Hidden contests forum?

[The Cow]

I made it there when going through new posts, but I don't see any way to navigate to it.

If you guys are trying to advertise premium membership this way, you aren't going to get much traffic.

Here's the link list, but I cannot see a way to get there (other than happening upon a post - there is only 1 from a user in the 2 existing threads). It's not in the navigation drop down at the bottom of the pages either.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g316/PurpleLava/linky.jpg

Edit: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvdtalk-contests-71/

[cardsfan111]

Hmmm... Looks like the avenue which the admins use to announce the contests. It is very obscure.

[D.Pham00]

how did you find it?

[John Sinnott]

It's actually a strange work-around the we came up with. When we do premium contests, I have to send a link to the studio rep so they know that we actually ran one and promoted their product. They can't access the premium part of the site, and it would be a royal pain creating a log for each rep we work with so the stealth forum was created. We put the contests up there (though you can't enter through that post... there's a link to the premium forum contest page) and I send those links to the studios.

[cardsfan111]

Thanks for letting us know, John. That actually makes a great deal of sense!

[Trevor]

Stuff like that fascinates me (I'm weird). Interesting workaround.

[D.Pham00]

Stuff like that fascinates me (I'm weird). Interesting workaround.

:thumbsup: same here. it's interesting how they came up with it!