Sure.
Yeah, pretty much. ;D
(spoiler alert: I’m not actually winking right now and my mouth isn’t wide open like the Joker cackling)
My mother is also in her 70s and I don’t remember if I ever told her about LOL or ROFL back in the 90s when she was in her 40s but it didn’t stick. Now she says LOL in the family group text chat and me and my sis have had to explain dozens of other acronyms to her, from the basic 90s type to the more recent 10s style.
Ahhh, fun times.
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My mum got into the habit of using multiple exclamation marks in feacesbook posts and skype conversations, I threatened to disown her for it.
She stopped.
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Wasn’t there a UK politician who ended a note of condolence with ‘LOL’ because he thought it meant ‘Lots of Love’ ?
Rich_Darine
September 7, 2020, 8:20pm
330
My mom thought the same! Old people man
Yeah, 'twas former PM David Cameron.
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So I was somewhat bitter that I had my Veteran badge taken away, but after a couple of days I got it back. @discobot PMed me with a congratulations/tutorial and if you complete it you get a new badge. I guess it was a recalibration thing (still don’t know what’s going on with all these levers being pushed). Ohhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeeeah. #ThingsOnlyForumRegularsCareAbout
discobot
September 7, 2020, 8:50pm
333
Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.
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discobot
September 7, 2020, 9:37pm
335
I currently know how to do the following things:
@discobot start {name-of-tutorial}
Starts an interactive tutorial just for you, in a personal message. {name-of-tutorial} can be one of: tutorial, advanced tutorial.
@discobot roll 2d6
@discobot quote
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. — Wayne Dyer
@discobot fortune
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CCP_Aurora:
Good morning everyone! So, this is what I get for pushing buttons at midnight and going to sleep
To explain a bit about what’s going on: Discourse (this forum software) offers a lot of tools and power which we haven’t been making use of. I’ve been talking about experimenting with taking us back a bit closer to the default recommended settings to see how things will go. This means enabling certain things like trust-levels and placing a limit on likes.
I will admit I didn’t intend to open the floodgates last night, apparently tweaked the wrong setting which enabled you guys to jump up in trust levels really quick. While this wasn’t intended to happen just yet I may just leave it for a while and see how things go, spinning dials as necessary and stressing out the ISD staff.
So, a few points from the above discussion.
Likes : Likes are intended to be limited and highlight that content which you feel is valuable. I may have spun the dial on this a little too low and the cap can be tweaked. Part of the reason likes are limited is because they factor into trust level rankings, so your rank needs to be properly earned by making quality comments (as much fun as the like and get likes thread is). We’re not going to police how you guys use likes, but there will be a cap to keep in mind. Higher trust levels get access to more daily likes than lower trust levels. It’s actually been a consideration to potentially wipe all old likes from the system to start fresh with this in mind which may or may not happen at this point.
Wiki : I’ve turned this off for now - I’m interested in hearing discussion if you think such a feature would be valuable. What this does is allow high trust users to make their post a Wiki which can be editable by anyone who’s at trust level 1 or higher (can be changed). I’m not sure it was obvious enough what was going on with this however which is why I’ve turned it off.
Badges : Some new badges are popping up. These are default ones that simply had never been enabled, I’ve turned them on simply because they looked like fun. Not a bug, just some freshly enabled default badges which had been turned off.
As far as all of this and forum settings go I’m happy to hear feedback. This may wind up being only a time limited experiment or perhaps we’ll keep some parts and not others - but I think there may be some value in trying new things here and myself and the ISDs will keep a close eye on emerging issues so we can hop on those as they pop up. If anyone at a high trust level wants to abuse the system we will just lock you down to trust level 1 and you’ll lose the ability to climb the ranks again.
You know this is stupid as ■■■■?
Don’t you have…other…things to do like bug fixes or killing all pve on the server?
Flagging this?
What is this?
Protecting ‘the poor,unable to self-defense dev’`?
Even if he does not want to be protected?
Wanda_Fayne
September 7, 2020, 9:41pm
337
Hmmm… Take me to your leader
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-1 topic created. Buffer overflow?
I am curious to see if he responds to commands embedded in messages… let’s see: @discobot roll 2d6
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Interesting. Now let’s see if it works when it’s in the middle of a sentence.
blah blah blah @discobot fortune blah blah blah
EDIT: didn’t work
blah blah blah @discobot roll 2d6 blah blah blah
EDIT: Okay, so neither the roll nor fortune command work in the middle of a sentence, but the roll command worked at the end.
Second Edit: Let’s see if he respond to a post edit: @discobot roll 2d6
Third Edit: No, he did not
@discobot purge @Archer_en_Tilavine for teasing you.
meh the bot isn’t part of the inquisition.
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We need to get ISD in here, @discobot is trolling. @discobot fortune
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. — Wayne Dyer
You may rely on it
