"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
4 December 2005My phony phortuneIt had been a week since I'd slid into BlogShares, and it took me a while to realize what had happened. Call it "Black Friday," because that's when it took place. The Game Gods decided that with top players' war chests up in the quadrillions, there was no chance of any mere mortals ascending the heights, and besides, the Ideas Commodities were overpriced. And so it came to pass that the currency crashed and burned, and B$10,000 old became B$1 new. Existing stock holdings remained intact, but the bottom dropped out of purely-speculative ventures. Not everyone was happy with the change, and I admit to being taken aback when I saw that my B$2 trillion had perforce dropped to B$200 million, but inasmuch as everyone got the same treatment, and if there had been clues telegraphed about it I didn't log on often enough to catch them, I'm not about to complain. Besides, it's had the salutary effect of dragging me to the site more often to try to rebuild my holdings, which may have been the whole idea in the first place. Posted at 4:26 PM to General DisinterestSay, you're a paid-up member there, right? Do you have enough karma to fix this? I wouldn't bug you, but I've tried everything else. Posted by: Sean Gleeson at 7:10 PM on 4 December 2005I have a whole 3 karma points. :) AmCanGirl replied as follows: "I believe that the old blog URLs will be delisted and you will have to add those new URLs separately." As of this afternoon, they didn't seem to have been delisted, inasmuch as I spent some money on one of them. I should point out, though, that my share count was off by 2000 for the better part of a year, even through an LBO. I think they patch these things up on a when-we-get-around-to-it basis. What I will do, though, is propose the current URLs as "alternate" URLs, which tends to get faster response from the database team. |