h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not if I test it, Nbb

lil x

Rec'd and understood.
Please forgive my overzealous devilish avacadoes.
I get that way on Sundays. Especially snowbound Sundays.



~jwf~

As long as you guys don't invent a ing auto-pc-button

Nowt wrong with being zealous about that which we love jwf, one of the reasons I've got involved here over the years and am currently putting most of my spare time into modernising it.

I build systems like this for a living during the day, and it's galling that we can't have something as good, if not better for ourselves.I'm hoping though that with the next roll out of code we'll be a massive step closer to being modern, and have a springboard to start innovating again.

If we didn't care, we'd fester

An Auto-PC button? I did actually build a system for a client about five years ago now (I'm getting old ) that allowed the user to set their own level of profanity that they were happy with seeing, and then as each post was pulled out for display, the words at a higher level than they wished to see, were blocked out.
It was also clever enough to pick up on a truly offensive posting in and out of context and use a sensible level of auto-moderation.

Thing was, as soon as the client tried it out, they hated it as it kept telling them they were swearing too much and they didn't know they could change their settings. Even though they were the ones who asked for it to do that.

We've looked into bringing this sort of system into h2g2 though, where you get to say what level of profanity you don't mind seeing, and initial tests look pretty good, except for one major flaw... we found that one or two test users (okay, me) tended to swear a lot more than they normally would.

Excellent, well done and much appreciated. Ignore the Luddite nay-sayers. Repairing is much better than leaving things broke. A tool is a tool is a tool - it is what makes man man, man the tool maker.

There are three types of people in the world, those that make pudding, those that complain about the pudding before the eating, and those that have a default appreciative mode for the pudding makers, that a pudding has been created for their eating.

so thanks for the pudding

Woah- there's pudding?

Yeah, the puddings on the Ritz.


~jwf~

I think any autoerotic corect as you type feeture wood incounter some pretty tuff trebbles in teh fist few leithe postings on teh site....It'd knot last a mynewt...

An 'edit' button?! would we all be forrest to go back and edit out all of our own invididual tipping errors? that wcould take a lifetime.... several lifetimes for some of us ......

Just don't try design an retrospective autocorrect software doobry, and run it over the entire site.... I fear it may hit an infinite loop circle from which It could never escape oo.... but it'd have to be called the nighthoover circle, as it went round and round in perpituity attempting to unmuddle all the spelling in all the posts

It would need a 2legs escape clause...

>> Woah- there's pudding? <<

It's a cut and pastry

re 25:

The kind of auto-pc-button you mention could actually be fun at times

I can also see the advantage of such a button in a translation robot:

When Queen Lizzy visited her relatives over here some years ago a lot of people had to run around and tape over certain danish words and phrases that might not have amused her

For example signs on elevators/lifts saying "I fart" (Danish for "in motion"), signs over book stores (which are call a boghandel over here) - and all the signs concerning the town of Middelfart...

Okay, move along, nothing more to see here, keep uf the good w*rk

is there going to be a "when can I twiddle with my P/S guideml again" button

This thread seems to be going seriously off topic. Perhaps it should be moved.

Yes, yes, yes, but what sort of filling does the pastry have?

34 posts - as soon as i saw the first post I was waiting for someone to make the comment that it should be moved

It was a bit obvious, but someone had to do it.

I feel deeply moved by the thread; does that count?

Does this new move feature work temporally as well as spatially? that might be kinda weird

oh, and I don't want to have my own claws ()reference to the 2legs clause) hmmm. any potential humour that may have, once had the potential to evoke, has thusly been removed by both the over-elaboration of the reference to which it pertained, and this over-long, un-simplified explanatory side note, which should, itself, probalby be in brackets, or at least rendered by suitable punctuation into something not wildly disimular to a footnote. hmmm. epic fail

I doubt the moving tool does it in a planck second, so i suspect it does move it temporally as well...as it would if it sat here

But... then... we've invented time travel! could we move all the threads back, just a wee* bit... I'm sure it wouldn't cause any temporal anomalies.... just back to a day or two before the final message from the hoovery one