We threaten them, I like that! Lol, the horde of votes is @sigmajin's bot army. He wanted to see if the whale experiment would have any kind of impact on the worth of his votes. It was a thoughtful gesture, it's definitely cool to see that kind of number on my post-and it did make me feel better :) Partly just because it was him doing it...Early on when I didn't comprehend anything about how the money/sp/voting etc. worked he broke it down for me, spent some time doing it too, and I experienced something akin to hero worship over it LOL.
Hit me with philosophy, literature, even the Big Picture and I'm a fairly intelligent individual, I grasp such things with relative ease, but anything technical or mathematical-call me Forrest Gump. Therefore I'm unduly impressed with anyone it comes easily to.
A bot army! could be handy for times like these. As to the 'experiment', I do like going around to comments and adding a penny to the comment, not sure how long I can keep getting it to register with 100%, but I just leave it on 100 anymore, all I got, every vote. I'm $00.01paul for my 15 minutes of fame in the comments section.
I got a late start with computers I feel, and my technical abilities are mostly still waiting to be discovered by me accidentally. This flag business is teaching me some things-- I guess we're both still in 'beta'.
My votes on comment were registering a penny for about two hours today, no longer sadly. My voting power is down to 88%, probably because of anyx's trail. Well, also I was a little vote crazy earlier today, I was seeing five to fifteen cent increases on the posts I voted which was definitely cool. I wouldn't mind the experiment if only they would all do it together so there wouldn't be a need for the downvoting.
Haha, I think being in beta is the story of my life ;)
Beta is great! It's the Big Experiment, it's the :taps mic: "Is this thing ON?" and everyone nods "yes it is!" moment of life, the accumulation of all of the data, all for this grand moment when we are able to communicate to the world, here in the comments without getting taxed too badly.