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Gadget
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Shoot To Kill by Gadget

July 12th, 2006 9:08 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Issue an order to all members of your group. Ensure that they follow this order, and have them report back to you.

Group members, you must follow this order, if in the bounds of reason.

Edit: The task is not complete until at least 15 group members have followed your order and reported back.

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. :-(

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The EquivalenZ Fatwa

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posted by Cunning Linguist on July 13th, 2006 12:06 AM

Well done. First to this task as well.

Go EZ!

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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...