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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."
Just plug in the screen names.
Dang, and I thought online no one knew I had no friends.
So who's going to win this?
Why, the zombie hackers of course. I imagine that their ICQ buddy lists must be light-years long.
www.eissq.com/BandP.html Ball and Plate System. Amuse your friends. Crush your enemies.
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?
myspace being bought out, the growing popularity of all these online "social networking" sites (read: online ego jerkoff sessions, basically) and now this?
Ugh. More & more 'tweeners that don't know squat about computers except how to click & install Napster and AIM.
I'm saddened at what the Internet has become.
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*-
If you look at the bottom of the page, it is owned by American Online. I'm pretty sure they have full access to the AIM database =) This "news" post seems very much like an advertisement to me.
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.
This will be wildly scewed by people who use IM for work. In my experience, most workplaces use MSN but I am sure some use AIM. I have dozens of workmates grouped by their functional area. According to this, I am really popular. THere are people here at work that have 100s in their lists, since they are on my list does that make me cool?
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?
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