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What's this new thing?

chrmjenkins said:
No one has identified rule 'A' yet? It seems to be connected to usertitle. Anyone with a user title of newbie, member, regular or 6502 gets a wrench, while everyone else gets a gavel, almost without exception. I'm guessing there's a join date stipulation in there too. If this isn't the case, there just happens to be a high correlation rate.
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Avatar. It had been solved earlier in the thread.
 
chrmjenkins said:
No one has identified rule 'A' yet? It seems to be connected to usertitle. Anyone with a user title of newbie, member, regular or 6502 gets a wrench, while everyone else gets a gavel, almost without exception. I'm guessing there's a join date stipulation in there too. If this isn't the case, there just happens to be a high correlation rate.
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A has already been identified as Avatar.

You get the gavel if you have an Avatar and Wrench if you don't have one.
 
iBlue said:
Dunno but it definitely changes according to replies but I am not sure exactly how. I think there's a green and maybe purple in the mix too. (not sure but I could swear I've seen it go purple)
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Oh you're right...at least about the green.
 
Doctor Q said:
Rule P (now solved!)

Moi un Mouton reported that the rule is based on day of the month.

Eraserhead identified the rule name: Presence in the forums, day last active.


Rule 1

wrc fan identified the determining factor: 3rd letter of user name, case sensitive

OrangeSVTguy identified the mapping and showed that there are flags for many dozens of characters. Since the rules for allowable characters in user names have changed over the years, we allowed for punctuation symbols that were previously OK but no longer legal, to handle legacy user names. So there's one flag for each ASCII symbol, and an extra flag for accented or other non-ASCII characters. (By the way, OrangeSVTguy said that 'a' and 'J' have the same flag. Which user names did you compare?)

Nobody has posted the name of the rule, even though I gave you the first word. I hope our forums aren't limited to monoglots.
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Third World Country Rule.
 
muledogus said:
You may be right. They could be Rank indicators. Maybe they change colors depending on each "degree" of a rank you are. Their changing is definitely cyclical.
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how much have u posted today? we have the same flag. i have the same flag as yesterday and this is only my 3 post today, i think.
Edit:woah it just changed
 
Mine has seemed to change almost every post. That's why I'm thrown off. But I did change ranks today I think.

Edit: definitely changing every post.
 
muledogus said:
Mine has seemed to change almost every post. That's why I'm thrown off. But I did change ranks today I think.
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ok urs has changed at the same time from dark blue to sky blue. same as mine. what do we have in common?
edit: there it changed again. next post for muledogus will be orange.
 
techfreak85 said:
ok urs has changed at the same time from dark blue to sky blue. same as mine. what do we have in common?
edit: there it changed again. next post for muledogus will be orange.
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Nothing, they change every time we post something. It seemed the colors were following a certain cycle but then mine turned green. Maybe they cycle like I initially said between "gray" Orange Read and Blue and turn Green at some milestone, maybe a rank change or every 10th post or so?

Edit: Now I'm wondering if I saw a green one all along. I wrote down the cycle but only the first letter of each color...maybe G stood for green and not gray.
 
I'm going to have to leave my post for a while. I'll see if I can figure out anything else later on tonight...Good Luck!
 
How many flag colours are there?...
I count 5...
Red, Green, Orange, Blue, Light Blue...

I looked a few pages back and those are all the colours I see..
 
Well obviously the flag relates too the third letter of the name (but case sensitive) but not the name of the country (otherwise I'd have France or Finland). The name of this (1) Doctor Q says is "foreign" ("no monoglot") so whether the hidden symbols mean something in Japanese/ Chinese (ie they're ASCII drawings of script) or its a reference to un/uno/ein etc I dunno.
 
Doctor Q said:
Rule 1

wrc fan identified the determining factor: 3rd letter of user name, case sensitive

OrangeSVTguy identified the mapping and showed that there are flags for many dozens of characters. Since the rules for allowable characters in user names have changed over the years, we allowed for punctuation symbols that were previously OK but no longer legal, to handle legacy user names. So there's one flag for each ASCII symbol, and an extra flag for accented or other non-ASCII characters. (By the way, OrangeSVTguy said that 'a' and 'J' have the same flag. Which user names did you compare?)

Nobody has posted the name of the rule, even though I gave you the first word. I hope our forums aren't limited to monoglots.
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As opposed to polyglots?

Also, please note that iBookG4user and dilbert4life added much to OrangeSVTguy's success.:apple:
 
Rule R

Xyl identified the set of flags correctly, so now we know how many there are.

Clue: Abstract got very close to identifying this rule while talking about another rule. He also used the magic word.

techfreak85's question was the best other clue to the rule.


Rule 1

As reported before, wrc fan identified the rule.

MOFS figured out that the name of the rule needs to be said in the correct language. This is definitely the geekiest part of the puzzle.

Clue: You have to speak the same language as me, painful as it may be to do so.
 
7|-|1rD 1_3773|? 0]= |_|53|?|\|@|v|3

It could also start with a 1, but 7 makes more sense.
 
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