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Entry Posted January 14, 2008

http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-
attacking-noise-in-chat/
Encouraging productive conversation in chat rooms by requiring that ever utterance is unique. 23:09

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Joe Tan's Blog (www.mychurch.org):
… s comment will be blocked. And as a (potential) added benefit, this plugin will help reduce the “noise” in your comments, by forcing your visitors to say something new… kinda along the lines ofxkcd’s chat moderator botwhich helps manage the signal-to-noise ratio in their chat rooms. This release also includes a small re-organization of files, in order to support WordPress’ new plugin auto-updating feature. Please download the upgrade version …

tan tan noodles - msg free since 2005 (tantannoodles.com):
… s comment will be blocked. And as a (potential) added benefit, this plugin will help reduce the “noise” in your comments, by forcing your visitors to say something new… kinda along the lines ofxkcd’s chat moderator botwhich helps manage the signal-to-noise ratio in their chat rooms. This release also includes a small re-organization of files, in order to support WordPress’ new plugin auto-updating feature. Please download the upgrade version …

Jan Salie (jansalie.blogspot.com):
… aantal lieden zelfs poogt een filter voor online stupiditeit probeert te ontwikkelen. Project Stupidfilter is de naam. Randall Munroe, de schepper van het onvolprezen XKCD, heeft gelijksoortige poging op zijn geweten om IRC kanalen schoon te houden:ROBO9000. Veel lichtvoetiger is deze Britse poging tot een commentaargenerator voor BBC's "Have Your Say" (een soort Stand punt nl), de Twat-O-Tron. Fel-realistisch en nauwelijks te onderscheiden van het echte werk. Het wordt misschien tijd om te erkennen dat …

ggalaxy (bopuc.levendis.com):
… Attacking noise in chat"And, of course, for discussion of the concept of #meta-discussion people had to go to #meta-meta-discussion, and for chat about how silly that whole idea was, we created #meta-meta-meta-discussion... …

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Open Wiki Blog Planet (open.wikiblogplanet.com):
… in the channel that has been said before, and you get devoiced for 4 seconds. Say another something that has been said before, and the devoice quadruples. Not just something that YOU said before, something that ANYONE said before. ) Read more abouthowthis came to pass, and then laugh with me. Note, others have blogged about this as well... I actually got to try this out, and it's surprisingly difficult to not get zapped by the bot. Think you can do better (warning, theoretically, it gets harder as …

aberdeen-music - Forums (www.aberdeen-music.com):
… xkcd Blog Archive ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat …

BOOHAVEN: Comics about life from an outsider's perspective, updated weekdays (boohaven.com):
… saw that the active members in his IRC channel (#xkcd on irc.xkcd.com) had long surpassed Dunbar’s number and thus the channel had gone to suck: it was no longer coherent or cohesive, but had become a bunch of small conversations in a sea of static.So then Randall had a crazy revelation: And then I had an idea — what if you were only allowed to say sentences that had never been said before, ever? A bot with access to the full channel logs could kick you out when you repeated something that had already been said. There would be no …

Make Marketing History (makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com):
… blog. What they've done is incorporate software that blocks your comment if it repeats what somebody else has said. In their words, be original or you can't belong because you're just adding noise. Something all marketers should live by. …

Fallout Shelter (jhv.blogs.com):
… I don't know how much context to give you, so justgo look. Why? Here's one link I chased: The StupidFilter. …

Fallout Shelter (jhv.blogs.com):
… I don't know how much context to give you, so justgo look. Why? Here's one link I chased: The StupidFilter. …

Jonathan Starr's Blog (geekswithblogs.net):
… the needs of his readers to explore quirky topics. Interested in your thoughts, Jonathan posted @ Monday, January 21, 2008 2:53 PM | Feedback (0) Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Thought Experiment: Reforming Meetings I just read anexcellent articleposted on XKCD on how to create a better IRC chat. Basically, to keep chats interesting, the server boots out users who enter things already entered before. Wouldn't that be good for corporate meetings? The rule could be amended: If someone …

Jumbles of Words (thisismyinter.net):
… m on  and talks about knowing me and I don’t recognize them, things get a bit.. weird? awkward? not sure exactly, but it happens every so often. One of the channel’s I pay a lot of attention to is #xkcd-signal ( for xkcd’s blag post …

toaster.labs (toasterlabs.wordpress.com):
… system designed for the #xkcd-signal channel, where only unique posts are allowed and repetition results in a temporary silencing. New trend? Full of win? …

Ina's Blog (www.tiedyeina.com):
… etc - do that and a live moderator will mute you) can go on without a single sentence repeated. The guy behind the idea thinks we could go on for a decade with no real problems. Connection details, more background and reasoning can be found on theXKCD blag- highly worth a read (and not just for that post). The whole thing, by the way, is written in perl, which is awesome. I've started learning it myself, and it's so cool to have, amongst other things, a postfix unless: …

Burrowowl (burrowowl.net):
… I’ve had a link up to xkcd.com for several months now, having treated it merely as a frequently-funny webcomic chock-a-block with geeky goodness. I never read the xkcd blog or looked up the author; I was content to assume that whoever wrote those …

Burrowowl (www.sonic.net):
… I’ve had a link up to xkcd.com for several months now, having treated it merely as a frequently-funny webcomic chock-a-block with geeky goodness. I never read the xkcd blog or looked up the author; I was content to assume that whoever wrote those …

Fallout Shelter (jhv.blogs.com):
… go look …

Fallout Shelter (jhv.blogs.com):
… I don't know how much context to give you, so justgo look. Why? Here's one link I chased: The StupidFilter. …

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