Anyway it's totally unfair we can't stick 10k likes on a quality post that we really really like.
Awww...I’m blushing.
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Awww...I’m blushing.
I should probably be blushing. Half the stuff I've wanted to stick extra likes on from you or jk --when the two of you got to horsing around-- probably belonged in the wasteland and may even have ended up there for all I know.
It will be a sad day when we fear censorship of ideas enough to be afraid to stick a like on a post.
Okay, I'll play:
At present, it reads as follows:
Messages (posts): 33,500
PRSI: 4,038
Wasteland: 1,233
Likes: 23, 802
Ratio: 0.6 (approximately).
At present, it reads as follows:
Messages (posts): 33,500
PRSI: 4,038
Wasteland: 1,233
Likes: 23, 802
Ratio: 0.6 (approximately).
I feel a bit uncomfortable about this:
Member Since:
Jan 31, 2010
Messages:
1,275
Likes Received:
10,104
That's a 7.92 likes/post ratio.
Then again, I only play when I know I've got a good hand. And I doubt that I'm gonna get eight likes for this post. So, from a strict game-theory perspective, I probably oughta keep my mouth shut.
Member Since:
Jan 31, 2010
Messages:
1,275
Likes Received:
10,104
That's a 7.92 likes/post ratio.
Then again, I only play when I know I've got a good hand. And I doubt that I'm gonna get eight likes for this post. So, from a strict game-theory perspective, I probably oughta keep my mouth shut.
Sorry about that. Feel much more normal now. Thanks for doing the math. I'm not so good at that.
That is one of those American expressions I fail to understand and calls to mind that observation about being divided by a common language.
This Side Of The Pond, if indifferent about something, we tend to say "I couldn't care less".
But, if not indifferent, we don't really say, "I could care less", rather, we say, "I care a lot, or I care more."
But, back on topic, some posters (@jkcerda, @Renzatic in the days he graced us with his presence on the threads, @LizKat - among many others) tend to enhance the forum by their presence. And their "likes" reflect that, I think.
My perception of the American phrase is more of laziness or blurring of words when it comes to 'could care' or 'couldn't care'. Whenever I hear someone say 'I could care less' I instantly think that they must obviously care something for <insert whatever> and that it is possible that they could go to a lesser level of caring if it degenerated to that.
Clearly, each phrase has a very different and distinctive meaning all determined by an apostrophe and contraction.
I once watched a British comedian riff on this, so I assumed it was a common mistake make by folks on either side of the pond. Then I remembered the comedian was in a video titled "Dear America…." (Unrelated: I hate the American convention of putting punctuation inside of quotes.)
I'm also reminded of this comic:
I normally like XKCD but am irked by the notion that language isn't a formal system. It's true, but seems to miss the point of language; we all use it as though it is a formal system.
It's "couldn't care less" here, too. "Could care less" is a malapropism.
Anyway, I suffer from the same problem most of us who started here before likes falls into. I'm at .45
But I don't know when the big changeover was. I would like to see the ratio of likes to like elligible posts.
I'm new here so only 129 / 22The thread title says it all.
What's your like/post ratio - i.e. for each post how many likes do you typically get?
Also, apparently posts in PRSI don't count as posts but likes will count. Make sure you check that.
Hit command and the space bar to bring up spotlight and then:
(number_of_likes/number_of_posts)
My ratio is .90 .
Just for fun
Here's what wikipedia says about formal systems
Natural languages are defined, in part, by their ambiguity. Perhaps you should dip a toe into the fiction section of your local library. Oscar Wilde comes to mind.
if you post something in the snakepit, your post count doesn't increase.
Does your like count increase if that non-counted post is liked?
That course of action is already undertaken. See this page:
https://forums.macrumors.com/members/?type=likes
The member with the most Likes has but 646 counted posts (at this time).
Ok, this is more interesting than the original topic:
Idioms alone violate the formality.
I think the XKCD does a much better job of expressing how remarkable language is. I have an idea in my brain, and by using language I can transmit that idea to your brain over a channel with a bandwidth of about 150 words per minute.
If I say “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, our mental images will vary a bit in the details, but I’ve managed to build an activation structure in your brain that gives us a common basis for continued discussion. A picture can be worth a thousand words, but it’s also possible to convey a picture with just a handful of words.
And despite the fact that “could care less” is incorrectly phrased, we all know what they meant— so there’s support for error correction as well.
Amazing really...
I’m sure the formality of language varies by language. Latin seems more rigid than English, which is kind of a dog’s breakfast. I suspect, without factual support, that the difference is between a language that was constructed and one that evolved.
I’ve always wondered about, but haven’t had the time to look into, the relative efficiency and robustness of various languages from an information theory point of view. Which languages can get more information across in less time, and which work best across a noisy phone line, for example.
Nah. Our educational system tries to formalize it, but if people really used it that way then people would have a much easier time learning to code...
Idioms alone violate the formality.
I think the XKCD does a much better job of expressing how remarkable language is. I have an idea in my brain, and by using language I can transmit that idea to your brain over a channel with a bandwidth of about 150 words per minute.
If I say “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, our mental images will vary a bit in the details, but I’ve managed to build an activation structure in your brain that gives us a common basis for continued discussion. A picture can be worth a thousand words, but it’s also possible to convey a picture with just a handful of words.
And despite the fact that “could care less” is incorrectly phrased, we all know what they meant— so there’s support for error correction as well.
Amazing really...
I’m sure the formality of language varies by language. Latin seems more rigid than English, which is kind of a dog’s breakfast. I suspect, without factual support, that the difference is between a language that was constructed and one that evolved.
I’ve always wondered about, but haven’t had the time to look into, the relative efficiency and robustness of various languages from an information theory point of view. Which languages can get more information across in less time, and which work best across a noisy phone line, for example.
Is this an American thing?! Makes me crazy— why should I put my punctuation inside a quote with someone else’s words?