[Agent_Koopa]

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Supposedly, they donate 20 grains of rice through the UN for every correct answer. True or not, it's definitely fun. Difficult, though. They use frankly ridiculous words and odd meanings. Some words are bizarrely obscure and some are commonplace.

Ex.
animus means:
bathhouse
hatred
manufacturer
advance showing



argentiferous means:
two-party
laborious
missing
containing silver

[Mefustae]

Got to 1000 grains before I got bored. Not too hard, and I just fed a few children.

[Scuddie]

Why don't they just give the kids the god damned rice already?

[Ghostavo]

Why don't they just give the kids the god damned rice already?

If FreeRice has the rice to give, why not give it all away right now?

FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice―you are earning it 20 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.

[Agent_Koopa]

Don't the advertisments refresh even if you get the answer wrong?

[Hellstryker]

Why the hell would you need to play for the advertisements to show? sounds like some kind of mind control scheme 

[haloboy100]

i agree.

I have an adblocker for my firefox, which literally removes ads on every single web page i see so i can't see them. Though maybe the ads are still refreshing behind the scenes, so does it still work for me?

and, instead of answering questions, if refreshing ads is the way to pay, then why not just rapidly hit the refresh button? that seems much more productive and i'm actually bored enough to do it given my music.

[Ghostavo]

Don't the advertisments refresh even if you get the answer wrong?

I assume that's part of their plan, since either way you are going to get a couple of questions right (or other people will). If everybody got it correct it might be a problem raising that much money. This all assuming what they say is true of course.

Why the hell would you need to play for the advertisements to show? sounds like some kind of mind control scheme 

It's a game... will you go to a page repeatedly to see the same info over and over again? No, they encourage people to come by providing a game.

i agree.

I have an adblocker for my firefox, which literally removes ads on every single web page i see so i can't see them. Though maybe the ads are still refreshing behind the scenes, so does it still work for me?

and, instead of answering questions, if refreshing ads is the way to pay, then why not just rapidly hit the refresh button? that seems much more productive and i'm actually bored enough to do it given my music.

I think something was posted regarding that problem but with HLP's ads instead. With a bit of research you might be able to find it.

[haloboy100]

that was the problem of generating too much income by repeatedly clicking the google ads on the site...but would it also be a problem with this site?

[Prophet]

There's a thing called too much income?

Anyway. You got it wrong. There was too much clicks on the ads and that made Google think there was a bot or some other cybernetic entity raping the ads. Having machines clicking ads is cheating, and Google doesn't like that. Thus Google didn't like us. Regardless of whether there really was a robot rampage on the ads or just some hyperactive ad junkie...

[Hellstryker]

!!! MUST. HAVE. MORE. VIRII! *clickz more adz*