Re: Some functions for curmudgeons

Re: Some functions for curmudgeons

[Jesse F. Hughes]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@quimbies.gnus.org> writes:

> jesseh@cs.kun.nl (Jesse F. Hughes) writes:
>
>> Now, here's the problem: Lots of folks on Usenet are sloppy and lazy
>> writers, relying on stupid smiley faces in place of actual humor and
>> using the same hackneyed phrases so often that acronyms are
>> sufficient. Very annoying.
>
> Heh!!!!  Funny.  :-)

I knew that my rules would lower the score some of the most
knowledgeable posters on gnu.emacs.gnus, but just to show how
forgiving I am:

  You lost 1 point for the smiley.

  The excessive use of exclamation points didn't cost anything.  I am
so magnanimous that I allow four in a row before scoring lower.

Not too bad.

Some time, I will write a function that scores a poster down if the
amount of quoted material vastly exceeds the amount of new material.
Not that your reply above counts in this respect --  I'm thinking of
people that quote 100 lines to write "me too".

Also, maybe I should lower top-posters, too.

This is why I love Gnus.  You can satisfy some of the frustrations of
an impotent peon in the modern world by pretending you have a modicum
of power in the form of retributive scoring functions.  What other
news readers offer such therapeutic value?

-- 
"I don't know why I live in a world with so many supposed
mathematicians who are all so dumb AND rude.  Why oh why couldn't
someone like Gauss or Dedekind still be around?  Shoot, I'd even take
someone like Hardy at this point." -- James S Harris compromises

Re: Some functions for curmudgeons

[Hanak David]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jesse F. Hughes wrote:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@quimbies.gnus.org> writes:
>>[...]
>> Heh!!!!  Funny.  :-)
>[...]
>  You lost 1 point for the smiley.
>[...]
> -- 
> "I don't know why I live in a world with so many supposed
> mathematicians who are all so dumb AND rude.  Why oh why couldn't
> someone like Gauss or Dedekind still be around?  Shoot, I'd even take
> someone like Hardy at this point." -- James S Harris compromises

Maybe you should consider lowering the score of those who use uninformative
((trying to be) funny) quotes as signatures instead of informative facts.
Now I feel like using a grinning smiley here, but I'll refrain.

David

Re: Some functions for curmudgeons

[Jesse F. Hughes]

Hanak David <dhanak@inf.bme.hu> writes:

>> "I don't know why I live in a world with so many supposed
>> mathematicians who are all so dumb AND rude.  Why oh why couldn't
>> someone like Gauss or Dedekind still be around?  Shoot, I'd even take
>> someone like Hardy at this point." -- James S Harris compromises
>
> Maybe you should consider lowering the score of those who use
> uninformative ((trying to be) funny) quotes as signatures instead of
> informative facts.  

Maybe, but expressing self-loathing is somehow less satisfying than
denigrating others.

Besides, I can't think of any informative facts that (1) I want to
include in every post and (2) aren't available in the headers.

Maybe I could set up a script to select a single sentence from my
dissertation[1] with each post.  But, I'm sure the average reader would
prefer to read James Harris's insightful writing rather than my dull
LaTeX source file.

Footnotes: 
[1]  The source on my computer with the most facts in a text file.
Not, to be sure, the most interesting reading on my computer.  In
fact, most of the binary files are more exciting than my dissertation.

-- 
"If you see math knowledge as a tool--as a hammer--with which
you can attack other people then ... you defeat rational discourse."
"I get to call my proof the Hammer.  It's more powerful than *any*
physical object.  It is overwhelming force."  -- Two JSH quotes