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Post number 1071

hobbes — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:38:02 -0800

My dreams have been crushed... The Diablo II beta selection is over and the results have been posted. A couple people were from towns near mine, but nope, no luck with me...

By: corpse

corpse — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:57:45 -0800

Did you really think you had a chance?

By: hobbes

hobbes — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:13:34 -0800

Nope, I know that the beta was "Slashdotted"... but it was pretty cool that one of the guys near the top was from Oak Brook, IL.

By: dangerman

dangerman — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:18:22 -0800

I wonder if these people were chosen because they check the "Yes, send me tons of advertisements and spam from both you and your associated venders, and while your at it, distribute my e-mail address and personal information to as many mailing list as possible" box

By: brig

brig — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:48:39 -0800

it certainly wasn't done by gender. i was sure being female would increase my very slim chances.

By: hobbes

hobbes — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:25:40 -0800

dangerman, I thought the exact same thing when I was filling it out, "Should I check the box? Maybe they filter out all the ones that don't check it..." I left mine unchecked, so I guess we'll never know...

By: Markb

Markb — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:34:00 -0800

Thats where hotmail addresses come into their own, submit a hotmail address, check the 'spam me' box, then you only need check it for the duration of the competition or whatever.

By: plinth

plinth — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:17:39 -0800

FYI - I counted the number of female names and 1/2 of the gender-ambiguous names and came up with 61. Almost assuredly, this number is too high since probably more like 1/10 of the gender ambigous names are female. At any rate, that's a 6.1% female presence in this test.

By: brig

brig — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:37:07 -0800

do you think if i kicked up a fuss about sexual discrimination they'd let me be a tester?