This weeks untested halfbaked site update: Taboo

1. 2017-05-29 at 1:56 AM UTC

   #1
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   So I've been thinking about a couple of site features that I don't really think live in the core forum code, don't apply to forums in general (like polls for example) but which might be nice to have. So I tried slapping together an extension system and I thought a forum game would be a good exercise. So the game is called Taboo, we ran a similar game back on zoklet briefly, basically you're trying to get someone else to say some word (they don't know which word) and if you do it they get banned for a day. Other people are trying to do the same to you. It's opt-in so if you think this sounds stupid just don't sign up. It's also highly experimental, so beware bugs and if things fuck up let me know.
   
   So anyway, if you want to play you can sign up here: https://niggasin.space/taboo/status
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   • The Self Taught Man, 
   • mmQ, 
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2. 2017-05-29 at 2:04 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   signed up
   
   lol@ wintermute
3. 2017-05-29 at 2:15 AM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle

   Originally posted by aldra signed up
   
   lol@ wintermute

   
   HEY ALDRA DO YOU YOU REMEMBER THE NAME OF THAT ONE FISH WHO'S MEAT IS USUALLY ORANGISH PINK? FOR THE LIFE OF ME I CANT REMEMBER!
4. 2017-05-29 at 2:17 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   Nemo?
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   • Lanny
5. 2017-05-29 at 2:18 AM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle
   Is it an instant ban? Do you lose if you just randomly use the word in a thread title you make, completely unprovoked?
6. 2017-05-29 at 2:20 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   does it work if you quote someone who has the word in their post?
7. 2017-05-29 at 2:21 AM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle

   Originally posted by aldra Nemo?

   
   Yes but it's spelled differently.. I wanna say.. salmin or samoln or something. Do you know???????
8. 2017-05-29 at 2:23 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   ...King Salman?
   
   
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9. 2017-05-29 at 2:28 AM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle
   The word was KING I got eeem!
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   • aldra
10. 2017-05-29 at 2:29 AM UTC

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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    fuck that would've been good
11. 2017-05-29 at 2:42 AM UTC

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    Malice Naturally Camouflaged
    That would have been a good strategy...
    
    Damn you MQ for not being cleverer. Missed a good opportunity.
12. 2017-05-29 at 2:43 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Originally posted by aldra Nemo?

    
    What did you think of that film?
    
    

    Originally posted by mmQ Is it an instant ban? Do you lose if you just randomly use the word in a thread title you make, completely unprovoked?

    
    It's instant, and you lose if you use the word at any point in any thread, if the person targeting you caused it or not. Thread titles are actually safe though, just post bodies.
    
    

    Originally posted by aldra does it work if you quote someone who has the word in their post?

    
    No, the contents of quote tags aren't considered part of your post.
13. 2017-05-29 at 2:47 AM UTC

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    Malice Naturally Camouflaged
    Also, Lanny, is there anything in place to avoid common words? Finding a list of the most common XXXX words and using that as a simple input seems like it should be fairly simple. A minimum amount of characters wouldn't work, of course. Not into compsci, but it seems the framework should already be in the forum software, making integration simpler; don't know how easy writing everything from scratch would be.
    
    If you take care of that then this sounds like it could be a really fun game to play.
14. 2017-05-29 at 2:54 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage
    It just picks one out of a set of two hundred some pre-selected words that are fairly common nouns but not common structural words. So like "leg" and "coffee" are in there but "and" or "the" are not. There are resources I could use if that ends up not being enough, plenty of wordlists and some good corpora are available on word frequency so that would be the approach I'd take if I wanted to get more data science-y on it. The issue is the NLP corpora usually come with wonky terms because they were produced with public funding contingent on cite-counts so distribution becomes a real headache.
15. 2017-05-29 at 3:03 AM UTC

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    mmQ Lisa Turtle

    Originally posted by Malice That would have been a good strategy…
    
    Damn you MQ for not being cleverer. Missed a good opportunity.

    
    Opportunity for what? Neither salmon or king was the wor... Wait a minute. This is a trap.
    
    *slowly backs away*
16. 2017-05-29 at 3:22 AM UTC

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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    _ A I N C O A _
17. 2017-05-29 at 3:25 AM UTC

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    Lanny Bird of Courage
    PAIN COAX
    
    like when the little pointy bit scratches you up. Shit hurts.
18. 2017-05-29 at 3:31 AM UTC

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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    I've never been bitten
    
    you mistreat your cables
19. 2017-05-29 at 5:14 AM UTC

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    Malice Naturally Camouflaged

    Originally posted by aldra _ A I N C O A _

    
    raincoat?
20. 2017-05-29 at 5:16 AM UTC

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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    BR A I N C O A L