rubyslipperedgoddess

As others have said, this is really quite generous and thoughtful of you. Having had my account taken over last year and that person taking almost everything from me, it's always nice to see the opposite extreme to reaffirm myself that neopets isn't full of just cheaters. 

Probably the most famous person I've met was Angelina Jolie, but I also rode the elevator with the cast or at least the Hobbits of the Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson. Met Orlando Bloom on a different occasion, he was with Kate Bosworth who he was dating at the time. Toby Maguire, the original Spiderman for you young'uns. He's super short, we were standing next to each other and he looked at me like, aren't you going to say anything. I suppose it was when he was at his most famous during the Spiderman films. Jamie Foxx, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrell, bought died that day. My favorite though might be Queen Latifah, cause she gave me a little wink. Tim Burton who is just like the biggest jackhole ever. Taye Diggs, who might be the most beautiful man ever. Ben Stiller, Forest Whitaker, Zachary Quintos, Betty White and the other ladies from Hot in Cleveland, so many more that I can't even think of at the moment. 
 
Wayne Brady, ironically enough. I was an audience member on his show back when he had a talk show. Likewise, I've been to Ellen, Craig Fergusen and Megan Mullally a few times when she had her short lived talk show. Actually walked to her show since it was filmed down the street from me. 
 
Good times!

I donated 11 times in the end, I don't have enough of the right rarity to be able to squeeze any more out of my SDB stash, maybe I'll be lucky and get a couple of r.80 books from dailies, then I'll be able to manage 2 more times, but that's going to be my limit. I highly doubt that I'll get an avatar (if there is one) not considering the amount that other people will be donating!
 
The concept of this is great, an excellent way to get rid of thousands of bandwidth-hogging items, it's just typical human nature that people turn around and use it as a means to make money. The next charity corner event should be helping out the farmers of Meridell, and want donations of dung. :P

I agree that there were times when there weren't enough entries, making them think that people just weren't interested, but I think the problem was that instead of coming up with a new challenge when no one or very few entered they would just keep extending the competition when what they should have done was awarded the participants something and then moved on to a new challenge. Everytime I entered there were hundreds, thousands of entries. I think that there were challenges that people just didn't care for or were way too involved for people to commit to with just a virtual prize and there were challenges where tons of people entered. Instead of dumping it they should look at which challenges were popular and have more challenges like those.
 
I just don't see why it needs to be canceled. If they think it's not that popular than don't have a new one every 3 weeks. People have lives outside of neo, sometimes they just don't have the time, maybe extend the length of the challenges and have fewer. Anything would be better than just dumping the Random Contest.

I agree that there were times when there weren't enough entries, making them think that people just weren't interested, but I think the problem was that instead of coming up with a new challenge when no one or very few entered they would just keep extending the competition when what they should have done was awarded the participants something and then moved on to a new challenge. Everytime I entered there were hundreds, thousands of entries. I think that there were challenges that people just didn't care for or were way too involved for people to commit to with just a virtual prize and there were challenges where tons of people entered. Instead of dumping it they should look at which challenges were popular and have more challenges like those.
 
I just don't see why it needs to be canceled. If they think it's not that popular than don't have a new one every 3 weeks. People have lives outside of neo, sometimes they just don't have the time, maybe extend the length of the challenges and have fewer. Anything would be better than just dumping the Random Contest.

This breaks my heart. I haven't entered it in awhile because I haven't like a lot of their ideas. So much of their website is about gaming abilities or buying/selling I liked the idea that the Random contest appealed to us Right Brainers. I know that there are still the writing contests, but it's not the same. Writing is more work than fun, but making a Neopet out of yarn screams creativity. I will definitely be writing neopets directly and letting them know that a lot of people are very disappointed about this decision. If Jumpstart bought neo to improve it, this is not the way to go. Like others said, even when I didn't enter, I liked looking at other people's entries. I would have like to see the entering process improved, it was too complicated. I missed out on so many just because I couldn't get a photo to fit their parameters. Neopets is really beginning to su...go down hill. No wonder so many people cheat, just playing is becoming less and less fun.

This breaks my heart. I haven't entered it in awhile because I haven't like a lot of their ideas. So much of their website is about gaming abilities or buying/selling I liked the idea that the Random contest appealed to us Right Brainers. I know that there are still the writing contests, but it's not the same. Writing is more work than fun, but making a Neopet out of yarn screams creativity. I will definitely be writing neopets directly and letting them know that a lot of people are very disappointed about this decision. If Jumpstart bought neo to improve it, this is not the way to go. Like others said, even when I didn't enter, I liked looking at other people's entries. I would have like to see the entering process improved, it was too complicated. I missed out on so many just because I couldn't get a photo to fit their parameters. Neopets is really beginning to su...go down hill. No wonder so many people cheat, just playing is becoming less and less fun.