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Phil Sandifer

27 Apr 2007 27 Apr '07

1:18 p.m.

http://kevan.org/catfishing.php is one of the most delightful uses of Wikipedia I've ever found. Probably not a reason to maintain some of the stupider categories (which tend to be the ones that make the game the most fun), but a pleasant diversion, if nothing else, and, as I said, one of the best uses of Wikipedia content I've seen yet. -Phil

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Earle Martin

27 Apr 27 Apr

2:12 p.m.

On 27/04/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://kevan.org/catfishing.php is one of the most delightful uses of Wikipedia I've ever found.

Very nice. Especially when the game managed to catch some vandalism... [[J. Jonah Jameson]]: [[Category:Fictional donkeys]] :) -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Matthew Brown

8:48 p.m.

That's very cool. I'm going to waste hours on this. -Matt

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K P

28 Apr 28 Apr

2:50 a.m.

On 4/27/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:

That's very cool. I'm going to waste hours on this. -Matt

What brilliant fun. KP

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Jossi Fresco

5:23 a.m.

On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Matthew Brown wrote:

That's very cool. I'm going to waste hours on this.

I already did.... -- Jossi

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gjzilla＠gmail.com

2:34 p.m.

On 4/28/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco(a)mac.com> wrote:

On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Matthew Brown wrote:

That's very cool. I'm going to waste hours on this.

I already did.... -- Jossi

Me too, but I'm at negative 850 or so. :-( ~~~~

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John Lee

2:59 p.m.

On 4/28/07, gjzilla(a)gmail.com <gjzilla(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/28/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco(a)mac.com> wrote:

On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Matthew Brown wrote:

That's very cool. I'm going to waste hours on this.

I already did.... -- Jossi

Me too, but I'm at negative 850 or so. :-(

I highly suspect most of the players cheat, because if you play honestly, it's hard to get anywhere close to a positive score. Johnleemk

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K P

7:02 p.m.

On 4/28/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/28/07, gjzilla(a)gmail.com <gjzilla(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/28/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco(a)mac.com> wrote:

On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Matthew Brown wrote:

That's very cool. I'm going to waste hours on this.

I already did.... -- Jossi

Me too, but I'm at negative 850 or so. :-(

I highly suspect most of the players cheat, because if you play honestly, it's hard to get anywhere close to a positive score. Johnleemk

850? Well, I have a positive score of 10. And, yes, I cheated by ignoring the porno ones in my count, but I only did 15, got one porno, and missed 4. A lot of them were science or organism articles, which made them easy, and I gave myself a point for someone I knew but whose name I could not think of. It's not Jeopardy, subtle cheating is allowed. What a brilliant and fun game, though. Geeze. KP

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

29 Apr 29 Apr

4:36 a.m.

On 4/28/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/28/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/28/07, gjzilla(a)gmail.com <gjzilla(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/28/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco(a)mac.com> wrote:

On Apr 27, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Matthew Brown wrote: > That's very cool. I'm going to waste hours on this. > I already did.... -- Jossi

Me too, but I'm at negative 850 or so. :-(

I highly suspect most of the players cheat, because if you play honestly, it's hard to get anywhere close to a positive score. Johnleemk

850? Well, I have a positive score of 10. And, yes, I cheated by ignoring the porno ones in my count, but I only did 15, got one porno, and missed 4. A lot of them were science or organism articles, which made them easy, and I gave myself a point for someone I knew but whose name I could not think of. It's not Jeopardy, subtle cheating is allowed. What a brilliant and fun game, though. Geeze.

Not to boast... much; but I stabilized somewhere between 200 and 50 on the positive side. Which just means that I probably should get out a bit more. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]

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Thomas Dalton

12:41 p.m.

27 points after 15 turns. I think that's respectable. Great game!

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Mark Gallagher

5 May 5 May

9:42 a.m.

G'day John,

I highly suspect most of the players cheat, because if you play honestly, it's hard to get anywhere close to a positive score.

I was over 300-odd at one point, but as the game wore on I got progressively worse. Sometimes you just get lucky. (What a great game, though!) -- Mark Gallagher "'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend." - P G Wodehouse, /Carry On, Jeeves/

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Earle Martin
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K P
Mark Gallagher
Matthew Brown
Phil Sandifer
Thomas Dalton