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What happens when a deal or a question gets 1000+ upvotes (or downvotes)?

Nov 15, 2011 5:06 AM

Is there enough space in the white box to fit four digits side by side?

cornellbigred cornellbigred

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Here's what it looks like with 3 digits:

http://bit.ly/tnwXfS

Here's what it looks like with 4 digits:

http://bit.ly/vcfGS0

So to answer your question:

Nope, it doesn't look like there's enough space for it.

Disclaimer: I tested this using IE9's developer tools, so this is just how it would render, I have no idea what it'll actually display if it breaks the 999+ wall.

rychard rychard
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cool, thanks!

cornellbigred cornellbigred
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@rychard: Thanks for the views. Looks like they'll need to build a bigger box. Just 'thinking' outside of it won't work.

gmwhit gmwhit
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Maybe the box will expand if it gets to four digits?

damien1p damien1p
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@rychard: pretty cool. when the netflix deal hit 100 downvotes, i think it was broken also. the woot devs had to fix it quickly since the last number was showing up wrapped under the other numbers. somewhere there's a screenshot, but here's the fixed deal link

http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/64dacb45-e43d-454e-9121-e8cba28ec77e/free-1-month-trial-of-netflixuse-with-wii-ps3-xbox-360-iphone-ipad-more

w00tgurl w00tgurl
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@w00tgurl:

Well, we could try pushing that deal to -1000 just to see what happenes.

Only needs 635 more downvotes... :)

baqui63 baqui63
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Black Hole.

woothulhu woothulhu
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Game over.

katblue katblue

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