Quixey Challenge - Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a winner, win $50.

Liron

Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).

Benefits of playing:

You can learn something from our craftsmanship of the algorithms (we work hard on them)
The 1-minute challenge is a rush
You can make money
If you do well you can interview at Quixey

Even if you have zero engineering skills, you can get $50 for referring someone who wins.

Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).

Benefits of playing:

You can learn something from our craftsmanship of the algorithms (we work hard on them)
The 1-minute challenge is a rush
You can make money
If you do well you can interview at Quixey

Even if you have zero engineering skills, you can get $50 for referring someone who wins.

Basically, if anyone was asked to vote the post up, rather than seeing the post and thinking "I want more of this on LW." I apologize for not making that implication clearer. I've only seen this post at 0 or negative karma (but I'm not tracking it closely), which seems to me like people not wanting it to be negative rather than roughly equal groups liking and disliking it.

I upvoted the post because it had negative karma, and was not a post that I thought should be at negative karma.

In general I vote posts/comments in the direction I think their karma should be at. Thus for instance I downvoted Clippy's comment above because I did not think it was so insightful that it merited 20+ karma. I would not have downvoted it if it were at 0 karma.

I assume many people take this approach (it fits in nicely with consequentialism) so this probably explains what you saw.