Cicada 3301

#1

Post by imb » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 2:27 AM UTC

Cicada 3301
en.wikipedia.org

Re: Cicada 3301

#2

Post by FLUX-YOU » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:09 AM UTC

http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Uncovering_Cicada_Wi...

Have fun. Also, no way to verify if it's an ARG or an actual group to my knowledge.

Re: Cicada 3301

#3

Post by mmastrac » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:19 AM UTC

Seems more likely that this is a group of 4channers looking to have some fun rather than a "secret think tank".

Re: Cicada 3301

#4

Post by eieio » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:22 AM UTC

This is neat, but from the second paragraph of the article:

  According to a document posted anonymously, 
  the puzzles are a recruiting for a "think tank." 
  Thus far, this is unverified.[citation needed]

Calling it a "secret think tank" seems disingenuous here.

Re: Cicada 3301

#5

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:24 AM UTC

FLUX-YOU wrote: post #2

http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Uncovering_Cicada_Wi... Have fun. Also, no way to verify if it's an ARG or an actual group to my knowledge.

[deleted]

Re: Cicada 3301

#6

Post by tomhschmidt » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:31 AM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #3

Seems more likely that this is a group of 4channers looking to have some fun rather than a "secret think tank".

Seconded. How fruitful can recruiting on /b/ be anyway?

Re: Cicada 3301

#7

Post by tokenadult » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:31 AM UTC

Please submit Wikipedia articles, if at all, with their original article titles. It's bad enough to have submissions of most articles from the Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Make Stuff Up In (can you tell I was just editing Wikipedia this evening, trying to fix problems), but worse when Hacker News guidelines are ignored to submit a Wikipedia article with a linkbait title. There are a few sources for this article (which is good) but there isn't much information about the article topic even from those.

Have a happy Thanksgiving, by the way. Thanks for the kind submission, and don't mind my objection to the title not being the original article title.

AFTER EDIT: After all, I read the other comments here before I posted my comment, and it's not even clear that a "secret think tank" is really what the source of the cryptic messages is. That's reason enough to change the title of the submission here.

Re: Cicada 3301

#8

Post by maaku » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:32 AM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #7

Please submit Wikipedia articles, if at all, with their original article titles. It's bad enough to have submissions of most articles from the Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Make Stuff Up In (can you tell I was just editing Wikipedia this evening, trying to fix problems), but worse when Hacker News guidelines are ignored to submit a Wikipedia article with a linkbait title. There are a few sources for this article (whic…

Because Cicada 3301 is so much clearer a description.

Re: Cicada 3301

#9

Post by ajiang » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:37 AM UTC

Let's not give technical recruiters any more ideas ;)

Re: Cicada 3301

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Post by cdmoyer » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 3:43 AM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #7

Please submit Wikipedia articles, if at all, with their original article titles. It's bad enough to have submissions of most articles from the Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Make Stuff Up In (can you tell I was just editing Wikipedia this evening, trying to fix problems), but worse when Hacker News guidelines are ignored to submit a Wikipedia article with a linkbait title. There are a few sources for this article (whic…

I don't begrudge the rules here about titles, but I'm glad it was broken here, since that I clicked and read. Interesting stuff.

Makes me miss Perplex City.