Community Points: Free $20 PSN Card Every Month (Update)

Today, we’ve decided to roll out our latest and permanent Community Interactive Feature for PlayStation University. I understand and appreciate our community thoroughly and I also recognize that without our faithful and loyal readers, we wouldn’t be growing at the rate we currently are. For that, I thank all of you.

However, with your daily visits and interaction with the website, it has helped create advertisement revenue due to the ads you see displayed on the front page as well as our forum (sign up here!). This revenue has been a huge help in aiding the sites increasing server costs (due to growth) as well as making it possible to purchase review copies of games and to give away things on the site.

For those of you who know me from a previous website or have grown to know me here, you probably know that I like giving back to the community as much as possible and whenever I can honestly afford to. I do my best to make things happen and today, it’s good to know that we can finally roll out a Community Points initiative that I’ve wanted to open up from Day 1.

Alright. If you scroll down the page and look below where the “Polls” section is on the sidebar, you’ll notice a new leader board that lists the “Top Users” of the community. The Top Users section has been removed, but everyone is still accumulating points on the website. At the end of every month, I will make the leader board public once more so people can see who the potential winners are . Currently, everyone should be at roughly 0 points. Users will be able to increase the point total by logging into your PlayStation University WordPress Account here (Sign up here if you haven’t) and by leaving a comment on an article (Spam comments will be deleted and you will LOSE points if this happens — please keep it appropriate).

Rules

  1. Users who go back 2+ months to spam old articles for free points will be disqualified from that month’s competition. This will be monitored closely.
  2. Comment discussion between users is acceptable, but keep it completely on-topic and relevant to the news post being commented on.
  3. Personal discussions will be deleted and subject to point deductions.
  4. The Top 8 Users of every month will be thrown into a hat and their names drawn to receive the $20 PSN Card.

At the end of each month, the Top 8 Users of the month will receive an email to the same email account they signed up with, congratulating and thanking them for their active contribution to the website and ONE will also receive a Code redeemable on the PlayStation Network to add $20 into your PSN Account Wallet. In order to redeem this code, you will need to create a North American account. However, this Monthly Prize is open to ALL readers from around the world.

Just to be fair, staff members will not be eligible for these prizes (Authors on the front page), however, moderators and subscribers to the forum will all be eligible as will regular members. As the site continues to grow, the denomination of the PSN card that can be won will increase as well. Hopefully in the coming months, as the site grows, we can change the parameters of the contest to three winners who will be awarded a $50, $20 and $20 PSN Code each month.

—-

If you guys have any comments or questions, feel free to leave them below. We’d love to hear feedback on what you think of this initiative and if this is something that you think will increase your interactivity within our community. We care about our userbase and take all of your feedback to heart, so always feel free to express yourself in a constructive manner when leaving feedback for the site staff.

Thanks,

The Dean.

UPDATE: Guys, this initiative isn’t for you to abuse. Those found abusing this generosity by doing nothing but spamming all of the articles (even those 2-3 months old) will be disqualified for that month’s competition. This is set out to be fair and should remain such.

I’ve removed a massive amount of comments and have adjusted both Xero’s and Dr. Moogle’s scores. If you guys continue the ridiculousness of it all, you both will be disqualified from this month’s contest. I do not want our community turning into a spamfest. If we can’t do something like this appropriately, we just won’t do it at all.

Readers Comments (17)

  1. BTW Dreamer_Lion and Moocows111111, I looked through the older topics before 2/19/2010 (The date The Dean announced he was giving away a PSN Card), and you guys weren’t even posting anything before that date. You two probably created an account after that date and then you guys start spamming the topics because your posts are all 2/19/2010 and after. Coincidence? I don’t think so, you both are spammer and should be removed from the PSN Card drawing if I am also being removed. You both should think before you call people spammers because are both are spammers too if I’m a spammer. Also Moocows111111, you spammed like 5-6 comments of nonsense in each topic in several topics. I looked through the recent topics, so don’t try and deny you are a spammer.

  2. I am not a spammer nor I ever called you were one. I was just expressing that it was shocking you made over 1000 points in such a short period of time.

    And yeah, I’ve been posting since the PSN card contest BUT I’ve been reading the site for months now (Ask the moderators, the can trace IPs rather easily).

    Now, I demand you either apologize or STFU because we are supposed to be on healthy competition to promote community interaction, not to accuse and troll.

    By the way, I dare you point me to a single comment I’ve ever did that was spamm.

  3. Funny thing is I ended with over a 1000 points, while you had over 1000 and finished with 600 something.

    I KNOW the mods (Specially The Dean I assume) watch over the comments, that’s why I’m confident enough on my “argument”.

    Now I won’t comment here anymore unless a mod calls me out, because I prefer to stay out of trouble (Which this surely will lead to).

  4. You don’t prefer to stay out of trouble, stop lying. You were jumping on the band wagon implying I was a spammer when you spammed crap in many of the topics. How you do you know I had 600 something points? Where does it show that? Stop denying you don’t spam, I checked many of the topics and you were posting stupid crap to get your points up. If you don’t want trouble with me, then don’t start it with me. You started it by jumping on the band wagon implying that I’m a spammer, and then you try to play the role of being innocent and saying that I started it. Stop lying.

  5. So who won last month or how and when will it be announced.

  6. Moocows111111 March 1, 2010 @ 15:04

    @ Starspeed, No I full heartedly put my knowledge and understanding into those posts. You on the Other hand you posted over 50+ posts in just mere hours. I posted where I needed to, you went back to dead articles and poated on them, where I did not.

  7. Patrick Steen March 2, 2010 @ 17:02

    Calm down guys, lets make March a good one? K?

  8. XxTYxCRAZYxX March 6, 2010 @ 01:49

    how can tell how much points u hav???

  9. @XxTYxCRAZYxX: well if you look around the right hand side of the screen, there is the “Top Users” thingy, showing the top 8. Thats as far as itll go (to my knowledge)

    @patrick: lol yeah, i really do try to stay on topic and contribute tho, its just that i can think of many things to talk about 😀

  10. I hope I win one PSN card, because here in Curacao (Caribbean Island) is impossible to get one. Here you can only get games and consoles. that’s the problem I have with buying things online.

  11. I think this is awesome
    A cool way to get a PSN card for free and fair for everyone

  12. Thanks , thats a good competition idea. Makes people read the articles aswell

  13. good idea

  14. how much money exactly will be added to your psn accoun wallet if u get a 20$ psn card

  15. plz i need a code plz 5 i will even take 5 dollar i need this game for 2.99 plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  16. Nice response in return of this query with genuine arguments and telling all regarding that.

  17. Number of columns such whilst “Exclusive” written ensures that the PS2 provides only program for ps2games to be shown in the worldwide.
    99 off on all orders plus Free shipping with promotional code Tweet – Shp–Free shipping
    on all orders with coupon code A6NSGDR5. The barebones approach of Media – Server only serves its purpose to some
    certain extent.

Comments are closed.