ive not been around for a while, whats up with doctor volin?
Es ist schwer, ein Gott zu sein
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 9:20 pm
by Joao
And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
Holy fucking shit--this internet thing is pretty crazy...
Looking forward to the thread where those clamoring for a backup now proceed to organize the effort. Perhaps everyone can create their own mini-RI without the posters of their choice.
Doing fine so far as I know. Stepped down as moderator long ago due to time constraints and began posting a lot less; hopefully we'll see an appearance before Trump moves into the white house. A quality bloke.
Re: Engagement, Attention, and Death
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 11:34 am
by Cordelia
MacCruiskeen » Mon Oct 24, 2016 4:37 am wrote:
4. For you to complain about the state of the place now is so disingenuous as to be beyond parody. You have played a very major part in running it into the ground, especially in the last couple of years. How could you not have? You have been the only person in charge of it.
Jeez. Or as Mac Himself would say
I guess lone moderator has had his
Re: Engagement, Attention, and Death
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:54 am
by Luther Blissett
Fear of American Dream makes my conspiracy monkey brain work overtime.
Re: Engagement, Attention, and Death
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:28 pm
by Luther Blissett
Wombaticus Rex » Tue Oct 18, 2016 6:01 pm wrote:…
What got shaken loose during the past 12 months?
What happened in the past 8 years that got overlooked by everyone, including us?
What can we re-build actual American Majorities around now? I mean, Canadian Majorities.
What are people ready to think about in 2017 that they wouldn't admit to thinking about in 2015?
Where is global capital weakest? Mainstream media? Federal law enforcement?
What if there are no policy-level solutions for the problems we discuss here?
What if "lowering the bar" isn't necessarily bad? What if that creates more opportunities for candidates with fringe beliefs? Like you?
What value does engaging with pop culture have when nobody who loved Stranger Things will read A Terrible Mistake?
And the only serious one I'm posing to us:
What sub-forum should we move the actual research to? No, really.
1. Bernie Sanders historical rally numbers five years out from Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and the Sacred Stone Camp.
2. The foundations of an organized technocratic fascist movement, or disclosure.
3. Environmental justice, indigenous peoples' sovereignty, decarceration, ending the increase in police brutality.
4. Universal Basic Income.
5. Hedge funds (number of new hedge funds in Q1 2106: 206; number of hedge funds closed in Q1 2016: 291; amount that Connecticut provided in aid in May 2016 to Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund: $22M). Mainstream media is weakest in the coming loss of the 2D viewing experience. Feds are weakest in their ties to anti-pot legislation.
6. People power, building broad coalitions, "distribution of power" as the Pirate Party says.
7. Sounds good.
8. I believe we're still building towards that. I've also been asking a lot about what resistance will mean in new new media and I think there is a lot of room for book-level absorption when the information is that immersive. Potential for mass manipulation but I think combined with the way tides are turning (historical rally numbers for Sanders) there is ample room for the people to get in on the ground floor with this, much like the early internet.
9. I like the data dump, at least for when I use the search function and want to read. Or a new Research sub-forum.
Re: Engagement, Attention, and Death
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 1:04 pm
by JackRiddler
What subtext or context am I missing for Joao's banning? Because I don't get it.
Probably the part about it being a joke he typed himself?
Which I'm assuming is also the explanation for the contents of the Username field in one of his Forum Downloader screenshots... or? Naaah... couldn't be.
Probably the part about it being a joke he typed himself?
Which I'm assuming is also the explanation for the contents of the Username field in one of his Forum Downloader screenshots... or? Naaah... couldn't be.
Nice catch.
Re: Engagement, Attention, and Death
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:45 pm
by Joao
I'm not really HMW.
In messing around with Forum Downloader as linked above, I see a few needs:
1. The downloaded posts all have center-aligned text. Pretty minor annoyance, and probably a straightforward fix with some HTML analysis and a batch script. There may be other low-magnitude glitches in the downloaded files, and these could be fixed or not depending on how much people care.
2. I didn't run it long enough to see how well it handles multi-page threads. Maybe flawlessly, or this may be another area where technical assistance would be beneficial. (It's simple HTML so "technical" is rather overstating it.)
3. Seems best if one person runs the tool and collects the data, as opposed to everybody (loosely used) running it individually and hitting Jeff/George Soros with a big bandwidth bill. Ideally, that person would review the files for issues like those above, and post samples for knowledgeable members to assist with remediation. Once complete, that person could zip up the whole thing and post it to a file-sharing site.
Just ideas and several other possibilities are imaginable. As it stands, anybody using Windows can download the software now and pull down a nearly perfect version of the forum. I wouldn't be surprised if this tool produces a more user-friendly end product than even what somebody with admin access could provide. Voilà, wookies.
