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What? AIM Fight narrowed to two players? I thought AIM Fight was always between two players.

If they can get AOL in on this too, it could be very bad.

Everyone being able to talk to everyone else would be nice, but there are big downsides if it's a closed network. If it ends up that 9X% of users are on a single A/M/Y-IM network then it would be very hard for anyone else to break into the market.

Yeah, whatever.... But imagine the AIMFights!

He is just trying to get his AIM fight score raised.

I had to manage a deal my company was doing with AOL years ago. One of the little tid-bits I picked up about AOL culture was the fact that because the public and employees had equal access to aliases on aol.com, you could tell the seniority of an AOL employee by their screen name. If they were bob@aol.com they were among the first employees in the company, predating the first AOL service. Also they could presumably buy their own island.

http://aimfight.com/getFight.php?name1=joe&name2=b ob

What could this mean? http://aimfight.com/getFight.php?name1=vi&name2=em acs

http://aimfight.com/getFight.php?name1=stevejobs&n ame2=billgates

Hundreds to thousands is rather significant. It doesn't sound very likely that so many more people are online now.

Not really, because the way your rank is calculated doesn't seem to be dependent on how many people have listed you specifically, but how popular your friends are that listed you, and then how popular they are, and so forth (out to three degrees). Check out the diagram on the "What is AIM Fight?" page for a fuller explanation.

What does the actual score mean?
The higher your number, the more online third-degree connections you have. Your score isn't an exact number of your third-degree connections. Rather, it shows how many connections you have relative to other AIM users.

• Find Crush's score and Your score.
  
• Add Crush to Extra's buddy list.
  
• If Your score goes up one, Crush must have You on her buddy list. Otherwise, the night just got a little bit colder.

• Find Crush's score and Your score.
  
• Add Crush to Extra's buddy list.
  
• If Your score goes up one, Crush must have You on her buddy list. Otherwise, the night just got a little bit colder.

Actual AIM transcript from convo I just had (names changed to protect the unpopular):

3:04 PM
[him]: http://aimfight.com/
[him]: i challenge u
3:05 PM
[me]: hahah...ok, what is this?
[me]: im putting in our names
[me]: what happened?!
[me]: i lost?!
[him]: u lose buddy
[me]: why?!
[me]: i must train harder!
[him]: i'm moving on , 3 down
[me]: i was sucker punched!
[him]: read the faq , it's cool
3:10 PM
[me]: haha...so, basically, it's a popularity contest.
[him]: yep
[me]: well, shit dude, i could've TOLD you i'm not cool. you didnt have to smack my ass to find that out.
[him]: lol
[him]: i'm an empiricist
[him]: what can i say

Untrue! Check out: http://www.aimfight.com/whatisaimfight.html where you'll find: "Your score is the sum of the current number of people online who have you listed as a buddy, out to three degrees."

If your score happens to be in the top 5% of all AIM users online, we'll show you where you rank in comparison to the others in the top 5%.
If you don't see your rank, it means you're not in the top 5%. Remember, not ranking doesn't mean you're a bad person. It just means that people who have you listed as a buddy might not be online.

or: http://aimfight.com/getFight.php?name1=%5Byourscre enname%5D E&name2=%n If you send that link to someone in AIM, it will substitute thier screenname for [%n]. Saves a bit of effort.

http://aimfight.com/getFight.php?name1=BillGates&n ame2=SteeveJobs No wonder why MS > Apple, Steeve's got no friends! -Rick

http://aimfight.com/getFight.php?name1=SCREENAMEON E&name2=SCREENNAMETWO