Talk:False start consolation prize

It is particularly frustrating, to be sure, but does such a specified case really need a consolation prize? Can't you just go with a Gratuitous ribbon? Therefore Do not oppose leaning towards oppose --HiroProtagonist 21:03, 11 November 2010 (UTC) (P.S. What is the Potsdam datum???)

Yes I could, but I know of at least two other people affected by this. One was hashing with me, the other one had it happening to him independently (and quite a while ago). Also, it is seriously meant to alleviate the frustration, should this happen to anyone else again, because I was very down after realizing it.
Oh, and the Potsdam datum is (as Ekorren put it) "one way of dealing with the fact that the earth is not a perfect sphere", just not the customary one for modern-day applications. Check it out on Wikipedia! --mtu 21:09, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

But does a special consolation prize for this really alleviate the frustration more than a gratuitous ribbon plus an existing consolation prize? --HiroProtagonist 21:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I agree that this is basically a blinded by science case gone horribly wrong. I would probably make me a scarred by science consolation gratuitous ribbon for perseverance, if that happened to me. On the other hand, any gratuitous ribbon claimed by three people already deserves maybe a bit of an explicit definition. Tis a dno for me. --relet I have no problem with this ribbon, and i think it would cover all sorts of 'that's actually a FAIL! due to inexperience' circumstances. I can see how it would be something that is much more important for beginning hashers, even while it may seem a bit superfluous to experienced hashers. I can also see how it would encourage newer hashers to accept expeditions as failures when they might otherwise be reluctant to. Also: it's a nice fun monument to ongoing failure DNO --mykaDragonBlue [- i have no sig -] 23:43, 11 November 2010 (UTC)