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by sandeep800 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:00 am
Hey David I noticed we dont have any terms and condition page or some disclaimer?is it so?
i think we shud have some common disclaimers and terms & condn to avoid problems later on?

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by DavidP » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:48 am
hi @sandeep! i'm sorry but i can't help you find the bonuses. :) but if you liked today's published articles and got all 3 bonuses, then you should be out of likes for the day because you have 5 points for each day (and by day, i mean between midnight to midnight california time). do you still have likes left?

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by sandeep800 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:30 am
DavidP wrote:hi @sandeep! i'm sorry but i can't help you find the bonuses. :) but if you liked today's published articles and got all 3 bonuses, then you should be out of likes for the day because you have 5 points for each day (and by day, i mean between midnight to midnight california time). do you still have likes left?

yeah i got out of all the likes 6 hours back.. ;) i found all the bonuses too infact i was first one as far as i know :),...actually got confused when past one day message started coming i have 3 likes left so i got panic..But i dint knew those yesterday 3 likes were for today's bonuses..Seems like there is bit of gap in information posted abt the game...It actually creates a bit of panicking situation after u search the complete BTG forum Posts and cant find any to reduce the number of likes left....:)

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by DavidP » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:51 am
@sandeep, i hear you. i'm working on adding some info to the game pages so that you'll have more guidance about where to look and where not to look. revised pages will be live in a couple hours.

we really appreciate your patience with us because we're still building the game while you're playing it. it's sort of like designing and building a plane while simultaneously flying it!

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by sandeep800 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:59 am
DavidP wrote:@sandeep, i hear you. i'm working on adding some info to the game pages so that you'll have more guidance about where to look and where not to look. revised pages will be live in a couple hours.

we really appreciate your patience with us because we're still building the game while you're playing it. it's sort of like designing and building a plane while simultaneously flying it!
i can understand its very tough part but hoping a Happy and safe Flight for all of us and you guys who are making efforts day and night :)

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by ashokkadam » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:49 pm
I found some sign-posts which I liked and shared, but I see that I have '1' Likes left. I am trying hard to find it for a long time now. Guys, can someone give me a clue?
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by sandeep800 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:50 pm
run out of likes :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( now i feel i wasted my one like yesterday for 1 point.This new rule came out today :(

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by sandeep800 » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:52 pm
ashokkadam wrote:I found some sign-posts which I liked and shared, but I see that I have '1' Likes left. I am trying hard to find it for a long time now. Guys, can someone give me a clue?
Self Help is Best Help Ashok ;)
Will u share ur prize if u win?i hope not ;) so game goes the same way :)

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by ashokkadam » Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:25 pm
Yeepy!! finally I am finding it one by one...I think I am too good for Sherlock Holmes character. I am liking this GAME ;)
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by euro » Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:40 am
Hey David!

Even though the game was proving to be frustrating initially, it has become enjoyable now. Its also helping to remove dust settled on some old but very valuable articles.

Was wondering how you guys plan to go about the drawings and giveaways?

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by DavidP » Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:55 am
@ashokkadam, i'm glad that you're starting to find the signposts. :) my guess is that few people are going to be willing to give out hints. he he..

@euro, can you please share what made your initial experience frustrating? we'd love to continue improving this game. and if the initial experience is frustrating, i'd like to figure out how to make it a bit less frustrating.

regarding the drawings, here's what we're going to do. on each sunday, i'm going to run a script that randomly draws winners based on the points for the prior week. once the script figures out who wins, we're going to put that on our site. we'll try to make it as obvious as possible!

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by sandeep800 » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:23 am
DavidP wrote:@ashokkadam, i'm glad that you're starting to find the signposts. :) my guess is that few people are going to be willing to give out hints. he he..

@euro, can you please share what made your initial experience frustrating? we'd love to continue improving this game. and if the initial experience is frustrating, i'd like to figure out how to make it a bit less frustrating.

regarding the drawings, here's what we're going to do. on each sunday, i'm going to run a script that randomly draws winners based on the points for the prior week. once the script figures out who wins, we're going to put that on our site. we'll try to make it as obvious as possible!
David is it allowed to give hints and share other clues here in forum, or posting the link of signpost?

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by DavidP » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:05 pm
@sandeep, we'll delete any hints (outside of the ones that are on the bonuses page) that are given in this forum. of course, we can't stop our members from sharing info or hints outside of this forum. but i will ask you the question that you yourself asked ashokkadam: "will you share you grand prize with others if you win?" :)

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by sandeep800 » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:35 pm
DavidP wrote:@sandeep, we'll delete any hints (outside of the ones that are on the bonuses page) that are given in this forum. of course, we can't stop our members from sharing info or hints outside of this forum. but i will ask you the question that you yourself asked ashokkadam: "will you share you grand prize with others if you win?" :)
He he I knew u will catch me :)
actually i received some PM's asking abt the bonus questions link...so i thought to ask if we can discuss here....And other thing which i dint realized was some people sent me friend requests on FB and when i accepted, they found all my bonus links which i never thought :)

BTW yes i have shared my prizes with some people whom i felt were in need urgently before their GMAT...
but Grand Prize obviously not...;)

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by sandeep800 » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:45 pm
Also i will request all the participants to please do find some time to go thru the links with bonuses,atleast that much time which we are spending to find those hidden signposts :)...they are really gr8 articles and even if we win or not we will surely end up with the knowledge from those valuable posts......
i feel its not just game of winning ,but a game winning with some gr8 amount of knowledge which we strive hard to find for our help!!!!!
Kudosss to David and Eric for coming up with this Idea!!
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