cheese obsessive
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www.lost.eu/182c


I think it is an interesting idea...the whole point of the game is to get 3.5 million people playing the game...O_o

Just check it out.

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You got the link wrong . It's here.

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Nice try, but it is here! The link to Lost!

Edit: I lost, so now the link directs you to the page, but isn't an invite.

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An online pyramid scheme (sans money). How charming.

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I'm just helping them get to the record. I don't intend to go back to that site.

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These people deserve to be e-mail-bombed. Not that I'm encouraging anybody to take what is clearly an illegal cyber criminal action. But they are clearly asking people to hack their protocol to create insane numbers of accounts.

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Mod down for the hacking, +2 for the wish I'd thought of that.

Pyramid schemes fall down due to induction: at some point, there are not going to be enough people on the bottom leaves to drive signups. Now, if you have to wait until there's a certain amount of people under you, you're either going to be cheated out of getting your turn or signing people up knowing full well they're being promised something they're never going to get, or signing people up knowing full well they'll have to sign others up who will get screwed and so on.

What makes this game curious is that they can probably get 3.5 million players, and that there's no limit to how many people you can sign up underneath you. On the other hand, the tree is still two deep so there's going to be a fair few suckers.

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Oh, and for those of you who wish to see what this is without getting pulled in, go here

This is a very interesting pyramid scheme, funded purely by advertisement rather than poor suckers loosing money.
(But Adblock plus beats them all )

Edit:
According to their F&Q:

Why is there advertising?
We can't afford the prize at the moment. When we can, it'll vanish.

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Chaco
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Neat game. I signed up.

By the way, you're all wrong; the link is here

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TripleM
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Oh come on, what are the chances.
I sign up and..
I'm in position..
1336.
I mean, I probably just had to wait one more minute.

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I can't believe it! You are all wrong! here is the link!

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You silly people, don't you see that you're all linking to your own profiles instead of the game?! www.lost.eu is the link.

Aah, but you need invites. So, everyone decide who they like the most and go to that person's link.

Unless you all like me the best, in which case I can sign up just for you. But I doubt it. I'm so vain as to set up competitions for people's affection! For no reason! Whatta jerk!

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Chaco
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More importantly, you're not allowed to access the site *at all* anymore. Or maybe it's just me, who accidentally invited myself twice.

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Mattcrampy wrote:
You silly people, don't you see that you're all linking to your own profiles instead of the game?! www.lost.eu is the link.

Excuse me?

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NiroZ wrote:

Mattcrampy wrote:
You silly people, don't you see that you're all linking to your own profiles instead of the game?! www.lost.eu is the link.

Excuse me?

Maybe you should be a little more specific; it's kind of hard to tell what you're referring to (I think it's the fact that Matt has accidentally repeated what you've already said in a previous post).

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agaricus5 wrote:
Maybe you should be a little more specific; it's kind of hard to tell what you're referring to (I think it's the fact that Matt has accidentally repeated what you've already said in a previous post).

Ah, ok, sorry about that.

I was referring to here
(aka, agaricus5 was right)

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Whoops, uh. Okay, everyone except NiroZ is linking to their own profiles.

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cheese obsessive
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Heh. Is it odd that I had no idea there was money involved until someone pointed it out? O_o

Man, I am observant.

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I've been keeping an eye on the graph, and it looks like we finally have conclusive proof that pyramids schemes always fail The graph was growing exponentially for the first 3 weeks or so; ever since then, its remained almost constant.

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I was one of the people who lost pretty soon with a score of 18; however I only made one attempt at advertising.

Again, the main reaction was "yeah cool, now go away we're talking about other things/playing this game".

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News flash!

Apparently the site has been suspended.

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