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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\"          Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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| H'okay. So I'm taking a bunch of honors courses this semester, and I was wondering if I could call on members of this board to help out a little. Nothing will be required other than simply doing what we already do. Post. I'll be sure to let people know if there is a specific kind of point before, or sometimes after. (I may need the raw reaction to a post or such of mine to support a hypothesis. So, this post is the actual warning. In those cases, I'll be sure to let you all know after the event)
We have so many people here from all over the country, and some from all over the world, and I appreciate this place as one that I will always be able to count on for learning something new, and understanding the opinions of those effected by things other than what happens to me locally, and I hope others feel the same. Knowledge for knowledge sake is of great value to me, and I'm sure it is to you as well. 
In any case, the first actual "experiment" I'm going to run is for a business course. It's an assignment on Network Marketing, that I've already been assigned, and I was curious how many people I could get to pledge to do their best to *attempt* to make 10 posts here a day throughout the entire month of September. I know we're all busy so all I'm asking is that we try our best. For the end result, I'm actually counting on there being days where someone can't make the 10 posts(be it any number between zero or 10). I definitely don't want to bring spam to this board, so the more people who pledge, the easier having sustainable content to talk about will be. I'll explain what my hypothesis and goal for this at the end of September, once I get an idea on how many people would/could be down for this. And I thank everyone in advance, even if it's just for reading this. |
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True Flight The One Since: 08-21-04 Since last post: 99 days Last activity: 99 days |
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I'll see what I can do but the most you're probably going to get from me is like 5 or 6.  |
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\" Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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| That's perfect. For this particular experiment, I'm only asking that we all try our best. I'm actually hoping there are times/people who will try, but can only do a little less. | |||
Elara Divine Mamkute Dark Elf Goddess Chaos Imp Penguins Fan Ms. Invisable  Since: 08-15-04 From: Ferelden Since last post: 99 days Last activity: 99 days |
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| I'll give it a try, though I'm probably also going to hit closer to 5 or 6 unless more people are involved. | |||
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\" Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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| Perfect. I'm considering lowering it to 5 (although more won't hurt, especially for what I have in mind.) But this is only one level to the experiment. I'll be doing other means of experimentation outside of the board, as well as other research. I just have to have my theories proven or disproven.
And again, I know we're all busy. I've been on the computer all day pretty much, but I had the day off from work, and am sick enough today to probably have called out anyway, so I have nowhere else to go, and not much energy to do much else. So, I understand. The attempt is part of my research anyway.
(I'll divulge everythin shortly. I have to put together a few more ideas toward my hypothesis. I know generally what I want to do, but I've been researching today what could be the most effective. So I'm not a hundred percent sure of how I wanna do this at the moment anyway.) |
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Xeoman Ball and Chain Trooper Administrator  Since: 08-14-04 From: 255 Since last post: 87 days Last activity: 76 days |
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| I sometimes disappear for a day or a few off and on, and stick to my usual forums thesedays, but I'm sure I could easily do 5 a day for the month and well, just in general!
So I pledge allegiance to this experiment, to the Xeogaming Empire, one nation under Xeus, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all. |
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\" Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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Originally posted by 7 I'm abusing the quote button as a "like" button. |
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Elara Divine Mamkute Dark Elf Goddess Chaos Imp Penguins Fan Ms. Invisable Since: 08-15-04 From: Ferelden Since last post: 99 days Last activity: 99 days |
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Originally posted by 7 and tentacles? |
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Cteno Super Shotgun Moderator Since: 01-11-05 Since last post: 91 days Last activity: 89 days |
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Originally posted by ElaraOriginally posted by 7 I pledge allegiance to this experiment, to the Xeogaming Empire, one nation under Xeus, indivisible, with tentacles and forum.php?id=255 for all. |
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\" Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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| Woot! And I'm assuming we can count Kaijin in on this, still...so...I'll make the "announcement" sometime tomorrow. XD Remember, I don't want this to start until the first of September...well, none of the posts will be counted toward the experiment until then, at least. | |||
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Xeoman Ball and Chain Trooper Administrator Since: 08-14-04 From: 255 Since last post: 87 days Last activity: 76 days |
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| ALL MY WORK NOW IS FOR NOUGHT!?! | |||
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Cteno Super Shotgun Moderator Since: 01-11-05 Since last post: 91 days Last activity: 89 days |
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Originally posted by 7 Yup. umadbro? |
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SirAileron Keese  Since: 08-21-11 Since last post: 4803 days Last activity: 4803 days |
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| I'm part of an experiment!? I'd be upset if I didn't do the exact same thing. xD | |||
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Kaijin Surohm Living the dream  Since: 08-16-04 Since last post: 1676 days Last activity: 863 days |
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| Heres my attempt at a daily post.
Enjoy your day =P (Now you can stop being "annoyingly mad" at me) |
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\" Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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| (So, my keys aren't responding properly, so if I don't catch a typo, namely the "a" key, forgive me. Also, kinda long...so thanks in advance for reading this.)
H'okay. An explanation of the goal. I've been tasked with proving the worth of Network Marketing. Luckily, this is one of those rare times in which I'm chosen to prove something I think actually works, but now it's a new challenge. To put in the work for the assignment to make it look more like I tried, rather than said "Yeah yeah yeah. Whatever. This works, cuz I said so." The reason why I'm specifically asking for 10 is because it's an easy number to use mathematically. IF need be, I'm willing to go down to 5, that way I can just cut original factors in half...but...5 is too easy. As said before, I'm counting on there to be someone who doesn't make their goal. The Experiment: Each post is one dollar. I've got 7 people, including myself, that is willing to try this so far. By all means, I hope that more people are willing before the first of September. But I NEED to see an official declaration in this thread before then. I'll explian why in a moment. So, 7 people at 10 posts = 70 dollars a day. 30 days in September. So that's a goal of "earning" $2,100.00 for the entire month. To make this a little more fun, I'll come up with a creative reason to earn and spend this sum of money, when we start this. XD Now, the reason why this is a network marketing gig is because, for whatever reason, we need to have $2,100.00 by the end of the day on September 30th. (I will take timezone into consideration. And naturally, should I get more than 7 people, or we decide to change the number of posts per person per day, this magic number will change.) But making 2,100 posts in a month for one person is difficult, and at this point, damn near impossible. So, we all need to help each other make this money. (Network Marketing works out a little differently in most cases, but the point is that in NM, no one makes money unless we help everyone else involved make money as well. I'm just applying that notion to how we function here on this board.) Now, here's why I'm counting on some people to not "make the day." The point I'm using the board to narrow in on, is the success of actually HELPING one another, opposed to playing dirty to climb to the proverbial top. So, 70 posts per day...shit, that's the goal, but Katana and Elara only made 5 of their's, because they were too busy fighting over Crosby's love of crying like a little bitch about everything rather than just playing the damn game...( HAHA!) So that means that there will only be 60 posts for the day. We're missing 10. Well, Sorcha just happens to still be here, and Nelrith, and the Boss. So between the three of them, they come up with the 10 that Katana and Elara didn't accomplish for the day. Because remember, if we don't make that goal, NONE of us get anything. (Again, I'll make up some reason for getting this "money" together.) Point is, we can do more than 10. I'm not saying ONLY do 10 posts in a day. Especially since, think about it, if everyone except for two people make their 10 posts, and people step in to make up for what someone else had trouble with, then that's more than 10 posts for the people who helped. This isn't a competition among each other to put people down for not making the goal or anything, either. This is people who want to work together to accomplish something, and since we all need one another, we want to help.
I really can't say much else until we start this, I'll give re-caps on what I'm finding, how we're doing, etc...as we go along. This experiment is based off a hypothesis, so either it works or it doesn't...and in the meantime, I try to make it work. **shrugs** But once this starts, I'm wondering if we can "sticky" a thread on this. It'll list the people involved, a re-cap of each day (due to timezones, each post I make with the totals and how we did will probably be for the day before, if that makes any sense. Which means since technically this ends on Sept. 30th, we won't have the results posted officially until October 1st.) Now, does this mean I'm counting out any, say, new members that come along during the month of September? No. And I'm not discounting the people who post here once in a while. But if you are not listed in the new thread I'll make when we start this, then you're going to count for something else. Another factor of the experiment...but I can't tell anyone what I'm doing with that until the end. If everyone else knows, it could effect the outcome, so...yeah. (I'm rushing this a little, so if I need to clarify anything, please, by all means, tell me here. I want to get as much of this straightened out in this thread so that the other is just the results/info we need as this takes off. And I know this was long, so thanks again for the patience!) |
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Elara Divine Mamkute Dark Elf Goddess Chaos Imp Penguins Fan Ms. Invisable Since: 08-15-04 From: Ferelden Since last post: 99 days Last activity: 99 days |
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| So far sounds quite interesting. And the sticky will not be a problem. Would you like me to sticky this thread as well for the time being?
... I will overlook the Crosby comment as it was just an example. I'm more pissed at the Red Wings fans at the moment anyway. (Last edited by Elara on 08-23-11 11:20 AM) |
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\" Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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| If that's not a problem, sure. Once we get this started, we can let it go. I hate seeing too many stickies. Always looked trashy to me for some reason, so once this is started, if I need to reference the "instructions" I'll just re-post in the other thread I guess.
But thanks for the help. I'm still working out some kinks because I have to alter the notion of NM to fit the board. I don't want to be overbearing on this, but I have two points that I'm trying to prove here, something I can't say due to it possibly effecting the outcome, and the other being the "does this work? Or doesn't this work?" kinda dealie. |
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Elara Divine Mamkute Dark Elf Goddess Chaos Imp Penguins Fan Ms. Invisable Since: 08-15-04 From: Ferelden Since last post: 99 days Last activity: 99 days |
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| I also made an announcement on the Facebook page to hopefully get the attention of some of the other members *cough cough*Phoenix*cough cough*Twilight Sparkle*cough cough* | |||
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\" Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1554 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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| <333 !!! | |||
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Elara Divine Mamkute Dark Elf Goddess Chaos Imp Penguins Fan Ms. Invisable Since: 08-15-04 From: Ferelden Since last post: 99 days Last activity: 99 days |
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| You know who should sign up for this? Rogue should sign up for this. *hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink* |
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