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So, a common thing people do on lj is to post lists of statements about unnamed people on their flist ("You're awesome", "I wish you were dead" etc). What ends up happening is that everyone tries to guess which ones are about them but of course the poster won't say.
I thought about doing a list of statements so vague that between them they covered all a hundred or so of you, but it got a bit mawkish and dull. Instead, I've made a list where each statement refers to exactly one username on my userinfo, and you have to figure out who is who by logical deduction.
Hopefully it should be do-able but noone should be able to tell who everyone is without some thought/research. Some may be wrong, but that just adds to the challenge :)
1) Since this is the first clue I needed a simple statement which uniquely identified one person and this was too perfect to pass up.So, don't take it the wrong way, and I still think you're super cool and stuff but..as far as I can tell, you're the oldest person on my friends list :D You won 3rd place for being Buffy.
(EDIT: it belatedly occurred to me this was a bad choice of question for a number of reasons, so I've changed the clue but not the person. So now it's really easy....if you know them or can be bothered doing a bunch of clicking :))
2) I've met you in person one more time than (1).
3) I was glad to hear that you and (2)'s dogs joint holiday went well :)
4) Ah, I'm sure you weren't that mean to (3) at school.
5) I am really glad you introduced me to (4), even if you weren't actually the first to do so :)
6) Huh. I see you've friended (5), I didn't know you guys knew each other! (Yeah, ok, so I probably did, but hey)
7) You're a lot of fun, it's a pity (6) can't make it.
8) I'm glad you bugged me into joining (7).
9) I haven't figured out who you are yet, but the fact you've friended (8) is a major clue.
I thought about making it more complicated and interconnected, but that's a lot of work given that there's no guarantee anyone will bother trying to solve it. I still think 3 is too easy but I always end up making this sort of stuff WAY too hard so maybe that's for the best.
I thought about screening comments, but there's too many clues that if you don't know you can't figure out. So it'll have to be a joint effort :)
EDIT: I'm not sure people are thinking about (7) the right way. Also two of the guesses so far have been right! Not saying which, since they were rather vague guesses :)
I thought about doing a list of statements so vague that between them they covered all a hundred or so of you, but it got a bit mawkish and dull. Instead, I've made a list where each statement refers to exactly one username on my userinfo, and you have to figure out who is who by logical deduction.
Hopefully it should be do-able but noone should be able to tell who everyone is without some thought/research. Some may be wrong, but that just adds to the challenge :)
1) Since this is the first clue I needed a simple statement which uniquely identified one person and this was too perfect to pass up.
(EDIT: it belatedly occurred to me this was a bad choice of question for a number of reasons, so I've changed the clue but not the person. So now it's really easy....if you know them or can be bothered doing a bunch of clicking :))
2) I've met you in person one more time than (1).
3) I was glad to hear that you and (2)'s dogs joint holiday went well :)
4) Ah, I'm sure you weren't that mean to (3) at school.
5) I am really glad you introduced me to (4), even if you weren't actually the first to do so :)
6) Huh. I see you've friended (5), I didn't know you guys knew each other! (Yeah, ok, so I probably did, but hey)
7) You're a lot of fun, it's a pity (6) can't make it.
8) I'm glad you bugged me into joining (7).
9) I haven't figured out who you are yet, but the fact you've friended (8) is a major clue.
I thought about making it more complicated and interconnected, but that's a lot of work given that there's no guarantee anyone will bother trying to solve it. I still think 3 is too easy but I always end up making this sort of stuff WAY too hard so maybe that's for the best.
I thought about screening comments, but there's too many clues that if you don't know you can't figure out. So it'll have to be a joint effort :)
EDIT: I'm not sure people are thinking about (7) the right way. Also two of the guesses so far have been right! Not saying which, since they were rather vague guesses :)
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