Not many people know this, but there is a special feature on Bebo called Darwin. You may have seen some profiles saying something like 'Darwin Level 4 Contestant' at the top - That's Darwin! Most people havn't heard of Darwin, or know what it is, so i'm going to tell you about it and let you know how to get involved.

Overview:

Darwin is a place where Bebo users get involved as a community to accumulate votes to move up the Darwin Group Ranks. Contestants set fellow group members challenges, allocating their votes to winners. Contestants move up and down groups according to how many points they have.

Background:

Firstly, the name 'Darwin' obviously comes from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution - "Natural Selection" or "Survial of the fittest". When Darwin started on the 1st November 2007, the system worked differently, the top 10 contestants in a group with most votes moved up to the next level - imitating the "Survival of the fittest" theory. But now the system works differently, but they kept the original name Darwin. Bebo wanted Darwin to be very much a voluntary and community run feature, so they set up the "Darwin Contestants Syndicate" or more commonly known as "The Syndicate".

How it works

Once you have read the Rules, you are ready to join Darwin. Go to www.bebo.com/Darwin.jsp and wait for a group to become available. Then join one of them, if you get in then you are now apart of Darwin! You will then notice your group name and number will appear on your profile soon. So now get to know your fellow contestants, set a challenge and give out votes and do other peoples challenges to earn votes. You can only vote half way through the week, this gives you time to get to know your fellow contestants.

Points

Each week Darwin will work out how many 'points' you have. Your points total is equal to your current Group Level Number multiplied by the number of votes you received minus the number of votes that you failed to cast. Darwin will then repopulate the pyramid of groups putting the people with most 'points' in the highest level group and working down. They will populate groups until all Level 3 and above groups are full and all Level 2 groups have 8 members each. If you don't have enough points to fill one of the available slots then you're out the game. You can move up or down!

The Syndicate:

David O'Keeffe - Founder & Moderator
Alex Purcell - Co-Founder & Moderator
Melissa Leete - Moderator
Melanie D - Moderator

This is the offical syndicate group who manage Darwin. Please use the official Darwin group at www.bebo.com/bebodarwin for all the latest talk/update/news, you can also suggest any new features you want, or notify The Syndicate of any problems. But please remember The Syndicate only manage Darwin so don't have at a go at them if anything goes wrong. Just inform them and they will pass it on to Bebo.

Darwin Pages:

Official Group: www.bebo.com/bebodarwin
Darwin Page: www.bebo.com/Darwin.jsp
Darwin Rules: www.bebo.com/DarwinRules.jsp
Watch Darwin: www.bebo.com/DarwinWatch.jsp
Terms of Usage: BeboDarwin Blog

Official Syndicate Rules:

Joining a Group

1. You must be at least 18 years of age.
2. You must be a real person. You must have a validated email address and a profile photo, and any other criteria we see fit to determine 'real' :)
3. Duplicate accounts managed by the same person will result in both members being kicked out of Darwin. You can only enter once at a time.
4. There is a countdown of 7 days, when the countdown reaches 0 seconds members can join groups. This happens at 7pm GMT on Thursdays.
5. First 16 people to click on a group once the countdown has expired will become members of their chosen group.
6. Any group with less than 16 members can be joined. These will either be level 1 groups or level 2, by being early you have more chance of going straight into a level 2 group.
7. You only get one click per week. Click too early or on more than one group and you've lost your chance.

1. Once in a group you have 10 votes to allocate to other members of the group.
2. You can allocate a maximum of 3 votes to any other single member in your group.
3. You can not vote for yourself.
4. Each week we will work out how many 'points' you have. Your points total is equal to your current Group Level Number multiplied by the number of votes you received minus the number of votes that you failed to cast.
5. We will then repopulate the pyramid of groups putting the people with most 'points' in the highest level group and working down.
6. We'll populate groups until all Level 3 and above groups are full and all Level 2 groups have 8 members each. If you don't have enough points to fill one of the available slots then you're out the game.
7. You can move both up levels and down levels.

1. Every week we will add one new level to the pyramid of groups. The size of the game will therefore grow exponentially.
2. Once a full week has passed but there are not enough new contestants to fill all the vacancies then the game will end. Part of the objective of Darwin is to see how big it can become. Like all 'pyramid schemes' they eventually implode. We want it to be the largest reality game in the world and this is a fun way of trying to acheive that. (We're ambitious, we know!)

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Published on: 2008-02-01 (8896 reads)