Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess When We'll Reach 400,000 Members!

[R2elk]

I read them!!! What do I win!?

Nada!!!!

 

[casportpony]

@Kiki, will there be a prize for the first one to post a screenshot of # 400,000?

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I'm tempted to do a database export of sign-ups, and do a pivot table in Excel to Group by hour to see how many sign-ups we get throughout the day

 

[ValerieJ]

Next time I think you should put the rules right up top. Cause they were kinda far down and down people might not scroll that far sadly

Well, I kept scrolling to the bottom where the rules are to find where it said "eastern standard time" and didn't see it until I went back in the 3rd time. It wasn't down with the rules; it's near the beginning of the post. Like one of the first instructions and I missed it....twice...

 

[ShrekDawg]

The thing here is to use logic to figure out what people MEAN. Most everyone calls east coast time "EST" *all year long*. It's confusing enough that once a year the time changes, and that if you cross an arbitrary, somewhat imaginary line, you have just "lost" or "gained" an hour, without getting all exercised over whether to say EST or EDST or EDT. EST is the generic term for east coast time for most people all year long.

Most humans do not use stringently literal language unless writing in a very technical sense. In fact, if you get right down to it, ALL (and I do mean ALL) language is metaphor. You figure out so automatically what other people mean by a phrase like "get right down to it" that you may not even spot the metaphor. You likely will *never* (unless you are a linguist) spot the metaphor that lies behind every single word we speak.

We are now in EDT (or EDST if one insists). This (I suppose from what's been said here) is true. I never pay attention to which it is unless it's time-change day. EST functionally (in most common applications) means "whatever time it is on the US east coast" to most people. Since the rules were written during EDST, one would reasonably expect "EST" to apply to the currently active time system as experienced on the US east coast. One might (if one were a pedant) point out to the author of the rules that she might want to alter her text to the more exact "EDT" or "EDST", but absent that, it is most reasonable to shrug and say to oneself, "I expect she means "EDT," since that is the time system currently in effect."

 

[ShrekDawg]

How about "midnight in California"? Lol!

 

[hysop]

Well if we ever do

How about "midnight in California"? Lol!

That will work for me. I have my whole family there and it will keep me from staying up til midnight on my end.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well, I kept scrolling to the bottom where the rules are to find where it said "eastern standard time" and didn't see it until I went back in the 3rd time. It wasn't down with the rules; it's near the beginning of the post. Like one of the first instructions and I missed it....twice...

I bet some people skipped the top part and went straight to the rules!! So maybe it should be in the rules part next time haha

 

[ShrekDawg]

That too. The most fun was last night so I enjoyed the bid war on times and dates.

Oh and I’ve read people don’t read long posts. 160 characters is the max people will read.

That’s why I try to do small paragraphs (more like phrases) with tons of spaces in between.

Did K-dog write a novel last night that I missed?

I wouldn’t know I don’t read long posts with no spaces between paragraphs

Your rules are perfectly organized so that I like reading them so I don’t know why people don’t read em.

I didn't see her write one in this thread but you know the Dawg.

Hey now!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Nada!!!!