So, hypothetically...

Let's say I suspected someone webcheating on a memequiz. Now, the obvious thing to do is to just ignore it, and let that person live with their guilt, so on, so forth, et cetera, except that they probably won't be feeling any kind of guilt over it and maybe the kind of elated thrill that inflating a number on the Internet gets them.

This isn't entirely without reason. Recently, one of the players in my ongoing memequiz has been giving answers in a way that defies all apparent trends, and looks almost exactly like a poorly-conceived strategy for trying to not be caught webcheating (like, say, not getting #49).

So, dear LJers, the question is this: given the constraints of reality (ie, iocaine powder doesn't really exist), what is the appropriate way to deal with a suspected webcheat?



And now that's all posted - coming later: books, gateway drugs, and odd reminders about communities.

Memequiz post 5 - LiveJournal and the Order of the Quizpost

First, the scores:

1. princesslaurene - 16
2. jennisis - 15
3. riverchild - 13.5
4. bananrama - 11
5. mrpyro - 9
6. fireflyfailure - 7.5
   
7. maggiebloome - 5.5
8. captainsblog - 5
9. palmer_kun - 4.5
10. mmaster - 3
    
11. analise - 2
12. caprinus, sarekofvulcan - 1.5
14. raptor_au, bending_sickle, tears_of_nienna, deepfishy - 1
    

The non-English songs are surviving surprisingly well, having been neatly thinned out to one each in German, Italian and Latin. (And had I kept going, 61 would've been Despre Tine. Because you all needed to know that.)

Anyway... the songs. The 10 with added lines are in bold - so, um, not much chance of even getting to fifth if you start playing now, but hope is a wondrous thing.

( Again, cut for length )

I can has comm?

apathy_books: it lives. Finally. It may need some work done on the layout, but... it's there. And it should work, and if it doesn't then tell me so that we can fix things.

(Let's pretend, for a moment, that I didn't accidentally post the intro post for the comm in this journal. Um... oops? (Of course, you'd probably never know if I hadn't told you.))



So, I kind of gave in: I have a copy of HP7, in the ZOMGgrownup cover, because (a) it's pretty, (b) no-one's bothering to post proper spoilers, so how else will I know what happens, and (c) there's no way I was buying the Pottergate cover with the Paul Kidby-esque artwork¹ and the suspicious Dobby!pose.

At all. Ever.

This all means that I've spent almost twice as much as I planned to buying DH, but these things happen. Unusually often they happen to me, but still...



(Also, can someone explain to me the e.e. rowling dedication thingy? What's the point of that, I wonder? I mean, I get how she did it. I just ain't seeing the why. (Not to compare it to a floating chandelier or anything, though there's plenty enough scenes in early!HP where they do interrogate the buffet table.))



This would bring me to another subject, but now I want for it to be in another post, because it demands a certain kind of gravitas that you don't readily get from talking about book purchases. Or, at least, that I don't readily get from it.

Instead: icons. Movie!Luna amused me greatly, and then for no apparent reason I felt like making  broken image icons. So:



And then, for Seanetcaminofiremonkeyscapefoxzilla Navigator:



And that's it for now, unless I feel inspired in an hour or so and write that other post, once I've decided for a fourth time what my opinion on it is actually going to be.

1. There's a reason why I buy Discworld in the stylish black trade paperbacks, and surprisingly enough it's not that I love paying extra for books.