ENDED! Seek Santa for a chance to win £100 or £200

mgriff5

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

Santa was the toughest to find - in the blog's source code.

errrrrr.... in English?!

loracan1

grant1wish wrote: »

Many thanks MSE for this competition, can't believe I won.

There are obviously a few 'upset' users on here, but I am sure their number is outweighed by people who enjoyed the competition.

Merry Christmas

G1W

I'm equally sure that the number of people who 'enjoyed' the competition is outweighed by those who thought it a waste of their time (hiding it in source code - really?!)

vikki_louise

Mum and I spent 45 minutes looking for the actual Santa pic. And for some reason the reindeer didn't show up on mega shop bot (I even tried entering various things) at 11 or 11.03 for me

Bring back festive fivers instead next year please!

grant1wish

I doubt that.....

I personally think it was brilliant to hid it in the source code, and very impressive that someone looked there to find it.

I have a good idea, lets complain about a competition that is free to enter, where £1100 is given away and that was a bit of fun. That is sure to make them never do it again.

Merry Christmas

grinnerlynn

did think it was strange we were asked to look for an image though.???
Have a feeling the source code thing was an accident, they meant for it to show on the page, but messed up the code so it didnt show properly. only the people that thought to look at the code found the bit in there.

jovichick123

TBH I wouldn't have had a clue as to how to get to the source code let alone how to figure out if something was there being hidden :S Slight disadvantage there to some users I think MSE

Good job to those who won very pleased for you all x

justanotheruser_2

grant1wish wrote: »

I personally think it was brilliant to hid it in the source code, and very impressive that someone looked there to find it.

Thanks, coming from an Systems Admin that's even more of a compliment! Congratulations to you too, and Merry Christmas to all!

Chickabiddybex

I think it was really clever to hide it there too - it's not like everyone else couldn't just look for the reindeer instead!

As for everyone saying "I visited the page and couldn't see the picture at x time" bear in mind that unless you do a "hard" refresh then you will see the old cached page saved by your browser.

davethorp

Chickabiddybex wrote: »

As for everyone saying "I visited the page and couldn't see the picture at x time" bear in mind that unless you do a "hard" refresh then you will see the old cached page saved by your browser.

In two different browsers?? One of which had never visited MSE before in its life????

fermi

Chickabiddybex wrote: »

As for everyone saying "I visited the page and couldn't see the picture at x time" bear in mind that unless you do a "hard" refresh then you will see the old cached page saved by your browser.

Well, considering I had never visited that page in that browser and had ensured that all cache was wiped for it just in case, then I think I can conclude that the old page version was served to me.

EDIT: And yes, I did even hard refresh to make sure. Plus load it in a 3rd browser to double check.