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Creature

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Duplicate Posting

I frequently see everyone (including myself) doing this.
If you open some discussion topics, you may eventually see posts like this:

This is not nice.

Yeah, it's totally not nice.

You should know that this is not nice.

Sorry, but this is not nice, you should know that.

And so on.

Do you think all these posts are needed? What would you do if you saw this happening? You would probably ignore, but what if someone comes with different content?

Don't believe me? Take a look here. This thread was not important anyways, but someone might come with an useful idea, it wouldn't be nice if it were swallowed with duplicated posts. If you want real examples, take a look at this, there's basically a lot of posts with the exact same content, but interpreted different.

What do you think about these posts?

(No, I am not being against these posts, I just thought it would help not duplicate posting)

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This is a false statement.

Anch

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Joined: 2015-02-16

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Re: Duplicate Posting

More people voicing their opinion makes their argument stronger.

Onjit

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Re: Duplicate Posting

I think it's all about making an argument stronger, more people voicing the same thing makes it appear so.

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skullz17

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Re: Duplicate Posting

I'd say it has something to do with making the argument stronger because more people voicing the same opinion will have that effect.

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BuzzerBee

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Re: Duplicate Posting

I have to agree, when more people voice the same opinion it strengthens the argument.

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Pingohits

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Re: Duplicate Posting

When more people agree with the same thing, they become one with the opinion. The opinion will be all that matters.

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Xfrogman43

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From: need to find a new home

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Posts: 4,174

Re: Duplicate Posting

If (people.AgreeOn("samething"))
{
argument = "stronger";
}

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Creature

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From: The Dark Web

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Re: Duplicate Posting

Well, then woots are useless as all you have to do is say: "I agree/disagree, because...".

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This is a false statement.

Anak

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Re: Duplicate Posting

I don't usually see people doing this unless they have something else to add though. (Or at least, not masses of people)

Xfrogman43

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From: need to find a new home

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Re: Duplicate Posting

^People usually say
"I agree"
multiple times, yes, but they all have different reasons.

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Marios

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Joined: 2015-08-03

Posts: 1,020

Re: Duplicate Posting

If (people.AgreeOn("samething"))
{
argument = "stronger";
}

Let me majorly improve that statement for you... in Lua.

local topic = Forum:GetTopic(29397)
local argumentstarter = 147 --The ID of the one who started the argument
local match1 --For effecient usage below
local match2 --Same here
posters = {}
argumentstrength = 1
topic.PostSubmitted:connect(function(poster, post)
   if poster.Id ~= argumentstarter then
   if posters[poster.Id] == nil then --If the poster already returned an opinion on the topic, it's not necessary to do the below
      match1 = string.find(post, "not nice") --Agree?
      match2 = string.find(post, "is nice") --Disagree?
      if match1 ~= nil then
         posters[poster.Id] = true --True as he/she agrees
         argumentstrength = argument-strength + 1
      elseif match2 ~= nil then
         posters[poster.Id] = false --False as he/she disagrees
         argumentstrength = argumentstrength - 1
      end
   print("Argument 'This is not nice.' current strength is " .. tostring(argumentstrength))
   end
   end
end)

Why all of this, Marios? Because what Xfrogman43 posted is not code... at least for me. So i wanted to return something more accurate.

What is a Lua, and can i eat it? http://www.lua.org/about.html

And, on-topic, i also agree with people posting the same thing to empower it.

skullz17

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 6,699

Re: Duplicate Posting

If (people.AgreeOn("samething"))
{
argument = "stronger";
}

Let me majorly improve that statement for you... in Lua.

local topic = Forum:GetTopic(29397)
local argumentstarter = 147 --The ID of the one who started the argument
local match1 --For effecient usage below
local match2 --Same here
posters = {}
argumentstrength = 1
topic.PostSubmitted:connect(function(poster, post)
   if poster.Id ~= argumentstarter then
   if posters[poster.Id] == nil then --If the poster already returned an opinion on the topic, it's not necessary to do the below
      match1 = string.find(post, "not nice") --Agree?
      match2 = string.find(post, "is nice") --Disagree?
      if match1 ~= nil then
         posters[poster.Id] = true --True as he/she agrees
         argumentstrength = argument-strength + 1
      elseif match2 ~= nil then
         posters[poster.Id] = false --False as he/she disagrees
         argumentstrength = argumentstrength - 1
      end
   print("Argument 'This is not nice.' current strength is " .. tostring(argumentstrength))
   end
   end
end)

Why all of this, Marios? Because what Xfrogman43 posted is not code... at least for me. So i wanted to return something more accurate.

What is a Lua, and can i eat it? http://www.lua.org/about.html

And, on-topic, i also agree with people posting the same thing to empower it.

wow thanks so useful

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Marios

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Posts: 1,020

Re: Duplicate Posting

wow thanks so useful

I'm just going to pretend i don't even know what irony is and say "you're welcome".

Pyromaniac

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Posts: 4,868

Re: Duplicate Posting

After onjits post you guys reached a point of diminishing returns on the cleverness.

Onjit

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Re: Duplicate Posting

After onjits post you guys reached a point of diminishing returns on the cleverness.

That was my master plan. I had the decision to either contribute something new, or start the chain reaction joke that happened.

I AM BECOME ONJIT

DESTROYER OF THREADS

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