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#1 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:13 am

Right now, 3 of the Top 10 are Bored regulars or former regulars.

mrkelley
Weyoun
myself

There may be others, but those are the only usernames I recognize.
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#2 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:14 am

earendel is also in the Top 100
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#3 Post by mrkelley23 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:41 am

I decided to take some chances on the 4 questions I had accumulated so far, to test Confessor's hypothesis:

Highest score I got was 2000 points, with a posted response time of 1.7 seconds.

The software seems to be reacting faster, or something. Before I would input an answer and it would pause for a second or so before returning with my time, and no matter how fast I was, I couldn't seem to break three seconds. Last night I did it twice. That may have just been because I was taking more chances, but my subjective view was that the "pause" wasn't there.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman

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#4 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:43 am

I will never, ever know most of the things they ask me.

ever

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#5 Post by earendel » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:20 am

mrkelley23 wrote:I decided to take some chances on the 4 questions I had accumulated so far, to test Confessor's hypothesis:

Highest score I got was 2000 points, with a posted response time of 1.7 seconds.

The software seems to be reacting faster, or something. Before I would input an answer and it would pause for a second or so before returning with my time, and no matter how fast I was, I couldn't seem to break three seconds. Last night I did it twice. That may have just been because I was taking more chances, but my subjective view was that the "pause" wasn't there.
FWIW I use a notebook PC and a WiFi connection - there seems to be some delay between the time I click the "Submit" button and the time that the clock stops counting down. Also I'm not a premium subscriber, so no wager tokens for me to increase my score. I'm content to be in the top 100.
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#6 Post by kayrharris » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:39 am

I get a lot of lucky guesses and Potpourri is my favorite subject, or at the least the one in which I seem to do the best. I only do it to learn stuff. Maybe some of it will stick with me. I'm somewhere down in the hundred thousands I think. I'm not a premium member either.
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#7 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:43 am

Sometimes late in the month I show up in the top 100.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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#8 Post by ne1410s » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:55 am

After todays question, I am listed as 185th.
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#9 Post by TheConfessor » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:51 pm

Does everyone get the same question each day? Mine usually arrives around midnight, but it was delayed by several hours today, so I just now saw it. I got a question about voice actors on "The Simpsons." I tried to answer as fast as possible, so I saw the name Nancy Cartwright and quickly clicked on the response "Bart Simpson." Apparently the question asked which character is NOT voiced by Nancy Cartwright. One thing I don't like is that you can't go back and review the question after you've submitted your answer, since it disappears from the screen.

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#10 Post by TheConfessor » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:53 pm

ne1410s wrote:After todays question, I am listed as 185th.
Does that mean you're a premium subscriber? I think the riff raff can only see the top 100 on the leaderboard.

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#11 Post by ne1410s » Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:30 pm

Does that mean you're a premium subscriber? I think the riff raff can only see the top 100 on the leaderboard.
No premium subscriber here. My position for the month and overall appear near the top of the sploofus window. On the right hand side.
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