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[DeceptaconS]

[krystyn]

The only thing that I can see being sticky about reaching out to these websites right now (as in, Sunday and Monday), is that we won't have the proper thing to tell them to say into the phone, since we don't know the new question ourselves.

So either we hope people get the message by Tuesday morning, after an axon's been enhotenated and we can slap up the correct response at the top of the axons page, or hope that they get totally and completely sucked into the game, so they'll be able to answer it themselves on the fly.

[HitsHerMark]

[AngriBuddhist]

krystyn wrote:

[krystyn]

Woo!

I should've phrased it in the form of a suggestion, rather than as a "potential problem." My bad.

[AngriBuddhist]

No, it didn't sound that way. I took your suggestion and fixed it.

[ariock]

Suggestion about what NOT to put.

[Dorkmaster]

[SB2.0]
While I totally agree, I think the plain old truth is that this axon hunting exercise, while awesome, is getting to be more than we all can handle (design flaw or player flaw is not to be debated here). We need help (and if Dana knows it, then the PMs know it too. If they know we need help, then WE NEED HELP!)

So, a /. may be a very effective way to get this accomplished without having to call your half-brother who lives in Katchahachie, Louisiana (no there's not an axon there, cuz I made the town up, sheesh! ) and asking him to "dork out" at a payphone nearby.

This is our (as a community) game, and I think /. is a powerful gathering place for those in the circles of computers, gaming, and technology. They're dorking out and they've been doing so for years. They're cool with this stuff. It's an appropriate forum and we should do it post-haste.
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Sorry about getting all political lately, people! I'm not trying to be so "broad and philosophical" but man, these topics are CRYING OUT for a speech!"

[skybruin]

Anybody thought of trying to get the bungie web site or halo fna sites to help? It' being revenated right now but if we could get the Halo fans involved then they might be able to help us get some more bodies to the phones. I for one will be trying all my halo contacts around the US and see if they can help if they aren't already playing the game.

just a thought.

[skybruin]

nevermind the above post someone already posted the help letter. I just checked. Hopefully this will get some more people to help out.

[AngriBuddhist]

ariok wrote:

[krystyn]

Can a few of us perhaps donate mirror space?

[AngriBuddhist]

Or could whoever posts this, delete the "blackforge" link and attach the
spreadsheet from his page to the post?

[AngriBuddhist]

Ok, I have deleted the "blackforge" link and left a space for an attachment
of his spreadsheet from the same page.

IS THERE ANY REASON THAT THIS SHOULD NOT GO OUT NOW?

Not having any familiarity with /. myslef, is there anyone who knows
where this should go?

[sherpa]

Presumably you'll be wanting to Submit a Story, so click the Submit Story link on the front page, choose a good title, and fire away. Generally they get rejected. To get one accepted it has to be relevant, newsworthy, concise and full of links (usually). There's no space for attachments. I'm not really sure your post is in the spirit of /. -- have you seen the style of existing news posts on there? The style is of short, snappy announcements informing /.ers of something - not open letters to them. Still, there's a first time for everything.


Of course, feel free to spam the comments with it, but I'm afraid it would probably just get marked down and ignored. Maybe try commenting in Xbox-relevant threads.


Slashdot generally doesn't run stories unless a few people have submitted the same sort of thing, either - but if they're clones then they definitely won't run it. Playing the /. game is a balancing act!