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All right people, I have no idea what (if any) effect this is going to have, but here's the deal:
The next two NAOees who write a post rated 'excellent' by at least three people will get a packet of chocolate. Everybody loves chocolate. :-) The choice is yours between Lindt, Suchard, Camille-Bloch, Munz-Maestrani, Halba and Frey... or just tell me "I have no idea" and I'll pick some of my personal favourites for you. In any case I promise not to just buy the cheapest one.
These are the rules:

If you write a post and it gets three or more green ratings (that usually means better than 90%|3), you've won.
Of course I'll need your snailmail address. I promise not to use it for anything else.
The offer is valid worldwide, except for places where there is no postal service or it would cost about ten grand to get the packet delivered.
The packet will weigh about 500g (how much is that in US units?) and will take anywhere from a few days (Central Europe) to 4 weeks (some places in the USA) to arrive.
Only ratings from users with at least two bright red stars count.
Only one packet per person.

Suggestion for a topic: It looks as if the quality of a discussion is anti-proportional to its distance from the border to being a flamewar... i.e. the more people disagree, the more effort they put into their posts to prove their point, but the more heated the debate tends to become. Is this more of a good or a bad thing?

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Apr 27, 2006.

Are you participating, too? You can buy the chocolate for yourself ;)

What do you mean with bright red? Do my stars count?

"Sie wollen nichts anderes. Sie wollen kämpfen! Sie sind Soldaten! Fucking Wahnsinnige!" - Noel G.

This post was edited by Orchid on Apr 28, 2006.

You can buy the chocolate for yourself

That wouldn't exactly be the idea of the whole thing :-)

What do you mean with bright red? Do my stars count?

Click the stars next to your name. You'll be taken to a page with ranking info stuff. If your current rank is above two bright red stars (where the rating power is 1), you qualify.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

Sounds like a plan!

*runs off to start writing*

Lol, food-for-posts :D

[sarcasm]
i can already see where is't going. Some people will sit at their pc's 24/7 writing excellent posts, so that they don't starve to death :]
[/sarcasm]

But seriously, that's a good idea. It's surprising and funny. Keep it up. ;-)

But you know, i'm kinda afraid about the quality of a chocolate after a couple of days/weeks of transport...This might be costly, since chocolate could break or melt. :-/

"Life is a queue. You come in, hang around for a bit, get some service, then depart."

This post was edited by yoshi314 on Jun 13, 2006.

This might be costly, since chocolate could break or melt.

I can't guarantee that everything will still taste exactly as when I've bought it, I just know that so far nobody has complained. The packet that traveled the longest so far was r_pendragon's packet which spent 4 weeks underway. For all I know she didn't require any major surgery after consumption of the sweets in question. I can guarantee that I'll only buy quality stuff with an expire date far in the future, and that I bring it to the postal office in a perfect state. I've never been a cheapskate when it comes to food :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

This post was edited by null on Jun 14, 2006.

Crap, I completely forgot about this. Well, people didn't complain either, so by virtue of my moderator powers, I hereby pardon myself.

Anyway, it's taken me some time to sift through all the posts written since April 27, and I think (hope) I didn't miss any candidates.
These are the posts that have been rated Excellent by at least three users with a ranking of two bright red stars or higher, sorted by date:

Discussion: Incompetent Government Breeds Extremism. by Deimos
The meaning of "home" by WASABI
Globally-motivated kids by r_pendragon
Getting married... by andromacha

So, Deimos and WASABI, if you consider me trustworthy enough to give me your snailmail address, I shall send a packet of chocolate your way.

If you don't, well, that's all right. I already know where r_pendragon and andromacha live. :-)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900