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Talk:810: Constructive

2021-11-08T17:34:36Z

172.69.90.67:

I know just the guy to create this system. I'm going to PM him now :D {{unsigned ip|184.11.73.88}}

:Any updates on the progress of this? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.90.67|172.69.90.67]] 17:34, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

No guys, if spammers invent a bot which can give constructive comments, that will be an ***AI***, i.e. a major breakthrough in itself. {{unsigned ip|173.245.53.200}}

Mission. A-Fucking. Complished. {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.7}}

One problem: trolls who rate everything as non-constructive. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.11|108.162.218.11]] 01:32, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
:But Trolls like that are also unable to make constructive comments, so they won't get counted anyway (at least, if the system is designed with any sense) Anonymous 15:02, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Guys, isn't this how Slashdot works? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.49.64|173.245.49.64]] 19:04, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I came here to get a better explanation of how the system would actually work. Assuming it operates at sign-up, the bots would go through and rate comments, which would have no effect if the system didn't already know whether they were good or not, then it makes it own comments that need time to be rated; so you would have to give it time to start 'contributing' to the community while waiting for others to rate it, or else users would basically be on a community-approval waiting list. So in short, I feel like the system is flawed; presumably because I'm understanding it wrong. (Bonus: Captcha while posting this) - Zergling_man [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.231|162.158.2.231]] 12:41, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Wouldn't work. People could rate anything they disagree with as'nonconstructive'. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.158|141.101.98.158]] 13:31, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

This sounds exactly like Civil Comments: https://medium.com/@aja_15265/saying-goodbye-to-civil-comments-41859d3a2b1d [[User:Enervation|Enervation]] ([[User talk:Enervation|talk]]) 10:56, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it's a lot easier to make something that ''looks'' constructive than to actually be constructive. A lot of spambots these days are like "Wow, this was super interesting! I found another article that seems relevant: [link to spam site]," which is enough to fool a simple spam filter. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.250|162.158.186.250]] 15:49, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
:That's... the point of having users rate it. {{User:PoolloverNathan/Signature}} 17:02, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

List of all comics (full)

2021-10-20T15:45:22Z

172.69.90.67: hope this fixes the size issue

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Talk:389: Keeping Time

2021-10-19T17:24:14Z

172.69.90.67:

Also, as a note or fun fact: most militaries and their associated groups (like cadets in Canada) also do the same. [[User:Toad573|Ribbit it's Toad!]] ([[User talk:Toad573|talk]]) 05:38, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Another fun fact: anyone who went to a piano to hear what this sounded like inadvertently rickrolled themselves! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.70|141.101.98.70]] 21:40, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Hey Randall, Please don't do this.
[[User:NinjaWolf064|You just lost the game. NinjaWolf064]] ([[User talk:NinjaWolf064|talk]]) 04:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

There doesn't see to be any explanation for the title text, does it refer to anything?
([[User talk:Whee23xkcd|talk]])

Ex marching band kid- you always start marching with your left foot, and songs in a parade usually start on the left foot unless there's a pick up note.

The trinket.io music code for the treble is <d- g- b- d'->4. <e- a- c' e'-> <e- g- a->4 <c f a- c' e'->4. <f b- d'- f'> a'-16 g'- f'8 <d- g- b- d'->4. <e- a- c' e'-> <c e- g- a->4 ~ <c e- g- a->2 r8 <A- a-> <A- a-> <B- b->16 <e- e'-> <B- b-> <e- e'->. (I couldn't be bothered to do the bass, due to its complexity.)

This would absolutely work on me. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.90.67|172.69.90.67]] 17:24, 19 October 2021 (UTC)