Site Market Game: Rules

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Rules

The object is to accrue the most money of all the players. This is done by buying and selling RinkWorks features as their prices fluctuate. The one with the most money at the end of the game wins.
The prices of the features change almost every day. The prices are set based mostly on how many hits each site received the day before. If the site received more hits on one day than on the previous day, its price will probably go up. If it received fewer, it will probably go down. I say "probably" because prices are determined based on the features' hits with respect to the total. So if the traffic on all features increases or decreases in proportion, the prices will not be affected, but if one feature gains or loses while the others stay the same, the prices will be adjusted accordingly.
Only traffic to the main page of each feature is counted. Although most features contain many pages, the prices in the site market are only affected by hits to the main pages of each feature.
Influencing the prices is permissible to an extent. For obvious reasons, I certainly don't mind if a player wants to help his standing in the game by hitting, or encouraging hits to, a particular feature on a particular day in an attempt to inflate the price. However, in the interests of fairness, this type of influence is restricted. Violators will lose any earnings won from these tactics and will be made ineligible to win or be ranked with the other players. In extreme cases, they will be removed from the game.
- Visiting a page in the hopes of increasing its price for the following day is legal. Reloading a page many times just to increase hits is not.
- Telling your friends about a feature is legal. Spamming those you don't know, whether by email, newsgroup, or other medium, is not.
- Don't submit anything to search engines. I take care of that myself; besides, when a site is included in a search engine, the traffic increase is not immediate or regular, so it wouldn't help you anyway.
Basically this is the wrong way to go about playing the game anyway. The fun is in attempting to predict fluctuations in price without influencing it.
Registrations are permitted until the last few days of the game's end. Players may register for the current game until a few days before its conclusion. After that, you'll have to wait for the next game to play.
Eligibility for ranking requires participation. You must have made at least one purchase (and not sold it until the prices have changed at least once) to be eligible to win or to be ranked with the other players.

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