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Cackling Moron


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  • 15 weeks
    #124

    With my child on an apparent WALL-E watching binge I am reminded that it contains a dynamic that is a very particular soft spot of mine:

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  • 20 weeks
    #123

    Was in a pet shop the other day. They had a big box of things you could throw for you dog. Among them were branded items. Among the branded items were MLP products.

    I'm not sure if it's me, but it feels oddly grim to purcahse a Rainbow Dash exclusively for your dog to maul.

    Suppose there's a possibility they'll be gentle, but still. It's a risk, isn't it?

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  • 72 weeks
    #122

    Oh yes, this - I hadn't been aware of this but this happened, too:

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  • 76 weeks
    #121

    For the longest time I was racked with curiosity as to where the TVTropes redirects for And When the Darkness Comes Around were coming from and I had almost given up hope on finding out the source, only to finally discover what it is.

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  • 91 weeks
    #120

    I will never stop being amused at the consternation and confusion of some when confronted by my mastery of the tagging system.

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Jan
29th
2019

#14 · 8:10am Jan 29th, 2019

And here's another question showing I have no idea how this place works, but what on earth decides what stories go in the fancy-pants box on the front page? Does everything get a go in there or what?

I'm like a cat in the driver's seat - no real clue what to do and even less grasp of what my real situation even is.

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I always assumed the box was what ever Xaquseg had set the flavor of the month to be on the back end.

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I was just curious what arcane technosorcery decided its contents. Cos like my shit ends up there and I don't get it.

Featured box? A combination of views, likes and favourites combined with an unknown algorithm dictates the top seven spots.

The bottom three slots are reserved for updated popular stories that also get views and likes with a lower threshold, so it changes constantly. I've updated a fic or two that were previously featured that got back into the box.

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"Unknown algorithm" sounds deliciously vague. I think it's the rogue process.

But still, that clears it up a little, thanks.

Comment posted by nemryn deleted Jan 29th, 2019

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an unknown algorithm

If I had to make a silly guess and throw around fancy 100 quid words I would wager the terms "Binomial proportion confidence interval" (i.e. the "Wilson Score" in the search filter) and "exponential time decay" would factor somewhere in it.
:twistnerd:

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