Free keycap set for 1500th post (ended)

HaaTa · 06 Feb 2011, 01:42

Spam? I do no such thing

webwit · 06 Feb 2011, 01:46

Only 454 posts to go. Are you getting excited yet?

Minskleip · 06 Feb 2011, 01:55

Yes, I'm such a tool haha. A different approach to such competitions is to not anounce them before the winner has been selected. That'll remove spam, but also anticipation..

sixty · 06 Feb 2011, 01:56

Next competition will be random winner btw

Edit: the prize will be better too

Minskleip · 06 Feb 2011, 01:59

The prize is cool! I personally wouldn't have much use for any of the choises, but a prize is a prize!

There is a large mega forum in Norway which has random competitions where the winner is the second millionth member etc. Mega forums suck.

webwit · 06 Feb 2011, 02:35

Minskleip wrote:The prize is cool! I personally wouldn't have much use for any of the choises, but a prize is a prize!

There is a large mega forum in Norway which has random competitions where the winner is the second millionth member etc. Mega forums suck.

There's a third prize to pick, which is a "Bluecube" PS/2 to USB adapter and a key puller.

Giving a prize to the xth member is a nice promotion, but on the other hand you snub all your earlier members.

Minskleip · 06 Feb 2011, 02:45

webwit wrote:
Minskleip wrote:The prize is cool! I personally wouldn't have much use for any of the choises, but a prize is a prize!

There is a large mega forum in Norway which has random competitions where the winner is the second millionth member etc. Mega forums suck.
There's a third prize to pick, which is a "Bluecube" PS/2 to USB adapter and a key puller.

Giving a prize to the xth member is a nice promotion, but on the other hand you snub all your earlier members.

That I would have more use for; I swapped all the keys in my Customizer with a piece of string

Giving a prize to the xth member is a bit skleiped; it's not like the xth customer which could be anybody.

ynih · 06 Feb 2011, 06:55

Minskleip wrote:On the subject of polish: keycap nipple piercings

How can one cheat if not camping the 1500th post?

Oh my...that'd be a nice surprise to find on a first date...

Minskleip · 06 Feb 2011, 13:06

I'd rather have a soft boob than a keycap in my face haha

7bit · 06 Feb 2011, 15:14

sixty wrote:
Minskleip wrote:Out to find some powertools ...

I'm fascinated with 7bit's Geekhack automation
Its really cool. Especially if you are subscribed to the voting newsletter. His script even emails you a copy of the results every 12 hours or something. I think he parses the "new pm" notification emails and runs the script based on that.

Minskleip wrote:Yeah I know, I get his emails every day. Does he use curl or something and then discard all the irrelevant html? Or mayhe he use one of the modules on Cpan to create a stateful "web fetcher" and ditto..

Ah yes the notification emails. Then it's quite easy if he is using his own mail server. Just setup a pipe in .forward to his script.

Ha Ha!

It is more simple than you think. In fact I run the script manually. It's a wildly hacked together collection of perl and shell scripts actually.

I could have fully automatized it, but there are so little changes, that an automated version would be overkill. So, when enough mesage-notifications arrived, I run the mailing script.

Minskleip · 06 Feb 2011, 16:11

That should make sixty feel better

7bit · 06 Feb 2011, 20:05

This is the 1111-th post, right?

sixty · 06 Feb 2011, 20:27

We should hide the post counter until this is over

7bit · 06 Feb 2011, 20:31

sixty wrote:We should hide the post counter until this is over

This would be unfair!

How should I know when I have to fire up my script to spa^wpost all that stuff I held back, in order to get my colored Model-M modifier key caps?

Minskleip · 06 Feb 2011, 21:57

Will the coal received by 7bit be keyboard compatible?

7bit · 07 Feb 2011, 20:45

1234 --- it will be plain sailing!

webwit · 07 Feb 2011, 20:56

You should have started a new topic for that..

bugfix · 07 Feb 2011, 20:57

@7bit why does deskthority look so shitty in your browser?

sixty · 07 Feb 2011, 20:58

Because he disables everything, literally.

7bit · 07 Feb 2011, 21:00

webwit wrote:You should have started a new topic for that..

Not necessary anymore. All tests went through successfully!

BTW: what happens if I post the 1500-th post and someone deletes his 1499-th a fraction of a second afterwards. Does it still count or will my post become the 1499-th?

bugfix wrote:@7bit why does deskthority look so shitty in your browser?

sixty wrote:Because he disables everything, literally.

To me, (sorry for that) it looks shitty if I enable everything.

I don't like a white background to start with.

webwit · 07 Feb 2011, 21:01

It reminds me of Mosaic 0.9b

webwit · 07 Feb 2011, 21:01

7bit wrote:
webwit wrote:You should have started a new topic for that..
Not necessary anymore. All tests went through successfully!

BTW: what happens if I post the 1500-th post and someone deletes his 1499-th a fraction of a second afterwards. Does it still count or will my post become the 1499-th?

Ehm, you just found out my strategy to win this thing.

sixty · 07 Feb 2011, 21:02

When we reach 1480, we are going to set the board to require captcha input for every post until 1500.

Minskleip · 07 Feb 2011, 21:10

Really? Would make it more fair, true. Those captsjas are always so hard haha.

sixty · 07 Feb 2011, 21:15

Sadly it was a lie. I have no idea how to enable that option. OR DO I?

Minskleip · 07 Feb 2011, 21:22

Ask 7bit

7bit · 07 Feb 2011, 21:27

webwit wrote:It reminds me of Mosaic 0.9b

Mosaic was the first GUI browser I used. Then came Netscape, then Mozilla, now Firefox.

After all, the web looks still the same ...

sixty wrote:When we reach 1480, we are going to set the board to require captcha input for every post until 1500.

What makes you think you will be able to upgrade your site in time?

sixty wrote:Sadly it was a lie. I have no idea how to enable that option. OR DO I?

LOL!

webwit · 07 Feb 2011, 21:32

Mosaic was the first GUI browser I used. Then came Netscape, then Mozilla, now Firefox.

Me too. I remember when I was a computer science student and Marc Andreessen/NCSA started to distribute it. Reception was not very good. It used graphics, which was bad for bandwidth, and didn't offer more than gopher. It was a time you were flamed for having sigs over 4 lines of text.

Minskleip · 07 Feb 2011, 21:36

webwit wrote:It reminds me of Mosaic 0.9b

It looks like links -g

Lol look at that error, what do facebook think they are. Jerks..

7bit · 07 Feb 2011, 21:38

webwit wrote:
Mosaic was the first GUI browser I used. Then came Netscape, then Mozilla, now Firefox.
Me too. I remember when I was a computer science student and Marc Andreessen/NCSA started to distribute it. Reception was not very good. It used graphics, which was bad for bandwidth, and didn't offer more than gopher. It was a time you were flamed for having sigs over 4 lines of text.

I remember that yoiu had to enter the URL in a pop-up window which was hidden in the menu. The line showing

Code: Select all

http://deskthority.net/posting.php?mode=quote&f=10&p=1272

was just an info, not editable!

Also you had to enter http://deskthority.net/ not just deskthority.net