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Re: Show HN: RichestOnTheWeb - my submission to Hacka2thon

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Post by Urgo »

Finbarr wrote: post #10
Urgo wrote: post #9

The real richest on the web is you from this. Reminds me of Million Dollar Homepage. Great idea :)

First thing that came to my mind. Really gimmicky idea that could see the creator make a pretty penny if it catches on.

Exactly. I mean I'm not bidding on it. But I wasn't one of the people who helped milliondollarhomepage.com reach its goal and then some either :) I'm just calling it like it is, a really good idea worth trying :)

Re: Show HN: RichestOnTheWeb - my submission to Hacka2thon

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Post by rjvir »

latch wrote: post #4

If I understand it, it's a pretty horrible idea. For a lot of reasons. But, the most obvious, is how easy it'll be for you to game it. When someone makes a bid, you can simply outbid them but not actually pay any money.

I see your concern, but we haven't done this yet - we have no reason to. There is no actual reward for being the "richest", we could care less as to who claims the title.

If we ever auto-outbid people, they would find out right away, and wouldn't return to the site.

Re: Show HN: RichestOnTheWeb - my submission to Hacka2thon

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Post by rjvir »

Kenan wrote: post #6

On Firefox 7.0.1 on Windows 7, the bid overlay automatically comes up and blocks the leaderboard with no way of dimissing it. Works on Chrome 15.0.874.120, though ;)

We used Twitter Bootstrap for the overlay, with the understanding that it may be unreliable. I'll look into a fix as soon as I can.

Re: Show HN: RichestOnTheWeb - my submission to Hacka2thon

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Post by latch »

rjvir wrote: post #14
latch wrote: post #4

If I understand it, it's a pretty horrible idea. For a lot of reasons. But, the most obvious, is how easy it'll be for you to game it. When someone makes a bid, you can simply outbid them but not actually pay any money.

I see your concern, but we haven't done this yet - we have no reason to. There is no actual reward for being the "richest", we could care less as to who claims the title. If we ever auto-outbid people, they would find out right away, and wouldn't return to the site.

  we could care less as to who claims the title
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction#Chandelier_bidding

Also, how would people find out? You just need to "be smart" about it. Don't always use the same username, change how long you wait.

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