Well, a little bit... I have decided that if I win the competion that I will give the prize to the person who has posted the most times to the competion 'topic' before the time runs out... I think this will mean that in this case the prize will go to the most dedicated poster, and therefore, IMO, the most worthy of winning 
That should get the posting rate up a bit... not that I'm a high contender for winning, but you never know 
Hmmm. Not sure if we want the posting rate up any more. 1500 posts in 9 hours means 170 posts per hour or 2.8 posts per minute.
pinmike-competition-24-hours.png pinmike-competition-september.png
Note: times are Dutch, so the spike was around 9pm U.S. East Coast
So do I have a problem with the Pinmike competition? Most certainly not! It's a great idea and a perfect stress test for the Pinside forum. The site should have no problem whatsoever handling this! 
Hmm, come to think of it, why not post what YOU would do with your $500 gift card, should you win?
Quoted from GoneFishinLvMsg:We're gonna need a bigger server!
LOL... good one.
Quoted from robin:Hmm, come to think of it, why not post what YOU would do with your $500 gift card, should you win?
If I win the money, it's all going to my favorite charity, the "gweempose needs a new pin fund"
Quoted from robin:So do I have a problem with the Pinmike competition? Most certainly not! It's a great idea and a perfect stress test for the Pinside forum.
Bravo Robin!
Quoted from SealClubber:Buy noflix LEDs.
Are they Better than CoinTaker's ? I beg the Differ-- What's the difference ?
Just for clarity, I also posted this on the official contest thread.
Quoted from pdxpinduck:I hope PinMike will notify Robin to close this thread when he declares a winner...
I discussed this with Mike. The way it works is that PinMike will make a post when his alarm goes. The post above that post is the winner. We figured it would be honest if he opens his browser 15 minutes before the alarm and creates a new post "Rrrringgg!" - He will then have his mouse on the "send post" button until the alarm goes, then click the button.
That should make things pretty honest as he won't know who wins until clicking.
Only fair for the people that can sit on here and keep hitting the copy / paste / Send Post button, think the time / date stamp thing would be a little more in tune without clogging up the server.
Robin- any thoughts or opinions about how this contest affects wieners karma ratings? I've always thought that karma shows us all how much we've contributed to the site, as most posts have some substance to them, but this just racks up karma without really contributing anything...
Quoted from robin:Might be an idea to disable karma for that thread, I think your point is valid!
Didn't know you could do that. I agree.
Quoted from SealClubber:robin said:
Might be an idea to disable karma for that thread, I think your point is valid!
Didn't know you could do that. I agree.
Yeah good idea, Pinmike is falling down the rankings because he isn't posting!
Hi everyone! I'm happy to see the Pinside is still up and running! I haven't received any PM's about it so I guess the server kept running smoothly? Or did anyone notice problems?
I have disabled Karma points for the $500 contest thread. I'm sure everyone agrees with that!
So... What are you still doing here, back to that topic!
Quoted from robin:Hi everyone! I'm happy to see the Pinside is still up and running! I haven't received any PM's about it so I guess the server kept running smoothly? Or did anyone notice problems?
I have disabled Karma points for the $500 contest thread. I'm sure everyone agrees with that!
So... What are you still doing here, back to that topic!
Good idea!
Quoted from Ballsofsteel:amazing what free 500 bucks will do huh?
I think the $500 incentive has literally altered the course of some member's lives these past couple days. I bet some people stayed up all night. $500 is a heck of a lot of money to wave in someone's face. Not to diminish pinmike's kind gesture, but it may have actually been too much in retrospect.
would put more leds in my machines,, just got bought an afm, and put some mods in including my first set of leds
I'm really sorry for the problems my thread has caused and i never
imagined it would be like this I figured while members were doing
there normal thing on the site they would post once or twice when
they log in and maybe post once or twice before they log off I never
wanted anyone to hang around there PC all day long LOL!.I just thought
it would be fun for everyone and winning is based on luck and right timing
not by posting every 10 seconds.Thanks,Mike
Quoted from fusion301:Who is pinmike and why is he giving away $500
ahahah, i love the sarcasm...it's hard to read through typed words though.
props to pinmike. he may have blown this website right out of the water...even i was callin friends to get them in on the 500$
You underestimated the power of GREED.
But really, $500 is nothing to sneeze at. And most of us would probably be sitting here anyway.
Quoted from pinmike:I'm really sorry for the problems my thread has caused and i never
imagined it would be like this I figured while members were doing
there normal thing on the site they would post once or twice when
they log in and maybe post once or twice before they log off I never
wanted anyone to hang around there PC all day long LOL!.I just thought
it would be fun for everyone and winning is based on luck and right timing
not by posting every 10 seconds.Thanks,Mike
I knew it would be exactly like this. And I love it! Haha.
Quoted from Rascal_H:pinmike said:
I'm really sorry for the problems my thread has caused and i never
imagined it would be like this I figured while members were doing
there normal thing on the site they would post once or twice when
they log in and maybe post once or twice before they log off I never
wanted anyone to hang around there PC all day long LOL!.I just thought
it would be fun for everyone and winning is based on luck and right timing
not by posting every 10 seconds.Thanks,Mike
WAS AWESOME MIKE THANKS FOR THE THRILL!!!!!!
I agree, $500 is a heck of a lot of money to get to spend on pinball parts! Fantastic, right? I Think it was a great contest and a fun "experiment" at the same time! We shouldn't do this every week, it did take down the server a couple of times but it was a lot of fun watching it. Too bad I couldn't participate, haha!
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