Can someone please address this? (Please?)

[reveal]

I don't think they know the screen names, let alone real names. Just email adresses.

I wouldn't want my e-mail address posted here. It would be too easy for a bot to collect and start spamming me. Plus I would see it as an invasion of privacy since I didn't give them permission to do so in the first place.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

My recommendation would be to start a new sticky thread in the general forum requesting that people send you their e-mail and username if they have not been contacted by you regarding prize distribution.

See what kind of response you get. You may find so many people don't respond that prize donors who have changed their minds won't matter. Can't do much else than that.

If there are any remaining physical prizes after all is said and done maybe they could be put up for auction on Ebay and the proceeds donated to the Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund or something like that.

 

[reveal]

I have tried to stay away from this thread, but have to make one comment....

I told you so

The best thing to do now is focus on getting this resolved. You can point fingers later. You can also offer up some suggestions as to how to handle this rather than simply being negative. That accomplishes nothing.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I don't think they know the screen names, let alone real names. Just email adresses.

Every email that I have been given to send my donated prizes to has come with a screen name, so I do believe that Dinkledog has both.

 

[Wystan]

So post a list of usernames?

 

[Belen]

Well, I have not heard anything since PirateCat's last e-mail. I did e-mail Kevin and ask him to change my e-mail address at that time.

So if you had dave_ncsu_alumni@yahoo.com on your list, then it is wrong. Let me know if you need my e-mail address.

Personally, I love ENWorld and I make sure to keep my full CS account active every year. I also donated to the last two fundraisers. I am really disappointed in how this one was handled. A lot of people would have agreed to help....

 

[Crothian]

Every email that I have been given to send my donated prizes to has come with a screen name, so I do believe that Dinkledog has both.

none of the e-mails I have been given came with screen names.

 

[Elodan]

Let me solicit some advice from people here:

For people that don't give me any response, should I give up after some period of time? Unfortunately I don't have a list by username, just by e-mail. Should I put up the e-mails of people that I got no response from here?

I've had several prize donors back out. I think I'm going to start another thread asking people to contact me if they are still interested in donating prizes, as it has been a full year.

After that, I've got a large number of remaining prizes, which I can talk to AlSiH2O (who has been driven by the site by various users and apparently moderators missing that there were problems) about distributing.

Any opinions on these?

I'm confused. Are you not getting responses from prize donors, server drive donors or both? I'm a server donor who has not received an email since PCat's way back when and my email address has not changed.

I'm guessing there's a database behind the scenes here and somewhere in it is a mapping of email addresses and screen names. Can someone import the spreadsheet with the emails into a temp table. Then via some magic table joins, you should be able to get a list of screen names (and email addresses) for the donors. You can then take that list of screen names and post it in general to try and get some responses (you can also then extract to another spreadsheet so that you now have emails and screen names together). I know this won't help for people who have changed their email in their profile but it might be a start.

Tom
(I may have some books/adventures I can donate to the prize lot as well).

 

[Alzrius]

I'd start a new thread in General, and post the names of people you are trying to contact. Title it something like: "Did you donate to last years fund drive, and still waiting for a prize?"

So, is there a thread there? I did a search, but didn't find one.

 

[Crothian]

So, is there a thread there? I did a search, but didn't find one.

it's there