The Meal's new pet project has inspired me. This thread is the forum equivalent of No Limit Hold 'Em.
The stakes? By posting, you're going "All-in."
The reward: post padding.
Your gamble: being the last person to post, thus helping establish yourself in the Thread Killah Hall of Infamy, which I am sure is on the way and will be stickied. (Power of suggestion).
The Meal wrote:Every thread holds this threat. No poster is safe.
Strange game. The only way to win is not to post.
~Neal
Actually, as long as your post:kill ratio in a thread is higher than you are currently at, you win! When I fill this thread up with 50 posts or so, I'll be good to go! w00t!
You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
The Meal wrote:Every thread holds this threat. No poster is safe.
Strange game. The only way to win is not to post.
~Neal
Actually, as long as your post:kill ratio in a thread is higher than you are currently at, you win! When I fill this thread up with 50 posts or so, I'll be good to go! w00t!
You do that, and you end up losing a different game...
~Neal
"Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet." — Elontra
This is a cool idea. Another rule that would make it better, imho: you can only post once in the thread. As each person posts, the pool of possible killers gets smaller, and thus the risk increases. But since the penultimate poster is the winner, to win you have to wait. To get people posting, though, another rule: every so often, there is a 1/100 chance that the thread is locked. I don't know if a mod has to post to lock, if so the locking post doesn't count.
I was surprised (pleasantly) by my rather low thread kill percentage. I was thinking that I killed threads faster than a Crowley tubgirl post.
I guess what happens is that often times I will make the final post, the thread will fall off the radar for a few days and I'll consider it dead. Then, as my keen insight and clever observations sink in among people not blessed with my razor sharp intelligence, the thread is resurrected so that those lesser beings may once again bask in my presence as if they belonged there all along.
I'll pick a number 1-150 and PM the number to someone who the community decides is honest enough to be trusted. Then I'll start a thread entitled "OO Racketeering." Everyone who posts spends $1 per post, the goal being that whoever posts the predetermined magic number wins the cumulative pot.
So if the number was 86 and Kelric was lucky poster #86, he'd collect $1 per post from every person who posted prior to him. If YK had posted 7 times, he'd owe $7. Paypal would probably work best. Honor system: don't post if you won't pay up.
Obviously, I would not be able to win. Nor the person who the community chose to reveal the lucky number (or family, MHS and Meal).
What you guys think?
And consider, this could really be a boon for some of our unemployed tentacles. Take some of the burden away from the welfare/unemployment system.
I have nothing clever to say, however, I have probably posted more today than ever before (which is something like 4 or 5 posts 8) ). I have to say, all this posting is very taxing. I don't know how some of you do it on a day-in, day-out basis.
"The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the English to go away - as soon as their money was spent. And that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it." Robert Graves
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
All following posts must be approved by myself to be valid. Everything that is not validated is not to be taken into account. Every messages written before mine and edited after I wrote my message becomes invalid. I win.
And I have too darn many friends and family members on this site. Gah.
