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Challenge Me If You Dare!

Posted by DNL
933 days ago


I have 200 friends.

After that, someone else has 77. There are three other users in the 40s.

As many of you also know, I'm focused on creating high quality encyclopedia articles. Those pages aren't done, but I'll be working on them, and others. Typically, MLB prospects and foreign players who are likely MLB-bound.

So, I hereby issue the following challenge, to any and all takers:


Get to 100 Friends Before I Get to 250.

If you do, I will match your contributions. That is, I'll write up a page for a prospect of my choosing -- and it will be of the quality of the Kosuke Fukudome page -- for every quality MLB prospect (inc. MLB-bound foreigners) page you write up until the end of July. And it's retroactive. So, if you get to 100 friends on July 30th (and I'm not yet at 250), but have written up 10 prospects since then, that's 10 I have to match. It doesn't matter why you wrote up the page (e.g., maybe you lost another challenge). If it's good, it counts.

If you fail, you'll have to write up one prospect of my choice -- and it'll have to be a quality write-up.

The rules:

1) You have to challenge me by Tuesday, or within 48 hours after joining AGM.

2) At least five of your friends have to (a) be new to ArmchairGM as of 6/8/2007 and have at least 10 user points by the time the challenge ends.

3) I get to pick my prospects. Sorry. But the four I linked-to above don't count.

4) Disclosure: I will be asking others to help me write the pages up. I do so because I want their input on the pages, not because I am going to be shirking my obligations.

5) Foes don't count.

6) You have to accept the challenge by posting a comment here.

So, what are you waiting for?

Challenge me, and invite your whole address book (or type in email addresses).

--Dan



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Anonymous Fanatic #1
933 days ago
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What the hell is this?
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PeanMajor Leaguer
933 days ago
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to quote the great Richard Hayden from Tommy Boy "It's called reading! Top to bottom, left to right... a group of words together is called a sentence. Take Tylenol for any headaches... Midol for any cramps."
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JuTMSY4Legend
933 days ago
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You might call this...a "Friend"ly competition eh?! har har har
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
933 days ago
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Very Punny, for being stupid I thought it was effing funny, jut.
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JuTMSY4Legend
933 days ago
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puns are jokes that write themselves...
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JuTMSY4Legend
933 days ago
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Truly the Natty light of jokes...
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DNLLegend
933 days ago
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Are you accepting my challenge?
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JuTMSY4Legend
933 days ago
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I don't rank my life based on the # of friends I have... No thanks...
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JuTMSY4Legend
932 days ago
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although, i think its good, because i know what you're trying today...How about I just try to get some people to join, sounds good?
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DNLLegend
931 days ago
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That's good, too :)
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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer
932 days ago
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Honestly I haven't seen the point of the whole friends thing on here. There's no real benefit to it. I don't see it as another other than trying to keep up with the jones of facebook and myspace, which I don't think this site is really meant to be. That being said, DNL you're friends with everyone on the site, even Tyrone, which others of us wouldn't stoop to just to win a challenge, so good luck with this.
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DNLLegend
932 days ago
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Two reasons why friending matters: First, as the community grows, things like Site Scout and even the "New Opinions" are going to be hard ways to find content of trusted users. This is a way to do that. Second, the social networking aspects allow us to add other toys and features. As for me friending everyone, well, that's what I do. I'm a friendly guy! I even email Tyrone occasionally (really). And I think it'd be good if other AGM vets friend newbies, too, to welcome them to the community. Basically, getting to 100 friends is trivial, which is why I had the requirement of five new friends -- otherwise, getting to 100 is mindboggling easy.
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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer
931 days ago
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What's the point in having the site scout for people you trust if there's over 100 people on your site scout? It will be just as hard to navigate as the normal page.
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DNLLegend
931 days ago
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The "your home" link doesn't auto update and push things off the end while you're looking at it, and filters things better (e.g. so you can see the last 20 or so articles written by your friends). It will always be 100x more effective than site scout, and even is right now, but the fact is that it's not hard to find thing right now anyway.
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False ProphetAll-Star
932 days ago
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Dan, remember my KFAN Thing? Gonna pull that in a bit. In other words. Your on!
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InsanMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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who's tyrone? and who do a lot of people dislike him?
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InsanMajor Leaguer
926 days ago
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why do a lot*
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