Tomorrow's chopper sale and the random number generator

Blues said:
I've noticed you among the leader board in recent sales...when it was based solely upon first come, first served...
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Yes sir, I’ve got a pretty solid process down. But I’m also not a knife flipper either. I’m honestly waiting for the next model to pop out. Sometimes it’s fun to be apart of the chaos and keep the skills honed.
 
Well...that was exciting. Since it was my first time, I didn't realize that you had to enter the text first, then hit "Post reply", so I wasted 30 seconds hitting "Post reply" and getting an error, over and over again, lol.

When I figured it out I landed at 42. Right between two winning numbers. So close!

A lesson I will certainly remember for next time. The good news is that my savings account will survive for at least a couple of weeks now.
 
Soulrack223 said:
I wanted to try with the new chaos assurances in place. It did not disappoint. I refreshed twice at the hour, no thread yet, then I accidently left the Knifemaker's for Sale area, scrambled back in and there it was. I rushed in to post and got #5. Literally dumb luck. Fat fingered and stumbled my way into a light chopper.
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People have kids the same way. 🤣 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
It has been suggested to me, by the kind gentle souls of people older and wiser than I, that the Friday chopper sales are practically impossible for the average CPK user to get into and I need to do a lottery or use a random number generator.

With that in mind, I will apply a random number generator to all of the posts that land in the first minute. So, everything posted before 3:01 will go into the generator.

However, since this is a random number (totally random) I can go ahead and post the random numbers now!

The totally random, can not be predicted in any way, completely random numbers that fit no known pattern of any kind are:

3
5
7
11
13
17
19
23
29
31
37
41
43
47
53
59
61
67
71

I'm sure these completely random totally unremarkable random numbers should cover any eventuality for the first minute

Please post only one time or we will break the server (again)
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This is hilarious
 
GimmeCPKorGimmeDeath said:
Well...that was exciting.... The good news is that my savings account will survive for at least a couple of weeks now.
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No it won't because you're soon to find the "CPKs for sale" forum in the "For Sale by Individuals" area of the Knife Exchange.

You'll still need to refresh that page every 3 or 4 minutes to have any chance at buying anything that pops up, but they do pop up quite frequently!
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I am 100% okay with someone using a bot

Because that's what I would do in this situation

But I need to make this accessible for everyone including people who don't have bots

That was my prime motivating factor
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What is a"bot". And how do I get one? Is this a frightening thing to a gen x type? I am irritated and want to know why
 
Brian77 said:
What is a"bot". And how do I get one? Is this a frightening thing to a gen x type? I am irritated and want to know why
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It is a script you can run on a computer to perform a task for you such as refresh a web page and automate the process of jumping onto a new post and posting a reply rapidly. Faster than a person, using a program.

People do this sort of thing with video games with things like aim bots etc.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Probably the move would be to wait a 1/2 second delay

But then the problem is, you know the other fella's doing that too

So maybe you do a one second delay

But then the problem is, you know the other fella's doing that too

So maybe you do a 5 second delay

But then the problem is, you know the other fella's doing that too

So maybe you do a 5-minute delay

But then the problem is, that's completely retarded
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This is funny as all hell.
 
shunsui said:
Actually it makes the process transparent. No way to pick winners and losers.
Added bonus, you know if you won pretty quick.
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It does make it just as easy to bot though. Instead of posting after Nathan, you can have the script wait for a winning number. It doesn't even have to be the first winning number, making it even harder to detect botting over time. Even a human could potentially wait until the posts are slowing down and snipe a winning number.
 
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