Posted on 12/22/2017 2:24:13 PM PST by x1stcav
As many of you know as I started my Christmas holiday last night and employed a new app called PostBot to fulfill my commitment and obligations as a productive and engaged member of FR while taking much needed time off. After running it for approximately 24 hours I can report the following.
1. The app kept track of what it perceived were negative replies to those it determined were positive. The ratio was approximately 20:1 positive.
2. It compiled lists from the negative responses as to belligerent (9), thin-skinned (18), irrational (6), nasty (11) and self-righteous/sanctimonious (22). A total of 76 posters were identified as ‘posting pests’ (an arbitrary classification) when the non-classifieds were counted and crossovers were factored in.
3. The app (remember this was a beta version) needs further development as it started to drift into foreign languages and started to unintentionally insult posters in some of those languages.
4. The app was amazingly effective at returning proportional ‘snark’ for any it detected in a reply.
While the developers are satisfied with its initial use it will require considerable further testing.
I’m still analyzing the data the app has provided and may have more to report at a later time.
I want to thank all of you who participated in this trial.
I expected better from you.
You’re not quite there yet...keep trying.
Or maybe you need a shower. :)
Testing:
YOU SUCK!
Testing:
I love you.
“Testing:
I love you.”
awwwww
“Testing:
YOU SUCK!”
ohhhh :(
66x20. Wow, that’s 1320 positive responses. Added to the 66 negative ones you mentioned, that’s very nearly fourteen hundred replies! You’re setting the pace dude!
WHEN THIS THING BECOMES SELF-AWARE I AM BLAMING YOU
Or are you still a bot?
Haven’t decided yet.
Posting pest. Now there is a designation worth aspiring to.
Ha! I think.....
Recalls Dirk Gently’s “Electric Monk”, culmination of automatons which do various things for you (particularly noting VCRs watching TV for you) - including believe things for you. So now we have a “FReepBot”, which will post, read, & respond for you. I guess that will alleviate my lack of time for FReeping.
I assume that refers to “trolls”, whom we have quite a number of (especially on the Apple threads).
Not quite as some were double/triple posters.
The bot is still crunching and it’ll be interesting when the finals are done.
What is snark?
It’s a brave new world, to borrow a phrase.
This will require courage from us.
In the future there could be forums like FR in which no living thing participates.
An amazing concept.
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