SpoilerThis is test #34.

g0m Wrote:

Well wonder no longer because here you go:

1. Post must include the letter "a"
2. Post must include two or more different eagle time smilies
3. Post must contain a sentence ending in a period
4. Post must quote g0m
5. Post must not include signature

congratulations to btp and you'll get your prize as soon as I think of one! this was fun

Lankie Wrote:

Here were the rules:

1. Post must contain a spoiler.
2. Post must include a Numeric digit.
3. Post must contain no quotes.
4. Post must include at least three different types of punctuation.
5. Post must have the 'Post Subject' altered.

If you're confused about passing number four a lot I was counting the : in the Post subject every time.

Good Game!

Sruixan Wrote:

Apologies for the suffering inflicted upon you all. The moral of the story is: think through your rules before you make them, because edge-cases can kill. Clarifying alterations made after my first post are indicated in red:

#1: must include the name of the author of the previous post (hence the "strict" interpretation having kittens over whether or not to accept "sruix" for Sruixan, and why the only post of mine that didn't satisfy this rule was the one where granola ninja'ed me)
#2: must contain at least two distinct characters from !@#"£$%^&*() - as found on the numbers row of a UK/US keyboard
#3: must ask at least one question (anything followed by a question mark counts)
#4: must use precisely four different vowels (so "Lankie wrote" was ideal)
#5: must contain an odd number of words, where a terrible lack of forethought has forced me to define a word as "a continuous string of characters, no pictures allowed, bookended by some combination of spaces, punctuation and line breaks". This includes the words that constitute a quote box and the word "Spoiler:", and is the reason I got very fed up around post #201.

Reyweld Wrote:
RULES:
1. Post must not have “Reyweld” or "reyweld".
2. Post must not have a “2” in the time in the ones collumn (ex. [#]#:#2 would be illegal).
3. Post must have more (not equal) official smilies then the previous post.
4. Post must have bolding or italics, but not both.
5. Post must have both capital and lowercase letters.[/b]

Wheat Wrote:
this post would also fulfill all requirements:

1. same number of apostrophes and periods (more than 0)
2. no caps.
3. at least one image via [img] tag
4. instance of edited text size. subs and sups count.
5. sentences no longer than five syllables.

Dragon Fogel Wrote:
Rule 1: Must use all letters in the word "post", in that order. Can be distributed anywhere in the post.

Rule 2: Must not have consecutive letters of the alphabet following each other in alphabetical order. So "ab" breaks rules, "ba" doesn't. Non-alphabetical characters and spaces don't count as interrupting.

Rule 3: Must include the number of rules broken other than this one somewhere in the post. Numerals of any kind count, as do the words. So do "first", "second", "third", "fourth". "to" and "too" do not, tags don't. Individual digits of larger numbers do; however, I didn't apply this to Roman numerals.

This means a post that passes all rules must have a zero.

Rule 4: Must not have more than three BB code tags of any kind.

Rule 5: Some set of consecutive words must spell an English word of at least three letters with their initial letters. Any set of characters counts as a "word" here. Non-letter characters are included, so "Ants & Bees" would be read as "A&B". I made some potentially iffy calls on obscure words here.

Post titles, signatures, URLs and the contents of tags are ignored for all rules. So are any words in pictures or videos posted.

Rule 4 turned out to be really easy to avoid. The rest kept tripping up on each other, which was sort of the point of Rule 3 but it wasn't as intentional with the others.

"sPace cOnSorTium" happens to pass rule 1 without breaking rule 2, that's why it was so effective overall.

The winning post meets rule 5 because "DANCE A DANCE" spells "DAD" and I opted to count that as a word.

And Fact Seagull g0m provided the needed zero for Rule 3 to count.

Congratulations to everyone for your persistence. I welcome you all to the Space Consortium.

Ixcaliber Wrote:

Rule One:The post must include at least one word that has not been used in any post made this round. I thought this would be a tougher rule to follow than it turned out to be, primarily because there are lots of words that exist also it was a nightmare to keep track of.
Rule Two: The post must include every letter of the poster's username. sorry sruix and earthexe I didn't think this one through either.
Rule Three: When all the numbers in the post are added up the result must be greater than ten and even.
Rule Four: The post must contain an adjective. Parts of speech are kind of ambiguous, this was a mistake.
Rule Five: The post must begin and end with the same character. I was on way to downgrading this to being 'the first and last letters must be the same when I realized Wheat had already won. I'm super sorry I blame Dini.

Robust Laser Wrote:

All rules considered the post as... posted. Including things automatically generated by, say, quote tags.

1. Post must be between 8 and 16 characters
2. Post must contain both uppercase and lowercase letters.
3. Post must contain at least one numeral and one symbol.
4. Post may not contain any spaces.
5. Post may not contain any pictures, even if they aren't in img tags.

Mehgamehn Wrote:

The rules were:

1: Must be three sentences, no more no less.
2: IMMA TALK ABOUT THIS ONE SO SKIP FOR A SECOND
3: Everything in the post must be contained within sentences that start with the word "I" (In this case, the absence of content is still considered part of the post)
4: Post cannot contain any punctuation marks that are not periods.
5: Must have at least two sentences with the same word count.

Now 2 was:

Must contain at least one word or phrase from each of the three basic tenses, in order.

(By in order I meant Past then Present then Future. You can have multiples of each without breaking this rule, as long as past comes first and future comes last)

Anomaly Wrote:

Rule #1: Post must contain a picture of a reptile.

Rule #2: Reptile in the picture must be primarily blue in color.

Rule #3: Post number must be odd.

Rule #4: Post must contain at least two lines of iambic pentameter.

Rule #5: Post must not contain the letter e.

(Note that rule 5 did not apply to URLs, tags, or other things that weren't visible after posting.

Wheat Wrote:

Rules:

1. No visible alphanumeric characters
2. No images
3. No visible symbols/punctuation
4. No videos
5. Final destination

Crowstone Wrote:

1. must have colorful text of some sort

2. must contain the word please

3. contain at least 3 capital letters

4. be shorter than 80 pixels, as defined by me clicking and dragging an 80 pixel tall image over the post
ixcaliber's signature is very convenient for this.

5.
must contain a hyperlink.
URLs that aren't visible will not affect rule 2 and 3
the default blue of clickable text will not affect rule 1.

Akumu Wrote:


Rule 1: post must be hidden in a spoiler.
Rule 2: post number must be prime.
Rule 3: post must contain a list of all the rules.
Rule 4: post must not include a quote.
Rule 5: post must contain the phrase "weird dog".

End of message.