Thanks to all the writers for participating in the March Appreciation month. Your presence in sajha makes it what it is today and allows many other Nepalese to spend their free time in sajha.

Last month, over 100,000 unique visitors visited the site and viewed a total of 1.7 million pages and on average each visitor spent over 5 minutes in sajha everytime they visited, with some visitors returning to the site multiple times. Over 33,000 visitors returned to the site over 200 times! Thank you everyone for being part of sajha - helping out each other in times of hardship and for keeping other Nepalis informed of events and activities related to Nepal and Nepalis.

I am very encouraged to see a good turn out in the voting process. Some of the stories are neck to neck in the number of votes and it is very exciting times for all involved. It is also a good time to bring up some voting anomalities that have been detected as far as questionable multiple votings by same individual. When I checked this morning, out of 119 votes there were 89 unique IP's and there were 98 unique cookies (each cookie defines one unique browser in most cases).

The good news is that it is not bad as it could have been! But, due to this anomality, the final vote count will not be the same as the numbers represent. The votings in which the IP and/or cookies match up will be sorted out carefully by looking at the time votes were cast. If same IP and/or cookie were used to cast multiple votes withing 5 minutes time frame then those votes maybe disqualified. Also, if same IP and cookie voted multiple times, they may be disqualified. It would have been ideal if the votes could have been taken at face value but at this point, I feel that fairness is what counts at the end and it is not fair to count 5 votes from same computer for the same story. As much as it would have been ideal to have the final vote represent the final decision, for sake of fairness, sajha decision regarding the validity of votes will be final!

Although this appreciation was meant to be an encouragement to writers, I am hoping that any voting anomality or the final decision will not be discouraging to anyone. Once again, special thanks to all the writers for sharing your personal works with the sajha visitors at large, and thanks also to all the members who have appreciated the opportunity of casting their votes fairly to select their favorite stories.

Voting will end at midnight tomorrow. Spring is here, enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Best wishes!

 Wo muskan pasa taremam.....ma ta hasda hasdai marchu ki k ho.....have a great weekend sandai

Reposting it here because its only relevant.

To all the people going gung-ho about the voting :

This isn't a story. This is a parody of 1990s Bollywood movies that I and a few other of my friends grew up watching. It should not be compared to any other piece of literature in sajha - it isn't a literary piece of begin with. On behalf of my friends who helped me plan this story and write it, I apologize for the fiasco we caused. Our intentions were only to add a little bit of humor to the story writing competition. 

We were never in it for the competition, hence we can't win. If you can, take this with a pinch of salt, forget the competitive behavior, and appreciate the humor, if any. All the pieces in the competition except ours are excellent and deserve accolades.We would like to request San to remove our name and decide the winner fairly. 

Its fun to troll...until people take it too seriously. Again, our apologies for everything. If we could make even a few people laugh, we will consider ourselves successful. If we didn't, you won't see our faces, let alone writings, ever again.

All in Jest.

Competition khatam hoi gayel. 

जंगली मानव,
 
तिमीले साझामा आफुलाई चित्त नबुझेको कुरा लेखेको मा खुसि लागेको छ| जुन सुकै कुरा पनि आखिरमा सबैले आ आफ्नो सोच सक्ति र बुद्धिले भ्याएसम्म बुझ्ने कुरामा कुनै दोधार नहोला र यसै गरि तिम्ले पनि आफ्नो अनुभूति अनुसार आफ्नो टिप्पणी लेख्यौ| आखिर साझा भनेको नै येस्तै चित्त नबुझेको कुरा लेख्ने थलो हो र तिम्रो कुरा केहि आपत्तिजनक लागेको छैन| शायेद बेइमानी भनेको चाही आफ्नै अनुभूतिहरु संगालेर लेखेको होलाऊ, त्येस्मा पनि केहि आपत्ति छैन|
 
अब कुरा गरूँ, एउटा युजर ले यौटा भोट हाल्ने बिशयेमा| IP अनि cookie संग के मतलब भन्ने बिशयेमा| येस्पाली को भोटिंग मा एउटा एस्तो युजर पनि थियो जोसको युजरनेम एस प्रकार को थियो 

mynick125  mynick135  mynick145  mynick155  mynick165  mynick175  mynick185

 

 
एस्तो युजरनेम बाट त्येही IP र cookies प्रयोग गरि येउतैमा भोट गरेको देखिए पछि तिमीले बुद्धि प्रयोग गरेको जस्तै शायेद यिनीहरु लोग्ने, स्वास्नी, बाल बच्चा, बाजे बजै, नाति, पनाति होला भन्ने  त लागेको थियो तर एस कुरामा कुनै शंका नहोला कि यी भोटहरु समर्थनयोग्य मुनासिब होइन| यी अनि येस्तै अरु एक दुइवोटा भोटहरुले गर्दा मैले माथिको टिप्पणी गरेको थिए|
 
निस्पक्ष्य निर्णयमा पुग्नको निम्ति एस्तो प्रत्येक्ष्ये भोटहरुको गणना नगरे बेश होला जस्तो लागेको थियो| 
 
अब कुरा आयो पुरस्कार दिने हिचकिचाहत् र नाता बाद, कृपा बाद| 
एक जनाले नपाए अर्कोले त पाईनै हाल्छ त्येसैले दिने हिचकिचाहत् को कुरै भएन| अनि त्येस्तै नाताबाद, कृपाबाद गरेर कसैलाई आफ्नो पैसा दिनु पर्ने भए सिधै दिए भैहाल्थ्यो नि येत्रो नाटक गर्नुपर्ने केहि जरुरि थिएन|
 
जे होश, मेरो reply पढेपछि तिमीले सबै कुरा राम्ररि बुझ्ने नै छौ, र आखिरमा voting anomalities हेरे पछि निष्कर्षमा पनि पुगी सकेकै थिएँ, जुन निस्कर्ष तिमीलाई पनि चित्त बुझ्ने नै हुनेछ|