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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1043587, member: 19065"]<b><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=25644" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=25644"><b>cubenewb</b></a>/</b><b><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=22506" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=22506"><b>lincolncent</b></a>: </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>This is something I have already considered when drafting this contest, and as you've discovered, it would be to one's best advantage to only post when you are confident you have all 10* jumbles correct so as not to expose your work to such opportunity that may be beneficial to your competitors in this contest. </p><p><br /></p><p>You have to calculate the risk of certainty you feel you have in your answers before posting. I advise not to post answers one-by-one, or 7 or 8 seeking confirmation that they are correct, but to complete all 10, then post a guess. Without the entire 10 correct you would not be a winner anyway. When you post your list of answers, if there are incorrect answers, I will only say "incorrect" but will not identify which are correct/incorrect. While this partially protects your work from having inaccuracies identified, it could expose your work to someone else on the cusp of figuring out their list of 10 scrambles. Yes, someone else could swoop in and win the contest because you helped them in this way.</p><p><br /></p><p>* "This means you can post your set of 10 answers in one post per day, not just one or a few of the scrambles you think you may have figured out."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1043587, member: 19065"][B][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=25644"][B]cubenewb[/B][/URL]/[/B][B][URL="http://www.cointalk.com/member.php?u=22506"][B]lincolncent[/B][/URL]: [/B]This is something I have already considered when drafting this contest, and as you've discovered, it would be to one's best advantage to only post when you are confident you have all 10* jumbles correct so as not to expose your work to such opportunity that may be beneficial to your competitors in this contest. You have to calculate the risk of certainty you feel you have in your answers before posting. I advise not to post answers one-by-one, or 7 or 8 seeking confirmation that they are correct, but to complete all 10, then post a guess. Without the entire 10 correct you would not be a winner anyway. When you post your list of answers, if there are incorrect answers, I will only say "incorrect" but will not identify which are correct/incorrect. While this partially protects your work from having inaccuracies identified, it could expose your work to someone else on the cusp of figuring out their list of 10 scrambles. Yes, someone else could swoop in and win the contest because you helped them in this way. * "This means you can post your set of 10 answers in one post per day, not just one or a few of the scrambles you think you may have figured out."[/QUOTE]
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