Actually, we were quite hesitant about having it posted on Slashdot. The last time we had a link, our webhost disconnected us for high traffic that had us without a permanent home for almost three months while we looked for another. I thought of the contest as something fun to do and there wouldn't have been a bigger place to find people that would get a kick out of making fun of AOL than Slashdot. It was from this readership that we've already gotten requests to have a second contest sometime in the future because they have ideas, but couldn't get them in by the deadline. I only expected maybe three entries in the beginning, but it didn't matter if we only got one because, at the time, we only had one prize. That one came directly from my house. The 2nd prize came from one of the other staff writers from his inventory. The only outside help we had was from ThinkGeek (which we were very appreciative of), to stretch into a 3rd and Honorable Mention prizes. In fact, when I emailed them about it, I made sure to note we just wanted some small things, stickers and the like. They were more than gracious to our cause.
If you can't look at it and go "hey, that looks like fun" (which is what most of the contestants that wrote in said), then don't bother going to the site. We enjoy what we do at UC and when there are times that we have a little too much fun, we like to share. Could perhaps the idea that someone isn't following what you think a "proper" site should do makes you feel the need to impart some divine knowledge onto us poor, insufficient peons? If you feel the need to further lecture about the ethics of owning a website, please address your concerns with the back corner of a small, dark room.
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Actually, we were quite hesitant about having it posted on Slashdot. The last time we had a link, our webhost disconnected us for high traffic that had us without a permanent home for almost three months while we looked for another. I thought of the contest as something fun to do and there wouldn't have been a bigger place to find people that would get a kick out of making fun of AOL than Slashdot. It was from this readership that we've already gotten requests to have a second contest sometime in the future because they have ideas, but couldn't get them in by the deadline. I only expected maybe three entries in the beginning, but it didn't matter if we only got one because, at the time, we only had one prize. That one came directly from my house. The 2nd prize came from one of the other staff writers from his inventory. The only outside help we had was from ThinkGeek (which we were very appreciative of), to stretch into a 3rd and Honorable Mention prizes. In fact, when I emailed them about it, I made sure to note we just wanted some small things, stickers and the like. They were more than gracious to our cause. If you can't look at it and go "hey, that looks like fun" (which is what most of the contestants that wrote in said), then don't bother going to the site. We enjoy what we do at UC and when there are times that we have a little too much fun, we like to share. Could perhaps the idea that someone isn't following what you think a "proper" site should do makes you feel the need to impart some divine knowledge onto us poor, insufficient peons? If you feel the need to further lecture about the ethics of owning a website, please address your concerns with the back corner of a small, dark room.