Hidden-Street is having an Anniversary Contest right now!

Not using the code yet, thanks guys.

I dislike the event for the single reason that once you screw up ONCE, you're done for good. Which, for the Bob the Snail question, caused more trouble IMO than it was worth. Granted, they made it explicit in their rules that you use the name they provide in their database, but Bob the Snail is a common misconception. (You could make a much-less-valid argument with the same base for Doom Flounder... kind of.)

Someone got really angry over it (the text is also below):

 Angry quote

I joined these forums specifically for the event, and as I did so I thought to myself "hmm.. this place might not be so bad. I'll have to check out the community & staff as well, see what's going on around here. Might have to participate. Might be a good place to chill. We'll see."

Then, I discovered, just now, that I'm completely disqualified from a code, simply because I typed "Bob the Snail" for one of the answers, and the idiot that designed the contest made it so that everything has to be the exact spelling, exact capitalization, and didn't filter for multiple answers that would have the exact same meaning. Even game shows and contests all across the world do this.

But not HS. nah. "Oh, you called Bob by what 99% of the legacy MapleStory community calls him? Well, screw you. HA! no prize!" *robbed*

If this contest was anything like the contests on other forums, it's true design was to garner web hits & new members. I have news for the creators of such a contest: Screwing your participants out of their prizes because they gave the correct answer in a different way than you had anticipated is NOT the way to make your community grow. Fact. Many, like myself, after having been completely robbed of the prize, won't follow up with any future activity here.

You wasted my time hidden-street and didn't get what you wanted accomplished either. You screwed yourself out of a very-possibly highly-active future member to your site, and screwed me out of a prize over a technicality related to your inability to code multiple correct, accepted answers to your rigged event. You screwed us both out of our goals, and there's probably a thousand others just like me that will now walk away and never use their account again. Well done. Bravo.

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To the three hidden-street defenders above me:

1. You have no idea what you're talking about. Your defense is crap in a basket. Bob wasn't anythings "actually" in-game name. Bob was what the 2005 community named him. He was just a snail. There was no official name in-game. Your whole argument is null, based on HS just making up what they officially named him. Nexon actually officially named him 'Bob the Snale' as a part of a quest line a few years later. You're talking out of your ass. Congratulations!

2. This isn't college or your chem homework you sucked at. If this is the angriest you've ever seen anyone post in your life, you're a sheltered soul.

3. You sir, aren't as brilliant as you think you are. Based on your advice I milked the event with the answers from another forum, which I discovered I was 100% with the exception of HS's made-up, self-proclaimed exact wording of his name, so well done on that one. You just lost another 31 people codes that I would have otherwise left alone and left for others. But your 3's little attitude and rush to the defense of a totally legitimate complaint based on semantics, of a community-named mob, no less, prompted me to be an ass about it.

So, congratulations to you three. You managed to lose 31 other people codes they could have gotten. I hadn't planned at all to just milk the event for codes, but since you 3 cheerleaders thought it was such a grand idea to just go get the copy&pasted answers and milk the hell out of it, thx for that. I'm sure there's 31 other people out there that just love you right now.

Thx again for the codes. And for the tip not to use them yet. 'precate it. ^^

Edit: Also, thx for the little uppity responses. I wouldn't want to be part of this snippity, brown-nosing place anyway, so not a problem. I won't bother to reply to anything said after this point, or even log back in for that matter, so we all win. =D

Thx again for the codes. ^_^

Yeah, making another 31 accounts and farming those codes out of spite wasn't the best idea.. but meh.