FHK SitRep 12.22.07: Mashable Announces “Deck the Trolls” Awards
December 22, 2007 by Jenn Sierra
Filed under Uncategorized
Around Thanksgiving, Mashable announced it’s new troll competition…as a follow-up to “Troll Week,” which we wrote about here.
Mashable announced November 18th:
This week’s Thanksgiving celebrations start the countdown to that sickeningly over-commercialized “non-denominational winter holiday†formerly known as Christmas. Frankly, that makes us grumpy. So grumpy that we feel the need to insult someone. You, preferably.
After your abject failure to thoroughly grill us during Troll Week, you’re getting a second chance. “Deck The Trollsâ€Â, a festive contest in which you’re rewarded for witty and amusingly insulting comments on Mashable posts, starts today and ends whenever we feel like it.
Today, Mashable announced:
Our “Deck the Trolls†competition, which rewarded you for insulting comments, is officially over. You were pretty terrible at it. Troll licenses are being revoked as we speak.
That said, we do need to give away the $100 prize (choice of Amazon giftcard/iTunes Giftcard/cash) to someone - and that someone is…(more)
Mashable’s contest is mostly for techie-trolls. I’d still love to find a sponsor for a political-troll contest. (hint? hint?)
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