Timewaster's Guide Archive

How long do you sleep when you do?

Would someone else be able to go for me? I only had three or four riddles of my own, but when I checked the first Riddle thread to see if they were there, they were all taken

The pattern on my diagram was that they were all squares; 1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100

Edit: I'll admit though, that all I had noticed was that the difference was increasing by two each time, I only realised the square thing while typing them down just now, since I had never looked at them all together

Yes, we should definitely fix that because the results of the polls are so freaking important. I mean, what would happen to the world if we let people mess with the poll results?

Of course we have to change it! If we don't we'll be walking around with inaccurate beliefs as to people's new years resolutions!

I agree with e that a six-clock review system isn't as easy to understand, because lots of people are used to systems on 10 because of fact that the marks in school and most competitions are on 10 and reviews on five can easily be converted.

But I also agree with Mad King WencesJeffe that the six clock system is basically a symbol of the site, and I definately agree that it shouldn't be taken away.

My personal opinion is that the clocks should be kept, except with adjectives like Fellfrosch had suggested

I am of the opinion that any wholesale change to our rating system would ideally involve dropping numbers altogether and substituting adjectives: Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent, Perfect, etc. (though of course we'd have more than that). That would make it obvious what we mean, without the need to quantify artistic expression.

This way you wouldn't have to spend the time changing the code of the site or editing old reviews, and with descriptions of the score people who find the present system complicated would be able to grasp the six-clock system after only reading a few reviews, from seeing the corresponding adjectives to the number of clocks.

It also solves the problem mentioned by e earlier, of companies no longer helping the site because of misuderstandings about their thing getting a 3 1/2 or 4, since it'll stop people from assuming 4 or so is a bad score.

Also, it accomplishes what the recent double rating system was trying to accomplish without all the recent systems drawbacks.

Edit: ok, I'm going to heed Mad King WencesJeffe's warning here.

I never liked Thesauruses because of how so many of the synonyms they list are only synonyms in really specific circumstances. Once, a few years ago, when someone was talking about how great they are I tried to prove the badness of Thesauri by going from synonym to synonym and evetually getting from "false" to "true". I gave up because it was getting boring, but I had gotten from false to some kind of animal (I think it was something like goat, I just remember saying I'd proved my point by getting from an abstract noun to a farm animal)

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You'd probably be able to go in the corner too if you started posting in different languages like this:

Tout le monde qui peut comprendre ce que j'ecrit peut ecrire des messages dans code est personne va te comprende (avec francais pour la code évidemment)