Post making contest 2.0

This is update #62.

Ix can I trust that you're on the case with this? Because, you know...

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This is update #63.

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Ixcaliber     04:16 PM     Replying to Thread Post making contest

Ah. Fair.

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sruix you might be disappointed to learn i'm doing a different dumb thing and not actually trying to pass this ruleset

Okay, apparently I missed some posts, easiest thing for me to do is judge them now.

Welcome to the post making contest. there are five secret rules to the post making contest, the winner is whoever is the first to make a post that follows all five of the rules. if someone makes five rule breaking posts they don't get to be in the post making contest anymore. "Them's the breaks" I'm afraid.

And oh yeah the winner gets a special prize...

EDIT: wow lots of people have been running games like this in my thread. here are the rules people have used!!

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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

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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!

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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.

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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]

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you're winner.

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.

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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 g0m provided the needed zero for Rule 3 to count.

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

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• 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.
  

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SpoilerAll 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.

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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)

This post passes no rules.

This is update #21.

Likewise:

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This post passes no rules.

Now, this next post, apparently I judged a bunch of the individual quotes, whoops. I'll just leave those and you can attempt to figure out if they're helpful or not in uncovering the secrets of the rules. But I'm going to judge the full post here.

This is update #i don't know any more

Lets actually try?

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This is update #50.

We managed to pass a rule I guesss.... I guesss maybe we should try to actually pass these rules???

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I guesssss mwaybe we hduld try something diffetrent?

This is update #53.

To clarify this is a revolution. We're running the thread now. We'll let you know if your posts pass our three public rules.

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This is update #36.

To clarify - these objectives have been chosen to replace the original objective of this thread, "make a post that passes all the rules", because I mean come on seriously? You really expect us to do that? Wow...

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This post passes no rules.

This is update #62.

Ix can I trust that you're on the case with this? Because, you know...

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This post passes no rules.

This is update #63.

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Ixcaliber     04:16 PM     Replying to Thread Post making contest

Ah. Fair.

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This post passes no rules.

sruix you might be disappointed to learn i'm doing a different dumb thing and not actually trying to pass this ruleset

This post passes no rules.

This is update #64.

sruix you might be disappointed to learn i'm doing a different dumb thing and not actually trying to pass this ruleset

I can't be disappointed by that, because I'm not trying to pass this ruleset either. As you were, then.

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This is update #64.

sruix you might be disappointed to learn i'm doing a different dumb thing and not actually trying to pass this ruleset

I can't be disappointed by that, because I'm not trying to pass this ruleset either. As you were, then.

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This post passes no rules.

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What did you do to my magnificent weird dog?

♥g0m, I am sorry.♥ You realize I'd never intend to spoil your (magnificent) thread, yeah? Have a heart; please try to forgive me g0m. Maybe I could get you a new weird dog!



Gobbage here is a little odd, but I'm sure you will be raven 'bout her pretty soon. Note that she requires a lot of attention; she termite be too much to handle, i can't handle her myself.



Fogel, I expected a pretty big trainwreck, but wow

In this round, and only this round,

Rule 1 has been passed 7 times
Rule 2 has been passed 9 times
Rule 3 has been passed 12 times
Rule 4 has been passed 9 times
Rule 5 has been passed 6 times

This is update #66.

I mean, on the one hand, Ix, I'm really impressed. On the other, I'm incredibly peeved. So peeved I nearly didn't say "peeved".

Also thank you, Kíeros, for doing us a good service. It doesn't really help, though I am suspicious of the apparent symmetry. Always look for symmetries.

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Sruix what did you expect clicking a link in this thread? Also here's a link to a spreadsheet i made for this round. It's worth it if only for the embarassment of fails we got on page 147.

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What did you do to my magnificent weird dog?

♥g0m, I am sorry.♥ You realize I'd never intend to spoil your (magnificent) thread, yeah? Have a heart; please try to forgive me g0m. Maybe I could get you a new weird dog!



Gobbage here is a little odd, but I'm sure you will be raven 'bout her pretty soon. Note that she requires a lot of attention; she termite be too much to handle, i can't handle her myself.



Fogel, I expected a pretty big trainwreck, but wow

This post passes rules 2, 3, and 5 and my hint seems to have been very helpful.

In this round, and only this round,

Rule 1 has been passed 7 times
Rule 2 has been passed 9 times
Rule 3 has been passed 12 times
Rule 4 has been passed 9 times
Rule 5 has been passed 6 times

This post passes rules 2 and 5.

This is update #66.

I mean, on the one hand, Ix, I'm really impressed. On the other, I'm incredibly peeved. So peeved I nearly didn't say "peeved".

Also thank you, Kíeros, for doing us a good service. It doesn't really help, though I am suspicious of the apparent symmetry. Always look for symmetries.

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This post passes rule 5.

Sruix what did you expect clicking a link in this thread? Also here's a link to a spreadsheet i made for this round. It's worth it if only for the embarassment of fails we got on page 147.

This post passes no rules.

This is update #67.

Ix that truly is "a cool spreadsheet" but despite being so beautifully presented and easy to understand, what I'm actually getting from it is nothing. Absolutely zero ideas of any merit have formed whatsoever. Maybe I would need to look at it for more than two minutes. That might help. I don't want to look at it for more than two minutes.

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This is update #67.

Ix that truly is "a cool spreadsheet" but despite being so beautifully presented and easy to understand, what I'm actually getting from it is nothing. Absolutely zero ideas of any merit have formed whatsoever. Maybe I would need to look at it for more than two minutes. That might help. I don't want to look at it for more than two minutes.

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This post passes no rules.

This post passes rules 2, 3, and 5 and my hint seems to have been very helpful.

Still holding you to that "this should be quick", though.

Also, if you'd like to take a break from you gloating on your Akumu-esque level of difficulty in this ruleset to go win the rule creation contest, you can go ahead and do so; it's been left in a very winnable position and I think you know enough of the rules to finish it off.

This is update #68.

Kíeros, I imagine that, if you want Fogel to solve your ruleset, you're going to have to agree to solve this one. That's only fair.

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This post passes rules 2, 3, and 5 and my hint seems to have been very helpful.

Still holding you to that "this should be quick", though.

Also, if you'd like to take a break from you gloating on your Akumu-esque level of difficulty in this ruleset to go win the rule creation contest, you can go ahead and do so; it's been left in a very winnable position and I think you know enough of the rules to finish it off.

This post passes no rules.

As for your rules, no I do not, I have a vague suspicion on what one condition might be and I can't even put it with a hard number. I have been almost blindly guessing the whole time. I guess I can blindly guess some more.

This is update #68.

Kíeros, I imagine that, if you want Fogel to solve your ruleset, you're going to have to agree to solve this one. That's only fair.

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This post passes no rules.

This is update #68.

Kíeros, I imagine that, if you want Fogel to solve your ruleset, you're going to have to agree to solve this one. That's only fair.

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You think I'm not trying? I think this might be a good attempt. Or it might fail everything. Probably the latter.

sruix i was wondering if you are still intent on inflicting rules hell on everyone (yourself included) after this round? i only ask because last night good decision making processes were probably not in action and you didn't sound 100% convinced of this course of action

This is update #69.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

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This is update #70.

Having written the judging script and everything, I figure I might as well get it over and done with so that I have a legitimate reason to exile myself from proceedings afterwards. This is assuming that Fogel's hell doesn't last for multiple days, and that my rules hell is actually viable. I should probably check that at some point. Not as in "there exists a winning post" viable, but more "someone will be able to figure out how to make a winning post".

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i guesssssssss we better knuckle down and solve this bullshit then.

Realtalk: Does anyone actually have any understanding of any of these rules.

The distribution of passing rules (and the fact that fogel was drawing our attention to it) seems like it should be some kind of indication that it's based on post number or some other consistent factor rather than actual content of the post, but i'm getting the overall impression we do actually need to do something beyond blindly groping our way to victory. I just don't know what it is.

This is update #68.

Kíeros, I imagine that, if you want Fogel to solve your ruleset, you're going to have to agree to solve this one. That's only fair.

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You think I'm not trying? I think this might be a good attempt. Or it might fail everything. Probably the latter.

This post passes no rules.

sruix i was wondering if you are still intent on inflicting rules hell on everyone (yourself included) after this round? i only ask because last night good decision making processes were probably not in action and you didn't sound 100% convinced of this course of action

This post passes no rules.

This is update #69.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

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This post passes no rules.

This is update #70.

Having written the judging script and everything, I figure I might as well get it over and done with so that I have a legitimate reason to exile myself from proceedings afterwards. This is assuming that Fogel's hell doesn't last for multiple days, and that my rules hell is actually viable. I should probably check that at some point. Not as in "there exists a winning post" viable, but more "someone will be able to figure out how to make a winning post".

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This post passes no rules.

i guesssssssss we better knuckle down and solve this bullshit then.

Realtalk: Does anyone actually have any understanding of any of these rules.

The distribution of passing rules (and the fact that fogel was drawing our attention to it) seems like it should be some kind of indication that it's based on post number or some other consistent factor rather than actual content of the post, but i'm getting the overall impression we do actually need to do something beyond blindly groping our way to victory. I just don't know what it is.

This post passes no rules.

I can tell you that I am not just basing this on post number or something. I am looking at actual post content.

I suggest trying more ridiculous things like #3697, that was a very good post for this ruleset. Even if it might not seem like it.

We could assume that certain things about our blind flailings, such as post length, are randomly distributed. That might affect distribution of passing.

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I'M NOT A MATHS I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS

The first post (counting from the beginning of the thread) would have to follow rule 1 of set 2 (R1S2), R2S3, R3S4, R4S5, and R5S6. The second post had to follow R1S3, R2S5, R3S7, R4S9, R5S11. Going forward, the fifth post had to follow R1S6, R2S11, R2S16, R4S21, and R5S26 26-23=3 so R5S3.

And then to be annoying, the 24th post should have been the same as the first, but Akumu screwed things up so it follows R2S4 instead of R2S3. And then kept adding one every 23 posts to that.

So then the 530th should have been the same as the first, so Akumu screwed it up to need R3S5, and kept adding one to that every 529 posts.

Technically, it went on further, but there wasn't 12167 posts so we didn't have to deal with that.