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April 12th, 2011 12:44 PM
Sometimes, when chopping onions they make you cry. Don't you sometimes with you could make an onion cry?
I know that forced voting certainly has that effect on me
We've knocked a high scored team with a goal of breaking rules down a few notches vigilante style.
Now we have a tool to really change the game
Cry, Onion, Cry.
I know that forced voting certainly has that effect on me
We've knocked a high scored team with a goal of breaking rules down a few notches vigilante style.
Now we have a tool to really change the game
Cry, Onion, Cry.
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posted by Markov Walker on April 12th, 2011 7:59 PM
That seems like a pain in the ass. Fortunately there are tools that can do these things for you. You probably use one every day.
For signing up for a free email, if you're lucky you have your own mail server. You can just have your handy little flagspam script generate a new email address on that server, and have the mail server wake your flagspam script up when it gets the sf0 account creation email.
But chances are you don't have an email server set up, and you might just rather use some free webmail service. I suspect you can sign up for gmail accounts by talking http with google, without having to go through a browser that executes javascript. And I'm pretty sure gmail lets you talk smtp to check for and read new emails, so that part is taken care of without going through a browser either.
And I suspect you can just talk http to sf0 to set up a new account. Unfortunately, issuing the flags may require executing some javascript, so you might have to go through an automated web browser. I've used Watij to do this in the past, and it is very nice. Unfortunately it's a java library, but it does come with a nice JRuby interface, and it gives you the full power of jQuery and XPath for finding page elements, which will be handy for clicking flag buttons and the like. It will definitely be handy if you want to click vote buttons to, say, prevent your own tasks from being flagged into oblivion. And if you need more help grabbing elements, Firefox has a lovely XPath checking extension to help you find a guaranteed hook to the element you want to manipulate.
This whole process is kind of slow; you might not be able to issue a thousand flags an hour. But you should easily be able to get over a hundred, depending on bandwidth. Once you've verified the script works, nothing should keep you from bringing all our tasks down in a matter of a few hours, rather than days.
Also, this write up is poorly executed. It looks like you want to separate things into paragraphs. I heartily recommend using two blank lines.
Also, you've clearly confused some people. A link explaining what the Ørder of the Wild Onion is about and maybe a quote of the offending rules would help. Consider the following:
It's still not brilliant, but I think it's a little better, no? Maybe not. People say there's no accounting for taste, but I've never bought that line. Still, your mileage may vary.
I can't help but notice it took you almost two days to execute this vigilante operation. This is the sort of affair that should be over and done with in about an hour. Here's what I imagine was involved for each flag:
- sign up for a free email account.
- sign up for an SF0 account using the fake email in step 1
- flag each task
That seems like a pain in the ass. Fortunately there are tools that can do these things for you. You probably use one every day.
For signing up for a free email, if you're lucky you have your own mail server. You can just have your handy little flagspam script generate a new email address on that server, and have the mail server wake your flagspam script up when it gets the sf0 account creation email.
But chances are you don't have an email server set up, and you might just rather use some free webmail service. I suspect you can sign up for gmail accounts by talking http with google, without having to go through a browser that executes javascript. And I'm pretty sure gmail lets you talk smtp to check for and read new emails, so that part is taken care of without going through a browser either.
And I suspect you can just talk http to sf0 to set up a new account. Unfortunately, issuing the flags may require executing some javascript, so you might have to go through an automated web browser. I've used Watij to do this in the past, and it is very nice. Unfortunately it's a java library, but it does come with a nice JRuby interface, and it gives you the full power of jQuery and XPath for finding page elements, which will be handy for clicking flag buttons and the like. It will definitely be handy if you want to click vote buttons to, say, prevent your own tasks from being flagged into oblivion. And if you need more help grabbing elements, Firefox has a lovely XPath checking extension to help you find a guaranteed hook to the element you want to manipulate.
This whole process is kind of slow; you might not be able to issue a thousand flags an hour. But you should easily be able to get over a hundred, depending on bandwidth. Once you've verified the script works, nothing should keep you from bringing all our tasks down in a matter of a few hours, rather than days.
Also, this write up is poorly executed. It looks like you want to separate things into paragraphs. I heartily recommend using two blank lines.
Also, you've clearly confused some people. A link explaining what the Ørder of the Wild Onion is about and maybe a quote of the offending rules would help. Consider the following:
Sometimes, when chopping onions they make you cry. Don't you sometimes with you could make an onion cry?
I know that forced voting certainly has that effect on me
Members are expected to do the following:
[...]
Vote 5 for every ØwO Task.
We've knocked a high scored team with a goal of breaking rules down a few notches vigilante style.
Now we have a tool to really change the game
Cry, Onion, Cry.
It's still not brilliant, but I think it's a little better, no? Maybe not. People say there's no accounting for taste, but I've never bought that line. Still, your mileage may vary.
posted by Markov Walker on April 12th, 2011 8:06 PM
I also find it more than a little tasteless that you'd flagged all of naming's tasks away.
Show some fucking respect for the dead.
posted by King Minos on April 12th, 2011 8:32 PM
A note of vulgarity from the scholarly senator?
Maybe this outing wasn't a wash after all.
Who knows, if I keep it up I may even get you so outraged you would dare to task again.
posted by Dan |ØwO| on May 8th, 2011 10:56 PM
We did Chicago's Journey and should be posting that proof in 2weeks or so.
posted by Casimeria on April 13th, 2011 3:38 PM
I feel there should be a rock band called minos and the skulls. Just saying
I'll totally sing for it
Can someone explain what this means?