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by sorter » Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:01 pm
Right on Dana - I started this thread to point out the flaw and it kinda took on a life of it's own. Please lock it since the BTG staff are aware of the issue - further discussion is pointless.

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by AtifS » Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:41 pm
Rightly said. I accede with DanaJ and respect her comments. We shouldn't forget the real purpose of being here on this forum.
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by LMK27 » Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:50 pm
I 'liked' the Nature vs Nurture article, but did not receive any points. There was no sign post at the top of the page. Please help!

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by AtifS » Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:01 pm
LMK27 wrote:I 'liked' the Nature vs Nurture article, but did not receive any points. There was no sign post at the top of the page. Please help!

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Please! see the above posts in this thread.
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by frank1 » Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:33 pm
I have 1 like still left for the day which is going to expire after 3 hours.
But i dont have any post to like.(may be i was suppose to like this article)
(now i feel it may have benefitted somebody...just kidding)
never mind
part of the game

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by sandeep800 » Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:14 pm
frank1 wrote:I have 1 like still left for the day which is going to expire after 3 hours.
But i dont have any post to like.(may be i was suppose to like this article)
(now i feel it may have benefitted somebody...just kidding)
never mind
part of the game

thanks.
@Frank1 first you say something in reply to DanaJs' post ,then u edit that post and come up with different opinion again????
keep cool man..
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by sandeep800 » Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:23 pm
ashokkadam wrote:considering that a large majority of players are from Asia and particularly from India, I think there should have been a BTG Moderator/Volunteer based in India, who could have handled/supported the GAME and answered most of the queries. How much can David alone can do? It seems practically impossible for one man to do code development, test the functionality, then regression testing, sanity testing, end-to-end testing, production testing, etc. Take this issue itself, we could have easily mitigated the risk by authorizing the read and write access of the BTG production server to a trustworthy moderator in India OR to someone in BTG office who would work on weekends to support the GAME. It is like missing SLAs for the customers if customers(we players) r not able to get as is expected...

No doubt, David's efforts have been exemplary but my only concern is that we could have mitigated risks...

Anyway thanks to DanaJ for providing a timely post/update on this issue. Otherwise God only knows for how many people around the globe, this could have resulted in counter-productivity....

just random thoughts from my mind.....
hehe U applied all concepts of software industry.........lols..
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by harika1022 » Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:44 pm
Waiting for the clearance of this issue...about sign banner ... hope we get another chance..

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by shashank.ism » Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:07 pm
Hey guys/gals nothing to be panic about here....points for none....so its ok...
just concentrate on reading posts and learn so that it would help you in future...

Also points doesn't matter a lot here....as last week none of the top scorers won a single prize....so the game is on , ur luck should be on your side and you can even bag all the 4 prizes with just 4 points in ur hand...
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by ashokkadam » Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:19 pm
Thank you Dana, that helps!!! you are really awesome :)
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by frank1 » Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:54 am
sandeep800 wrote:
frank1 wrote:I have 1 like still left for the day which is going to expire after 3 hours.
But i dont have any post to like.(may be i was suppose to like this article)
(now i feel it may have benefitted somebody...just kidding)
never mind
part of the game

thanks.
@Frank1 first you say something in reply to DanaJs' post ,then u edit that post and come up with different opinion again????
keep cool man..
well there was around 16-18 hours gap between those two posts.
I thought things will be corrected in those 16 hours,but infact it was not.So,i had to write those(as practically it effected me).

If it were corrected,it would not have affected anybody but since it was not it effected me atleast....i lost 1 like and it has moved me to 16th position from 13th may be....(so very tuff competition going on......difference of 1 point making huge difference now)

I edited my earlier post,because i felt like what ever i say now is considered as complain now(..."oh this guy always only complains......and ruinis the whole things....he doesnt admire the our hardwork") and may be giving my wrong impression.So i really dont want to be like that and hurt the game organizers at least as it is benefitting to large numbers of people(ok no problem not for me for now but never mind).So,i felt like, it was taken as complaint by moderator so i edited and removed it.I dont want to give wrong message to game organizers or dishearten them for their great efforts.I salute them for their great work.

so edited it.(but players table score has still some disparity and 4th week score is still not shown i guess.Any way never mind.Hope it will corrected.(Not a complaint).As for it doesnt effect anybody as total score in increasing in normal way)
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by ashokkadam » Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:01 am
Hey franky,
Though it might seem irrelevant but I just want to understand what does's your signature mean?
frank1 wrote: During interview a lawyer was asked how much does 2+2 make?
he closed the door and asked to interviewer 'how much do you want it to be?'....may be same with 5 options game...
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by frank1 » Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:21 am
ashokkadam wrote:Hey franky,
Though it might seem irrelevant but I just want to understand what does's your signature mean?
frank1 wrote: During interview a lawyer was asked how much does 2+2 make?
he closed the door and asked to interviewer 'how much do you want it to be?'....may be same with 5 options game...
&
Prizes: ..Coming out of utopian world.
I think it will be hijacking others post. he he
So not much in detail.
While practicing Verbal for gmat,in many occasion i have felt that especially in CR there can be more than 1 correct answer or OR either among the contenders(means best 2 or best 3) can be proven as correct answer(not in all but in many cases of verbal....).Sometimes even in RC,SC.
So,it is JOKE only that if lawyer really fights arguing why 'contender' cannot be correct option,he may infact win...lol....
so just a thought.
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https://www.beatthegmat.com/information- ... 65687.html
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by DavidP » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:31 am
Thanks Dana for your very thoughtful post.

Hi all, I really appreciate all of you playing our little game. And I also greatly appreciate your patience with us as the BTG team runs this game as best as we can. It's been a huge learning experience for us on all fronts - technology, process and business. We've never done anything like this game before. And we've certainly never tried to distribute almost 700 prizes in 5 weeks before.

So thanks again for your patience. And please trust that we're doing our absolute best to make this game as successful and fun as possible.

Oh, here's one final note. The problem with the Nature vs. Nurture bonus was that Eric entered the bonus item but then forgot to add the like and share points. And so no one was able to like/share that article. And so no one got an undue advantage for that article.