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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Kramer on July 31, 2010, 09:24:21 PM

Title: Auto Post
Post by: Kramer on July 31, 2010, 09:24:21 PM
I'm not really a fan of this autopost thing and it appears others aren't too thrilled about it too. Can someone explain in detail what it's about, the benefits and anything else that might be pertinent to my getting up to speed on it. Maybe I just don't fully understand it's capabilities enough to appreciate it.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Michael Tee on July 31, 2010, 11:02:42 PM
I second my Honourable friend's motion.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Plane on July 31, 2010, 11:17:57 PM
does it pay something?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on July 31, 2010, 11:34:35 PM
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does it pay something?

no
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Michael Tee on July 31, 2010, 11:41:06 PM
So what is it?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Kramer on July 31, 2010, 11:42:47 PM
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does it pay something?

no

Could you go into a deeper esplanation over a two letter word?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on July 31, 2010, 11:45:08 PM
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So what is it?

An automated posting of opinions from the left, right and middle.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Michael Tee on July 31, 2010, 11:49:12 PM
How is it activated to post to this specific site and how are the opinions posted selected?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on July 31, 2010, 11:53:40 PM
How is it activated to post to this specific site and how are the opinions posted selected?

RSS Feeds. The opinions are provided by the creator of the feeds in this case realclearpolitcs.com

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/)
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Michael Tee on August 01, 2010, 12:20:24 AM
Aaaaaahh.  Thank you.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Plane on August 01, 2010, 08:21:45 PM
Is it a good idea?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Kramer on August 01, 2010, 08:44:44 PM
Is it a good idea?

seems a tad bit too automated and impersonal to me. Kinda like spam...
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: sirs on August 01, 2010, 08:59:39 PM
I have to agree.  I think the opinions generated should either be personal, or personally selected by the poster.  Not applied as some automated function.  I mean, would I be able to generate every CATO piece on the economy and every Herigate Foundation piece on the country, constitution, and conservative principals, to automatically be generated, without even having ever looked at the piece?

Just my 2 cents
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on August 01, 2010, 09:16:27 PM
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Is it a good idea?

Is it a bad idea?

And more importantly does, it interfere with your participation in this board?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: sirs on August 01, 2010, 09:17:12 PM
Interfere? no.  Distract? yes
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Plane on August 01, 2010, 10:09:04 PM
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Is it a good idea?

Is it a bad idea?

And more importantly does, it interfere with your participation in this board?



I don't like it.

I don't know why I might like it.

I peruse the internet and when I find something I agree with or something I think is funny or neat or thought provoking or even just pretty , I want to show my friends.

Now and then when I am wandering through real life I run across something and catch myself wondering what Terra Gazelle or MT or Gannemede would think of it.

I like the whole internet as a resorce for research and entertainment , I like the 3DHS as a social gathering where I don't get the facts really, what I get is personal takes off the facts from people I am familliar with , I can't get that from Google.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on August 02, 2010, 01:26:30 AM
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Distract? yes

How so?

Is the volume of posts the issue?

What happens if we quadruple active membership?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: sirs on August 02, 2010, 01:31:27 AM
The posts from quadruple memberships would be quadrupally personal, and not some automated generated volume of posts.

Is the reason you're using them, in threory, to provide more opportunities to respond, to more diverse topics?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on August 02, 2010, 01:45:00 AM
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Is the reason you're using them, in threory, to provide more opportunities to respond, to more diverse topics?

That would be a benefit, would it not?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: sirs on August 02, 2010, 01:49:26 AM
Yes, in theory.  In practical application, if you've noticed, nary a response to any of them.  As I said, for me at least, they're more of a distraction, since they don't seem to be coming from a particular poster, and what their thoughts are, on the subject.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on August 02, 2010, 02:00:44 AM
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As I said, for me at least, they're more of a distraction, since they don't seem to be coming from a particular poster, and what their thoughts are, on the subject.

So your proposal is that there will be no more posting of articles without a bare minimum of comment to sanctify the submission? No more postings of news for consideration? What would the bare minimum comment requirement be? 50 words?

Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: sirs on August 02, 2010, 02:13:44 AM
LOL......BT, you can post whatever you like.  I simply prefer to read those that are personal and not automated, and thus far more likely to respond to those.  That's all
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: BT on August 02, 2010, 02:25:02 AM
LOL......BT, you can post whatever you like.  I simply prefer to read those that are personal and not automated, and thus far more likely to respond to those.  That's all

So nothing has really changed.

Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: sirs on August 02, 2010, 03:26:29 AM
As I said, it's merely a distraction, and explained how so
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Henny on August 02, 2010, 07:04:52 AM
The posts are conversation starters. Read and comment, or move on to the next thread. Seems pretty simply - I just delete them out of Google Reader.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Kramer on August 02, 2010, 11:17:43 AM
Is the RoboPoster like a Autopost? All he, she or It does is post stuff like BT's Autoposts without making comments or replies. Also they don't respond to other posts. Is Robo kinda like a robot poster, a cybor poster, or some other object other than human?
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Christians4LessGvt on August 02, 2010, 01:55:15 PM
display counts for a lot in life
more than we sometimes realize
i think the "[auto-post]" icon pisses people off
rightly or wrongly it reeks of "impersonal".."automated"
but i understand the intention
and hey BT is trying new stuff
some of it will work...some of it may not
but give the guy some credit for trying to liven the place up
and it may still catch on...lets give it a chance
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Kramer on August 02, 2010, 04:36:55 PM
Is the RoboPoster like a Autopost? All he, she or It does is post stuff like BT's Autoposts without making comments or replies. Also they don't respond to other posts. Is Robo kinda like a robot poster, a cybor poster, or some other object other than human?

figured it out: it's BT
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Plane on August 03, 2010, 04:08:11 AM
What MT thinks of an issue might be more interesting than the bare facts.

"       XO    "     "      "     "      "      "      "    "         "        "        "    "  .

"       sirs    "     "      "     "      "      "      "    "         "        "        "    "  .
"       UP    "     "      "     "      "      "      "    "         "        "        "    "  .
"       BT    "     "      "     "      "      "      "    "         "        "        "    "  .
"       Kramer    "     "      "     "      "      "      "    "         "        "        "    "  .
"       CU4    "     "      "     "      "      "      "    "         "        "        "    "  .

and the rest

Here on 3DHS isle.

The facts ,( true ones and false ones ) are pretty easy to get on the internet and google is pretty easy to use.

How to have a conversation on a subject is something we are constantly working out.

It is the conversation , the human part of the knoledge , that I like 3DHS for .

I like Google for searches , Yahoo for news of the weird , 3DHS for perspective from three or four POV on whatever I bring.

I see that the robot isn't much competition yet , it isn't getting our hits.

Perhaps no one cares what an RSS feed thinks.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Universe Prince on August 03, 2010, 05:36:19 AM
The Auto/Robo posts are, basically, links to articles by actual people, not some sort of computer generated ideas. Either you'll find something in those articles to comment on, or you won't. The same as when members here post links and/or articles. I don't get why this is a controversy.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Plane on August 03, 2010, 06:48:00 AM
The Auto/Robo posts are, basically, links to articles by actual people, not some sort of computer generated ideas. Either you'll find something in those articles to comment on, or you won't. The same as when members here post links and/or articles. I don't get why this is a controversy.

I have come to know these people.

But if a real robot ever wins the Turing prize easily it might make a good member here , once I get to know him.
Title: Re: Auto Post
Post by: Kramer on August 03, 2010, 11:50:08 AM
The Auto/Robo posts are, basically, links to articles by actual people, not some sort of computer generated ideas. Either you'll find something in those articles to comment on, or you won't. The same as when members here post links and/or articles. I don't get why this is a controversy.

I have come to know these people.

But if a real robot ever wins the Turing prize easily it might make a good member here , once I get to know him.

do you date blow-up girls?