What are bits?

[chipanpriest]

Hey I'm new to this forum and I keep seeing references to bits and I was just wondering what they are and what they do

[ProgrammingFun]

At one point in time, they used to be used at the CompSci store, however, they now serve no important purpose as far as I know.

[2goto1]

Economic collapse?

[[Gandalf]]

Bits (also known as 1337 interweb points) give you e-Power. One bit is equal to a level 80 WoW character*, or, equivalently, one free win against a master league player in a skilled game like StarCraft*.

* Valid only while in stock. Otherwise redeemable for an imaginary pat on the back.

[ProgrammingFun]

[quote="[Gandalf] @ Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:25 pm"]Bits (also known as 1337 interweb points) give you e-Power. One bit is equal to a level 80 WoW character*, or, equivalently, one free win against a master league player in a skilled game like StarCraft*.

* Valid only while in stock. Otherwise redeemable for an imaginary pat on the back.[/quote]
You must have a lot of imaginary pats on the back then

[Tony]

Every morning I take a dive into my vault of imaginary pats. Feels good.

[chipanpriest]

well whats karma then?

[Insectoid]

If you post something helpful, maybe someone will give you karma.
If you post something negative, someone might take karma away.

Your karma is basically how much we like you.

[ProgrammingFun]

Insectoid @ Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:35 am wrote:

Your karma is basically how much we like you.

Or in the case of ekookman, it's used to make patterns

Negative karma can also portray how truthful we are to trolls or how much of a troll we are ourselves sometimes.

[mirhagk]

Can bits still be used to buy webspace? It still says that in the store

[ProgrammingFun]

mirhagk @ Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:43 pm wrote:

Can bits still be used to buy webspace? It still says that in the store

I think so...do you have enough bits?

[Zren]

It's only like 5 million bits needed, all for a measly 10 Mb of space.

[mirhagk]

Nah brah, only 500 000. And it's only 20 000 for MySQL hosting. And only 10 000 for e-mail forwarding lite

[ProgrammingFun]

mirhagk @ Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:55 pm wrote:

Nah brah, only 500 000. And it's only 20 000 for MySQL hosting. And only 10 000 for e-mail forwarding lite

We should make a new account to which everyone donates all their bits just to try it out

...but I think you won't want to give away your imaginary pats on the back

[Insectoid]

Actually, only 1000 for email forwarding lite. Quite affordable for the dedicated member. Us classy folk prefer the 1500-bit forwarding- none of this 'lite' crap. But I suppose most users can't afford that, eh?