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aicrules writes "The internet has long been a safe haven, and thus a play-field-leveling force, for the less socially adept to create a network of friends to share in fun, games, and conversation. However, it appears as if the influence of the social ladder is creeping its way in. While it will certainly lend itself to the abuse that any online scoring system faces, AimFight is the new place where people can go to check their popularity against others." From the article: "Your popularity is based on who has you on their buddy list. There's a complicated algorithm at work here. Your score is measured to the third degree, in the sense of the 'six degrees of separation' game that seeks to link anybody on Earth to any other person through no more than five friends. Say a couple of your friends, A and B, have you on their buddy lists. A, who has three people on her buddy list, doesn't add much to your score. That's because she doesn't have as many people on her buddy list as does B, who has 16. Your friend A is clearly not as well-connected as your friend B. Not unlike life."
Dang, and I thought online no one knew I had no friends.
I have no friends whatsoever. At least not human friends.
AmISnotOrNot ?
I guess those high school bullies really did peak in high school.
I'm incredibly popular by this measure, and one of the jerks who tormented me is a virtual unknown!
Karma, it can be a bitch.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
Oh never mind, I'm not 12 anymore.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
Everyone knows that popularity in real-life is based on whether you're on the football team and how many girls have held still long enough for you to nail them!
Now would you like fries with that?
On my system it says something about "stuff that matters" in the upper right corner of this site...
-*The above statement is printed entirely on recycled electrons*-
that'll be corrected in the dupe
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
There's a complicated algorithm at work here.
Translation: "We're not really sure how we got it to work. Basically we just randomly fiddled with things until we got an acceptable output." Much like the time-test C programming technique of adding/removing * and & to pointers until it works.
their Spammish AIM position!
sigs, as if you care.
Strangely, I still seem to be able to get laid whenever I want.
You just choose not to, right?
That means as long as a geek latches on to a popular person, they can be popular by proxy.
Sweet, just like High School!
It's not your fault it's ugly that's just the effect Perl has on anything. ;-)
"A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing." - Alan Perlis