<p>The easy ones people <em>think</em> they know. The hard ones, they Google.</p>
<p>Woah, I didn’t expect this…</p>
<p>Work = Force * …?
(21 tries, 18% correct)</p>
<p>(answer is just displacement, not d*cos(t) or anything…)</p>
<p>I think all my questions have at least a 60% correct rate. :P</p>
<p>Wait, no one else has answered the Fibonacci question, but it just went from 100% to 0%. Hmm…</p>
<p>What I’ve learned from my questions:
-Everyone knows what AoE stands for (100% with 18 tries)
-Few know what C++'s original name was (21%)
-Most people seem to know what “quadratic” means now (78%)
-Most can’t do csc(pi/6) or tan(pi/2) quickly (40% for both)
-Most can’t do lim[x->0] sinx / x now (38%)
-Most can’t find the range of y = sin(2x) (38%) - this one surprised me
-Most know the triangle area formula (.5<em>a</em>b*sinC), but most do not know Heron’s formula (expected)
-Most still get tricked by my polar question :p</p>
<p>I’m waiting for more responses on some other ones that are interesting.</p>
<p>^
Also, I don’t think the percentages update immediately (or maybe its bugged) since I have:</p>
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<p>1.5 people got it right? :S
I think this question may be one of the lowest percentages later, I know I couldn’t do this quickly :p</p>
<p>I observed that once I got used to a category, I just had to see the answer choices to get it right. So, I made sets of questions with only one word different in the question and all the choices the same. People aren’t doing so well on those :p</p>
<p>^
Same, especially the hard/impossible math categories.
I know 5th postulate, 2-D convolution of a kernel image (or something), 9 is the 1000th digit of pi, and 2xxxxxxxxx is the 33rd fibonacci number :p</p>
<p>I’m killing people on my internet and non-easy math questions.</p>
<p>Also, 26% of people don’t know about Boris the Sneaky Russian??</p>
<p>I just made an account :)</p>
<p>^
What is your username?</p>
<p>Also, all the people in my friends list (ie you people) have internet in one of their top 3 categories…hm…</p>
<p>carpenter2 is my username. everyone add meeeeeee</p>
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<p>The choices just look so jumbled without MathPrint. :P</p>
<p>And for those with new accounts, I’m QXZ.</p>
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Or Heroin’s formula, apparently.</p>
<p>^^
True, it would be great if Latex or something could be used in the math/physics/chemistry sections. </p>
<p>^
I checked my question, it says “Heron’s”, so I’m guessing that is a different question :p</p>
<p>I’m just saying, if you also wrote one about Heroin’s formula, you might get some people.</p>
<p>I simply laid out a possible scenario. Although I concede that my initial reaction was somewhat paranoid and alarmist, my instincts as a well-informed user told me otherwise. It is now possible for mischievous users to sign me up for bogus purposes or forward my address to spambots.</p>
<p>Regarding Dogod11’s 103th post, I have a few things to say in friendly refutation. He or she mentions it being fixed soon. It is too late for that. The email addresses of its users have already been released to all of its members - it is public domain to all participants. Secondly, an intelligent point is made in that the chances of hacking increase as the number of gamers increase. I marvel at the possibilities had this happened with 40,000 users.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, it was unprofessional of GameOfNerds.com to accidentally release the email addresses of all its users. I believe an acknowledgement of fault should be made on the main website, a formal apology issued. As it stands, ignorance is akin to guilty denial of wrongdoing. </p>
<p>Furthermore, I believe the mean did not meet the end. The admin sent an email on the topic of a malfunctioning ActionScript function. Most users could care less about the intricacies of computer programming; the result is what matters. A simple post on the main website would have been sufficient. </p>
<p>In my mind, a few questions still linger:</p>
<p>a) Why didn’t the admin just send a reply through the mail server?
b) Was the aforementioned server nonfunctional?
c) Did the admin not have knowledge of blind carbon copy, bcc?
d) Was it simple human error?</p>
<p>I’m sure others would be interested to know. </p>
<p>-CErnie</p>
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<p>If you didn’t see one on the main site, you certainly didn’t look hard enough.</p>
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<p>I have actually been busy over the last 48 hours apologizing by email and in several forums to a lot of people that had noticed the incident. The reason we haven’t issued yet another apology by mail to the affected users is because at the time the cc incident happened, we had already sent one round of spam mail, then another round of apology spam mails, then another mail where the email address incident itself happened. At that point, it was not deemed wise to send around a fourth email to everybody.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the reason it hasn’t been done on the website is exactly what has been suggested in this thread; that this was an error which was only made bigger if more people were made aware of it. In other words, I’ve been busy discussing the incident with those who noted it per email and in forums, and now I get to do it here.</p>
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<p>I realize that you complained about me talking about the technicalities of the error, and I understand that that kind of lingo isn’t exactly what a wronged user wants to hear, but I can’t answer these four questions without a bit of that, so here goes:</p>
<p>a. Because it was the mail server that was the problem. The two first batches of mail were duplicated because of an issue with our webhost, One.com, which caused a call to a PHP page to be repeated numerous times, resulting in the spam mails. After the second batch of spam mails, all automated mass mailing functions were shut down until we could get an explanation from One.com, which has not yet happened and, frankly, is not likely to ever happen. For that reason, automated mass mailing is suspended indefinitely.</p>
<p>b. In short, yes.</p>
<p>c. The admin in charge of sending the last mail which caused the final and more griveous error, the cc’ing of the email addresses, knew about bcc, but was running on 36 hours without sleep at that point because the spam mail issue had required an unplanned and entire night of emergency bug fixing. Once that had been dealt with and the cc issue suddenly occurred just as he was about to finally go to bed, that caused said admin to go another several hours of sleep because of sheer anxiety over what had just happened. As you may have guessed, that admin was me (we are a total of two developers on this game).</p>
<p>d. The email spam issue was a system error with the webhost. The cc issue was a human error caused by distress over the email spam issue and sleep deprivation. So yes.</p>
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<p>There is absolutely no denial of the wrongdoing, as my posts on many forums around the internet can attest. In fact, we’ve been seriously considering putting Game Of Nerds entirely on ice because of the issue.</p>
<p>So, the status at this point is: </p>
<ol>
<li><p>No more mass mails will be sent out by the system which should put a stop to the spam issue until - if ever - One.com figure out what it was about. Single-user mailing will still be performed by the system because that has been determined to work as it should and has never caused any problems.</p></li>
<li><p>Any mass mails that we need to send will be sent through blind carbon copy, which truly and honestly has never been anything but the logical thing to do for us.</p></li>
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<p>Finally, you specifically wanted an apology for the incident. As mentioned, to avoid drawing more attention to the cc issue, I have been chasing down Game of Nerds discussions all over the internet exactly to issue apologies to those who had noted the problem, and now I’ve come to this thread.</p>
<p>We are genuinely sorry for all inconveniences caused by the cc issue. The incident has caused us to seriously doubt our ability to handle the responsibility of running a game of this caliber. That said, we have not experienced the massive, hostile response we immediately expected, but rather general response of ‘it’s okay but PLEASE don’t do it again’. Therefore, we <em>want</em> to continue working on the game, but this week has also been a bit of a wake-up call about what we’re doing here, and how it can affect people if we do.</p>
<p>For the players who feel all this is not enough, we’ve moved a long-needed feature to the top of our current to-do list, namely the ability for users to immediately delete their accounts if they don’t exactly feel reassured by our reassurances.</p>
<p>I’ll return to this thread to discuss the issue further if anyone has more to add about it. Apart from this I’ll just repeat myself and that we are really sorry for both of the issues that just happened right on top of each other. The last 48 hours have not been pleasant for us, not because of any backlash from users, but because we feel horrible about having been the instigators of all this.</p>
<p>I don’t see one anywhere at the time of this post. The latest news blog is the one from 7/25 regarding the email bug. Could you kindly tell me where he has made an acknowledgement? </p>
<p>In GameofNerds’s post (#138), he alludes to acknowledgement not being mentioned on the site.</p>
<p>“Furthermore, the reason it hasn’t been done on the website is exactly what has been suggested in this thread; that this was an error which was only made bigger if more people were made aware of it. In other words, I’ve been busy discussing the incident with those who noted it per email and in forums, and now I get to do it here.”</p>
<p>-CErnie</p>
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<p>An apology is an apology; the moderator issued an apology for a server malfunction that took several forms. If you feel like you have so much important information that can’t be compromised contained within your e-mail, then you probably don’t want to be signing up for anything on the web.</p>
<p>Also, CErnie, I’m very happy that GoN didn’t issue a specific apology about releasing all users’ e-mail addresses. I certainly wouldn’t have noticed this if you hadn’t pointed it out; I’m sure that was the case for many other users. If you’re ever in the African wilderness and fall and break your leg, you don’t scream for help, especially if you’re surrounded by lions and hyenas.</p>