I thought I was being stalked, but it seems like we all are
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They seem harmless enough.
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...and winning...
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Hey, each to their own. At least the love is being shared...
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Isn't that how you catch malware?
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@nobulate liking this post in 3...2...
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Scripted, or just over-caffeinated?
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The latter. At least at the moment.
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Note that likes are daily rate limited per account -- like everything else, so there's a limit to how much you can cause every post in the system to be liked.
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I am tempted to change my avatar to a picture of a sock puppet…
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I feel kinda bad now for asking for the limit to be upped
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I feel kinda bad now for asking for the limit to be upped
Personally, I'm blaming you...
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I wouldn't feel bad.
I just set it to 10x the original limit arbitrarily; there's nothing stopping me from reducing it, but still leave it higher than the original.
That said, I upped it 12 days ago, and you've averaged 12 a day...
If 50's too low and 500's too high, where should we move it to next...?
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5000?
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Should have known better than to ask you lot...
http://random.org it is then..
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I don't understand why there's even a limit. What possible abuse could there be of the Like button?
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Maybe 100? I'd only go over 50 again if I was off work in the week. The forum isn't as active over the weekend so there's less for me to like. I suppose going over the limit is an edge case in general usage.
Filed under: Lesson learned, There's always one who has to take it too far
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I only glanced at this post and your avatar and thought it was from Nagesh. I must have looked at it 2 or 3 times without realising it was you.
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Should have known better than to ask you lot...
http://random.org it is then.
nine nine
nine nine
nine nine
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I don't understand why there's even a limit.
It's a thing, apparently.
What possible abuse could there be of the Like button?
Beyond the sort of thing that @nobulate's doing, I'm not certain. I'm sure it's there for a very good reason however, we just don't understand it. Yet.
I'm sure we'll be enlightened any time soon however...
Nevertheless, I could probably, maybe, come up with some scenario involving sockpuppets skewing Like Counts, where it might, conceivably be an issue.
If anyone round here took Like Counts really, really, really seriously that is.
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I don't understand why there's even a limit. What possible abuse could there be of the Like button?
Filed under: Likebait
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I was expecting either that, since someone linked to it earlier else-topic, or four...
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If anyone round here took Like Counts really, really, really seriously that is.
You can't take anything that's pretty much invisible seriously.
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You can't take anything that's pretty much invisible seriously.
Oooohhh... subtle, yet thrusting. I heart.
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That's the problem with randomness: you can never be sure.
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I was expecting either that, since someone linked to it earlier else-topic, or four..
Yeah, that Dilbert preceded the XKCD comic, so i went with that.
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Beyond the sort of thing that @nobulate's doing, I'm not certain. I'm sure it's there for a very good reason however, we just don't understand it. Yet.
Stress testing. I can honestly say nothing is going wrong in this regard and it holds up amiably. I am getting very bored with it already.
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Stress testing.
I was alluding to the presence of the limit itself, not what you were doing.
. I am getting very bored with it already.
Especially since such activity seems to be self limiting anyway...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM
...What?
It's obviously "Like" but it got censored because Facebook trademarked it.
Filed under: You pervs
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Scripted, or just over-caffeinated?
Scripted would be cheating (and a DDOS). Half the charm of being stalked is not knowing that you are, and obviously the "Like" system negates that fact.
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What possible abuse could there be of the Like button?
When using discourse as a bug tracker (to determine issue priority):
Sort by likes, click the like column to do that.
Though we may quibble at what's actually being abused here.
EDIT: added some additional context
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I'm sure it's there for a very good reason however, we just don't understand it.
There was talk about using likes to put favored comments on articles:
One addition - "People's choice" - top 1 - 3 liked comments. There's your auto-feature. Granted, this is open for abuse, but it could have hilarious results.
So then it could cause spammy posts to become featured, but I'm not sure if the amount of effort required vs. ease of a mod spotting it would mean that it actually happens.
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Doctor?
Doctor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNOmS78q-o
Also I'm not sure how you guys do nested quoting yet. It Just Works™ on Community Server.
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Also I'm not sure how you guys do nested quoting yet. It Just Works™ on Community Server.
I've heard good things about Community Server and am going to start a thread suggesting we move TDWTF over to it. We need to do it gradually, though, so we don't freak anybody out - you know how some people are with change.
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Scripted would be cheating (and a DDOS). Half the charm of being stalked is not knowing that you are, and obviously the "Like" system negates that fact.
A decent script would be throttled to limit DOS'ing and limit the ire of the mods.
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What do you think the first D stands for?
I was wondering why he included that myself, hence why I only mentioned "DOS" in my above comment.
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What do you think the first D stands for?
Perhaps nobulate has two laptops, and is ambidextrous? Surely that counts as D for Distributed?
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Two D's for a double dose of that pimpin', clearly.
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Well you are all officially no longer being stalked :) For the record the extra D was a typo. If it means "Doctor" then it would certainly reference this: