What's the deal with this $30/day contest?

August 3, 2006 7:26 PM

What's the deal with this $30/day contest? Is this a joke that went over my head or did I miss something? 'Cause goddammit, I need that 30 bucks.
posted by sluglicker to MetaFilter-Related at 7:26 PM (16 comments total)

Read the MF side bar.
posted by iconomy at 7:27 PM on August 3, 2006

The first winner was announced, but I haven't heard who won yesterday's.
posted by c:\awesome at 7:29 PM on August 3, 2006

The second winner is mentioned on the same thread. I'm working on a permanent page for the winners.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:33 PM on August 3, 2006

I'm going to guess my FPP won Zero dollars today. But that's ok; I do it for love, not money. Though money can buy me love, if I can just get to London.
posted by Eideteker at 8:04 PM on August 3, 2006

I've noticed an increase in bloody crappy FPPs.
$30 would explain it.
posted by mischief at 8:33 PM on August 3, 2006

For sure, every meme on the internets this month, no matter how minor, will find its way to mefi. That is not actually a bad thing. I was first attracted here out of sloth. Rather than meandering around aimlessly (and in the early days before Google and Alta Vista it was pretty aimless) in one fell swoop you could snatch up a half dozen interesting links. Now, most of the interesting ones wend their way here or to BoingBoing sooner or later, but now with pride and thirty bucks on the line they are leaping over here from Digg, and wherever at a rapid pace. That's good. If you want to surf quickly and painlessly and find lots of great stuff, and certainly every thing that is hopping on the internets right now, this is the month to spend on MeFi. It's a pretty slow business month as well which only enhances the free time people will have to find us nice stuff to look at. I like to watch.
posted by caddis at 8:35 PM on August 3, 2006

I think it's kinda neat to see so much care on the front page, even if there's a bit of a frantic feel to it.
posted by mediareport at 8:35 PM on August 3, 2006

in the early days before Google and Alta Vista it was pretty aimless

Pre-AltaVista? Back then, couldn't you actually surf the whole Intarweb inside of a month or so?
posted by weston at 8:44 PM on August 3, 2006

Cool. Thanks.
posted by sluglicker at 8:57 PM on August 3, 2006

Anyway, reminds me of Eliza from The Baroque Cycle.

I remember GNN. Therefore, I pwn you all.
posted by delmoi at 9:49 PM on August 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

Ugh. damn clipboard. The quoted line should be:

Pre-AltaVista? Back then, couldn't you actually surf the whole Intarweb inside of a month or so?

Then I say "I remember GNN. Therefore, I pwn you all."

How's that comment editing thing comming matt?
posted by delmoi at 9:50 PM on August 3, 2006

GNN? Those were basically AOL accounts, right?
posted by ryanrs at 1:59 AM on August 4, 2006

If people get this excited over $30, maybe Jason Calacanis was right all along -- imagine what people might do for $1,000 per month. Sad, really.
posted by reklaw at 2:53 AM on August 4, 2006

GNN? Those were basically AOL accounts, right?

This was before the endless september!
_{I told you I was hard-core!}

I'm talking about the global network navigator which was the first way I knew of to find web pages, before I started using Yahoo's index to find stuff.
posted by delmoi at 3:10 AM on August 4, 2006

"I've noticed an increase in bloody crappy FPPs.
$30 would explain it."

Well, bloody at least. But $30 didn't explain that one. Cathy Rigby is to blame.
posted by ?! at 6:11 AM on August 4, 2006

GNN? *phwag* When did the play-school let out?

telnet and kermit sites are where it's at. You can keep your fancy gopher holes!
posted by bonehead at 7:43 AM on August 4, 2006