[April fools] New new rank requirements

[coly20032003]

I was also fooled just now. And I was trying hard to understand the new rules and read it several times thoroughly. I even try to calculate the fMerit using the complex formula 

Not sure how many people understand the formula:

min((1103515245*(uid+activity)+12345) % (1<<10),(1103515245*posts+12345) % (1<<10), (1103515245*merit+12345) % (1<<10))

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[CASTIEL05]

A lot of users now are laughing not because it is an april fools prank but the burdens were not true. I shocked also when I noticed that the new rank system are suddenly gone to the thread I am reading.
A while ago, I am thinking on what are the combination numbers to rank up. I thought also that there are algorithms used in order to calculate the new rank requirements till I came to the point that I will not rank up anymore. But then, I am very thankful that it is just a prank. A discouraging ranking system turns to a joke! Those who complained, you may now celebrate!
P.S. It might be prank as of now, but it may come true in the near future.

[bL4nkcode]

This is an april fools joke.

--snip--

As expected from theymos though there a lot of people who want this "New rank requirements" as true and will be implemented. 

Anyway, That's a nice joke btw even there are some who take this seriously.

[Hueristic]

April fools!...

Falling on Easter was perfect cover for Aprils Fools this year I had no clue and Salute you for a well thought out and fun aprils fools!

I'm going to stop saying thanks so often now.

[Woterry]

April fools!

I was surprised (and laughing) at how many people took this seriously. I thought that this was way more obvious than last year, but I guess not.

 - Politeness was how many times you used "please", "sir", "pardon", "apprecia*", "may I", "thanks", and "thank you" in past posts. This is poking a bit of fun at the people who are unnecessarily polite like this.
 - Imagination was how many times you posted an image tag in past posts.
 - Coins was how many distinct "coins" you mentioned in past posts. A coin was reckoned as any three-letter acronym (so Satoshi got several from things like "FYI" and "CIA"), as well as any word ending in "coin" (like "Bitcoin"). It was distinct coins, so if you posted the word "bitcoin" 100 times, that'd still only count as 1.
 - fMerit was calculated according to the posted algorithm. That algorithm is, as nullius pointed out, the min of three runs with different seeds of a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator using the glibc constants.
 - Virtue was the edit distance between your name and "Lauda".
 - Karma was as described.
 
Part of the joke with Conway's Game of Life is that since the game is turing-complete, figuring out whether a given configuration terminates equals the halting problem, which is undecidable in the general case. (Though it's maybe not actually undecidable with only an 8x10 input board.) The other part of the joke is that it's just so ridiculous to decide rank in this way, but I guess a lot of people didn't pick up on that...

I had kind of wanted to actually have a running game-of-life board in JavaScript on everyone's profile, but I didn't have time.

(BTW, when are we getting Conway-GoL-Coin? It's Turing-complete! )

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Gleb/Phinnaeus wins the award for best Bitcointalker overall!

Wow! Never thought that was gimik for april fools day. Cause this is my first time celebrating it with the community. Thank you for letting me experience it. I guess we all have to laugh sometimes here and make our community more exciting. Props to you sir and surely I’ll be prepared next time 

[Lunarics]

On some local topics this 1 April joke to  more 2 weeks will last  
It is yet not the end result of tops   Sir 

[nullius]

I was surprised (and laughing) at how many people took this seriously. I thought that this was way more obvious than last year, but I guess not.

A paid sarcasm shill once warned me about this sort of thing.

- Virtue was the edit distance between your name and "Lauda".

Oh, snap!  Thus, I suppose that Lauda had 0 virtue, and was the only user who had 0 virtue?  Together with the witchcraft hint, that would have been a dead giveaway; but unfortunately, I was off the forum most of the day and didn’t see Lauda’s “new new” stats.  Anyway, I figured that I could await virtue.txt.xz.

May I please change my username to the letter x repeated the maximal number of characters in a forum username, whatever that may be?  This would have maximal virtue.  It seems bland; but all forum users who desire to be virtuous must forthwith pray to have their usernames changed to maximal-length strings which do not include any of the letters L, a, u, or d.  However arbitrary this rule may seem, avoiding the Inquisition is no laughing matter; and sacrifices must be made in the War on Pill-Shaped Drugs Negative Trust Terror Flying Catbats Witchcraft!

I had kind of wanted to actually have a running game-of-life board in JavaScript on everyone's profile, but I didn't have time.

(BTW, when are we getting Conway-GoL-Coin? It's Turing-complete! )

Well, of course this could be done as a token built on any coin which already has Turing-complete VM.  This gives me an idea which, if implemented, would be even more spectacularly destructive innocently cute than Cryptokitties.


Pardon, theymos, sir; may I please take this opportunity to thank you for a joke I much appreciated?  Thanks.

[1020kingz]

you totally fooled us sir theymos, hahaha i never imagined how my rank goes up in that way. though i have some realization in this prank, be nice and polite and respect to other people here in the forum despite of the ranks we have.

[Quickseller]

Virtue
This is an upright, God-fearing community which will suffer no witchcraft or other heresy. This stat measures your moral virtue. Warning: those with low virtue may be visited by the holy inquisition.

- Virtue was the edit distance between your name and "Lauda".

In other words, you believe that Lauda has no morals. Interesting...

[rangnatht]

Lol.... I was keep trying to understand this new requirement system..... Its just make me laugh....

[virendarnagpal]

A lot of users now are laughing not because it is an april fools prank but the burdens were not true. I shocked also when I noticed that the new rank system are suddenly gone to the thread I am reading.
A while ago, I am thinking on what are the combination numbers to rank up. I thought also that there are algorithms used in order to calculate the new rank requirements till I came to the point that I will not rank up anymore. But then, I am very thankful that it is just a prank. A discouraging ranking system turns to a joke! Those who complained, you may now celebrate!
P.S. It might be prank as of now, but it may come true in the near future.

Many users were commenting yesterday and though claiming it to be a joke but I was seeing a fear behind their statements.  A new tough measure to pass for higher ranking.  Haa haa but many were showing them to be normal but in reality they were not.
I was happy with new system and took it seriously.  I was seeing it as opportunity to rank up.  But    such a big joke.

[Mr.Scott]

Lol.. I knew it, might be turned into jokes.

[Ayuluv2001]

lol thanks for making us and me as well worried and felt funny :p

[Danstan]

Still thinking about the fMerit.  Theymosnreally get me yesterday!!!!!
I love this forum.

[nullius]

A lot of users now are laughing not because it is an april fools prank but the burdens were not true. I shocked also when I noticed that the new rank system are suddenly gone to the thread I am reading.
A while ago, I am thinking on what are the combination numbers to rank up. I thought also that there are algorithms used in order to calculate the new rank requirements till I came to the point that I will not rank up anymore. But then, I am very thankful that it is just a prank. A discouraging ranking system turns to a joke! Those who complained, you may now celebrate!
P.S. It might be prank as of now, but it may come true in the near future.

Many users were commenting yesterday and though claiming it to be a joke but I was seeing a fear behind their statements.  A new tough measure to pass for higher ranking.  Haa haa but many were showing them to be normal but in reality they were not.
I was happy with new system and took it seriously.  I was seeing it as opportunity to rank up.  But    such a big joke.

I hereby propose the addition of a new Humour score.  Unlike activity and merit points, humour points can be lost for humourlessness, literal-mindedness, broken sarcasm detectors, inability to grasp satire, or employment at a humourless alphabet-soup agency.

Humour will not affect rank.  However, those with zero or negative humour scores shall have their signatures displayed upside-down and backwards.  Also, such persons should carry a warning beneath their usernames:  “Jest with extreme caution.”

This is a serious idea.  @theymos, please implement it!

I was surprised (and laughing) at how many people took this seriously. I thought that this was way more obvious than last year, but I guess not.

A paid sarcasm shill once warned me about this sort of thing.

P.S., Dr. Cerimon shall must needs advise on how best to program the forum software to distinguish between good and ill humours.

[digaran]

Alia should be given to the winner.

- Virtue was the edit distance between your name and "Lauda".

In other words, you believe that Lauda has no morals. Interesting...

You have no edit distance with Lauda. what would you do if you find the real Lauda to be a girl around 20-25 years old in a room alone with you? would you jump her before killing her or after?
If theymos could have disabled Lauda's trust ratings for April fools day, we could have you for a fool for real. interesting...


QS, find some vagina for these confused sperms. contribute to this community by doing something other than .  < us.

Note, nullius man, I'm sorry to show you alia's perfidiousness.
@Literally_farming_merits a.k.a my alt to fool around in fools day, nobody merited him. thanks for the sperm idea. bowing down like *this @//~\\
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[ABYANSYARIF]

i was wondering how this formula was created
how many night and day of thinking until this formula found
min((1103515245*(uid+activity)+12345) % (1<<10),(1103515245*posts+12345) % (1<<10), (1103515245*merit+12345) % (1<<10))
its more complicated than einstein's formula e=mc2
surely the one who invited this is much more genius than einstein's

[Bagaji]

Yesterday not less than 172 sMerit was received by the forum administrator TheyMos for the newly introduced system which later turn out to be April Fools. Can one conclude that sMerit sent was a waits?

[rahutomo]

I try to read from the beginning .. and until now still be stunned to think of this formula.
You are so great. I love April

[TheQuin]

Yesterday not less than 172 sMerit was received by the forum administrator TheyMos for the newly introduced system which later turn out to be April Fools. Can one conclude that sMerit sent was a waits?

They were acknowledging that it was a really good joke and a lot of effort went into making it. So not wasted in my opinion.