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There was a bit of an uproar about how one dollar weblogs ideas came to be, has a new supply and demand element been added to the game, if this was an attempt to add chaos etc...

Well here's what happened, the idea generation script wasn't being run properly cron, I went looking for the cronjob that was supposed to call the script but couldn't find it.

I then went poking around the admin interface, didn't find the script, then onto directories on the server in housing all the scripts and found a potential winner.

So
I called the script in my browser, it loads but produces no output...
I called the script again, it times out..
I called the script again, it times out...
I called the script again, I get a server error...
I called the script again, I get a server error...
I called the script again, it loads but produces no output...

I decided to ask Subwolf about when he gets on irc, a few hours later he pops up. Apparently the script only returns output when you specify a verbose mode in a GET var.

And the script made ideas every time it was called, so now we have about a weeks worth of ideas produced in a ten minutes....

I pondered...

Well only thing to do then is to crash the price of the ideas because now the market is so bloody saturated and a little bit of entropy never hurt anyone.

I look at the ideas page again, all the crashed ideas are gone... oh well.