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Lisa2836

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Jun 26, 2002, 9:35:09 PM6/26/02
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Hi, I'm new here. What purpose does voting serve? Does it determine which
Oraularities get into the Digest?

Screwtape

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Jun 26, 2002, 9:59:03 PM6/26/02
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m_init(): spawning followupTo('Lisa2836')...done.

>Hi, I'm new here. What purpose does voting serve? Does it determine which
>Oraularities get into the Digest?

Not directly. For any digest Oracularity whose average score is less
than three, the Priest in question is strapped into a little chair and
given electric shocks of varying duration - two seconds for a 2.5,
three seconds for a 2, four seconds for a 1.5, and so forth.

It is hoped that in this way, the average score of oracularities will
increase, and poor or low-scoring Priests will be removed from the
system.

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Ian Davis

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Jun 26, 2002, 10:17:57 PM6/26/02
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In article <20020626213509...@mb-dh.aol.com>,
lisa...@aol.com (Lisa2836) wrote:

> Hi, I'm new here. What purpose does voting serve? Does it determine which
> Oraularities get into the Digest?

No, that is determined by the priest reviewing it. The voting gives
some feedback after the event, so that we all know the type of thing
that people like. It's interesting to look at the vote distribution
for some questions: for every single one, there are people who think
it's outrageously funny and others who don't think it's funny at all.

Ian.

Fierce Cookie

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Jun 26, 2002, 10:19:20 PM6/26/02
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Lisa2836 attempted to infuriate me by saying:

> Hi, I'm new here. What purpose does voting serve? Does it determine
> which Oraularities get into the Digest?

No, it determines the size of the quarterly bonus we priests receive.

--
Priest of Fish, Fierce Y. Cookie, who once had a fish that was
fierce, and red, and bright. And a frog that came back from the dead.
putain...@mindspring.com -- replace first two dots with
underscores to send e-mail.

Richard Wilson

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Jun 27, 2002, 12:53:41 PM6/27/02
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In article <not-02283E.1...@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, Ian
Davis <n...@all.certain> writes

'Course, none of the all-time top 10 scored either a 1 or a 2, but that
could be due to the fact that they all happened in the old days before
endless September, when netizens as a species were still capable of
grasping abstruse concepts like 1=bad, 5=good.

-Richard Wilson-*----*----*----*-----*-ric...@molerat.demon.co.uk-
--who, truth be told, first logged on circa September 425th, 1993--

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