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| Topic: | Contest Winners This thread has 8 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Saturday September 8, 2001 at 01:19 |
Andrea Whitlock Welcome Back |
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Does anyone know how winners are picked for the various contests that abound on web sites? Specifically the ones where you submit your email address. How do they pick winners? Is there a popular program or script that does it?
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| Post 2 made on Saturday September 8, 2001 at 15:12 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Do you mean here or elsewhere?
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| OP | Post 3 made on Monday September 10, 2001 at 15:24 |
Andrea Whitlock Welcome Back |
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Anywhere. A friend of mine wants to run a contest on her web site, and I'm looking for methodologies (as well as scripts or programs) to pick winners.
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| Post 4 made on Saturday September 15, 2001 at 00:09 |
Joel Warren Founding Member |
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Just send me my prize. 
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| Post 5 made on Saturday September 15, 2001 at 01:14 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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I suppose it depends exactly how the entries are stored.
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| OP | Post 6 made on Sunday September 16, 2001 at 07:40 |
Andrea Whitlock Welcome Back |
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Can you explain, in general terms, how it works on Remote Central? Or on other sites, if you have an idea how the different systems work...
This message was edited by Andrea Whitlock on 09/16/01 07:41.09.
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| Post 7 made on Sunday September 16, 2001 at 17:03 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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It depends on how the entries are stored. It's a pretty simple matter to write a program to search through a database of entries and randomly pick a winner. Need more winners? Repeat. :-)
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| OP | Post 8 made on Sunday September 16, 2001 at 18:56 |
Andrea Whitlock Welcome Back |
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Yeah, it's the random part that's hard. Random is usually not really random, especially if it's seeded on time. Do you have any good shuffle code?
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| Post 9 made on Sunday September 16, 2001 at 20:36 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Well, I end up doing everything in Perl, and it has a great random function (basically you just tell it to pick a number between xx and xx).
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