ATAR Notes: Forum
Administration => Announcements => Topic started by: enwiabe on December 24, 2011, 01:56:23 pm
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Greetings to our predominantly Victorian ATARNotes members.
Many of you have been buzzing about what the referral points field in your profiles mean. The end of the speculation is nigh. Here are all the details.
Most important thing is first. What can you win from this competition?
The first month of the competition is a trial (a beta-test, to work out the kinks and to tighten the screws on the people who will invariably attempt to cheat), and we will be giving away $210 in Coles-Myer giftcards to the leaderboard winners. $100 for first, $70 for 2nd, $40 for 3rd. If all goes well, we will launch another competition in February. Depending on the success of the first competition, we will award a larger prize pool.
How do you win?
Give your mates who aren't yet AN members your referral link to sign up (this is found in your profile). IT WILL LOOK LIKE http://www.atarnotes.com/register.php?refID=XXXXXXX (but the XXXXXX will be replaced with your ID. Don't forget to replace the XXXXXX or you won't be credited).
We're focussing on interstate referrals from NSW, WA and SA, but we will also award points for Vic referrals. We really want to grow this site into a national community, so the more of your interstate mates that sign up for you, the better chance you will stand.
The points systems for referrals is as follows:
If the person you refer is from the same state as you:
Signup = 5 points
Posts = 1 point per post (capped at 20 posts)
Notes uploads = 20 points per notes upload
Tutor registration = 10 points
Book submission = 3 points
Book review = 3 points
If the person you refer is from a different state, (e.g. if you're Victorian and refer a NSW, or if you're from NSW and refer a Vic) you get 3x the points! So:
Signup = 15 points
Posts = 3 points per post (capped at 20 posts)
Notes uploads = 60 points per notes upload
Tutor registration = 30 points
Book submission = 9 points
Book review = 9 points
But won't the interstaters have a massive advantage over us?
No. After many long discussions into the dead of the night with David while implementing this, we finally decided that interstate people would only get 1x points for referring their interstate mates. This is to keep it fair to Victorians, because our new interstate users will have a much larger pool of friends to refer than you guys will. Plus, the big points aren't in signups. They're in notes uploads so encourage all of your friends to upload their notes and make posts!
If you cheat, I will end you.
There is zero tolerance for cheating. Any malicious attempt to abuse this system will result in a permanent ban from the site. The integrity of this competition will be taken very seriously.
Will staff participate?
Only Victorian moderators (non-global) are allowed to participate. This competition is off-limits to global mods and admins. But global mods and admins are encouraged to refer their friends too! If they have friends. I'm not sure any of our staff has friends :(
Competition dates
Trial competition runs from NOW until midnight on January 31st, 2012.
Prize pool is as above.
Please get referring. Even if you don't think you'll win, you can really help the site grow and be amazing. The bigger AN grows, the more we can give back to you guys. We're never going to forget who made us strong and awesome. If you can help secure us a national student base for the site, you will reap the benefits. Get cracking!
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awesome!!!!!!! :D
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We'll be putting up a leaderboard ASAP so you guys can check your progress and we'll also have a live feed of referral point gains up top!
Also, if there is a significant uptake of the competition (i'm talking 200 referrals or more), then I will definitely increase the prize pool and the number of paid places.
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I'm not sure any of our staff has friends :(
So true.
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1) Victorian Proxy.
2) Account Making Bot.
3) ??!@#.
4) Profit???.
I would feel bad doing this though ;(. What do? gosh this is more dilemma than go uni or redo year 12.
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1) Victorian Proxy.
2) Account Making Bot.
3) ??!@#.
4) Profit???.
If you cheat, I will end you.
I can testify that this WILL happen.
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1) Victorian Proxy.
2) Account Making Bot.
3) ??!@#.
4) Profit???.
I would feel bad doing this though ;(. What do? gosh this is more dilemma than go uni or redo year 12.
all proxy accounts get banned on sight
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Just out of curiosity, how would you guys detect this sort of stuff?
I mean anybody with half decent skills could easily pull something off. Unless ur Phoenix from BA forems then i will bow down 2 u and stop mh.
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How would we detect hundreds of 0 post accounts all signing up from one referral link only seconds apart, from the same IP? Not sure, how would you do it?
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"Only Victorian moderators (non-global) are allowed to participate. This competition is off-limits to global mods and admins. But global mods and admins are encouraged to refer their friends too! If they have friends. I'm not sure any of our staff has friends "
Clearly this was designed to thwart the National Mods who happen to study in the ACT, where NSW people are aplenty!
(but yes, none of us have friends :'( oh well)
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If you cheat, I will end you.
Laseredd, B^3, join me in testing this? ;)
EDIT: joking obviously, but I'll be on the look out for any troublesome issues.
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Well obviously anybody with decent skills wouldn't use the same IP lol.
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If you cheat, I will end you.
Laseredd, B^3, join me in testing this? ;)
EDIT: joking obviously, but I'll be on the look out for any troublesome issues.
Not sure if I want to mess with enwiabe. I'll leave it up to you Camo.
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Well obviously anybody with decent skills wouldn't use the same IP lol.
Proxies are nothing new to us. You really think we haven't had people try to evade bans through them? Look, it really wouldn't be hard catching this. At the minimum to ensure the integrity of the competition, all we have to do is investigate the winners. That's only 3 people that we have to investigate, which isn't particularly hard to do a detailed search and find some anomalies. We'll make sure it's a fair competition so you guys just go ahead and do your part and start referring :)
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I'm not sure any of our staff has friends :(
So true.
Must you bring this up on Christmas eve? :(
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If you cheat, I will end you.
Laseredd, B^3, join me in testing this? ;)
EDIT: joking obviously, but I'll be on the look out for any troublesome issues.
What do you mean joking Camo? It happens :P You can test it if you link but you're on your own.
Well obviously anybody with decent skills wouldn't use the same IP lol.
Still your referall link will be getting heaps of hits all of a sudden in a small space of time. Even if you were to space it out at regular intervals then it would still appear to be regular intervals. Computation random number generators still are not random.
Dam I've already brough friends here, and the others have finished VCE, they don't care now.
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Don't worry... We have detailed logs.
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i told my dad to sign up and he signed up with a chinese name and it f0ked everything up LOLLLLLLLLLL
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$40? I could buy, like, 2 roast ducks from Pacific Seafood House with that money!!! Challenge accepted. (Shame all my interstate friends JUST graduated high school and probably wouldn't be interested :( )
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$40? I could buy, like, 2 roast ducks from Pacific Seafood House with that money!!! Challenge accepted. (Shame all my interstate friends JUST graduated high school and probably wouldn't be interested :( )
DAM I should of talked to the year 11s more this year :P Why didn't I think of that eariler.....
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$ 40 can buy you...
4 boxes of mie goreng @
40 packets @ box.
So...160 packets of mie goreng?
Lots of money saved for other expenses
aside from food.
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Just out of curiosity, how would you guys detect this sort of stuff?
I mean anybody with half decent skills could easily pull something off. Unless ur Phoenix from BA forems then i will bow down 2 u and stop mh.
LOL phoenix, that guy is a legend
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is his whole username phoenix? or malice phoenix or something
funny enough, he goes on VN too lol but stopped after he graduated XD
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his whole name is phoenix his the main coder/scripter. ive never even heard of malice phoenix before.
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Well obviously anybody with decent skills wouldn't use the same IP lol.
Yeah, like using the librabry computers ;).
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Don't worry... We have detailed logs.
There is something about this bloke that is quite scary. Maybe it's the fact he rarely posts, but instead does all the site related business behind closed doors. I don't think I'd be game to cheat with him overseeing operations :-[
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You don't want enwiabe the internet detective on yo ass
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Don't worry... We have detailed logs.
There is something about this bloke that is quite scary. Maybe it's the fact he rarely posts, but instead does all the site related business behind closed doors. I don't think I'd be game to cheat with him overseeing operations :-[
You are so correct. You think I'm good at uncovering this shit? Do yourself a favour. Do not. Mess. With. The Dave.
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$40? I could buy, like, 2 roast ducks from Pacific Seafood House with that money!!! Challenge accepted. (Shame all my interstate friends JUST graduated high school and probably wouldn't be interested :( )
$40 could buy me one funky ducky!!!
Bazza16 on the prowl
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How do you refer someone? Do they just have to sign up and then you ask if someone referred them?
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How do you refer someone? Do they just have to sign up and then you ask if someone referred them?
I'll make it more clear in the announcement, but you give them your referral link which is located prominently in your profile. Yours is http://www.atarnotes.com/register.php?refID=24507
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Shit, I referred someone and we didnt know what my referral ID was so we just wrote my username LOL
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there's no QLDCE or whatever it's called? where do people upload notes from QLD/?
+where do people upload general notes (e.g. study templates etc.?)
and also what if someone is from a different state (moved there after VCE) and uploads VCE notes?
Queensland operates on a radically different system to the rest of Australia and we're waiting for the national curriculum to come in before incorporating them. As for general study templates, they should probably go on the forums as the notes system is for subject-specific study materials.
If someone is interstate uploading VCE Notes we will scrutinise this suspicious activity very closely :P
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i mean is it still the 3x bonus? All the interstate kids i know moved after VCE to go to uni
I guess so, but it's not really in the spirit of the competition which is to get interstate members on board and interstate resources (as in, non-VCE)
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First referral. 8)
I reckon I could get heaps as school gets closer. Let's see if leaving my run late will get me that $100... ;D
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i was gonna cheat but then i felt bad so i decided not too bcuz i would need to give admins my address and if they found out and then like came to my house and wanted the voucher back it would b awekard and i might have to kill them and dump their bodies in a river so nobody would find out so i was nah not worth the $100.
PS - 1ST PLACE IS SUS. SUS HER OUT PPL. 8 REFFERALS 0 POSTS. THATS SUSER THAN BLACK GUY IN UR HOUSE AT 3AM IN THE MORNING
"YO WHAT CHA DOING IN MAH HOUSE 3AM"
"YO NOTING MUCH JUST GETTIN SUM WATER FROM DAH TAPS MAN"
".... OK THEN BUT WHEN I GET UP IN THE MORNING NOTING BETTER B MISSING TYRONE"
"YO HOMI IT GONNA B OKAY I SWEARS".
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mate you're trying way too hard to be funny
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mate you're trying way too hard to be funny
ok but thanks for not banning me
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kkkkasd, your hilarious.
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I dont think I got much of his post. I kept going "who the fuck is this 'sus' person?"
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yeh i was talking about hercules because she has 8 referals but her points are still on an divisable by 5 so out of her 8 invites none of them have done a single post so thats a lil sus.
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yeh i was talking about hercules because she has 8 referals but her points are still on an divisable by 5 so out of her 8 invites none of them have done a single post so thats a lil sus.
How so? Her friends may have chosen not to post.
(afaik, she asked her friends to sign up... and I'm sure they'll make more usage out of the site as the year progresses.)
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We've got cheating covered, don't worry :) I can definitely confirm that Hercules has NOT cheated.
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I jsut banned the people who cheated by the way. 2 were cheaters. The_Invisible and Turtle. :( Guys don't cheat, you'll get permabanned. Seriously not cool.
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how did you know they were cheating?
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I didnt know you could make usernames that big 'im asian so ima doctor or a bad driver......or both'
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how did you know they were cheating?
Because, I can see their IPs. Just like I can see yours kkkkasd, enjoy your permaban for racism and trolling :)
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So let me get this straight... we're allowed multiple accounts on the same IP address, as long as none of them are used as referrals?
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One person can only have one account. If siblings have individual accounts, that's fine.
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If siblings have individual accounts, that's fine.
Okay good because I have a brother who lives in the same house as me and also has an account. We don't share the same computer (not sure if you can do computer checks) but we do share the same IP.
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Yeah, we've noticed that before and it's fine.
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All those who receive the permaban will be under permafrost of the AN wasteland.
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If someone uses the wrong referral id is it possible to fix this up. I just had someone sign up thinking it was a password (I don't know how). Wondering if it was possible to swap referrals.
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So, like, is anyone intently watching Hercules and |ll|lll| on the leaderboards swing and turn in 1st and 2nd place, like a motor race?
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I am ;)
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I am ;)
You lot better not be cheating with interstate refs
Because the admins will check IPs :P
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I am ;)
You lot better not be cheating with interstate refs
Because the admins will check IPs :P
Totally not looking forward to having to do this -_-
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What if the people joining are clicking interstate cause theydnt want people to stalk them?
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If you make one post in a VCE section people will find out what state you live in...
(unless you're the0.02% that do vce outside)
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also... a lot of IPs show if you're interstate or not
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How else do they match you with hot girls living in Burwood?
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Mods please dont be too harsh. A person may have registered wrongly by error, or more likely, someone could delibratly undermine another person by going to their local library, and registering incorrectly as from nsw etc.vbut using an opponents referall link. You need to verify the circumstances surrounding any anomalies carefully
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and registering incorrectly as from nsw etc.vbut using an opponents referall link.
How exactly do you obtain an opponents link?
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and registering incorrectly as from nsw etc.vbut using an opponents referall link.
How exactly do you obtain an opponents link?
Facebook, many people posted their link as their status =.=
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Actually yah i thought you could see everyones on AN, this is not the case which makes it less dangerous, but still far from impossible
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Looks like IIII or Hercules might win the referrals comp.
It's great that some VN'ers are introducing their friends to ATARNOTES.
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does this mean i won? =D
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Nah we apparently still have 23 minutes left.
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Nah we apparently still have 23 minutes left.
Isn't the timer going UP now? There really should be a negative sign or something...
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The competition is closed. The timer is broken. Currently going through each winner's referrals and deducting any points for fraudulent signups.