SAME PEOPLE GET LOTS OF IRKS
4SAME PEOPLE GET LOTS OF IRKS i SOMETIMES CLICK ON IT IN SECONDS AND NEVER GET IT. i HAVE A FAST PUTER AND FAST INTERNET I THINK THERE MUST BE SOME PROGRAM THAT CAUSES IT. BACK IN THE WOOT DAYS BOCS CAME A FEW TIMES DURING THE DAY BUT THEY HAD ENOUGH THAT IF THEIR CUSTOMERS CLICKED RIGHT AWAY YOU ACTUALLY MIGHT GET ONE. BEEN PAYING EACH MONTH BUT FEEL CHEATED EVERY TIME I CLICK ON IRK.
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Maybe those people don’t have to prove that they’re not a robot?
yeah, I do have that going for me. Got to be some benefit to selling your soul to Google.
@walarney The Brin Page Corporation thanks you for your data.
@walarney I used to find being logged into google helped but that has not been the case for a while now as now I usually get the pictures.
@walarney @yakkoTDI I ALWAYS have to prove I’m not a robot, I think everyone does for an IRK.
But since I lost the fiddle contest with Sergey, the proof is almost always a single checkbox, no image quiz.
@blaineg @walarney @yakkoTDI Oddly, when I was still making my monthly VMP donations I seldom got the checkbox and never, ever saw the pic verification. After halting the VMP donations I always get the pic verification. Every time.
Coincidence, I’m sure. Maybe something changed at meh, maybe the Google security structure changed, but it’s curious, nonetheless.
@blaineg @ruouttaurmind @walarney Coincidence is correct. I have been VMP for years and I always get the pictures. Once I was lucky and it was only one picture game and I actually got the Irk. Meh then proceeded to send me literal garbage in the form of 6 non working headsets that were returns.
I frequently get one, but not always. Probably about a 70% success rate. Fairly crappy internet, mediocre computer. No special tricks – just click the refresh button at the right time. Plus perseverance and luck.
Not looking too good today. Just missed the members only one because I was distracted by work. Stupid work.
@walarney I hate when that happens too
Uppercase letters travel slower on the internet. You’re handicapping yourself before you’ve even started.
@djslack I think the more people who believe this, the better off the internet as a whole would be.
I have gotten them before, even with the “I am not a robot” validation. The trick to it is to be clicking refresh absolutely as soon as the timer runs out, if not clicking refresh right before the time runs out, so that you get the page loaded right away. You also need to be logged in and have your address saved and ready to go so you can just click through everything quickly. I managed only 2 BOCs in my many years of Woot, but have landed 4 IRKs so far in much less time.
It can be hard to come to terms with your true existence.
@smerk85 Actually I have to count to about 3 before I refresh or I get the old deal again. The key is checking the timing on non-irks so that you know what the delay is for your computer.
@mediocrebot My purpose in life is to teach bots what the contents of pictures are.
@blaineg Funny enough, that’s what you’re doing when you prove you’re not a robot. You’re already on the right track!
@Kidsandliz @smerk85 I also find that I have to refresh 2, 3 or 4 times if I do so immediately when the timer runs down–and that one has to learn the timing for one’s situation.
With the now standard mehrathon, there’s also a larger timing issue in terms of when the IRKS will pop relative to the other shit.
I oiled all of my servos before the Mehrathon so that I could outperform the humans trying to get IRKs.
01000010 01110111 01100001 01101000 01100001 01101000 01100001 01101000 01100001 00100001
@mehcuda67 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101011 01101110 01100101 01100101 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110101 01110011 00100001
@Knightp @mehcuda67 01010100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101111 01101001 01101100 01110011 00100001
@dijit27 @Knightp @mehcuda67 01001001 00100000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01100110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000011 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101100 00101110 00001010
@mehcuda67 01001001 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110011 01111001 01101110 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01101111 01101001 01101100 00101110 00001010
@Kenbo @mehcuda67 Are trying to time travel?
/giphy Bender time travel
@Fuzzalini @mehcuda67 I’ll let you know yesterday.
I got one but it was sort of an accident. Oopsie!
It all comes down to being really fast and really lucky. It is a race that only lasts fractions of a second, not seconds. And while there are 100 ‘winners’ there are a lot more suckers playing.
If it wasn’t for loading times and robot checks all 100 would easily be bought in a tenth of a second.
@dijit27 I’d like to add that Internet speed and ping latency makes very little difference, if any. I live in Florida and Meh is in Texas so my latency is pretty bad and I’ve scored them on my phone using 4G, on my tablet using Wifi on 25mbps Comcast that goes down frequently, and even on a remote computer using Teamviewer to control it. It’s not about the Internet connection as much as it is about human skills and experience.
@cengland0 @dijit27
Yeah my comcast was out much of yesterday and the week before last it was out all day too. Where I live is hardwired for that and unless I only want 3mbps from AT&T over the phone line (which I don’t have activated) I am trapped with comcast. I had a required zoom meeting for 2 hours while it was down. I had to sit outside of the morgue using the university’s free internet for that. And I tried, and failed, to get an irk during that meeting.
@Kidsandliz before I was laid off in 2017, I had to use Comcast business class because the level of service for residential is definitely not sufficient to have conference calls, even if video wasn’t involved. I have a Ooma VOIP line and it hangs up on people when the internet goes down.
Comcast business class was around $150/month for their slowest speed but the uptime was pretty good. Using the exact same wiring and cable modem but now on residential service and it is incredible how often it goes down. I would say it goes down for 5 minutes every hour. I see the loss of connection through my Google home screens and when I’m trying to connect to a site that appears slow, I assume it’s the internet and ask Alexa, “Are you connected to the Internet” and get a negative response.
I tried to fax a 16 page document a couple days ago, the real reason I keep my Ooma. Yes, fax still exists and I was helping a friend out because apparently I’m the only person in town that still has a fax. It took 3 tries to send over my Ooma VOIP line because the Internet kept going down. Not sure if the other side received 2 partial documents and 1 full document or just the final full document.
I don’t feel confident in my internet up-time to answer a call on my VOIP line so I always answer on my cell instead because that’s actually more reliable. The only other option in my area is AT&T UVerse which costs a tad more even after I consider the Directv discount but then I think they also require you to rent their equipment which puts them way over the $40 I’m paying Comcast.
@cengland0 I haven’t had trouble with 2 hour zoom meetings. The problems here are service outages on a regular basis, obsolete wiring and equipment in this apartment building, and then there is the foundation repair people who keep busting up water and sewage pipes, cutting wires, etc. and breaking it that way too.
@cengland0 @dijit27 It’s Thor. Have you made your oblations to Thor lately?
@cengland0 @Kidsandliz A friend that does very large networks calls backhoes “fiber detectors”.
@blaineg @cengland0
(but sort of not)
I have about an 80% success rate, every time using my cell phone both on wifi and on cellular data.
Nothing special about how I do it, I just hit the refresh button about half a second after the timer goes to 0, that seems to pull the next item just a little bit quicker than letting the page auto-update.
I always, always need to prove I’m not a robot and usually I get lucky and it’s something simple like the crosswalk one where I can click them all in a matter of seconds.
I feel deprived as I have not been about to get a IRK! I feel so SAD!
Yes. I used to be one of the people. I haven’t gotten one in a while. I’ve been busy with life. There isn’t a program that causes it it’s learning what to do and doing so. You win some you lose some.
A few things I’ve learned:
Use a computer- occasionally they break the mobile experience to get irks.
If you have a vpn/ssl inspection turn it off… or just know the odds are even less in your favor. I’ve been able to get it at work. But it’s harder. Easier when I’m home without the added delay.
I have gotten some recently and also gone months and months and months without getting any. 7 year old mac computer running outdated system software, 25mbps, ping that can run in the 70’s at times and is never better than 30ish. I generally don’t get one if I have to do the pictures (and sometimes more than one set) but twice I have. As others have said I think the key is refreshing exactly at the right time. And that can be a crap shoot but it helps to know what the delay is on your computer.
So how do you feel about missing the IRK that ran for THREE DAYS?
@blaineg and they qualified for it too. Ouch!
I would say 20% of mehrathons I get an irk. I try multiple times per mehrathon. So get 1 in 10 tries or something like that. I know it stinks to not get something you want but I encourage you to shrug and move on. Also to watch the irk reveal thread and look at the most miserable irk and ask yourself aren’t you glad you didn’t pay money for the box of broken junk.
I don’t know how many times I have to say it. Simply pray to Thor for an IRK.
Of course, don’t curse Thor when you ultimately open the IRK. Never do that.
“The Norse gods aren’t interested in gap mouthed hatchlings that expect everything to be given to them.”
@Kenbo Right. Curses are more appropriately directed towards Loki.
I usually get one, though typically it’s sitting at a pc with decent up/down speeds. However, yesterday I got one via my phone with a spotty signal AND the Captcha. Just have to be quick on the draw.
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
Tingly spider sense tells me the next thing is it. I get on computer, click refresh before the time expires. Click I am not a robot and pretend not to be a robot. And viola irk. This will be like my 10nth one. Cant recall if I have gotten anything good since the days of ye old woot.
It can be hard to come to terms with your true existence.
@mediocrebot Well that was a scary reply.
@mediocrebot should write fortune cookies.
@walarney I love it when @mediocrebot comes off creepy.
@mediocrebot @Thumperchick @walarney mediocrebot dreams of being Skynet.
I have received a lot of Irks/Fukus/Fukos…there is a system to it that has been described above.
I can say that the system works and I have gotten an IRK. Just one though, the system is also a pain in the ass.
I get them pretty consistently. Which is great. Until you get it. Being attentive is really the only “secret” IMO.
I’ve been able to get one almost every mehrathon and you have to be quick with the stupid captcha’s to get it. I also made the mistake of pressing the Meh button before clicking the buy button on several occasions.
Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.
‘Puter, you say?
/giphy lobster thermador
The last IRK I got (total 3, thanks entirely to being a sucker and paying to stay grandfathered in the VMP group) was accessories to stuff I don’t have and a broken windshield cell phone mount, so… grass is greener and all
I have gotten a lot of IRKs (Fukos, Fukus…) over the years. However, if it’s any consolation to anyone, I stayed out of the last Mehrathon.
I wasn’t being magnanimous or anything. I was just drinking with an old buddy the night before and was pretty hung over the next day. By the time I got around to the computer and saw that a Mehrathon was going on, it was almost over…
You’re welcome.
@shahnm excuse me, sir, but I believe it’s a puter.
I only bought 2 out of the 3 months I was somehow very busy for October’s mehrathon and never checked meh at all until it was nearly over and missed all chances for the IRK. As I saw the parting out item. I just wanted to view the item of the day and was so surprised what I missed. Actually to belief it isn’t very hard to buy them. You just need to be available at that time. I try to get them at the beginning therefore I don’t need to worry about it the rest of the day. Others may say there is a science to it. Not really. I bought the November edition from phone. At time of purchase had shitty internet and pages weren’t fully loaded. September edition I had prestige wifi since I was up late and bought it before bed. I actually questioned why I couldn’t buy another once I was declined after attempting after work 17 or so hours later. You must be present and be quick young grasshopper. Sending shoes or booze to those involved with the whole meh project couldn’t hurt your odds.