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So far the Apple iPad has the edge on the poll but don't worry, if you adhere to the rules of quality posting and happen to win, we won't have a problem replacing the prize with the product of your choice. Let me also reiterate that a wide majority of participating members are keeping the discussion at the desired quality level, this only encourages us to offer subsequent prizes after this contest is over.
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Where is "@Forum" link!?????????? I know you send it right to our email, but it is no longer available here... =(
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Nice to hear someone else used that link, haha. The exact same link is now available from "Subscribe to thread".
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More participant !! means more competition........ but its good that number of readers are increasing
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Nice to hear someone else used that link, haha. The exact same link is now available from "Subscribe to thread".
Clever! Thanks! I use that link to edit my comments, correct misspellings and that sort of things.
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It's done, now you have to manually select the checkbox to subscribe if you want to do so for a specific news story. Thanks for your feedback.
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To those users that have put up a couple questions/concerns:
You can edit your subscriptions easily, the link is located while editing profile, the link for your convenience:
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Here you can edit your subcriptions like so (next URL is an image)
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So you have numerous options for subscriptions.
Since the main site articles are linked to the forum representations located here, you can always edit the subscription by Clicking thread tools -> subscribe/unsubscribe to/from this page.
Likewise, if you write a post directly from the forums or are editing your posts like I am at the moment, you can update your subscription status for that thread as well.
final edit: Holy crap I didn't realize how old this thread was. My bad everyone lol.
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