
125 + 89 points
Shoot To Kill by Gadget
July 12th, 2006 9:08 PM
Issued an order to my team to "ambush Oliver X with numbers". This was the real meat of the, "It's a Trap" task that I submitted.
I've attached a shot of the original order that I issued to my team.
As you can see from the collaborators on the "It's a Trap" task, there were more than 15 players from my team who followed their orders.
This task was not as easy as I would have imagined. I actually sent 5+ team emails over the course of a month. The rockstars, as you would expect, all responded to the first email, but there are not many EquivalenZ rockstars. With each remaining request only a few complied, and many of the new responses were from new players. With each email, I simplified the instructions to make it easier and easier for teammates to follow orders. In fact, I found myself hacking the sf0 message interface in order to get a single URL that would send mail to multiple recipients.
While I finally managed to get the responses that I needed to complete the task, I have to say that I'm a little disappointed. I had to struggle to get 15 responses out of 85 people and what I was requesting required less than a minute of their time (and nobody replied saying that they intentionally declined, so it must have been laziness or they just don't get their sf0 email). I would like to think that our team could rally for bigger and better collaborations, but, aside from those few rockstars, it doesn't seem likely. :-(
I've attached a shot of the original order that I issued to my team.
As you can see from the collaborators on the "It's a Trap" task, there were more than 15 players from my team who followed their orders.
This task was not as easy as I would have imagined. I actually sent 5+ team emails over the course of a month. The rockstars, as you would expect, all responded to the first email, but there are not many EquivalenZ rockstars. With each remaining request only a few complied, and many of the new responses were from new players. With each email, I simplified the instructions to make it easier and easier for teammates to follow orders. In fact, I found myself hacking the sf0 message interface in order to get a single URL that would send mail to multiple recipients.
While I finally managed to get the responses that I needed to complete the task, I have to say that I'm a little disappointed. I had to struggle to get 15 responses out of 85 people and what I was requesting required less than a minute of their time (and nobody replied saying that they intentionally declined, so it must have been laziness or they just don't get their sf0 email). I would like to think that our team could rally for bigger and better collaborations, but, aside from those few rockstars, it doesn't seem likely. :-(
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posted by W F on July 14th, 2006 2:13 AM
Consider this a vote for both Shoot to Kill and It's a Trap... as a collaborator on the latter I can't vote on your very witty interpretation of the task's instructions. To think that at first I didn't get why we were sending him overwhelming numbers...
Well done. First to this task as well.
Go EZ!