{"id":15,"date":"2006-01-27T23:28:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T22:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-01-28T01:16:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T00:16:34","slug":"inertia-software-the-independant-top-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"inertia software, the ‘independant’ Top 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed some very strange behaviour in the Sudoku Top 50, the list that we all like to be high in with our Sudoku websites. The site, with a free vote for sudocue.net, is linked with http:\/\/www.inertiasoftware.com\/top50\/index.php?id=157<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They used to reset the counters once a day, around 12:00\u00c2\u00a0GMT. Now the reset at 17:00 GMT, and, strangly enough, a second reset somewhere in the middle of the night, but never at the same time.<\/p>\n

This gives the list 2 counting periods, from 17:00 to 03:00 (or something) and from 03:00 to 17:00.<\/p>\n

Now here’s what happens. The site www.su-doku.net<\/a> (the home of Sudoku on the Internet, yeah..) never makes a high score in the 17:00 to 03:00 timeframe, but gradualy finds its way to the top of the list in the 03:00 to 17:00 timeframe. This site happens to be Inertia’s own<\/strong> website, where they demonstrate their online version of Sudoku Quest.<\/p>\n

So, what is happening here? How easy would it be for Inertia Software to give their own site a few extra votes from time to time? For me, it would be no problem at all, I can assure you that.<\/p>\n

I already disliked the company because they packaged a searchbar with the download of Sudoku Quest, which was installed without asking confirmation<\/em> (I can get very angry at such behaviour!!!) and I do not trust them and their Top 50.<\/p>\n

My own Top 9×9 is almost ready, and I will promote it furiously as the “honest” Sudoku site ranking list.<\/p>\n

Darn, I’m writing too much here….<\/p>\n

Uploaded 2 more beautiful nightmares, that will\u00c2\u00a0help my addicted players through the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed some very strange behaviour in the Sudoku Top 50, the list that we all like to be high in with our Sudoku websites. The site, with a free vote for sudocue.net, is linked with http:\/\/www.inertiasoftware.com\/top50\/index.php?id=157. They used to reset the counters once a day, around 12:00\u00c2\u00a0GMT. Now the reset at 17:00 GMT, and, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.sudocue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}