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Why Kiribans don't work... — Description
This image shows you why kiribans, simply do not work.

A kiriban is a contest set up by the owner of a webpage whereby the winner is the one who spots a particular instance of a statistic on the webpage, such as getting over 5000 views or over 68 comments. The number may be a metric milestone (such as 1, 10, 100, 10000), but can also be a pattern or lucky number (such as 1024 or 8888). The contest draws more traffic to the hosting webpage as people go to see if they will spot the statistic while it is at (or closest to) the target number.

The issue arises when programmers get involved... Why go to all the fuss of staring at a computer screen, stabbing your F5 key, hoping that some numbers will change for you, when, in under 50 lines of code, you can program an application which will do that, much faster, for days on end? Kiribans simply do not work because it's not even difficult to make your own software to get around them.

If you ARE going to run a kiriban, make sure the evidence is backed up by something other than a screenshot, or a copy of the page: both can be forged or just plain reiterated until the guy is guaranteed a win. Usage of a tracking service which you can place in your webcam image (or by using the newly implemented Google Analytics feature) in order to verify kiribans is most likely the best way to go.

That said, I still plan to enter, and win, every single one I see. Not by using this at all...

Thanks to for featuring in this demo and giving me the mediocre determination to go through with making this.