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John asks Nerdfighters to suggest and vote on Hank's punishment (2009)

ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2009-12-01) · owner: John

In November 2009 John asked Nerdfighters to suggest punishments for Hank in the comments and to thumbs-up the best ones. About 2,000 suggestions came in, and in December John based Hank's punishment on a Nerdfighter's calculation that Hank's two extra seconds cost Nerdfighteria 26 hours.

Part of: Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009)

Told alongside: Hank asks Nerdfighters to suggest punishments for John (2009) · John: announce Hank's punishment on Tuesday (2009)

About: Punishment

date event what video
2009-11-22 asked John asks Nerdfighters to leave punishment ideas for Hank in comments and to thumbs-up the ones they like most. Hank in FAMY 00:02:27
2009-11-25 result reported Hank reports about 2,000 comments suggesting how to punish him. (playful) Things I'm Not Thankful For 00:02:38
2009-12-01 result reported John bases Hank's punishment on a mathematically inclined Nerdfighter's calculation that the extra two seconds cost Nerdfighteria 26 hours. (playful) Shaving for Pakistan 00:03:03

What is said about it

2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For — Hank complains there were about 2,000 comments on how to punish him but only about two on how to punish John. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:38
  • 2009-12-01 · Shaving for Pakistan — John reports a Nerdfighter's calculation that the extra two seconds of Hank's punished video, watched about 55,000 times, cost Nerdfighteria 26 hours; 'we want our 26 hours back'. (playful) (doubtful: 26 hours) — 00:03:03