I want you all to know that I tried to be as fair as possible. I copied all 222 comments from the Giveaway post and pasted them into TextPad, which provides me with line numbers. There were 969 total lines.
Next, I went over to Random.org for some number generation. 969 was the max.
Finally, the moment of truth.
Congrats to pH!
Thank you to all who entered. Some of you already know that I have giveaways on a fairly regular basis, especially though Twitter - so keep an eye out, and good luck next time.
Wow! Thanks! I never won anything in my life! :D
ReplyDeleteCongrats pH
ReplyDeleteever? that's a little sad. hopefully this will change your luck.
ReplyDeleteplay lotto tonight.
So then don't people who write longer comments have a higher chance of winning?
ReplyDeleteWTG and congrats on your win pH. Great way to start the week out.
ReplyDelete@ ben.cochran
ReplyDeleteYes, I was thinking the same thing... 222 comments and 969 lines. If you look at the data - at a minumum there are 4 lines per comment: "x said...", newline, actual comment, date.
This means that there should have been 888 lines if each of the comments was kept to a single line of text. There is about 10% more - or approximately 22 - comment lines than there should be.
Not a huge value and completely benign in nature - though if I were running it, next time I would just delete everything that didn't have a " said...". (this could be gamed as well - just fill your comment with that text. :)
Sorry, I don't know where my head was at. 969-888 does not equal 22, it equals 81.
ReplyDelete81 extra comment lines (assuming no other data fields.)