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Cheerio
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Ukraine3178 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 13:33:31
April 17 2010 13:30 GMT
#401
It just came to my mind. If the keys will not be distributed among the self-nominated, they will be destributed among smb else. It's not like withdraw and smb but not you will have better chances to receive a key. It's like withdraw and self-nominated ones will have better chances than some other ones. I start thinking that withdrawing is the right way to go if we do not consider the fact the chances of number dropping below 10 are like 1 in 100000 (this way you should withdraw to encrease your reputation).

P.S. and plz erase from the contest 1-to-10-posters. It would put the remaining one under more pressure.
Pholon
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Netherlands6142 Posts
April 17 2010 13:36 GMT
#402
On April 17 2010 22:30 Cheerio wrote:
P.S. and plz erase from the contest 1-to-10-posters. It would put the remaining one under more pressure.


Disagree, this is a good lesson for newcomers to learn about how we do things on tl.
Moderator@TLPholon // "I need a third hand to facepalm right now"
MentsCraftily
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada5 Posts
April 17 2010 13:38 GMT
#403
No shame at all for self-nominating as my first post. It's a small minority of posters here who actually generate thoughtful discussion topics or contribute interesting ideas to them. Post counts and join dates do not make you awesome.

That being said, this thread is hilarious, and out of respect and appreciation for that fact, I'd like to cross my name off the list.

Well played, TL!
yomi
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States773 Posts
April 17 2010 13:39 GMT
#404
this is like one of jigsaw's games or something

genius
Mykill
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada3402 Posts
April 17 2010 13:40 GMT
#405
oh my god this is amazing hahaha
[~~The Impossible Leads To Invention~~] CJ Entusman #52 The problem with internet quotations is that they are hard to verify -Abraham Lincoln c.1863
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
April 17 2010 13:41 GMT
#406
On April 17 2010 22:38 MentsCraftily wrote:
Post counts and join dates do not make you awesome.



Well played, TL!


uh yes they do
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh goodness me, FOX tv where do you get your sight? Can't you keep track, the puck is black. That's why the ice is white.
goswser
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3548 Posts
April 17 2010 13:42 GMT
#407
I would be willing to bet $100 that no one gets the keys. Some of the people with like four posts might not even check teamliquid every 48 hours, teamliquid has < 20 keys, prolly no more than 10 going to this, and people are selfish. Especially when the numbers get down low, people won't want to cross themselves off.
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ggrrg
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Bulgaria2716 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 13:43:23
April 17 2010 13:42 GMT
#408
This whole thing is so vicious.
Deleted User 48059
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
86 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 13:44:22
April 17 2010 13:42 GMT
#409
On April 17 2010 22:30 Cheerio wrote:
It just came to my mind. If the keys will not be distributed among the self-nominated, they will be destributed among smb else. It's not like withdraw and smb but not you will have better chances to receive a key. It's like withdraw and self-nominated ones will have better chances than some other ones. I start thinking that withdrawing is the right way to go if we do not consider the fact the chances of number dropping below 10 are like 1 in 100000 (this way you should withdraw to encrease your reputation).

P.S. and plz erase from the contest 1-to-10-posters. It would put the remaining one under more pressure.



I'm not sure I get Cheerio's point (probably just a reading fail on my part):
You seem to be pointing out that if no-one else withdraws, the keys will be given to a non-self-nominee (which I *think* you're in favour of, from the tone of your post), but then you suggest that more people should withdraw, and even advocate removing the low postcount nominees, thus making it more likely that the key(s) will go to a self-nominee (which from what I can gather you don't want?)
Sorry, I'm just not following. Late night last night's fried my brain I think.

Kev

edited to include quote, since a million other people managed to post in the time it took me to type this
Pholon
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Netherlands6142 Posts
April 17 2010 13:44 GMT
#410
On April 17 2010 22:42 Newguy wrote:
Some of the people with like four posts might not even check teamliquid every 48 hours


They just "entered" a "key winning contest", of course they're gonna be around to check if they've won.
Moderator@TLPholon // "I need a third hand to facepalm right now"
MentsCraftily
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada5 Posts
April 17 2010 13:46 GMT
#411
On April 17 2010 22:41 Divinek wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 17 2010 22:38 MentsCraftily wrote:
Post counts and join dates do not make you awesome.



Well played, TL!


uh yes they do


Case in point
danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
April 17 2010 13:46 GMT
#412
On April 17 2010 22:41 Divinek wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 17 2010 22:38 MentsCraftily wrote:
Post counts and join dates do not make you awesome.



Well played, TL!


uh yes they do


lol, u got me, i laughed


hmm, but was it even a joke?
"Science has so well established that the preborn baby in the womb is a living human being that most pro-choice activists have conceded the point. ..since the abortion proponents have lost the science argument, they are now advocating an existential one."
enzym
Profile Joined January 2010
Germany1034 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 13:48:21
April 17 2010 13:46 GMT
#413
On April 17 2010 21:15 Hot_Bid wrote:
Don't see how its vicious, you don't have to participate and you simply choose to post one line of text or not post. Nobody is forcing anyone to make a fool of themselves. All people that decided to opt out are treated quite well, they actually get respect.

On April 17 2010 21:23 flamewheel91 wrote:
Congratulations to all the people who have taken their name off the list. Altruism isn't dead yet, eh?


i dont think anyone of the people withdrawing their name does it out of selflessness. its got nothing to do with altruism. people are trying to save face but fail miserably, making themselves look really pretentious if they decide to refer to this case with anything more than the words "i withdraw". even then the only thing they have shown is that theyre pretty headless, crumbling because of peer pressure. it makes them out to be weak personalities, not benevolent martyrs.

as pointed out earlier, everyone participating in this thread whos name is on that list can only lose.

examplary post of how to lose face in the name of altruism (sorry albis, you were tricked by tl)
On April 17 2010 15:09 albis wrote:
i would like to take my name off the list.

maybe my selfless act will work its reverse psychology and grant me a key in the process. i have a few friends would said they'd send me an invite if a new friend invite wave came. so maybe that'll happen soon.

seams like a better chance betting some trickery in the tricky thread, than drowning with everyone else playing the afk game



dont play their childish game if you dont have to.
"I fart a lot, often on my gf in bed, then we roll around laughing for 5 mins choking in gas." — exog // "…be'master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?" — S. T. Coleridge
Pholon
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Netherlands6142 Posts
April 17 2010 13:51 GMT
#414
On April 17 2010 22:46 enzym wrote:
i dont think anyone of the people withdrawing their name does it out of selflessness. its got nothing to do with altruism.


Altruism or no, they're still giving up a chance to win a beta key - still counts for something.
Moderator@TLPholon // "I need a third hand to facepalm right now"
enzym
Profile Joined January 2010
Germany1034 Posts
April 17 2010 13:52 GMT
#415
On April 17 2010 22:51 Pholon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 17 2010 22:46 enzym wrote:
i dont think anyone of the people withdrawing their name does it out of selflessness. its got nothing to do with altruism.


Altruism or no, they're still giving up a chance to win a beta key - still counts for something.

how can you say that even after the post i quoted from albis?
"I fart a lot, often on my gf in bed, then we roll around laughing for 5 mins choking in gas." — exog // "…be'master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?" — S. T. Coleridge
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
April 17 2010 13:54 GMT
#416
Because Pholon is a boss?
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
GoodCat1
Profile Joined May 2009
Israel266 Posts
April 17 2010 13:55 GMT
#417
need to pm the self-nominators every 1 hour to check their activity

no response=name crossed
ZerO FAN~!~!~!
LuDwig-
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Italy1143 Posts
April 17 2010 13:55 GMT
#418
The only way to win this contest is : ORGANIZATION.
Guys: do you want a beta key?
PM all other partecipants and ask to form a group (2-3 persons per group) it will reduce by 2/3 the number of people..hoping this would be enough. If everybody remains on selfish position no one will have the key

+ Show Spoiler +
i suppose this: if they will not reduce enough the people number the persons who shows hisself as really low selfish(crossing their name) will get a key!
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=120015&currentpage=98<--Search the HotBid's Post
GoodCat1
Profile Joined May 2009
Israel266 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 13:57:30
April 17 2010 13:56 GMT
#419
Double.


dammit i always quote instead of edit -_-
ZerO FAN~!~!~!
MentsCraftily
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada5 Posts
April 17 2010 13:56 GMT
#420
On April 17 2010 22:46 enzym wrote:

people are trying to save face but fail miserably, making themselves look really pretentious if they decide to refer to this case with anything more than the words "i withdraw". even then the only thing they have shown is that theyre pretty headless, crumbling because of peer pressure. it makes them out to be weak personalities, not benevolent martyrs.



Yes, because people who registered solely for the purpose of winning the key have a profound attachment to this community and care deeply about what its members think of them.



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