Up Front: The Up Front Guides: All Things in Moderation (Awaiting Approval)
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I am prostrated before your ability to codify.
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That is soooo funny
And isn't it nice that PA has managed so well to avoid the obvious pit falls........obvious when codified of course -
I am prostrated before your ability to codify.
Dude, pics or it didn't happen.
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That xkcd bot experiment reminds me of ROBOT 9000, which was a sub-board of 4chan with pretty much the same parameters - anyone posting a phrase or image previously posted was blocked from posting for a few minutes, as opposed to regular 4chan boards where every post is famously a repost of a repost repost.
Moaning from regulars about repetitive unoriginal content began the experiment, and R9K is quite popular, but only in the sense that it's a particular version of the 4chan game rather than The Way Things Should Be. The regular boards are still doing much better, which just goes to show.
Anyhow, carry on.
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Gah - serve me right for not even following to the first line of the xkcd link, where I would have found that /r9k/ actually came from there. Disregard my witterings above.
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Yeah, xkcd has a certain 4chan-ness about it. I guess that makes the bot not quite as innovative as I was making it out to be, but I really like that post, the way he lays out the problem, the various solutions and their flaws. The solution was chosen with their specific community in mind, and I think for them it does its job. It's probably not a solution with broad applications, though I am intrigued by the effects of making people think about a new way to say something old, even if it is just 'debian blows goats' or whatever.
And isn't it nice that PA has managed so well to avoid the obvious pit falls........obvious when codified of course
I might have said this before, but every time I find myself talking about this to a NZ audience, I end up saying 'okay, you know Public Address?'. Saves a lot of time.
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Some sites, I wish they'd set political sidewalls and delete everything from left or right of that. I think The Standard is headed that way. Mind, I guess I'd only be able to comment on Indymedia.
Also, I miss the "kill" function of rn & xnews (show me no more from a given person). I have considered building a cross-site comment manager that would recreate killfiles, amongst other stuff.
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3410,
O/T (that's cool, right?), but Emma, here's some good news, after 22 years of substandardness.
Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are delighted to announce the release of the original Beatles catalogue, which has been digitally re-mastered for the first time, for worldwide CD release on Wednesday, September 9, 2009...
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Say you write a sports blog, and every now and then someone complains that you talk about a popular sport too much.
Ummmm...?
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... the release of the original Beatles catalogue, ...on Wednesday, September 9, 2009...
Same day the Beatles Rock Band comes out. Coincidence?
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Also, I miss the "kill" function of rn & xnews (show me no more from a given person).
I am intrigued by this idea, though I don't think I want to sign up to its newsletter. What worries me, I guess, is the possibility of getting so many people with different commenters 'killed' that everyone is in essence having a different conversation from everyone else.
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... the release of the original Beatles catalogue, ...on Wednesday, September 9, 2009...
Same day the Beatles Rock Band comes out. Coincidence?
I have been in High Squee Mode all day about this. The last. CDs. I'll ever. buy!
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Sue,
sometimes emma, i think the level of your awesomeness is so huuuge it's impossible to measure
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Say you write a sports blog, and every now and then someone complains that you talk about a popular sport too much.
Ummmm...?
Go on Hadyn, say it...
Another example would be having an explicitly environmentalist blog and someone complaining about you banging on about global warming all the time. The 'why are you talking about this/why aren't you talking about this' complaint boggles me particularly because surely the answer is 'because it's my fracking blog and I can talk about what I want'.
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that everyone is in essence having a different conversation from everyone else.
I think it's called "Twitter".
Anyway, must go. Must make TV. They pay me.
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sometimes emma, i think the level of your awesomeness is so huuuge it's impossible to measure
Word up.
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Cool post Emma. I've been playing 'Attack' on facebook lately (Risk®). They have an ultra conservative bot mod, tuned to censor danger like 'sex','homosexual', even 'homophobia'. If you keep on with the expletives, they bump you off, when you come back there are small glitches, i.e. not being able to see your cards, random troop placement etc. Damn well works too.
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sometimes emma, i think the level of your awesomeness is so huuuge it's impossible to measure
Word up.
You guys will make me blush. Which I'm almost sure is still possible.
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Say, did anyone else check the 'Top Troll' site? Dearie, dearie me.
I just thought, if only we could enter Dad4Justice - that title could be won by a local boy.
It's all about "Putting New Zealand on the map" people.
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What worries me, I guess, is the possibility of getting so many people with different commenters 'killed' that everyone is in essence having a different conversation from everyone else.
That's precisely what happened in a number of newsgroups I used to follow in the dying throes of Usenet. It was SAD.
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That Top Troll link is brilliant. What happens to the winner? 120th trimester abortion?
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From 't Hand Mirror
We like inclusive language, and we know we're not perfect at that either - so when we get it wrong we call each other on it gently, as we might a dear friend.
Doin' it (the Lang-goo-arge) gently and inclusively, I had a flashback just then. And not a pleasant one. Should I harden up?
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They have an ultra conservative bot mod, tuned to censor danger like 'sex','homosexual', even 'homophobia'. If you keep on with the expletives, they bump you off, when you come back there are small glitches, i.e. not being able to see your cards, random troop placement etc. Damn well works too.
For certain values of 'work', I guess - particularly for something like that where talking isn't the chief function. In general I'm not fond of 'bad words' moderation because it assumes that all of particular language is abusive, and that all abuse uses particular language. Good for unintentional hiliarity, though.
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Good for unintentional hiliarity, though.
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