering dog who given a choice of the choicest of pedigree dog food and 15 days ago's leftovers chose the leftovers. The saddest yaay ever : (  : )

Jokes apart, thanks for the approval Anoop. Looking forward to the showdown.

LOL.. I am not brave enough to pull this off as a marketing stunt my friend :). As for "leftovers" , I have learnt that IndiBlogger cant decide on humor so its up to the community now to think whos funny and who is not .. good luck :)

My blog got rejected for the Humour Category! and i need some answers!! :O

Have a look people and kindly help me out, is it that bad? or is it not humorous?

http://i-dout.blogspot.com/

do have a look here as well - http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?id=662

Regards,

Prateek

Let the community decide and I guess you have a followers on IndiBlogger following your work :). Will approve your blog for the contest.

Thanks a tonne Diana! Guys please do support me and my blog! 

Guess i posted my comment too soon.. just went through others who have faced the same fate..(hope mine is not for real! :D )

fingers crossed, hope to get approved.. been wating for this category for some time now!

@Anoop and Renie

I thought you were going to approve me in for the Humor category....But I can't find my blog there in nominations......haaji cheating cheating, madam se shikayat jaayegi, Haa ji..... Its like yesterday Anoop gave me, a poor kid, a sugar-free, sugar candy! (i don't even know if there is any such thing)....

Ha ha ! Technical issues.. there is a prob in reapproving after we reject LOL .. getting it sorted out.. hold on..

Your blog is approved dude .. get bloggers to vote for you :)

The contest's on and me still not approved! Please do something abt it!! Not even in the top 68 Humorous blogs!! I am heartbroken!!  :( :( 

Soon my friend! Admin panel is currently been given CPR and a stomach pump :) . It should be done soon

Thank you Soo much Anoop! The smile just came back :) 

Your blog has been approved dude .. chk and lemme know! :)

Yiipppeeeee!!! Thanks again Anoop!!! this means so much!!  for amateurs like me, this is like the ideal encouragement!

I just found - I can not vote myself! Ha Ha

My hopes of getting atleast one vote are now flickering.

I tried that too .. last time.. didnt work! :)

@Anoop and Renie:

I thought you were going to approve my blog for the "Original Humor" category. But I can't find it among the nominations...  Sob! Sob! Sniff! Sniff!

That too... after Anoop's "assurance" yesterday: "And you will definitely be approved soon."

Yeh fowl hai... ! Mummy!!! I won't play (stamping my foot...)

http://notapennyformythoughts.blogspot.com/

Hey Roshmi .. hold on for a bit. It should be done soon. Tech issues on the admin panel .. sorry :)

Word from HQ : blog approved :) chk and lemme know

Yayyyy!!!!!!!!! *Clap! Clap! Clap!*

Thanks a bunch, Anoop! I am now flaunting my pearly whites... again!!!

(I am finally out of my extended April fool's day...!)

This happens when your blog's title is 'not a penny for my thoughts'

@ Shekhar: My blog is priceless... you see!

Musings of an Unknown Indian / notapennyformythoughts

(Psst... Anoop - is the stunt I talked about still on? I can contact that cheap hindi news channel if you want me to. : ) )

My blog too has not been approved. If it doesn't fall into the category as per your views then please let me know. I understand that you guys must be swamped with these requests. So please take your time. Thanks for going through this post.

By the way read the following blogs and found them to be way too good:

http://litterateuse.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/to-the-expressively-challenged/

http://crucifirex.blogspot.com/2008/03/aaifone-technological-marvel.html

http://opinionsandexpressions.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/road-rash-in-real-life/

These guys put the H in humor. Because if they didn't it would be umor, which is not even a word. :)

Buggers! LOL .. Its been approved now.. chk and lemme know..

@Anoop - To quote from the movie Frankenstein

"Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive. It’s alive!! Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!"

My blog is up for brickbats and boquets. Thank you boss.

So any public tips anyone on how to promote your blog during the voting period and make people vote?? 

Either you have to be so good that others will automatically promote your blog (I loved the works of crucifire, reema and gauri - I pasted their links just because they deserved to be read) or you can resort to these measures:

1. Promising post dated cheques in the mutliples of 500 with a written guarantee that they won't bounce

2. Pasting jpg or gif format images of movie tickets to Terminator Salvation or Ice Age 3 and having them up for grabs to anyone who votes first to your blog.

3. Replying to queries about blog promotion in a manner which makes others think that you are really funny which in turn makes you go to the nominations page and search for the string "saurabh" or "nascent stages" and then by some act of God makes you click on the voting link.

I am pinning my hopes on the 3rd one. : )

Hahaha, good one man good one :) 

Well i hope that a lot of people genuinely like my blog! In no mood to try out the other two, third one can still be given a shot!

All the Best people!

68 got converted into 73 humm it will keep changeing or what

Hey where r the rules n regulation for the contest .. m unable to find it

Humour was a great topic! Allowed me to participate for the first time in this. Great going!