The 1,000 Dollar Comment Game

Jens Meiert, July 28, 2007 / March 7, 2008.

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After the amazing success of the 100 dollar comment game, I proudly present the next game where you might become the lucky winner of even 1,000 US dollars! That probably means your new iPhone, MacBook, or whatever you wish to spend the money for.

Since I don’t give away 1,000 dollars myself, here are the five sponsors who made this game possible:

Rules of the Game

Comment #100 wins.

The game starts on Sunday, August 5, at Midnight (00:00 CEST).

If comment #100 is reached before that moment, there is no winner.
Comments must include a link to your own website (this is supposed to prevent cheating, and there’s a small bonus if the site even validates …), and they must make sense anyway. Tell something, albeit it may be short. Comments that ignore this rule will be removed.
Everybody’s allowed to post two comments, until comment number 100, that is. This includes me, though I cannot win and must post two comments. (There will be things to comment.)
The prize is paid via PayPal, and only via PayPal. Everything else is more complicated or too insecure. If you’re no PayPal user yet, you then have yet 1,000 reasons to become one, at least for a few hours.
There still is no legal process. However, the winner is asked to give a public sign that she/he received the money, just to avoid irritations.

For the lucky number 100: Wait for my winner announcement in either this post or as a comment. Though I’ll be quite tolerant in accepting responses, I cannot exclude that there’s spam and stuff, and surely a clean-up’s needed to determine the “real” winner.

What’s that all about? It’s still a kind of “experiment” I’ll probably talk about later. What matters is that it’s serious and that nobody will be harmed – quite the contrary I guess So for now, let’s just note that I’m as excited as you. Good luck!

Update (March 1, 2008)

This game has been closed due to lack of participation and in order to do good.

Enjoy the most popular posts, probably including:

Comments

On July 30, 14:01 CEST, Michael Grosch said:

Interesting experiment. I’m curiously waiting for an explanation of what’s behind your 100 Dollar comment game.
And I wish there was also a prize for the first post.
On July 30, 14:41 CEST, Garr said:

In the United States, we use a comma ‘,’ to separate the thousands, not a period. Interesting concept. Yay.

$1,000 will not be mine.
On July 30, 16:08 CEST, Franky said:

Nice game.. good luck to all players from Germany!
On July 30, 21:16 CEST, Marco said:

Looks like the last comment game had no winner. Maybe this time 100 people write a comment.
On July 31, 2:14 CEST, Erik Pöhler said:

This sounds great! Well, let me calculate…

… that must be around 14 Euros 45 Cents, right?
Anyway: i start writing my “Yay, i won 1000 bugs post” now, and set the publishing date according to rule #1.
I hope you count trackbacks as comments Am i allowed to let my blog send one?
On July 31, 12:58 CEST, Philipp Maan said:

Some playsers from Austria here, too. 750€ would be neat..
On July 31, 22:06 CEST, Basti said:

I don’t mind some SEO experiments, but why did you (as a somewhat hardcore standardista) choose these ugly tagsoup examples for it?

However, at least this comment qualifies for a thousand bucks, right?
On August 1, 12:44 CEST, Jens Meiert said:

Michael, you still have got one comment to win

Garr, thanks for hint, I just corrected it. And of course, you’re also still allowed to post one winning comment

Marco, yet, the old comment game’s basically still open, I set no “expiry date” yet …

Erik, unfortunately, trackbacks/pingbacks are not allowed, also, this might be considered cheating …

Philipp, welcome

Basti, I had no influence on the sponsor websites, and as you know, most commercial sites aren’t really “optimally constructed” …
On August 5, 1:11 CEST, Michael said:

I assume it’s a little mind trick.

To see how many people don’t check up on the “amazing success”, and simultaneously think that even posting once is a “waste” of their chance to try twice when it’s actually approaching #100.

I wonder when people will start spamming via Tor to improve their chances
On August 5, 12:31 CEST, Boris said:

I thought that the whole thing would be over by now, but hey that means I still have a chance

It seems that not enought people know about this…
On August 5, 19:30 CEST, Jens Meiert said:

Michael, right, allowing two comments is supposed to bring things forward … but Boris’ probably also right assuming that this game created too few “buzz”. Thanks for stopping by, and good luck

(This is my second and thus last comment until #100 since the game’s running yet. I wonder about its outcome anyway … this serious, unmaterialistic world … )
On August 6, 15:18 CEST, David Runer said:

I think it’s amazing that there are only 11 (!) comments so far since July. Yet I’m afraid to create some buzz about the game as this would increase the competition…
What a wicked game.
On August 6, 21:20 CEST, Koka said:

Yeah, i don’t have the heart to waste my comments either…
On August 8, 0:11 CEST, Robert Bienert said:

What for a funny game And what for a funny blogosphere: If somebody writes about something really amazing or the biggest waste on earth™, you may get hundreds of comments within several hours, but if there are 1,000 $ to win only by commenting a story nothing really happens. You don’t even have to sell your sould or sign a contract with the devil – but wait, you need a Paypal account

And now I’ll use the time to validate my homepage and create a Paypal account for the second comment.
On August 8, 15:23 CEST, Leo said:

It’s that slow…maybe this will be a nice christmas present for someone

My domain is currently unavailable due to server-issues…
On August 8, 16:16 CEST, Marion Krampitz said:

This is a really interesting experiment, i wonder why there are not more comments. Curious blogosphere… maybe nobody believes that this game is serious.
On August 8, 20:42 CEST, kab said:

So maybe it`s all tactics – my friedns stand behind me and wait untill me, myself and I have produced comment no. 98.
On August 11, 1:40 CEST, Marie said:

Christmas? I want the money now! (although christmas sounds pretty optimistic - what year?)
On August 14, 21:38 CEST, Colurz said:

1,000 US Dollars… really nice this game. I hope I get them. Good Luck to all players!
On August 15, 17:10 CEST, kab said:

… ups … I loose
On August 15, 17:13 CEST, kab said:

… ups … I loose Now that I am out of the game:
„Am I allowed to post an infinitive number of comments?“
On August 19, 2:16 CEST, ME said:

Thats a lot of money to win, im confused a little though.
On August 19, 2:28 CEST, ME said:

i lose i guess :\ so post 100 gets 1k$???

OH, OK!!!

ill give u another site to go to, kinda cool 1s im posting, clik my name lol
On August 19, 17:18 CEST, David said:

Cool crazy Jens Idea! I`ll immediatly start writing a bot to get that 1000 bucks !
On August 26, 10:05 CEST, Jens Meiert said:

Thanks to all for your contributions, at least you feel challenged!

David, great to hear from you – guess I’ll contact you by mail, too.

kab, I’m sorry … but right, you’re allowed to post more comments once the game’s ever over.

Your last and this comment will be removed or merged once there are about 100 comments.
On October 25, 5:59 CEST, Piter said:

game still running?
On November 29, 22:10 CET, Walter said:

I think the experiment is that people won’t help each other win money because we’re all too GREEDY!
On January 10, 14:56 CET, Manuel Maisch said:

Is the contest still running?
On January 13, 19:08 CET, Jens Meiert said:

Yes and no, Manuel, but I’ll definitely announce changes.

Unfortunately, comments are closed.

Jens Meiert