Get All Users On A Social Media Site to Agree On Something
UPDATE! Please see the end on the new prize for this contest.
The following translation of my awkward prose was written by reddit.com user ponce_de_leon (if you're a redditor vote him up here):
1. Individuals on the internet hold diverse personal opinions, which means it is very difficult to generalize the sentiments of the user base of any social media site as a whole.
2. Because of this, it is very, very difficult to find an issue on which they all agree.
3. If someone were able to find an issue on which all users could agree, that person would be as revered as the man who invented Warp Drive Propulsion in the Star Trek universe.
4. Therefore, I am holding a contest, akin to the X-Prize, to find a post all users of a social media website can agree on.
5. There are rules to this contest. In order to win, your post must satisfy the following criteria:
The social media web site cannot actually have already achieved what I'm holding a contest to discover. You don't have to something-something (but there's a prize). People have to respond to your post. You or someone else must claim victory within 1.75 days of your post. By everyone on the site, I mean 9 out of 10 people.
6. This will either be the best thing ever or the worst thing ever.
7. Drew Curtis of Fark has won.
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Here's the original text
The Internet represents the true diversity of humanity. Getting all the users to agree on something would be the equivalent of getting Sarah Palin to read a newspaper. The sheer number of users alone makes this task damn near impassible. It's the same as moving an ocean with a eye dropper (see my previous metaphor).
The effects of such an achievement would be profound. You'd be remembered as Zefran Cochran. People would likely measure time based on the date you uttered your great truth (or at least internet users would). Servers would measure time by miliseconds since the date you posted your message. WHOPR would explode at your intellectual equivalent of winning tic-tac-toe.
Rules: (Sorry or you could just post something like "x is a shiaty website" and link to "ihatefark.com")
1.> You must be a regular user of the site (with a user id created at least 5 months ago)
2.> You do not have to report on the achievement but it's a big one and the winder will be rewarded an actual prize.
3.> Users must respond to your comment
4.> Users must direct their love/rage at you.
5.> You/someone else must claim victory within 42 hours of your feat
6.> Everyone means ~90% of users
Winners:
Wow. Someone actually did it.
At: 2010-11-01 1:41:26 PM EST
Drew of Fark.com did it with his comments on Jon Stewart's omission of thanks to reddit.com users. Drew We've contacted you and hope to ship you your prize soon! Link to his/her post
UPDATE! We have decided this was too big of a win to be awarded a simple shirt. What should we get him? Post your comment on this thread, the fark thread, or the reddit thread.
Good luck. I've seen people defend puppy killers on the internet. The person who does this will have said something so profound it will sound like a combination of all tributes to "The Final Countdown" on yourtube mixed and then autotuned with a Dane Cook "comedy" albumn or so stupid it will sound like a Dane Cook "comedy" album.
The following translation of my awkward prose was written by reddit.com user ponce_de_leon (if you're a redditor vote him up here):
1. Individuals on the internet hold diverse personal opinions, which means it is very difficult to generalize the sentiments of the user base of any social media site as a whole.
2. Because of this, it is very, very difficult to find an issue on which they all agree.
3. If someone were able to find an issue on which all users could agree, that person would be as revered as the man who invented Warp Drive Propulsion in the Star Trek universe.
4. Therefore, I am holding a contest, akin to the X-Prize, to find a post all users of a social media website can agree on.
5. There are rules to this contest. In order to win, your post must satisfy the following criteria:
The social media web site cannot actually have already achieved what I'm holding a contest to discover. You don't have to something-something (but there's a prize). People have to respond to your post. You or someone else must claim victory within 1.75 days of your post. By everyone on the site, I mean 9 out of 10 people.
6. This will either be the best thing ever or the worst thing ever.
7. Drew Curtis of Fark has won.
==============================
Here's the original text
The Internet represents the true diversity of humanity. Getting all the users to agree on something would be the equivalent of getting Sarah Palin to read a newspaper. The sheer number of users alone makes this task damn near impassible. It's the same as moving an ocean with a eye dropper (see my previous metaphor).
The effects of such an achievement would be profound. You'd be remembered as Zefran Cochran. People would likely measure time based on the date you uttered your great truth (or at least internet users would). Servers would measure time by miliseconds since the date you posted your message. WHOPR would explode at your intellectual equivalent of winning tic-tac-toe.
Rules: (Sorry or you could just post something like "x is a shiaty website" and link to "ihatefark.com")
1.> You must be a regular user of the site (with a user id created at least 5 months ago)
2.> You do not have to report on the achievement but it's a big one and the winder will be rewarded an actual prize.
3.> Users must respond to your comment
4.> Users must direct their love/rage at you.
5.> You/someone else must claim victory within 42 hours of your feat
6.> Everyone means ~90% of users
Winners:
Wow. Someone actually did it.
At: 2010-11-01 1:41:26 PM EST
Drew of Fark.com did it with his comments on Jon Stewart's omission of thanks to reddit.com users. Drew We've contacted you and hope to ship you your prize soon! Link to his/her post
UPDATE! We have decided this was too big of a win to be awarded a simple shirt. What should we get him? Post your comment on this thread, the fark thread, or the reddit thread.
Good luck. I've seen people defend puppy killers on the internet. The person who does this will have said something so profound it will sound like a combination of all tributes to "The Final Countdown" on yourtube mixed and then autotuned with a Dane Cook "comedy" albumn or so stupid it will sound like a Dane Cook "comedy" album.
