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Announce News Post #1195

the vote blessing

Written by: Sarapis, the Logos
Date: Monday, January 20th, 2003
Addressed to: Everyone


Well, due to our complete domination of the Topmudsites list, many other
MUD admins whined that they couldn't compete, so the owner of the site
has changed the rules, and we can no longer give individual rewards for
voting.

So, instead, what we've done is set up a new system. It's detailed in
HELP BLESSING. The only difference now is that instead of getting a
blessing when you vote, everybody votes, and if, at the end of the day
(the Orphean Serenade at midnight GMT), more than about half the players
active that day voted, everybody active that day gets the blessing.

For you detail-hounds, what it actually looks for is how many unique
logins there were that day from the first three fields of an IP (as
topmudsites only recognizes one vote per unique three-field IP address
to stop people with dynamic IPs from cutting their connection,
reconnecting, voting again, etc.). If there are votes from at least half
those three-field IPs, then everybody gets the blessing.

Offering everybody unlimited free access is relatively expensive for us,
and by doing this simple little thing, you help us out quite a bit in
terms of getting free promotion for Achaea. You also help out yourself,
and everybody else, so vote every day!

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Glacian, in the year 325 AF.


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Announce News Post #1195

the vote blessing

Written by: Sarapis, the Logos
Date: Monday, January 20th, 2003
Addressed to: Everyone


Well, due to our complete domination of the Topmudsites list, many other
MUD admins whined that they couldn't compete, so the owner of the site
has changed the rules, and we can no longer give individual rewards for
voting.

So, instead, what we've done is set up a new system. It's detailed in
HELP BLESSING. The only difference now is that instead of getting a
blessing when you vote, everybody votes, and if, at the end of the day
(the Orphean Serenade at midnight GMT), more than about half the players
active that day voted, everybody active that day gets the blessing.

For you detail-hounds, what it actually looks for is how many unique
logins there were that day from the first three fields of an IP (as
topmudsites only recognizes one vote per unique three-field IP address
to stop people with dynamic IPs from cutting their connection,
reconnecting, voting again, etc.). If there are votes from at least half
those three-field IPs, then everybody gets the blessing.

Offering everybody unlimited free access is relatively expensive for us,
and by doing this simple little thing, you help us out quite a bit in
terms of getting free promotion for Achaea. You also help out yourself,
and everybody else, so vote every day!

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Glacian, in the year 325 AF.


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