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  • dahartigandahartigan OG

    I like that idea @FAT32 :-)

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  • DazzleDazzle OG

    @poisson said:

    @FAT32 said:

    @poisson said:
    Actually a lucky draw when we hit the milestones will also be fun! Reminds me of that event FAT32 did. I won an idling machine :)

    He probably still has the entire setup ready to roll.

    I have a suggestion on whether lucky draw should include the users joined earlier to increase their chance.

    For example, when reaching 300 users, draw from 1-300 instead of 201-300. That means the earlier you join, the higher the chance of winning. Need approval from @cociu and @AnthonySmith :)

    Round 0: Draw from 1-100 (Additional for early adopters)
    Round 1: Draw from 1-300
    Round 2: Draw from 1-400
    Round 3: Draw from 1-500
    Round 4: Draw from 1-600
    Round 5: Draw from 1-700
    Round 6: Draw from 1-800
    Round 7: Draw from 1-900
    Round 8: Draw from 1-1000

    If it sounds good I can build a simple script and give the hashes of the seeds for the random algorithm.

    Well, @FAT32 always comes up with the best ideas! What say you @AnthonySmith and @cociu? This is definitely a much more fun way to keep the entire community engaged, although server load might spike when everyone is camping for the results release.

    Amazing idea!

    At least I got the chance. :#

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  • vimalwarevimalware OG

    How about it @cociu?
    ( Next prize as random draw at 300 members)This will encourage those that are not signing up NOW just to be the 300th member (aka account sniping)

  • FAT32FAT32 OG

    @AnthonySmith said:
    account reg sniping

    @uhu said:
    account sniping

    @vimalware said:
    account sniping

    Sorry, I shouldn't have done that :(

    食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.

  • poissonpoisson OG

    @FAT32 said:

    @AnthonySmith said:
    account reg sniping

    @uhu said:
    account sniping

    @vimalware said:
    account sniping

    Sorry, I shouldn't have done that :(

    Playing within the rules is legitimate. Besides, no amount of sniping guarantees anything if everyone is trying to snipe!

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  • vimalwarevimalware OG

    @vimalware said:
    account sniping

    Sorry, I shouldn't have done that :(

    Hey, I wasn't even thinking about you when I typed that. :)

    Without the right incentives, the gap in time between 200-300 , may be as wide as 5 and 200 (thanks to the lurker effect).

  • cociucociu OG

    FAT32 said: Round 0: Draw from 1-100 (Additional for early adopters)

    Round 1: Draw from 1-300
    Round 2: Draw from 1-400
    Round 3: Draw from 1-500
    Round 4: Draw from 1-600
    Round 5: Draw from 1-700
    Round 6: Draw from 1-800
    Round 7: Draw from 1-900
    Round 8: Draw from 1-1000

    this is a nice ideea @AnthonySmith you can impement it if you want.

  • uptimeuptime OG

    You are a wizard @FAT32

    HS4LIFE (+ (* 3 4) (* 5 6))

  • cybertechcybertech OGBenchmark King YABS 24/7/365

    i wanna win something!

    I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.

  • FAT32FAT32 OG

    @uptime said:
    You are a wizard FAT32

    食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.

  • saibalsaibal OG

    Congrats FAT32 :smiley:

  • DPDP OG
    edited November 2019

    @FAT32 said:

    @poisson said:
    Actually a lucky draw when we hit the milestones will also be fun! Reminds me of that event FAT32 did. I won an idling machine :)

    He probably still has the entire setup ready to roll.

    I have a suggestion on whether lucky draw should include the users joined earlier to increase their chance.

    For example, when reaching 300 users, draw from 1-300 instead of 201-300. That means the earlier you join, the higher the chance of winning. Need approval from @cociu and @AnthonySmith :)

    Round 0: Draw from 1-100 (Additional for early adopters)
    Round 1: Draw from 1-300
    Round 2: Draw from 1-400
    Round 3: Draw from 1-500
    Round 4: Draw from 1-600
    Round 5: Draw from 1-700
    Round 6: Draw from 1-800
    Round 7: Draw from 1-900
    Round 8: Draw from 1-1000

    If it sounds good I can build a simple script and give the hashes of the seeds for the random algorithm.

    "The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • tgltgl OG

    what if LEST-BOT wins

  • uhuuhu OG

    @tgl said:
    what if LEST-BOT wins

    Or one of Anthony's legion of test accounts? It's all fixed, I tell ya, fixed! Or something.

  • FreeBSDFreeBSD OG
    edited November 2019

    I consider the contest faulty.

    According to comment made by @AnthonySmith on November 19th 12:23 PM the following screenshot was provided with vanilla stats from the day before (screenshot was posted on Imgur one minute before the post). You can see in image that 199 users were registered at that moment of screenshot (on 18th of November 2019).

    On November 19th at 01:05 PM (after this image was posted), user @nynynyny registered.

    On November 19th at 01:15 PM (10 minutes later) user @FAT32 registered.

    Somehow, @FAT32 was declared the winner as the number 200 account. I did not manage to analyze what other users registered after screenshot was announced or after the screenshot was taken (the day before). All I know, is that something does not feel right.

  • SolaireSolaire OG

    FreeBSD said: Somehow, @FAT32 was declared the winner as the number 200 account. I did not manage to analyze what other users registered after screenshot was announced or after the screenshot was taken. All I know, is that something does not feel right.

    Test accounts and unconfirmed accounts are included in the statistics but not in the draw. That's why.

  • poissonpoisson OG

    @Solaire said:

    FreeBSD said: Somehow, @FAT32 was declared the winner as the number 200 account. I did not manage to analyze what other users registered after screenshot was announced or after the screenshot was taken. All I know, is that something does not feel right.

    Test accounts and unconfirmed accounts are included in the statistics but not in the draw. That's why.

    Indeed. This is also the reason why the number 100 winner wasn't literally the number 100 based on vanilla's number stamp. This was already declared upfront many days earlier. This is also the reason why if you trace the thread, I have asked Ant for updates from time to time so that we know what is the true picture.

    Going forward, there will longer be such confusion.

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  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired
    edited November 2019

    @FreeBSD (guy?) asked and answered, a few times, if you spent half as much time reading the actual thread as you did looking for shit in a clean toilet you would have saved some time.

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  • SolaireSolaire OG

    @FreeBSD

    Anthony posted "5 away now" at November 19th 12:55 PM.

    The last user to sign up before that was hoarder, user ID 216 at 12:24 PM:

    The first user to sign up after that was CRTelevision, user ID 217, at 1:56 PM:

    The user ID of CRTelevision being 217, 217 + 4 => 221, which is the user ID of FAT32. That can be verified here.

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    if this is going to turn in to a source of drama to belittle efforts we can just put an end to it now I guess.

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  • uhuuhu OG

    @AnthonySmith said:
    if you spent half as much time reading the actual thread as you did looking for shit in a clean toilet

    Oh, I like that one. Stealing!

  • tgltgl OG

    @FreeBSD are you @jsg man?

  • DazzleDazzle OG

    @tgl said:
    @FreeBSD are you @jsg man?

    Or @default ?

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  • wankelwankel OG
    edited November 2019

    @AnthonySmith said:

    @hzr said:
    How's the spambot signup rate?

    Shockingly low

    So... none of my 15 other accounts got flagged? ;-)

    Edit: sorry for being totally irrelevant, I didn't notice I was on the first page of a 5 page thread...

  • vimalwarevimalware OG
    edited November 2019

    Let me grab my tools.

  • poissonpoisson OG

    @vimalware said:
    Let me grab my tools.

    That's looks like the perfect tool for a professional dominatrix servicing IT professionals.

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  • dahartigandahartigan OG

    @vimalware said:
    Let me grab my tools.

    CAT5 of 9 tails

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  • hawahawagohawahawago

    will cociu put the Black Friday offer here?

  • K4Y5K4Y5 OG

    @hawahawago said:
    will cociu put the Black Friday offer here?

    Every Friday is a Black Friday for @cociu

  • WSSWSS OG Guru Meditation Error

    #dicks

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  • RahulRahul OG

    poisson said: That's looks like the perfect tool for a professional dominatrix servicing IT professionals.

    Works best, if those RJ45 Connectors are snipped before use.

  • RahulRahul OG

    @pike said:
    Good to have you onboard cociu! Get this man a provider tag.

    And some sisters too.

  • MarkDMarkD OG

    so whats the update on this? lol.

  • RahulRahul OG

    @MarkD said:
    so whats the update on this? lol.

    Sorry

    K4Y5 said: @cociu

    Been busy with

    Rahul said: sisters

  • InceptionHostingInceptionHosting Retired

    292 users.

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  • poissonpoisson OG

    @AnthonySmith said:
    292 users.

    @FAT32 are we having a lucky draw soon?

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  • tgltgl OG

    @poisson if FAT32 wins again, its rigged

  • cociucociu OG

    @AnthonySmith said:
    292 users.

    I have been out some days ... do we have a winner ?

  • poissonpoisson OG

    @tgl said:
    @poisson if FAT32 wins again, its rigged

    If cociu wins it is even more rigged.

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  • FAT32FAT32 OG
    edited November 2019

    Not sure if I should do this but these are the SHA256 hash of the random generator seed for fairness purpose, the actual seed will be announced when we hit the target.

    Round Range Hash
    0 1-100 63dc9a321e11a17d64d6d661d4a8c7cc16b6cebf4559b473062d3a4f0e0202d8
    1 1-300 892d9333f872ed34c08a745a090e7a266f072e809a80191a4777b3093567a362
    2 1-400 6cf1a05c37fce8a6eba9d8423610490e984a1da6688fdb01c8a3c35c2f2fe357
    3 1-500 3cc6767b9a93a58970b591210c2492704494d9406226b37d1b0c92e25a92c427
    4 1-600 0619daa83965571edc624c80030684ca2b432afb21d4396b404c338163282b4d
    5 1-700 1323b7ddd7afaf0526a68e99a97770f8dd34b7cee7cac95c12871e77905d6796
    6 1-800 9bc67df4011bbe6f3b7195d49a4e63cf2f25c1affd49b7b60e51608eb52ac60f
    7 1-900 461539ae139d921c84f3264bd0e3a1705bc86c58238e5626f187ed7d311ba686
    8 1-1000 8bd567e8a29480a40a4940e975e4702b439ab68f8df82d75c0e197a7b23c1433

    This is the code to select a random user:

    const seedrandom = require('seedrandom');

function selectWinner(seed, username, total) {
  const rng = seedrandom(seed + '_' + username);
  return Math.ceil(rng() * total);
}

    When the function above is called, username will be populated with the user with ID at the upper bound of the range.

    For example, to select a winner for Round 3, the function call will be selectWinner('some_seed', 'username_of_the_user_with_id_500', 500)

    食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.

  • tgltgl OG

    @AnthonySmith

    https://www.random.org/

    and record yourself with todays newspaper in your hand while doing it

  • tgltgl OG

    @FAT32 i think you got used to winning, i see you are trying to provide this backdoored code so you will win again

  • elliotcelliotc OG

    I have never won a draw in my whole life. B)

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  • FAT32FAT32 OG
    edited November 2019

    @tgl said:
    FAT32 i think you got used to winning, i see you are trying to provide this backdoored code so you will win again

    I am just trying to help, I can choose not to do so too. There might be complex mathematics and proofs to show that the algorithm is not equally distributed, but I don't think it is necessary to do so. I am quite skeptical about stuff so I always try to ensure fairness.

    In addition, how can this be backdoored with few lines of codes? There's no known SHA256 collision yet, the seed is pre-determined even without knowing the upcoming users. In addition, the algorithm above depends on the latest registered user, how can I be sure who will be the X-th user?

    If you insist on me winning something, feel free to take my VPS and enjoy your day.

    Edit: I am not trying to start a drama here, but someone else choose to do so. I can tell you it is so much easier to fake a random.org than my algorithm. Self-sign a SSL certificate, point the IP to your own, and boom you can fake the result.

    食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.

  • RahulRahul OG
    edited November 2019

    FAT32 said: In addition, how can this be backdoored with few lines of codes?

    He was just doing the art of $hitposting

  • RahulRahul OG

    FAT32 said: feel free to take my VPS and enjoy your day.

    Really ? :o

  • tgltgl OG

    @FAT32 it seems you do not speak sarcasm! I was joking man

  • poissonpoisson OG

    @tgl said:
    @FAT32 it seems you do not speak sarcasm! I was joking man

    Don't scare the shit out of the cute dino!

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  • FAT32FAT32 OG

    @Rahul said:
    He was just doing the art of $hitposting

    @tgl said:
    FAT32 it seems you do not speak sarcasm! I was joking man

    Maybe my shitpost detection is not working properly, I am more used to deank / eol's shitpost.

    @Rahul said:
    Really ? :o

    If needed, I would rather lose a few bucks per month than being falsely accused as a cheater.

    食之无味 弃之可惜 - Too arduous to relish, too wasteful to discard.

  • RahulRahul OG

    @FAT32 No accusation from my side. Just asked out of curiosity and maybe a little jealousy, hoping it was idling on your hand.

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