Rat Creature ([info]ratcreature) wrote,
@ 2007-08-29 13:01:00
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Entry tags:lj, poll

GPP (gratuitous poll post)
Poll #1046915 LJ auto-post feature: threat or menace?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

So, what do you think of LJ's new auto-post feature?

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threat
1 (3.3%)

menace
28 (93.3%)

whee, nonsensical spam on my f-list is fun!
1 (3.3%)


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[info]derryderrydown
2007-08-29 11:28 am UTC (link)
I hate the damn things. I don't necessarily read subject lines, so I can spend quite a while trying to make sense of the piece of crap before realising it's yet another tedious bloody auto-post.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 11:30 am UTC (link)
yes! half of my flist is filled with crap,often multiple from the same person. it's like a spambot.

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[info]derryderrydown
2007-08-29 11:48 am UTC (link)
God, yes. And it's not even as though they're amusing! It's just a bunch of garbled words that make no sense!

Still, at least people are starting to cut them now.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 11:51 am UTC (link)
Small blessings. Still, as far as "features" go this is worse than the sponsored spam v-gifts or the nudge thing.

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[info]secretrebel
2007-08-29 11:36 am UTC (link)
What even is it? Why would people want to press whatever button creates this gibberish? What benefit does it have? I'm so confuzzled.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 11:49 am UTC (link)
I have no idea,it's a new "feature" some kind of skript LJ offers to mix recent public posts and apparently the only way to see the gibberish produced is to post it, soo it may be curiosity, and apperently the skript produces an error but posts anyway, so people try it again and again. I have no idea whyt purpose it's supposed to serve, or why people don't at least delete the crap once they tried.

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[info]eruthros
2007-08-29 12:39 pm UTC (link)
Right. I mean, I was curious about how they were randomizing, and I went to check it out ... and discovered that you couldn't look at it without posting! So I accidentally did, and then immediately deleted it.

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[info]penknife
2007-08-29 11:42 am UTC (link)
Hateful. Vile. *is cranky*

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 11:46 am UTC (link)
yes! I'm very cranky too.

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[info]marag
2007-08-29 11:49 am UTC (link)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's getting cranky about the whole thing. I spent a few minutes last night trying to figure out a fic that someone seemed to have posted, wondering if she was trying a new format. Argh.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 12:12 pm UTC (link)
This is one of the most annoying "features" yet. It's like integrating the worst quiz spam in the site. Worse actually, since the "what desert topping are you?" posts make at least a small amount of sense.

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[info]petronelle
2007-08-29 01:05 pm UTC (link)
I think it would be much less annoying if the posts were lj-cut by default. On the other hand, I suspect that it's a flash in the pan thing, and will be passé by Wednesday.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 01:13 pm UTC (link)
I sure hope people will stop pushing the spam button soon. But meanwhile I have to go to skip back several pages for reading my flist and cherrypick entries to find stuff inbetween garbage, because it's full of auto-posts, sometimes five or more from a single poster because apparently they just have to keep pushing that button in all settings.

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[info]frogspace
2007-08-29 01:06 pm UTC (link)
I HATE the new spam feature!

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 01:13 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, me too.

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[info]madripoor_rose
2007-08-29 02:27 pm UTC (link)
It's a shiny new toy. Everyone's going to play with it once and forget about it. Meanwhile the threads of features people have asked for and things that need to be fixed are several pages long.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 02:39 pm UTC (link)
What I wonder is exactly is "shiny" about a randomize-posts-and-repost-them-as-spam button?! It is a sucky feature, not even a shiny toy. I agree on the point that they do this crap, while a ton of useful features, like say a simple "AND" to combine tags like in most other services using tags, don't ever materialize.

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[info]devildoll
2007-08-29 02:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm often amazed at the lame features LJ trots out for us, while we're still waiting, seven years on, for the promised "they're coming soon, really!" things like stats and referral logs.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 02:41 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it's not even "useless but fun", it just sucks. Personally I'd love to see a logical "AND" for tags, that can't be too hard to implement...

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[info]ilyena_sylph
2007-08-29 03:41 pm UTC (link)
I would have liked a "DO NOT WANT!" option, but menace works very well.

The people playing with those are annoying the everloving hell out of me.

*adds her "kill it!" icon to the mix*

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 03:46 pm UTC (link)
At least the offsite toys doing this kind of thing offer a preview without the autopost, so people can play without inflicting this crap on others. I bet if there had been a "preview" step before the post 95% less automated spam would have cluttered my flist today.

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[info]ilyena_sylph
2007-08-29 03:49 pm UTC (link)
That would have been nice! "Preview features" = love.

*waves*

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[info]red_eft
2007-08-29 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Is *that* what that is? Good lord, I was seeing posts last night and just thought I was really tired because they didn't seem to make much sense. >_

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 05:15 pm UTC (link)
Yeah. LJ installed a "post randomized spam" button as a "feature".

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[info]dragovianknight
2007-08-29 07:02 pm UTC (link)
I think if LJ is going to insist on this "feature", they should give us the option of filtering all the wretched things off our flist automatically.

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[info]ratcreature
2007-08-29 07:05 pm UTC (link)
I hope it's going to be really short lived and then forgotten, not one of these reappearing meme things that go in cycles.

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[info]bratfarrar
2007-08-30 04:04 pm UTC (link)
I tried it on two of the settings, just out of curiosity. One was gibberish (looong gibberish), the other was an exact duplicate of an entry from about two weeks prior. I shrugged, deleted both entries, and posted something about magic instead.

It's fun to try once, but I definitely won't do it again.

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