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2003-08-18

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-18 20:44|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hat tip to Admiral Poindexter???

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-18 9:21:28 PM|| 2003-8-18 9:21:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Betcha ours is cheaper, too...

Posted by Fred 2003-8-18 9:33:40 PM|| 2003-8-18 9:33:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, I'd guarentee that. Don't let DOD horn in on your action.

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-18 9:40:38 PM|| 2003-8-18 9:40:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Rantburg is more value oriented than the DOD. Fred's little algorithm has more Juche! Thanks, Fred.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-18 9:45:24 PM|| 2003-8-18 9:45:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ummmm, what form? Sorry, Mac, Safari, standards, what standards?

Posted by Steve White 2003-8-18 10:29:17 PM|| 2003-8-18 10:29:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Never mind, it would help if I could actually read and hit the link. Very nice, yet another way for me to piddle away hours!

Posted by Steve White 2003-8-18 10:30:29 PM|| 2003-8-18 10:30:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Now, if we just have a standard deviation calculation, wait, belay that.........

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-18 11:00:54 PM|| 2003-8-18 11:00:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 So who is going to handle the site for off-line betting? We could incorporate pay-pal or something........watch the monster grow.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-18 11:03:30 PM|| 2003-8-18 11:03:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred-
What prevents people from entering in many different aliases to skew the results? I know that this sounds sophomoric, but another web site allowed members to numerically rate other members based on their posts. Some idiots created over twenty different handles to flame the posters they despised and rate them negatively. And in the case of the other website, you had to register a unique email address.

The website owners had to pull the rating system because of it was screwing up the purpose of the website.

Because there is no money up front, the posts in Futuristic Toy will be skewed by idiots. And it won't be interesting anymore. And that would be a shame.

Ways to prevent this are probably easy to come up with, but too complex to manage.

Hopefully some of you smart people will come up with a plan.

Posted by Penguin 2003-8-18 11:19:12 PM|| 2003-8-18 11:19:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 You could filter the regulars from the ones that never posted here before. Or have a condition that you have to be "known" to Rantburg (but not necessarily have to register). Or something... I'm not smart with these things so I'll pass the mic on to someone else...

Posted by Raphael 2003-8-18 11:38:10 PM|| 2003-8-18 11:38:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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