Comment on [Frame] Landed on the waitlist, two friends as well (Europe)

• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on how they’re deciding ordering. It could be that earlier waitlist emails mean higher on the list. But it could also be a different system.

  It could also be when you put in to the raffle, you’re in line. Then on raffle close time, they start at the beginning of the line and rng you a number between 1 and the number of people in line, setting your order, and if you get a number within however many units they have, you win a reservation. With the waves of emails just being them going through chunks of people, eliminating undesirables and cheaters and bots and stuff.

  Like the first 10 people who put in initially could all get the highest (worst) numbered slots in the order. And if you haven’t gotten an email at all yet, you could still rng slot #1, assuming it’s available.

  It could also just be a massive shuffle at all once and them just vetting the accounts.

  I’m really curious to how they’re actually doing it. It could absolutely be more robust, and it’s exciting to imagine them really getting carried away with the method. Like total rng ordering with tie breaking or something silly. Or like a recursive iterative sort for no reason. These raffles ran by scientists can get crazy nerdy quickly. Maybe they’ll talk about it and have done something like use hl2 to order stuff somehow.

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