Comments on: Neatorama Update – March 2009

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:59:58 +0000

Thanks for the T ! Bump up the 11th and give it to him/her. Happy to have tried and helped the Queue! (less happy with my %age )

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:25:50 +0000

@JayTwilight: this was announced already a while back. See the update before this one.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:43:38 +0000

Thankee Sai! You just made it a little bit better!

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:29:26 +0000

Oh, Johnny Cat- Happy Birthday!

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:48:14 +0000

Geekazoid, shortly after Alex told us some submitters were caught gaming the system, whitespace went away, after leading the whole time. Hmmm.

By: JayTwilight

JayTwilight — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:04:16 +0000

Hey, Alex! When are you posting the winners for the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #8?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:48:17 +0000

Thanks Matt Blank – I’m forwarding the info to our sysadmin!

@Jake: this time it’s just a free Neato shirt. Watch your email for the instruction!

By: Matt Blank

Matt Blank — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:57:59 +0000

RE: SBC Global problems I pulled some MX Diagnostics on your mail server and it looks like you’re coming up as an open relay. This could lead places to block you as spam and will provide someone with the opportunity to route spam mail via your server, landing you on a blacklist. My company filters via blacklist, but some of the larger ISPs use open relay testing to formulate their own blacklist. I suggest you contact your ISP and have them lock down the relay abilities to those who need it.
FYI The test I ran is at http://www.mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx?HOST=mail2.neatorama.com

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:05:50 +0000

do we get to choose the shirt?

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:14:01 +0000

What happened to whitespace, did I miss something?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:51:58 +0000

Geekazoid is right – the relevant metrics here is the frontpaged story.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:46:31 +0000

Sayonara, whitespace. Thanks for playing, though. Whoo-hoo Marilyn! Much deserved!

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:29:54 +0000

Umm, Angstrom, I think that is what they are doing, the one with the most frontpaged items is the winner, not the one that submits the most. Makes sense. Congratulations to Marilyn and all the other submitters. Keep on submitting!

By: cuimhne

cuimhne — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:05:39 +0000

Wow that’s a lot of UQ posts that got pushed to the front… and I still skip most of them. you know I used to be one of the people who read every single story? Well not any more unfortunately. I have not been converted, I still hate the Queuebot. Only a tiny number of UQ posts have not already become insanely popular on other sites before being posted here.

By: angstrom

angstrom — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:56:42 +0000

It seems to be that the winner should be the one with the most ‘front paged’ stories, rather than the one that has submitted the most.

Surely I could submit a thousand dupes and win this thing under existing rules?

By: scbr

scbr — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:25:56 +0000

Wow I am getting a Neatorama t-shirt? Loooove the news!