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Lets donate some rice!
Bucketman
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Ok, I am not one to plug a site. But this one: http://www.freerice.com basically is helping the needy.
I checked it out and acording to the Urban Legends Reference Page the site is legit. All you have to do is go there, match a vocab word to its meaning and they donate X grains of rice depending on how many words you get right. Basically if your bored and at work you may as well help some hungry people out and increase your vocab skills.
I didn't check to see if there was a thread with this already, so if there is go ahead and get rid of this.
Lets feed some people!
I checked it out and acording to the Urban Legends Reference Page the site is legit. All you have to do is go there, match a vocab word to its meaning and they donate X grains of rice depending on how many words you get right. Basically if your bored and at work you may as well help some hungry people out and increase your vocab skills.
I didn't check to see if there was a thread with this already, so if there is go ahead and get rid of this.
Lets feed some people!
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because you want to improve your vocabulary while doing something slightly helpful?
A lot of people don't have spare cash, but they have spare time.
I've whored that site in [chat] before, because unlike a lot of other donation sites, it is a successful business that is prospering. It's simple, effective, and both the donor and the receiver gain something.
I wish there were other sites like that.
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What about it?
I think he is asking how you can deduce the context from a simple vocabulary question. There is no passage or anything.
only context is the other words, and they don't seem horribly related to each other.
unless you are talking about the context of every word you've ever read.
edit: ahh.
I had trouble even staying near 40.
I did better than I thought I would.
How about you do both and not be an unnecessarily oppositional ass?
Jesus, that is thread-shitting if I have ever seen it.
Also, I've donated 2,000 grains total, and my vocab level hovers around 40-43. My mom somehow managed to hit 49. :shock:
Except this is fun and easy.
Which means people will actually do it.
Yeah, the altruism high is nice, but it's also a fun way for me to kill time, regardless of the whole charity aspect.
I think it's goddamn brilliant when people can find a way to harness self-interest for the greater good, and I'd rather not shit on someone who's actually making a difference, and doing it in a damn ingenious fashion.
Way to miss the point. Do you really think the people who are clicking on all these words are doing so instead of donating money to charity? The hojillion tons of rice that have been donated, do you think that's been done in place of something else?
No, what's happened is that a bunch of bored people at work who would otherwise be surfing random websites are instead clicking on obscure words in order for bragging rights and a big dose of feel-good. This website has basically found a way to convert employee ennui into rice. That's fairly awesome.
That's super awesome.
People don't seem to understand the reality that most people won't simply donate cash. Doesn't happen that much. So if you can give people a reason to help, you'll end up doing a lot more good overall, even if each person is only donating a relatively small amount.
RandomEngy is apparently just here to be an tremendous douche
How much rice?
Not to mention breaks are pretty good for morale/productivity.
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He underestimates the pageviews, but hugely overestimates the number of ad clicks.
In particular, the pageviews could be 2 times what he estimates, maybe 3 times at the outside (though personally my estimate would be about 1.5 times what his is). However, he assumes every thousand page views generates 50 clicks. Consider that the large majority of traffic is going to be coming from people who are playing the game (as they generate anywhere from dozens to thousands of pageviews daily, compared to the handful a passerby would make). Does he really think that the average player is going to click an ad every twenty words? I would be surprised if they got a hundredth of that.
People have downtime. People have breaks. My job consists largely of managing information and keeping the proper people informed of certain matters while looking for answers to specific questions. If there are no questions to be answered and no people to be informed, I more or less have nothing to do. And so I choose to give rice.
And honestly even if the dude were making profit, I'm not sure I would care.
I mean, on some level, I actually find that prospect super awesome. I mean, in such a scenario, everybody wins!
Users get a service provided to them in the form of vocabulary building, a fun game, and a small altruism high. Advertisers get hundreds of thousands of views per day, and good PR material. The dude running the site makes a living, and hungry people receive a fuckton of rice.
Honestly I kind of respect that model more than a traditional charity model. It seems so much more effective and so much more creative.