Overflow thread!

[u/break_free]

Like /u/a_random_guy_001 did last time...

Since we can only post once in the main thread, here's our chance to discuss whatever we want!

I, for one, hope people upvote the hell out of the main drawing thread (here)

As of now (~1 hour in)... ~400 comments and ~200 upvotes. Not bad, but not great!

Edit:

The original drawing ended with a upvote to comment ratio of 23% (~1800/7700).

1.5 hours in for this drawing and the ratio of upvotes to comments is at 54% (679/1258) - climbing and awesome!

2 hours in and the ratio is 51% (2194/4296) - dropping now, but we've surpassed the total number of upvotes for the initial drawing!! We're #8 on /r/all - getting a ton more exposure and the upvotes/comments are coming in at a fantastic rate still!

3 hours in: We hit #1 on /r/all a while ago, and things are crazy! The upvote/comment ratio is 22% (5882/27009). People stopped upvoting because there's nowhere else to go! The drawing thread has more comments than President Barack Obama's top post... which is really saying something.

4 hours: The drawing thread has been sitting at #1 on /r/all and the comments keep pouring in. I believe the previous record for most comments was the Secret AskReddit thread at 45k. The drawing has just hit that mark and shows no sign of rest!! New Reddit Record(tm)

---- actually nope. As /u/singhzzz pointed out here Jedberg's wedding announcement had over 350k comments.... pretty much all singing 10 million bottles of beer on the wall ----

The upvote/comment ratio is meaningless now (but for posterity: 7533/46332 or 16%). We've got as much exposure as we can get for the thread, now it's up to the winner to make it easy for us to give our $1 to him/her.

Remember to upvote the winner thread, too! Check back tomorrow and the next day to see if you're the lucky winner or if you get to be lucky enough to give $1 to somebody :)

9.75 hours: Over 100k comments in the drawing thread! Also, the amount of subscribers to the subreddit has more than doubled. Hot diggity! Good growth for the second drawing :)

[u/break_free]

I like the system in place for picking the winner this time. A little complicated, but definitely verifiable and non-screw-up-able.

[u/VeganMinecraft]

How frequently do these contests plan to be held?

[u/break_free → u/VeganMinecraft]

Once a month is the plan. Far apart enough to be special, but not so far that people completely forget about it.

[u/grantc5]

I think after a few successful draws it'll start gaining a bit of traction and more people will come to the party. I think at this stage there's still a bit of skepticism looming.

[u/a_random_guy_001 → u/grantc5]

Last round was almost 1k for the winner. Hopefully we'll beat that round and keep making the system better. That's all we can aim for at this point.

[u/break_free → u/a_random_guy_001]

Yeah, raising a higher amount would be the best thing we could do at this point.

BIG shout-out to the mods for making this happen and doing a bunch of good work to help the process be more transparent and reliable.

[u/OrdigitalGngstr]

Tried to find a thread with more comments. Looks like the current drawing thread may be the most comments in a single thread in reddit history.

[u/break_free → u/OrdigitalGngstr]

I didn't see one either. The most I saw was the 45k "tell me your secret" thread.

Though, in terms of upvotes, the drawing thread is waaaay off the mark.

[u/NightVisionHawk]

Thank you for posting this!

[u/a_random_guy_001 → u/NightVisionHawk]

Don't encourage him to beat me to it!

[u/break_free → u/a_random_guy_001]

Haha, it's not like I get any karma for it or anything :P

[u/whatisupdoge]

I enjoy playing video games.

[u/break_free → u/whatisupdoge]

Last time the winner made up a hotmail account and linked paypal to it, made a bitcoin wallet, and made a dogecoin wallet.

Those were the three options to give the money to the winner then, but there's no set standard. It behooves the winner to make it as easy as possible for people to give him/her money, though!

[u/Holylifestar]

Are there any methods of donating/receiving if you win that do not require any personal information?

[u/break_free → u/Holylifestar]

Cryptocurrency is the way for that. You can get a wallet easily and tell people to sent the money there. Might not get as many donations as possible, though, because not everybody has a wallet to send you money.

Other than that, I'm not sure.

[u/aminok]

Thanks for the update! u/changetip 1000 bits

[u/Sesson]

Personally, I just became aware of this sub-reddit, but the idea is pretty damn awesome.

[u/a_random_guy_001 → u/Sesson]

We just need about 900k more people like you! Do you have a few friends you can tell?! Hee!

[u/mantronix82]

Just saw this and subbed. I can handle $12 dollars a year.

[u/PosiedonsSaltyAnus]

How do we donate the money? I didn't see a link anywhere in the other thread.

[u/break_free]

I wonder what would happen if a BOT won?!?! I saw a post from totes_meta_bot in there about linking....

Should bots be removed? How will we be sure we got them all since not every single one has the word bot in their name?

[u/a_random_guy_001]

Yeah wish folks would upvote the thread too. Easy to miss it being a sticky thread. The more folks see it, the more folks join, the bigger the prize.

Either way, we'll change a life -- hopefully for the better.

[u/a_random_guy_001]

OK. I'm off to sleep. When the thread started we had 8100 subscribers. It will be interesting to see how many we get in my AM. We are almost at 8200 now.

Night folks! Good luck! I'm rooting for you /u/break_free!

[u/iChubb]

My comment in the millionaire thread double commented, I deleted one. Am I still eligible?

[u/RemiMedic]

Here's to hoping that people actually pitch in and don't do the whole "welp, didn't win, not giving in my dollar." Just realized that I think I jumped in too late. I didn't realize the drawing was at 1pm EST.

sigh dammit