The Brain Chemical Syndrome

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I noticed many people on the NMA forum have this B.C.S.. You know, with the txt: DUE SEVERE IMBALANCE MY BRAIN CHEMICALS, I AM A COMPLETE FUCKING MORON WHO CAN'T SPELL "YOU". PLEASE THROW BRICKS AT MY SKULL TO CORRECT THIS PROBLEM.

It's funny for a few minutes maybe, but enough now. No one except the author would be able to read it. So please stop it. And if you can't go visit Painless Doc Johnson or Doc Holiday or one of those doctors(I don't recommend the doctor in the Vault City courtyard).
 
>I noticed many people on the
>NMA forum have this B.C.S..
>You know, with the txt:
>DUE SEVERE IMBALANCE MY BRAIN
>CHEMICALS, I AM A COMPLETE
>FUCKING MORON WHO CAN'T SPELL
>"YOU". PLEASE THROW BRICKS AT
>MY SKULL TO CORRECT THIS
>PROBLEM.

Good, I see it's doing it's job.

>It's funny for a few minutes
>maybe, but enough now. No
>one except the author would
>be able to read it.
>So please stop it. And
>if you can't go visit
>Painless Doc Johnson or Doc
>Holiday or one of those
>doctors(I don't recommend the doctor
>in the Vault City courtyard).

Wah.

Reader Rabbit gives a kick to the nuts. There's a function called "Edit" where the poster can change their post. If they truly WERE a complete moron or didn't care, they would leave the post the way the s//g script puts it to.
 
Yes, but Rosh, people are making a game out of it. One of the most recent post in the Fallout 2 forum is a good example (sorry but i don't know the title right know).

JR

Nunc ut nunquam
 
I hate that script. I'd rather put up with the "u" and "ur" 's and tell them personally we don't appreciate it here.
 
BC Syndrome - Next on 20/20

>Yes, but Rosh, people are making
>a game out of it.
>One of the most recent
>post in the Fallout 2
>forum is a good example

*Ahem* And what exactly is wrong with our little game?
 
RE: BC Syndrome - Next on 20/20

and APTYP's solution of a warning to be banned is very much extreme.... what that would be is DISCRIMINATION. =]
 
RE: BC Syndrome - Next on 20/20

Hey, their behavior is idiotic. The discrimination is important here :P



http://www.nma-fallout.com/cgi-bin/forum/ForumID5/786.shtml#11

zero-x's bitter words after his encounter with roshambo:

"I agree with you but there comes a fuckin point i dont know who roquirbo thinks he is but I at least you didnt really criticize me and i appreciate that i hate people who fuck with my ideas when i didnt say shit to em and yes he is the kind of guy i would take a scalpel tear his head open the take an hammer use the end to samsh through the medulla and use the nail pull as a pry to pull back the top of the skull revealing a brain (small but brain nontheless)and take desert eagle magnum and blow it through his fucking spine as he still breath and then rip out his heart and show him how black it is before he dies but as you said thats illegal well cya"
 
>Wah.
>
>Reader Rabbit gives a kick to
>the nuts. There's a
>function called "Edit" where the
>poster can change their post.
> If they truly WERE
>a complete moron or didn't
>care, they would leave the
>post the way the s//g
>script puts it to.

The message is kind of long..

Dunno, I think it might actually be better if messages with "u" or "ur" would just not post until the person corrects the problem. Maybe when they click Post Message, it brings them back to their message (like preview) and highlights the "u" and "ur"s thoughout the message, telling them to fix them.

-Xotor-

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>The message is kind of long..

Stands out, no? ;)

>Dunno, I think it might actually
>be better if messages with
>"u" or "ur" would just
>not post until the person
>corrects the problem. Maybe
>when they click Post Message,
>it brings them back to
>their message (like preview) and
>highlights the "u" and "ur"s
>thoughout the message, telling them
>to fix them.


(And in reply to Shadowman here too)

Well, first, that (telling them it's unwelcome) does no good. You and I both know that, and what that causes. Usually some Nazi comment is involved. Second, it usually only involves one time unless someone is playing around - people can edit their messages, I put the time limit to 3000 minutes. If so, meh, who cares? It's not hurting anyone if they play with it. The highlighting idea is a good one, but it would take a substantial amount of programming to do rather than just a regular expression and a switching. I could just 'blank' out the words in the swearing section of the forum, but that's a bit too low-key, almost ineffective, and it's a bit greedy. I.e. If you put fuckerhead and it censored 'fuck', it would likely show up as ####erhead. So if you put it in for 'u' or 'ur', then it wo####ld show ####p sentences like this and yo#### message wo####ld be completely F####BAR.
 
>
>>The message is kind of long..
>
>Stands out, no? ;)

Maybe too much...

>Well, first, that (telling them it's
>unwelcome) does no good.
>You and I both know
>that, and what that causes.
> Usually some Nazi comment
>is involved. Second, it
>usually only involves one time
>unless someone is playing around
>- people can edit their
>messages, I put the time
>limit to 3000 minutes.
>If so, meh, who cares?
> It's not hurting anyone
>if they play with it.
> The highlighting idea is
>a good one, but it
>would take a substantial amount
>of programming to do rather
>than just a regular expression
>and a switching. I
>could just 'blank' out the
>words in the swearing section
>of the forum, but that's
>a bit too low-key, almost
>ineffective, and it's a bit
>greedy. I.e. If
>you put fuckerhead and it
>censored 'fuck', it would likely
>show up as ####erhead.
>So if you put it
>in for 'u' or 'ur',
>then it wo####ld show ####p
>sentences like this and yo####
>message wo####ld be completely F####BAR.

How about just preventing the message from posting if there is a "u" or "ur" in the message? No need to highlight it for them. Right now it makes the forum ugly and annoying. Judging from how lazy these people are already, I doubt they'll edit their message just to make it more readable than it already wasn't.

One final solution would be to have the script replace any "u" or "ur" with spaces around it with "you" and "you're," but that's more like catering to idiots than forcing them to evolve.

-Xotor-

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RE: BC Syndrome - Next on 20/20

Well, trying to read a two line post that suddenly became a 15 line post is, imo, over the top and verry annoying to read. Besides, this IS the artificial stupidity script so what does that make you if you play with it on purpose ?

JR

Nunc ut nunquam
 
[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Sep-26-01 AT 09:41AM (GMT)[p]>>Stands out, no? ;)
>
>Maybe too much...
>

Gets their attention, I'd say.

>How about just preventing the message
>from posting if there is
>a "u" or "ur" in
>the message? No need
>to highlight it for them.
> Right now it makes
>the forum ugly and annoying.
> Judging from how lazy
>these people are already, I
>doubt they'll edit their message
>just to make it more
>readable than it already wasn't.

Even preventing it would be a problem. As for the current problem, it's not overly noticible. And if people don't like to read that large bit of boldfaced insult, they will generally skip over people who use that, therefore it only helps reinforce the reading lesson through ambivalent peer pressure.


>One final solution would be to
>have the script replace any
>"u" or "ur" with spaces
>around it with "you" and
>"you're," but that's more like
>catering to idiots than forcing
>them to evolve.


I had thought of that...then quickly threw it away. We don't need to encourage them that it's okay.
 
>Even preventing it would be a
>problem. As for the
>current problem, it's not overly
>noticible. And if people
>don't like to read that
>large bit of boldfaced insult,
>they will generally skip over
>people who use that, therefore
>it only helps reinforce the
>reading lesson through ambivalent peer
>pressure.

I'm just wondering if it is doing more harm than good. I know I for one haven't seen any of these "u" people make modifications to their messages, nor feel that they're under pressure to do so. The text replacement only serves to annoy other readers and I'd rather have no message than one that is filled with junk, whether in the form of "u"s or "ur"s or 50-character bold replacements.

I know I for one never reread my posts or hit the preview button unless I'm messing with HTML. The only reason I even look at my post again is to see what I was saying in response to a reply, and if I edit my posts it is only to add or remove a statement/comment/question that I forgot to add during my original post.

I don't expect much more from the average poster, nor these "u" people. In fact, I expect less. I hardly expect the average user, let alone these "u" people to go back and replace ever instance of "u" or "ur" simply because their message was mangled by a script. They'll just say it isn't worth it, and forget it happened the next time they post their message.

If their message doesn't even post if it has mangled English, they are alerted to the fact. They are forced to change it on the spot, when their attention towards the message is at its highest. Not only that, but we don't need to see "u"s or "ur"s OR the long replacements at all. If they choose not to post, at least the script-mangled messages don't clutter the board.

-Xotor-

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Don't replace 'u's and 'ur's - simply delete them. Or prevent the user from posting a message if he has 'u's and 'ur's in it.



http://www.nma-fallout.com/cgi-bin/forum/ForumID5/786.shtml#11

zero-x's bitter words after his encounter with roshambo:

"I agree with you but there comes a fuckin point i dont know who roquirbo thinks he is but I at least you didnt really criticize me and i appreciate that i hate people who fuck with my ideas when i didnt say shit to em and yes he is the kind of guy i would take a scalpel tear his head open the take an hammer use the end to samsh through the medulla and use the nail pull as a pry to pull back the top of the skull revealing a brain (small but brain nontheless)and take desert eagle magnum and blow it through his fucking spine as he still breath and then rip out his heart and show him how black it is before he dies but as you said thats illegal well cya"
 
I'll see what I can do, but an annoying regular expression switch that makes their posts all the more likely to be skipped over, and thus peer pressure/excusion onto them, is much simpler to do.

I'll check into the post prevention thing, thought it looks like I would have to write up another board module or something.
 
Anyway...

It seems that everyone is cured now.





Something tells me I shouldn't have said that...
 
Oh no...

Cheezus Sega-guy! Haven't you learned anything from Lethal Weapon?
 
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