[Sam]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanting to know if anybody had any competition ideas for imgs.us? I would like to encourage uploading and sharing images on the site. I suppose cash prizes would be best for this but I am open to other ideas!

Thanks!

[ksridharprasad]

Hi Sam,

Today also I have login in imgs site and seen only some pictures, I wish to upload some pictures. Is there any restriction for uploading pictures they must be own or collected from web or other sites?

[Jybraek]

They have to be own images..you can't upload images already owned by someone else...kind of goes against the copyright law in a lot of countries.

[Sam]

Hi Sam,

Today also I have login in imgs site and seen only some pictures, I wish to upload some pictures. Is there any restriction for uploading pictures they must be own or collected from web or other sites?

You can upload whatever you like.

They have to be own images..you can't upload images already owned by someone else...kind of goes against the copyright law in a lot of countries.

Images tend to be a bit different from videos/ writing/ other copyright works. A lot of images shared tend to be memes and their creators don't mind them being shared. There are a couple of icon sites on the web which allow you to sift through a huge range of icons created by people. Very often, it is impossible to find the original creator of those icons so people are free to use them so long as the original creator does not request otherwise. Basically you can share anything but if the legitimate owner of an image requests it's takedown, we will comply straight away.

[yashrajkarthikey2]

You can arange a domain or hosting giveaway for sharing images on the websites..

[Sam]

You can arange a domain or hosting giveaway for sharing images on the websites..

Not sure how interested people would be in domains/ hosting as prizes. I could certainly offer it. I am more interested in how a competition could be run should it be:

1. Do this 1 task (e.g. upload and share an image) and you enter into a random draw.
2. Who can upload the most images in x time (easier than you think with image scrappers).
3. Who gets the most replies/ interest in a reddit/ forum topic with an imgs.us image.

Those are some of the ideas I have come up with. I am leaning toward no. 2 at the moment because it's always good to be building up content. Any ideas you guys have would be really helpful!

[Jybraek]

Well Sam #2 doesn't seem like a very good idea. Ofcourse its good to build up content but it can also lead to spam. What you want is quality content on the website which users can actually sift through. A lot of spam can cause search engines to penalize a website too on its ranking...

[Sam]

Well Sam #2 doesn't seem like a very good idea. Ofcourse its good to build up content but it can also lead to spam. What you want is quality content on the website which users can actually sift through. A lot of spam can cause search engines to penalize a website too on its ranking...

True. I would require the images to be titled. It does seem that we get some Google traffic for certain key terms and I'd like to build on that.

[Jybraek]

Exactly Sam and if you take #2 into regards then the whole point of keywords would go away...now you can do a little change to the description of #2...how about whoever posts the most pictures related to a certain keyword that you provide. Doesn't have to be a single keyword..you can have multiple..lets say about 5 to 10 keywords to allow for variety. Also you can add that the titles need to be legit.

[BleepingDesign]

Include a vote up and down button like "imgur" post with the highest upvotes will win and you can pay the winner cash or giftcard or whatever you like

Hi Everyone,

Just wanting to know if anybody had any competition ideas for imgs.us? I would like to encourage uploading and sharing images on the site. I suppose cash prizes would be best for this but I am open to other ideas!

Thanks!

[djnoslee]

I suggest you must finish the website first before moving into the next phase..

[Jybraek]

Include a vote up and down button like "imgur" post with the highest upvotes will win and you can pay the winner cash or giftcard or whatever you like

I like this idea myself. It will also generate a lot of traffic because users can share their pictures on social networking sites, forums and other places to get their friends and family to upvote them so they could win....that could also be a problem in a way.

[shamzblueworld]

Include a vote up and down button like "imgur" post with the highest upvotes will win.

This is a good one, I think the best option for a photo hosting site, and you can also have the condition that the photo be original from the upload, either his photography or drawing or graphic design... but in any case, have the vote option in place. But make sure the votes are genuine.

[yashrajkarthikey2]

Okay, I have uploaded one image to your website..

[saraali786]

you can arrange some referral promotion program like if some one bring more refs you award him 10$ or 20$ some thing like that