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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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A Statistical Analysis of the QoTM
I decided to run a little test to see what would happen. I hit the refresh key 100 times. The following quotes came up more than once:
"just get rid of the kleenex quote and I'll be happy" -stkelly52 60 times "With all the power vested in me by someone....." - Fritz 3 times "Well, whattaya know...cocky and funny....it really works" - AnalBumCover 2 times I'll let you figure out the moral of this story. -Anxiety
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General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The Town of Flower Mound
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The Kleenex company owns FOFC?
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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100-65 = 35.
What kind of moral is that?
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Macungie, PA
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35 is how old Christ would have been had he lived 2 years longer.
3+5 = 8 which is infinity standing up Conspiracy theorists unite!
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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Hey, wait a minute. 65 is suspiciously close to 67.
Maybe the moral is 2/3.
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M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete." |
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Pro Starter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: toronto
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67 is suspiciously close to 69
Maybe the moral is...69 is the way to go?
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: The Mad City, WI
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We at FOFC are 30 times more likely to masturbate than we are to score with any women using our Cocky and Funny routine.
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Strategy Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: North Carolina
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seriously though, why in the world did the new kleenex quote replace the old one as the most frequently seen?
A lot of people had explanations for the the first quote as being the first quote entered or such nonsense. I could even understand if it was picking a quote that was somewhere special in the list... but how can anyone possible explain the new kleenex quote replacing the old one? |
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Captain Obvious
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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I blame shorty for this one. The ball was in his court and he let it drop
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College Starter
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Because the FOFC is a Kleenex type of board. ![]()
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Maybe Kodos could do a weekly poll of the best quotes and we could just have a new "No. 1" quote every week. Note to Kodos: I'm kidding. ![]() |
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Dola -- It may also be in the way the quote hack is coded on our pages. Over at one of the vB support sites, it seems to indicate that if you don't use RAND () then the script will cycle automatically to the first or last quote selected. In our case, it's the first quote.
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Strategy Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: North Carolina
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can the script be fixed?
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Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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here is how it worked: there are imaginary slots lets slay. first slot, easy macs quote. the slots fill up in numerical order. so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 there are 10 quotes. say #7 gets deleted. instead of the next quote being #11, it is #7, so although it is the 11th quote all-time to be added, it drops in at 7. so, when easy's quote was deleted, coincidentally, stkelly's kleenex quote was the next to be added! |
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Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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i can post a concern over at the creator's forums, but like i did before, he said that the best thing to do is just wait it out until a large number of quotes are in the database (i'm guessing 100-150?)
anyone want to quickly count how many quotes are currently in the qotm? |
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Strategy Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: North Carolina
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looks like 145 to me. 30 per page (only counted page 1) 4 full pages, 25 quotes on page 5. |
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkeley
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We never had this problem on the FOBL board and we're using the same software ("Ultimate Quotes List Hack created by KuraFire for the Couch") and only have approx ~124 quotes. Maybe this wasn't implemented correctly here...
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Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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dont blame me, ryan s installed it!
![]() i would redo it, but i am restricted for certain things and this is one of the things i cannot toy with.. Last edited by korme : 06-02-2003 at 08:40 PM. |
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