As you know, our giveaway rules asked you to make us a Muxtape of the perfect Summer mix, and many of you may have noticed that the Muxtapes you made are now empty. Muxtape had some problems over the weekend that they talked about on their tumblelog, but the crux of the problems was this: any Muxtape made in the last three weeks stands a good chance of having lost all its content. Unfortunately, that includes all the entries in our giveaway.
When most of you will have lost the contents of your Muxtape, we think it would be unfair to continue the contest under the same rule set. Regrettably, we’ve decided to revise the giveaway a little.
On the upside, we’re not going to ask you for anything that requires too much thought, like the Muxtapes did; we think that would be unfair since a lot of people have already been through that once. Instead, we want you to suggest a theme for our podcast1.
We’ll pick our favourite theme, and that person will win our main prize, the iPod, and their pick of 2 other items from the prize list. After that, our next five favourite themes will also get to pick two things from the list.
So if you still want a chance to win something, use /submit to submit your theme ideas. We’ll allow another week after the original deadline (Monday) for this to run.
We recognize this is a huge inconvenience — for you as much as us — and we can’t apologise enough. We’ve learned our lesson, though. None of our future giveaways will rely on any third party service like Muxtape. (And we definitely have more planned, you’ll be glad to hear.)
Thanks for sticking around during this mess. With any luck, we won’t have to deal with a problem like this again. Here’s to plain-sailing in the future.
