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Re:Hacking Twitter and being suspended in less than 2 days and 300 tweets on Friday May 18, 2012 @06:14PM (#3994307)
We did something similar for our site http://jokels.com. We'd search Twitter every 5 minutes for the phrase "Tell me a joke" and reply to people with a random joke from our site. It was (usually) very well received by the random people we tweeted at. We found out pretty quickly that when people say "tell me a joke," they're feeling blue. It looked like we cheered a lot of people up.

Twitter banned us after a few days.

We tried our best to make the tweets not spammy (i.e. no links, the jokes fit, only show 'clean' jokes), but it wasn't good enough. Twitter never responded to us about our questions. They just reinstated our account. It was a fun few days, though.

Re:Ask HN: Moving Flash games to HTML5 on Saturday May 08, 2010 @08:50AM (#1330069)
You're right about overthinking the cheating thing already. I should focus more on how to make the game and its logic, and worry about cheating when it happens. Moderating the scoreboards will probably be good enough.

Thanks for the tips!

Ask HN: Moving Flash games to HTML5

Posted by syl on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:40PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hey folks,I made a very simple Flash game a few years back for a college class. It was quite fun. I had been thinking about recreating it with HTML and JS (and probably leveraging some HTML5 features like canvas). I figured it could be a cool game for iPhone/Android/WebOS phones, as well.My biggest concern with doing this is cheating. This simple game had a scoreboard (Flash submitting a...

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Re:The Other Secret of Monkey Island on Saturday February 13, 2010 @12:25PM (#1123208)
Interesting theory, but I thought the secret was "Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."
Re:Hacker News Headline Generator on Monday February 08, 2010 @01:29PM (#1110301)
"Ask HN: Does my startup need to make common sense?"
Re:Fuzzwich (YC 07) featured on the Rachael Ray show (of all places) on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @07:34PM (#1013135)
Congrats to the Fuzzwich crew! I love making Fuzzwiches and always hoped they'd take off!