What's killing off "gameified" communities (yes I made a post of my tweets, suck it)
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Blakey, I must reiterate that I do admire a man who isn't about to let mere ignorance keep him from having an opinion about something.
Yup, that's our Blakey.
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Yup, that's our Blakey.
and we wouldn't want him any other way.....
wait... that just doesn't sound right noe that i say it...
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and we wouldn't want him any other way.....
wait... that just doesn't sound right noe that i say it...
Well if he was any other way it wouldn't be our Blakey.
And what would this forum be like without @Blakeyrat
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A little bit less entertaining, that's for sure.
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A website with millions of users is a complete failure?
We've talked about this before.
That's because the bar they had to vault was "better than what came before", which is miles away from "good". And what came before was utter shit.
Face it, when you're competing against MSDN forums, Expert Sex Change, and Yahoo! Answers, a retarded baboon would have been able to produce something better. But that doesn't make it good.
(Actually, MSDN's Q&A pages have all the same features, AFAICT, and are much more likely to get good answers, at least for Microsoft products, due to the number of people who want to get MVP status. So arguably, SO isn't even better than that.)
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So what you're saying is, it doesn't meet your impossible standards, so it's a total failure, even though it has millions of satisfied users.
Right...
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(Actually, MSDN's Q&A pages have all the same features, AFAICT, and are much more likely to get good answers, at least for Microsoft products, due to the number of people who want to get MVP status. So arguably, SO isn't even better than that.)
Except that that is entirely useless for non-MS technologies (utility to me: zero). SO and the rest of the SE system seems to have been the Q&A system that has won big — they've been referred to by the general popular press, for goodness' sake! One of the main ways it has won is by being very easy for Google to search (who knows, maybe Bing too?) and indeed, the Stack Exchange people are open about wanting that to be the main way that people find the questions and answers that they host.
FWIW, I've never had any of my questions answered by an MSDN Q&A page. Maybe it's the pick of questions that I have, but even where I have something to ask where the definitive answer is in MSDN, the MSDN Q&A system hasn't formed part of the first port of call for finding the answer (after a search engine). I guess we must use the internet in different ways…
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So what you're saying is, it doesn't meet your impossible standards, so it's a total failure, even though it has millions of satisfied users.
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I hate this argument. McDonalds has hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of satisfied customers. It's still a shitty restaurant.
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I never said it was a total failure. But in my experience, it's a failure 80% of the time, which is pretty fucking awful.
SO and the rest of the SE system seems to have been the Q&A system that has won big — they've been referred to by the general popular press, for goodness' sake!
"For goodness' sake!"
Ok grandma. Go back to your knitting and calm down now.
FWIW, I've never had any of my questions answered by an MSDN Q&A page.
Paragraph 1: MSDN Q&A is useless to me because I don't use the products it applies to.
Paragraph 2: I've never had any of my questions answered by an MSDN Q&A page.
YOU JUST FUCKING SAID YOU DON'T USE MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES. Of course you haven't. This shit might work on REALLY FUCKING STUPID people, but you're talking to Blakeyrat now, ok?
Jesus Christ. I don't mind the debates, guys. I do mind being debated by people who apparently think I have the IQ of a ferret.
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YOU JUST FUCKING SAID YOU DON'T USE MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES. Of course you haven't. This shit might work on REALLY FUCKING STUPID people, but you're talking to Blakeyrat now, ok?
So I repeat myself. I do that. I repeat myself sometimes.
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You liar.
You were trying to score some debatepointzzz by pointing out that MSDN also had a lot hit rate, and hoping I'd forget that just ONE PARAGRAPH EARLIER, you'd stated MSDN is useless to you.
Which maybe would have worked, had I been functionally retarded. I guess it's a ballsy debating tactic, if a FUCKING STUPID one.
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1) I hate this argument. McDonalds has hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of satisfied customers. It's still a shitty restaurant.
Can you move the goalposts back? The Sunday League teams are waiting to start…
@blakeyrat said:2) I never said it was a total failure. But in my experience, it's a failure 80% of the time, which is pretty fucking awful.
Really?
@blakeyrat said:Face it, StackOverflow, like every project you've invested time into, is a complete fucking failure.
Your own words. Of course, you'll still find a way to worm out of contradicting yourself ;)
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Not everything I type is literally true all time forever.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman
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Of course, you'll still find a way to worm out of contradicting yourself
I wasn't disappointed
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You are not as interesting as Walt Whitman.
And he knew more about web development than you, too.
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I just hope that some day you look up "hyperbole" in a dictionary.
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Here, i saved you the trouble of looking up hyperbole.
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Yup, if the statement was not an exaggeration or meant to be taken literally, what could it have meant? There is no metaphor in
"Not everything I type is literally true all time forever."
It is also clearly not an exaggeration, since it is true.
Obviously, the point was the deflect away from his own rampant stupidity by latching on to the weakest of pretexts and engaging in yet another round of "debate".
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I just hope that some day you look up "hyperbole" in a dictionary.
You misspelt 'denial'
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StackOverflow, like every project you've invested time into, is a complete fucking failure.
I never said it was a total failure.
Hmmm.
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@blakeyrat said:
StackOverflow, like every project you've invested time into, is a complete fucking failure.
@blakeyrat said:I never said it was a total failure.
Hmmm.
Could have sworn I already pointed that out…
Yay Discoquoting
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Could have sworn I already pointed that out…
Indeed, you did. I had not yet read your post when I made mine, and I neglected to edit mine to add "Hanzo'd" when I did read yours.
Filed under: Great minds think alike.
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Are you forgetting blakeyrat is Drax?
I never realized. Of course, it's so obvious now that you mention it. I mean, I knew he's not human, but I never thought of Drax.
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Of course, it's so obvious now that you mention it.
I know, right? It just hit me one day, shortly after seeing the movie, and still yet another flamewar he was stirring up trouble in, where he claimed to not understand an obvious metaphor, but it perfectly fits.
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debatepointzzz
Is the word "points" now obsolete? Do I need to move it to my "Ye* olde English dictionary" section now? Inquiring minds need to know!
* CBA to look up the Unicode point for
thorn
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McDonalds has hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of satisfied customers. It's still a shitty restaurant.
What bullshit. It's great at what it does. People like to complain about it, but I think they're just trying to look like foodie hipsters or some shit.
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It's a good fast food place, but a shit restaurant
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It's a good fast food place, but a shit restaurant
Sorry, you're not making sense there.
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I'd go there for lunch, but not on a date.
I'm basically agreeing that they're good at what they do. What they do isn't what I'd call a restaurant experience
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What bullshit. It's great at what it does.
I'll agree, it's great at making 'burgers' that look, feel, and taste like carpet tilesHaving said that, the McMuffins are actually rather nice…
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So are most of the burgers. In fact, most of the food there.
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a restaurant experience
Well, that's still to generic for the pedantic dickweed in me. A restaurant is a place where I go to pay for someone to cook me some food. I go to a different sort of place for different reaons.
I'll agree, it's great at making 'burgers' that look, feel, and taste like carpet tiles
I've never cared for their burgers, but that's largely because they always put stuff like mustard, pickles and onions on them. I tend to get their nuggets. For a while, they had "Angus Burgers," which were really good. On their dollar menu, they sometimes have a BBQ Ranch burger or something, which has a BBQ-like sauce and some crumbled Doritos (or a good facsimile thereof). Those are pretty good.
Having said that, the McMuffins are actually rather nice
McDonald's breakfast is a beautiful thing.
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A restaurant is a place where I go to pay for someone to cook me some food
I wouldn't call the food truck that made my lunch yesterday a restaurant, but I paid them to cook for me.
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A restaurant is a place where I go to pay for someone to cook me some food.
That would make all chip shops, pizza houses, and takeaways restaurants too. Which (to a Brit) DNMSYR
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Having said that, the McMuffins are actually rather nice…
McGriddles are pretty good too. Kind of like a Sausage and Egg (or Bacon and Egg) McMuffin but with pancakes instead of the muffin.
Having said that, I tend to avoid McDonalds for other meals unless there are no other choices.
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That would make all chip shops, pizza houses, and takeaways restaurants too. Which (to a Brit) DNMSYR
What?
I'd consider all of those restaurants, just not the type of restaurant you're thinking of.
I go there, I give them money, they give me food. Restaurant.(When that's their primary function)
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I figure a restaurant requires the ability to sit down and eat there as part of the definition. It's not very restorative if you go home.
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I wouldn't call the food truck that made my lunch yesterday a restaurant, but I paid them to cook for me.
I wouldn't call a "truck" a place.
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I could walk to it, and be at it, and walk away from it, therefore, it must be a place.
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No, I can still not call it a place.
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If it's a fish truck, is it still a plaice?
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McDonald's breakfast is a beautiful thing.
Are you kidding? I resent every single time I've accidentally gone into a McDonalds before they start selling actual food :stormcloud:.
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McDonald's breakfast is a beautiful thing.
I've had a few times a number of years ago. It was OK I guess, but you really ought to raise the standard of breakfast you demand. I've had some awesome breakfasts in the US…
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Are you kidding?
Of course not.
I resent every single time I've accidentally gone into a McDonalds before they start selling actual food
Most of them around here are open 24 hours now. Do you live out in the sticks?
I've had a few times a number of years ago. It was OK I guess, but you really ought to raise the standard of breakfast you demand. I've had some awesome breakfasts in the US
I'm not saying they're the best breakfasts ever. But they're still really good.
Nothing beats country fried steak and eggs, of course. (Which McD's don't sell.)
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Most of them around here are open 24 hours now.
Sounds like a whoosh, except I don't think @Buddy was joking per se. I buttumed he meant "while they're still serving breakfast".