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tastyspleen.net / Re: Ratings

Jump of the Week

Every post i make is down rated by rk / animosity... just flip through my rates, it doesn't matter what i say, he will rate it as racist ignoramus or flamebait

When the latest ratings experiment went online, I'd attempted to monitor this sort of thing, and would suspend someone's ability to impart negative and/or positive ratings, if a pattern emerged where their ratings clearly didn't match the content of the posts.

However, that level of vigilance faded pretty fast. I still tend to read the forms via: http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?action=recent

And ratings don't show at all in that mode. Thus I often miss seeing how they're being used from day to day.

Based on the recent activity in this thread, if I kept to the original policy, half a dozen folks would presumably lose their negative-rate capability for awhile.

Which leads us to:

i didn't complain to anyone and never to Ely because i really don't care. Its all fun / war games.

From the outset, my assumption has been that if the rating system didn't ultimately turn out to be particularly useful, the next best result would be if it were to somehow end up being slightly fun.

I don't know how long the experiment will last, but if we're heading into the stage where it's predominantly just goofiness, then I guess so be it. I don't see having the time to keep close tabs on it.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Ratings

Racist Ignoramus

Every post i make is down rated by rk / animosity... just flip through my rates, it doesn't matter what i say, he will rate it as racist ignoramus or flamebait

When the latest ratings experiment went online, I'd attempted to monitor this sort of thing, and would suspend someone's ability to impart negative and/or positive ratings, if a pattern emerged where their ratings clearly didn't match the content of the posts.

However, that level of vigilance faded pretty fast. I still tend to read the forms via: http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?action=recent

And ratings don't show at all in that mode. Thus I often miss seeing how they're being used from day to day.

Based on the recent activity in this thread, if I kept to the original policy, half a dozen folks would presumably lose their negative-rate capability for awhile.

Which leads us to:

i didn't complain to anyone and never to Ely because i really don't care. Its all fun / war games.

From the outset, my assumption has been that if the rating system didn't ultimately turn out to be particularly useful, the next best result would be if it were to somehow end up being slightly fun.

I don't know how long the experiment will last, but if we're heading into the stage where it's predominantly just goofiness, then I guess so be it. I don't see having the time to keep close tabs on it.

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Science / Lawrence Krauss - Theoretical Origin of the Higgs Field

Informative

"A remarkable cap of a fifty year intellectual journey."

Lawrence Krauss appears briefly in the following video, in a Q&A session, giving the most clear and concise explanation I've yet heard geared at a general audience for why the Higgs field was proposed (leading to the search for the Higgs boson.)

Segment occurs from 6:10 - 14:45:

<span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;max-width:640px"><span style="display:block;overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WBBCBUe-Ngk/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover;border:0;height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;width:100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WBBCBUe-Ngk"></iframe></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/WBBCBUe-Ngk" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/WBBCBUe-Ngk</a>


Here's a more detailed 50 minute treatment of the above, beginning with Galileo and Faraday's discoveries and building up through Maxwell, Einstein, Feynman, etc. to explain layer by layer how theory confirmed by experiment drove physicists eventually to propose the Higgs field:

<span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;max-width:640px"><span style="display:block;overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gw7v6EzJDNM/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover;border:0;height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;width:100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gw7v6EzJDNM"></iframe></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gw7v6EzJDNM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/gw7v6EzJDNM</a>


Had a couple mind=blown moments during this talk (...at any given moment we're perceiving a three-dimensional slice of a 4D world, etc.)

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Science / Lawrence Krauss - Theoretical Origin of the Higgs Field

Whoosh! You done missed the joke thar Cletus!

"A remarkable cap of a fifty year intellectual journey."

Lawrence Krauss appears briefly in the following video, in a Q&A session, giving the most clear and concise explanation I've yet heard geared at a general audience for why the Higgs field was proposed (leading to the search for the Higgs boson.)

Segment occurs from 6:10 - 14:45:

<span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;max-width:640px"><span style="display:block;overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WBBCBUe-Ngk/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover;border:0;height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;width:100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WBBCBUe-Ngk"></iframe></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/WBBCBUe-Ngk" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/WBBCBUe-Ngk</a>


Here's a more detailed 50 minute treatment of the above, beginning with Galileo and Faraday's discoveries and building up through Maxwell, Einstein, Feynman, etc. to explain layer by layer how theory confirmed by experiment drove physicists eventually to propose the Higgs field:

<span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;max-width:640px"><span style="display:block;overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gw7v6EzJDNM/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover;border:0;height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;width:100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gw7v6EzJDNM"></iframe></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gw7v6EzJDNM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/gw7v6EzJDNM</a>


Had a couple mind=blown moments during this talk (...at any given moment we're perceiving a three-dimensional slice of a 4D world, etc.)

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: Ye Religion Thread

Demonstrates Exceptional Knowlege of the Game

"Female genital mutilation was made illegal in Egypt in 2008 but is still very widely practiced. ... Sheikh Yussef al-Badri is one of Egypt's biggest advocates for what he refers to as female circumcision, and has petitioned the country's courts to make it legal again."

<span data-s9e-mediaembed="youtube" style="display:inline-block;width:100%;max-width:640px"><span style="display:block;overflow:hidden;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe allowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" style="background:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rWebwJ0B_DM/hqdefault.jpg) 50% 50% / cover;border:0;height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;width:100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rWebwJ0B_DM"></iframe></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/rWebwJ0B_DM" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/rWebwJ0B_DM</a>

Such a characteristic "this is your brain on religion" moment at 2:05 as al-Badri tries to deal with the reporter asking why god would design women with this inbuilt need for surgical correction...

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tastyspleen.net / Re: DoA-Magic Ban Status

Demonstrates Exceptional Knowlege of the Game

<hauntit> well the stuff about me is completely out of context, and all it does is make people think that admins are allowed to cheat on ts
<hauntit> most people know the story behind it, including razor
<magic> i dont know what you're worried about, you're one of the untouchables

Wow.

So you're not only deliberately stirring up shit by reposting old and previously discussed anticheat logs into a smack talk thread, you're now insinuating special rules apply to our admins? That they're allowed to cheat and are untouchable?

If it were anyone else making this claim, I'd likely be willing to sit down and patiently explain that, no, special rules to not apply to our admins.

But you? With your background mr. true.douchebag? I've got to waste part of a rare day off from work dealing with this garbage from you?

I think not.

I'm within a hair's breadth of reinstating your full ban.

For the moment you are merely restricted from further posts to the forum.

Further nonsense from you and the full ban will be restored.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: DoA-Magic Ban Status

Nice Job / Good Work

<hauntit> well the stuff about me is completely out of context, and all it does is make people think that admins are allowed to cheat on ts
<hauntit> most people know the story behind it, including razor
<magic> i dont know what you're worried about, you're one of the untouchables

Wow.

So you're not only deliberately stirring up shit by reposting old and previously discussed anticheat logs into a smack talk thread, you're now insinuating special rules apply to our admins? That they're allowed to cheat and are untouchable?

If it were anyone else making this claim, I'd likely be willing to sit down and patiently explain that, no, special rules to not apply to our admins.

But you? With your background mr. true.douchebag? I've got to waste part of a rare day off from work dealing with this garbage from you?

I think not.

I'm within a hair's breadth of reinstating your full ban.

For the moment you are merely restricted from further posts to the forum.

Further nonsense from you and the full ban will be restored.

78

tastyspleen.net / Re: DoA-Magic Ban Status

Frag Hall of Fame

<hauntit> well the stuff about me is completely out of context, and all it does is make people think that admins are allowed to cheat on ts
<hauntit> most people know the story behind it, including razor
<magic> i dont know what you're worried about, you're one of the untouchables

Wow.

So you're not only deliberately stirring up shit by reposting old and previously discussed anticheat logs into a smack talk thread, you're now insinuating special rules apply to our admins? That they're allowed to cheat and are untouchable?

If it were anyone else making this claim, I'd likely be willing to sit down and patiently explain that, no, special rules to not apply to our admins.

But you? With your background mr. true.douchebag? I've got to waste part of a rare day off from work dealing with this garbage from you?

I think not.

I'm within a hair's breadth of reinstating your full ban.

For the moment you are merely restricted from further posts to the forum.

Further nonsense from you and the full ban will be restored.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Arrrgh! Quake web space, mateys!!

DO YOU EVEN LIFT?

Requesting a status update on support ticket #8008135. I have been patiently waiting for 2 months now. Thank you for your ongoing consideration.

One or more higher priority tickets is in the queue ahead of your request, including:

Code an admin tool to address someone's gaming of the rating system.

Tastyspleen webspace is in my destiny. Doubters like you only serve to reinforce my will to discover my true potential, my innermost excellence.

Who used to talk like that... Ah yes, it was true.douchebag.

Thanks for the reminder.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Arrrgh! Quake web space, mateys!!

Demonstrates Exceptional Knowlege of the Game

Requesting a status update on support ticket #8008135. I have been patiently waiting for 2 months now. Thank you for your ongoing consideration.

One or more higher priority tickets is in the queue ahead of your request, including:

Code an admin tool to address someone's gaming of the rating system.

Tastyspleen webspace is in my destiny. Doubters like you only serve to reinforce my will to discover my true potential, my innermost excellence.

Who used to talk like that... Ah yes, it was true.douchebag.

Thanks for the reminder.