Rate Your IM Popularity 332
aicrules writes "The internet has long been a safe haven, and thus a play-field-leveling force, for the less socially adept to create a network of friends to share in fun, games, and conversation. However, it appears as if the influence of the social ladder is creeping its way in. While it will certainly lend itself to the abuse that any online scoring system faces, AimFight is the new place where people can go to check their popularity against others." From the article: "Your popularity is based on who has you on their buddy list. There's a complicated algorithm at work here. Your score is measured to the third degree, in the sense of the 'six degrees of separation' game that seeks to link anybody on Earth to any other person through no more than five friends. Say a couple of your friends, A and B, have you on their buddy lists. A, who has three people on her buddy list, doesn't add much to your score. That's because she doesn't have as many people on her buddy list as does B, who has 16. Your friend A is clearly not as well-connected as your friend B. Not unlike life."
Still no friends (Score:5, Funny)
I don't have any. (Score:5, Funny)
AmISnotOrNot ?
Well that was unexpected (Score:5, Funny)
I'm incredibly popular by this measure, and one of the jerks who tormented me is a virtual unknown!
Karma, it can be a bitch.
This sounds really cool... (Score:5, Funny)
Nerds! (Score:4, Funny)
Now would you like fries with that?
Re:Missing option: No-gottum IM (Score:3, Funny)
Strangely, I still seem to be able to get laid whenever I want.
Hmm... Seems that my Geek Card is expired. Not sure I'm going to renew.
Oh I get, Slashdot changed their format,,,, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How? (Score:2, Funny)
Random nonsense (Score:3, Funny)
apple (6293) vs orange (7389)
coke (3830) vs pepsi (4274)
snoopy (10653) vs garfield (3791)
and finally...
bush (2884) vs freedom (1422)
bush vs iraq (1241)
bush vs democracy (3)
and most telling of all
bush vs decency (0)
Re:Hardware? (Score:5, Funny)
Algorithms (Score:4, Funny)
There's a complicated algorithm at work here.
Translation: "We're not really sure how we got it to work. Basically we just randomly fiddled with things until we got an acceptable output." Much like the time-test C programming technique of adding/removing * and & to pointers until it works.
Yet More Random Nonsense (Score:1, Funny)
Nobody expects (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Missing option: No-gottum IM (Score:5, Funny)
You just choose not to, right?
Re:why is this under hardware? (Score:3, Funny)
(Insert Tired Joke #2522 here)
Re:The real winners (Score:5, Funny)
Sweet, just like High School!
The best part, hands-down: (Score:3, Funny)
What can fighting really prove? Using a complicated algorithm, AIM® Fight crawls through the depths of the Internet to answer the all-important question that plagues us all blah blah
Yee-ikes, traversing a tree is wicked hard. I'm glad I never had to learn to do anything like that in...oh, say..Comp Sci 1.
Re:The summer that never ended.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Quick Perl hack (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well that was unexpected (Score:2, Funny)