WTH? Stolen banners? 0.o

Hey!
I'm so sorry I didn't post in a long time I realy didn't have time :S


Well..2 lovely girls (Bronagh97 & tis99car.88) Just told me in my guestbook about something REALY weird! lol

In the blog http://hot-stardoll-gossip.blogspot.com/ they copy other blogs' banners? , they just change the Stardoll name!


Here's the link for the topic that the girl say's SHE made the banners herself, you can see all the banners that were copied!
http://hot-stardoll-gossip.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-05-18T12%3A52%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=10


UPDATE-
44nicole44 (the owner of the blog) sent me this message:
"I asked my friend to make me a banner since there was so many wrighters for the blog , She made them for me and I took them and used them , I asked her if she made them wright from scratch and she said yes. I posted them on the blog and we started useing them. Some times I wanted pics 2 and she would give me some like the one with the boy clothes on sale and that . I never know they were copyed . I have mesaged all the wrighters to say not to use the banners because there coppys .
Im so sorry , I should have trusted her .
I know im only a child and im realy sorry x
You can delete me now , and reporte out blog x
So sorry 44nicole44 xox "
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It's really not a big deal, I just thought we had to clear this up, I'm glad it's fixed now and they said sorry.

Finally!

Wow, we can finally sell the free superstar boy's outfit. I've been wanting to get rid of this ever since I bought it!

Only problem now is.. Who would want to buy it?! :(

Oh well, I guess it's always handy to have things to sell for trades :)

Playlist

Lots of people were asking me to bring the playlist back, but a lot of people also didn't like the last one, so I've tried my best to suit everyone. I put lots of new songs on the playlist, and I've set it so that it won't play automatically. 

So, if you want to listen to music while you read Gossip-Stardoll, scroll down to the bottom of the page and choose your song :)

If you want to keep listening to the playlist even after you're done reading Gossip-Stardoll, click Pop-Out player down there, and the playlist will come up in a new window :)

20 Hot Discount Buys!

I've done all the hard work for you, and searched through all the shops to find the 20 best buys of this month's sale!

I've chosen lots of fab dresses as well as tops and accessories that you'll be able to mix and match with any outfit! You'll notice that a lot of these are Elle and Vivienne Tam, but to be honest, those collections really are the best buys of this sale.

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The total cost of everything above is only $60.

Vivienne Tam - Closed for renovation

Vivienne Tam has closed for renovations.

I can't wait for the next collection!

Even though the store has closed, you can still buy the clothes. Just search Vivienne Tam! 

Does anyone else find it weird that everything is on sale except for two pairs of shoes?

Winner of the MK dress!

For this competition, participants could choose any doll from the Model category to dress up. The most doll most people dressed up was Jade Jagger, although Twiggy, Lily Donaldson, Lily Cole and Paulina Porizkova proved popular too.

It was too difficult for me to decide a winner for this one, so I chose 7 finalists. I'd like you to choose your favourite! Please don't vote because of friendship - vote for whose dress up is the best. Good luck to all finalists!

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Winner of the Elle collection!

...SingStar... helped me to judge this competition too. 

In the end, it was between these two dress ups:

HazelBlueBaby

 

Nojarama

It was a tough decision, but the winner is..

Nojarama!

When all the Elle sale items leave shops, I will give them to Nojarama. Congratulations!

Winner of Vivienne Tam collection!

This was a tough competition to judge, so I got my sister ...SingStar... to help out :)

In the end, we chose this dressup by 74Modell. We loved her simple dress up - some people went way overboard with layers! :)

In close second place were:

Bronagh97

and Cholaav

Congratulations!

74Modell, you will get all the Vivienne Tam sale items as soon as they go out of shops :)

Ding ding ding - We have a winner!

Wow, I didn't think we'd have a winner so soon, but someone guessed the correct amount of posts!

Talia (aka EMILYmileyrocks) guessed the correct number of posts on Gossip-Stardoll which was

356

(well, 357 now that I've posted this!)

She wins $120! Congratulations :)

Mail me about your prize :D

Guess how many posts? (Competition)

Gossip-Stardoll has been around for quite some time now - since the 11th of July 2008 in fact :)

Did you know? Our first ever article was about the first Vivienne Tam collection being released.

Since then, we've written so many articles and had lots of guest bloggers too!

So, I decided to hold a little competition. 

How many posts do you think have been written at Gossip-Stardoll?

Guess in comments. Writers can't enter :P

Only one guess per person.

Prize : $120 (or for non-superstars, $120 worth of furniture)

The winner will be whoever gets it right, or (if nobody gets it right), whoever guesses the closest by the 28th of May.

Competition Update

There have been a load of people spamming the comments, so I've had to change our comments system. I will have to approve all comments before they show up - until this competition is over anyways. So don't be worried if your comment doesn't show up right away, it'll show up when I approve it!

Top Commenter Competition

I just add two new widgets to the blog - recent comments and top commenters.

Recent comments shows the 5 most recent comments on the blog.

Top commentors shows the people who have commented the most, and how many comments they've made. It only count the most recent 500 comments.

So, I've decided to hold (another competition).

On the 1st June, I will give a prize to the top commentor.

People who spam, etc. will not be counted.

For superstars the prize will be: Maktoob Nightgown and $120

For non-superstars the prize will be: $120 worth of furniture gifts (your choice)

(You don't need to sign up, you'll be automatically entered if you comment a lot :P)

Same rules as always, you must be a follower of the blog to be eligible!

Win a Mary-Kate Dress

Want to win this MK dress? Then keep reading!

Okay, so this isn't the rarest MK dress, but it'd still get you a few stardollars if you decided to sell! And, this competition is really easy - promise!

All you have to do is dress up somebody from the Models category.

There are some really great dolls to dress up there, so look through a few before choosing one.

To enter: Click here to go to the Models category on Stardoll and dress up your chosen doll. When you're finished, post a comment below with a link to your dress-up, your stardoll username, and the name of the doll you've dressed up.

As always, you are only eligible if you are a follower of Gossip-Stardoll. Only entries with links will be counted, I don't have time to go to albums. There are tutorials showing you how to take screenshots and upload pictures!

Deadline: 28th May

Uploading pictures

Some of you said you didn't know how to put your pictures into a link for our competitions, so I put a tutorial for making screenshots on the side of the blog.

After you've taken your screenshot, go to tinypic and upload your picture. You will then get a link that you can give me so that I can see your picture!

Finally!

The HotBuys bag has finally arrived .. 3 days too late!

Better late than never I suppose!

Following Blogs

A lot of you are confused about following blogs, so I'm going to explain to you how and why you should follow your favourite blogs!

Why should I follow a blog?

There are a lot of reasons to follow a blog, and I'll tell you a few.

Are you tired of searching through blogs trying to find some new gossip? Well when you follow a blog, you don't need to do that anymore! You will have all new posts delivered to you on your dashboard. I'll explain about that later in the post.

Another good reason to follow a blog is for competitions. Lots of blogs hold competitions, and some require that you are a follower of their blog to enter. 

How do I follow a blog?

So, you've probably noticed a box like this on the side of some blogs, but you didn't know what it was all about.

So now you know a bit about why you should follow a blog, you're ready to get started. Click the follow button on the side of your favourite blog.

A new webpage should pop up that looks like this:

If you own a Google, AIM, Yahoo, Netlog or OpenID account, click that icon and sign in. If you don't, you can sign up for one. For this example, I'll click on Google.

A new page will come up with this box on the side.

If you don't have a Google account, just click 'Create an account now'

When you have done that, you can sign in.

Then, go back to the blog you want to follow, and click Follow.

A box like this will pop up:

If you click 'Follow Publicly', your picture will show up in the list of followers, and the owner will be able to see who's following their blog.

If you click 'Follow Privately', you will still recieve updates whenever that blog has a new post, but you won't show up in their list of followers, and the owner won't know you love their blog!

When you are a follower of all the blogs you love, you can log onto Blogger everyday to see the news. On your dashboard, you will see updates like the ones shown below.

The updates show the start of the post, so you can see if you think it's interesting. They also show the first picture in the post and who wrote it.

There is a link to each post that you can click on if you want to read the rest of the article.

I hope this tutorial has been helpful for you. If there's still something you're not sure about, feel free to ask me questions in comments or in my GB :)

Advertisements

The advertisements were really great, but I never have time to update them, so I'm going to stop doing them. Sorry :( 

I will put up a link list of some great blogs though, so you can still find news if there's nothing happening here!

If you really wanted to use your advertisement, Jenna (aka emorox4eva) does advertising on her blog HotBuysBazaar - and she manages it a lot better than I do!

Oh, and I don't know what's happened to Medoll-Mania, but I've contacted Blogger about it, so hopefully it will be up and running again soon!

P.S. I've seen a few entries for the Vivienne Tam and Elle competitions, and they're amazing! Good job everyone!

If you have entered either competition, make sure you are a follower of Gossip-Stardoll - your entry won't be counted if you're not a follower.

Win both Vivienne Tam collections!

Vivienne Tam is now on sale in Starplaza, so it's time for another competition!

To enter: Dress up Vivienne Tam Spring 2008 or Vivienne Tam Fall 2008, then leave a comment with a link and your stardoll username!

The prize: Vivienne Tam Collections 1 and 2.

Competitions closes on May 28th. Winner announced shortly after deadline.

Good luck!

Win Elle Collection 1

Like I said before, I'm going to make the blog more exciting with lots of competitions. I noticed the first Elle collection was on sale, so I decided to make a little competition. 

What to do: Dress up Malina Joseph in the second collection of Elle (click here) and sign in comments with a link and your Stardoll username!

Prize: Entire first Elle collection.

Competition closes on the 28th of May. Winner announced shortly after deadline.

Good luck!

500 followers raffle winner!

Wow, 500 followers :)

Well, I'll cut to the chase and announce the winner!

The winner is:

babie_pink_star

You win:

The DKNY Tweed Set!

The 500th follower is dancing-ponies who gets $50.

The next raffle will be at 600 followers and the prize will be the Black DKNY Sequins Dress, so you don't want to miss out! 

To be counted in the next raffle, you must be a follower and have your stardoll username in your Blogger username. 

Don't know how to become a follower? Click here!

Raffle winners, please contact me in GB to claim your prize :)

Raffle and more!

Hey everyone!

I'm really sorry I haven't posted in so long - I've been really really busy, and I haven't been on Stardoll in like a week! Anyways, enough excuses, more news..

• First of all, do you like my new banner? I thought it was time for a change! doinker_chic made this for me :)
  

• Some of you have said that Gossip-Stardoll is getting boring. I'm going to try my very hardest to spice it up a bit, by having some competitions! Sound good? :)

• I just noticed that we have 500 followers, so it's time for a new raffle! I'll do it as soon as I add all the new follower's names to my raffle software :D

P.S. If you've written to me in mail or GB, I'm really sorry if I haven't replied to you yet, I've just startd replying and it will take a while to catch up! 

WHAT THE HELL?!!!

What is going on with Stardoll?!?
I just joined in and saw that my club was deleted and other people losed their clubs, also the new Animal-Lovers is deleted, when I searched for my club I got the resul but when I clicked it said"The club isn't available"
I really hope it's a GLITCH that will be fixed VERY soon,
Any one else losed his club?!
My club was the most important thing for me on Stardoll I'll be really angry if I don't get it back with all my members & topics >;[

Clubs` update

Finally, I have time to post and there's something NEW that I can post about!:]
I bet you all noticed that Stardoll were updating the clubs for few hours, now you can Permalink & List all the posts of a member on a club!
I think it's cool ;D
Now I only wish Stardoll would add a search box for the club's members, it'd be easier to find specific members XD

What do you think?

Return of the 'Loophole'?

such*a*poser, known for changing club pictures, making multiple clubs..and, scamming, has uncovered a new Stardoll secret; Selling items for MORE than 60 Stardollars!I was amazed at how she was able to sell items for a whopping 1,000SD! I think this "glitch" would be good instead of making people bid on rares, when they could just get them in the bazaar. But, knowing her, I highly doubt it she will share this secret.

Oh yeah, she has also maximized her medoll, I mean, REALLY!
I'm not sure if she wanted everyone to see her medolls breasts, or if she was showing off her vintage Chanel necklace, but it's still another secret she has managed to unlock.

What do you think? Will someone be able to squeeze this information out of her?..Hopefully!

Raffle Winner!

Sorry about the delay in the raffle! I haven't been online :/ 

Anyways, I think I'm going to be doing quite a few raffles, so I downloaded some cool software that I have typed ALL the followers names into, and it chooses a random one!

Anyways, the winner of this raffle is:

asimini

She wins:

DKNY Chunky Scarf, Voile Gift 3 and $50.

The followers box isn't working for me right now, so I can't see who the 450th follower was, but when it works again, the 450th follower will get $50.

Congratulations to both of you :) Contact me in my GB about your prize :D

P.S. I will do the next raffle when we reach 550 followers - not sure what prize it will be yet.

What the hell?-LMAO

(new banner made by looc123)


Is it just me or Stardoll is getting stupid-er every day lol?
Callie.Stardoll is today's Covergirl?!
She works on Stardoll I don't even know if her "rate my medoll" is on lol
XD
What do you think?
I know it's not an interesting topic but I really wanted to post something, and I'm really sorry I didn't post in a while, but you know school and stuff..

Where's her hair??

1st of july strike.... Again

I've been getting mails and seen on blogs there is another strike on July the 1st..
I'm not telling people to do this, nor asking, im saying its just something Stardoll will ignore.

If i remember correctly there was a strike last year on the same day, where people didn't log in the whole day, hoping stardoll would lower prizes and let none-ss members get more stuff on there..
What did stardoll do? made stuff more expensive.
All you get out of this strike is no 1$ and well.. insted of maybe getting 12 starpoints you get none.
Stardoll isn't going to take action, at least not if you try to force them to in this way!
Stardoll has 30 million members, lets say only 5 thousand take a place in this, that's nothing.. Every day, about 15 million of stardoll's user don't log in, Well something around that, So increasing the number to lets say 15,000,050 or so, Does nothing..
Yes, i am agenst stardoll's high prizes, and how little stuff none-superstars get, but who are the ones paying stardoll? Superstars, And well, without superstars paying stardoll wouldnt continue running.
It's not they're fault some people expect to get to just wander around, able to do everything there without paying for it. Lets face it, everything costs money. Well besides human emotions, When you log into stardoll, using the internet you're already paying, stardoll run's with expensive server's and virus protections, which costs ALOT, so they need the money.


You can take a part in the strike if you want, or just mail stardoll about this, Its more likely they do something then..