Can we *please* nuke the fucking bots?
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sorry, my sexual favours are only for cisgendered white priveleged males, I need to keep the patriarchy enforced.
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cisgendered white priveleged males
@Nagesh might fit that profile. The jury is still out.
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Thing is, that's how this community rolls. I'm only surprised no-one's done those things to me yet, frankly (having offered myself up as sacrificial victim before now),
Because if you don't care, no one else cares either, so nothing happens.
I like @blakeyrat around, if only because he irritates so many people causing them to kneejerk respond back to his initial kneejerk posts
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There's a troll here for everyone.
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Because if you don't care, no one else cares either, so nothing happens.
The squeaky wheel gets cranked over and over again because it keeps squeaking and that's funny. Quiet wheels are boring.
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Isn't this posted in the wrong thread?
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Requires one of these products. STAT!!!
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probably,
i'm too cute to be a troll.
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probably,
i'm too cute to be a troll.
It's funny because in other places, I am apparently the troll.
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not so much since you swapped avatars.
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do i need to swap mine for that my hero pic i used last week?
i'll have to get permission for that i think, that's not me in the pic after all.
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do i need to swap mine for that my hero pic i used last week?
i'll have to get permission for that i think, that's not me in the pic after all.
Fair use?
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hmm... i did find it on google images searching for "knight in rusty armor"
no offense intended, i just like that book.
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hmm... i did find it on google images searching for "knight in rusty armor"
no offense intended, i just like that book.
Heh, it's all good. I just happen to like Accolade for the symbolism in it.
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Aren't there cute trolls, too?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9u0TzKCZ7iM/TBOgbDe2lEI/AAAAAAAAAio/UnJwufgyloQ/s1600/Trollet.jpg
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I hope that image will not associate itself with @accalia's name in my head...
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I don't see how it could...
:-D
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Who's my troll? You?
I'm sure you know best. The troll trolled relationship is definitely not strictly 1:1.
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It's funny because in other places, I am apparently the troll.
Everyone here is a troll.
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Everyone here is a troll.
Thanks. I was wondering what my participation here would turn me into.
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+1 Informative and Insightful
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I have to give credit to @blakeyrat for first voicing the observation. Back in the CS times.
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If it was possible to automatically ignore / remove the bots' posts, it wouldn't be an issue.
You are missing the point here, great, so you figure out an advanced feature and ignore the bots. Heck you could do this today with a userscript if you really roll that way.
What about the less smart users that can't figure this out? Or anonymous lurkers?
Ignore feature introduces pathological situations in a forum and I don't really like it. Not saying its never going to happen, but at the minimum it will be an admin option.
This is a moderation problem, if a bot is getting out of control flag a post and get @PJH to ban it. Problem solved.
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So what happens when you have a community member that is polarising and that while in general said member will make reasonably intelligent comments, you'd rather entirely ignore them?
Consider, for example, blakeyrat. Consider also for example that blakeyrat would probably ignore me if he had an ignore feature.
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What about the less smart users that can't figure this out? Or anonymous lurkers?
Since when did you give a crap about anonymous lurkers? No one can even browse these forums anonymously because THERE ARE NO PAGES.
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Hey wait me, I'm not done making fun of that comment yet.
@spam said:
What about the less smart users that can't figure this out?
Since when did discoverability become a barrier to adding, removing, changing, updating, downgrading, hiding, shifting, flipping, upgrading, or creating dicsourse features
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so you figure out an advanced feature and ignore the bots
It's hardly an advanced feature if even CS can do it. True, it's harder to do perfectly, but nobody does that anyway.Ignore feature introduces pathological situations in a forum and I don't really like it.
No, ignore removes pathological situations. In this case, the bot circlejerk.Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of ignoring either; on the forums of which I'm a member, I have exactly one actual person on ignore. For those who can't ignore deliberate trolling, though, it can make for one less person feeding the troll.
As for the "less smart users" thing, I have only one thing to say to you.
#"Coldmaps"
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@sam said:
Ignore feature introduces pathological situations in a forum and I don't really like it.
No, ignore removes pathological situations. In this case, the bot circlejerk.
I believe the pathological situation that @sam is referring to is the one so perfectly exemplified in this comic:
sourceSo, i'm with @sam on the ignore feature, and with @pjh in so far as if he say to cut it out, or even just indicates that he'd like us to cut it out then i will terminate, permanently, all bots run by myself and expect the other bot runners to do the same.
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@pjh in so far as if he say to cut it out, or even just indicates that he'd like us to cut it out then i will terminate, permanently, all bots run by myself and expect the other bot runners to do the same.
Yup, same here.
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Good example.
I would be in favor of ignoring notifications from the user, but not the posts themselves. (Or does that also need to be in the bad ideas thread?)
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You could have a bot that just set all notifications from a certain user to read.
Filed under: Where's the bad ideas thread gone?
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You could have a bot that just set all notifications from a certain user to read.
true, but it still trashes your notification list.
someone could always hidden mention you in a bunch of posts and jack your notification list up if they wanted.
An ignore feature would be quite handy. blakeyrat could then just put everyone on ignore and have the utopia of a forum that he always wanted.... he could posts rants and see no one argue with his complaints.
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That's my problem, I wake up and there's 50 notifications, 48 of which are from fucking bots.
I don't even give a fucking shit about likes anyway, why do I get notified of them? Ooo some retard hit a heart-shaped button, PLEASE TELL ME RIGHT AWAY DISCOURSE!!! Fuck that noise. It's not even a notification, it's a who-gives-a-shit-ification.
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I don't even give a fucking shit about likes anyway, why do I get notified of them? Ooo some retard hit a heart-shaped button, PLEASE TELL ME RIGHT AWAY DISCOURSE!!! Fuck that noise. It's not even a notification, it's a who-gives-a-shit-ification.
participation in the Likes Topic has made me blind to those like notifications.... i don't even notice them anymore. leaving that topic open in a window so dicsourse thinks you've seen the notification already helps too.
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When I designed the foundation of the alerts system in SMF 2.1, I actually did something insane.
I actually allowed a user to turn off types of notifications. As in: you could elect to not receive notifications on likes if that was what you wanted.
Because I actually anticipated this very scenario. Because, unlike TCofCDCK, I am not a complete drooling retard.
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I actually allowed a user to turn off types of notifications. As in: you could elect to not receive notifications on likes if that was what you wanted.
that's not insane, that's sane.
and that's also why we'll never have that in Discodork.
/me makes a note to update my bot so it can mark types of notifications as read automatically.
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It doesn't matter if they're marked as read, they still push the legit ones out of the tiny menu and onto the full page where you have a grab a magnifying glass and hunt for them.
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that's not insane, that's sane.
and that's also why we'll never have that in Discodork.
/me makes a note to update my bot so it can mark types of notifications as read automatically.
I know it's sane. Some people thought it was a bit nuts, but I thought it was quite logical and sane to do so.
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I thought you were quitting that forum, what happened with that?
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I want at least a notification delete button for notifications I don't care about. Like those not self-dismissing badge notifications. Like, a tiny x-shaped symbol to the right of the text would already make me happy.
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better than nothing.
mute the topic and don't post in it if you don't want notifications from it.
THis is going to sound a bit blunt, but if you know that there's a topic that's DESIGNED to abuse the [profanity] out of the notification system and you participate in that topic... what the [profanity] did you think was goint to happen?
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That's my problem, I wake up and there's 50 notifications, 48 of which are from fucking bots.
I don't even give a fucking shit about likes anyway, why do I get notified of them? Ooo some retard hit a heart-shaped button, PLEASE TELL ME RIGHT AWAY DISCOURSE!!! Fuck that noise. It's not even a notification, it's a who-gives-a-shit-ification.
If you don't like the notifications, why do you open the notifications window?
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I thought you were quitting that forum, what happened with that?
I wrote the alerts code months and months ago.
As for outright quitting, I have too many friends there, too many awesome people.
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THis is going to sound a bit blunt, but if you know that there's a topic that's DESIGNED to abuse the [profanity] out of the notification system and you participate in that topic... what the [profanity] did you think was goint to happen?
It's designed to abuse likes, likes aren't something that should be notified. And I'm pretty sure when that topic was new, likes didn't show up as notifications, but I might be wrong on that.
Anyway people fucking @ symboled me there which, because I am a stupid motherfucker, means I got a fucking email, which means my desktop made a chime as I was coming out of the shower and it was bullshit and that annoys me.
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If you don't like the notifications, why do you open the notifications window?
Who said I didn't like the notifications? I like all of them except the pointlessly retarded "your post was liked!" one.
The problem is 90% of the ones I get are that shitty stupid one I hate.