Jayextee Posted May 3, 2002 Lower number better writer? Good. No, really. Honestly. Heh, great. That should hopefully have lowered my average enough to allow me to safely get away with asking some shambling mockery of a retarded inbred if he can remember his name, or maybe insinuate that a certain anonymous somebody has an intelligence quotient akin to that of a primate randomly checking mutliple choice questions, or something along vaguely similar lines. Aw hell, did I just raise what I lowered with that torrent of banal, anal nonesensical banter? Whatever. 0 Share this post Link to post
magikal Posted May 4, 2002 I understood it as being in the middle is best. 0 Share this post Link to post
kain Posted May 4, 2002 well, i got a 2.5, thats a little low for me huh? considering i am at the end of my 10th grade carrer. 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted May 5, 2002 fodders said:I read it as higher = better? DaJuice yelped: 5.1! I"m a focking geenious!!!11 you're wrong fod. 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted May 5, 2002 Writing at grade 8 standard has to be better than writing at a grade 4? Or do American's brains deteriorate with age? Damn stupid question, ok that one is rhetorical :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Executor6666 Posted May 14, 2002 Linguica said:For some reason today I was interested in the Flesch-Kincaid scale of readability. If you've never heard of it, it's the same thing that MS Word uses to determine the "grade level" of your writing. In a nutshell, the algorithm takes the average number of words per sentence, the average number of syllables per word, and uses these two numbers in a little formula to determine the approximate grade level of that piece of writing. For instance, dsm's latest fanfic has a grade level of 6.7, bbg's latest fanfic has a grade level of 5.7, and this one by AresGodofWAR has a grade level of 3.5. It's totally mathematical and arbitrary and doesn't take into account spelling or syntax or diction or grammar or anything, but nonetheless it can provide a surprisingly accurate look at how difficult / easy a given piece of writing is to read. So anyways, after I spent some time writing a PHP function to determine the Flesch-Kincaid readability score for selections of text, I played around with it a while, pasting in things from various webpages. Then someone said that I should use it on these forums. So I hacked together a quick script to do just that. For every poster with over five posts on these forums, the script calculated the grade level for each of the posts and found the average. Here is the result. Isle is so high up because in one of his few (I think he had exactly 5) posts, he had a big long "HAHAHAHAHA" that the script takes to be a word with a shitload of syllables, which pumped up the score to stupidly high values. Then once I had this, I made a quick plot of the values: So you guys write at approximately a fifth grade level. Sorry. Don't be surprised. DW has morons up the wazoo. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted May 14, 2002 Way to resurrect an ass old thread with one lame post. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted May 14, 2002 Forum necromancy, quoting a BIG image, and grand theft avatar. So sad. Such a promising forum career, off on such a false start. :| ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Kid Airbag Posted May 14, 2002 Executor6666 said:Don't be surprised. DW has morons up the wazoo. Banning you would be a good start towards helping that problem. 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted May 14, 2002 Can someone check Executor's IP? From his behaviour at doomcenter I'm next to convinced he's accually reol. 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted May 14, 2002 darknation said:Can someone check Executor's IP? From his behaviour at doomcenter I'm next to convinced he's accually reol. yeah, and while you're at it, BAN IT! 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted May 14, 2002 Hmm...both ReOL and Executor post at DC...if they are the same person, they have a Hell of a lot of time on their hands. 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted May 14, 2002 the_Danarchist said:Hmm...both ReOL and Executor post at DC...if they are the same person, they have a Hell of a lot of time on their hands. REoL = 30 something year old virgin. Why are you surprised? 0 Share this post Link to post
Esco_69 Posted May 23, 2002 You people write at a fifth grade level ROFLMFGAO! ...... I don't think so big dawg...... I write at a kindergartenlevel for yo information, son! ............. can't ya tell? :P EDIT TO MODS: WHAT DA HELL IS WRONG WITH MAH Da_Esco USERNAME? 0 Share this post Link to post
Kid Airbag Posted May 23, 2002 Esco_69 said:EDIT TO MODS: WHAT DA HELL IS WRONG WITH MAH Da_Esco USERNAME? Uhm... ... They banned it? 0 Share this post Link to post
Esco_69 Posted May 23, 2002 AV: I don't think they did cuz mah email is STILL in da database... I'm sure dat they would have removed it if they had banned it. And why would they even ban me again... I ain't even been around at all lately.... makes no sense. 0 Share this post Link to post
Peter Heinemann Posted May 24, 2002 Aaaah, a mercyful of 4.9 for me. Unbelievable. Bahaha, that is almost the grade I got in the last year at school - German school system, you know? That«s a very bad grade, it«s an "E" (german grade system goes from 1 (A) to 6 (F). That English teacher was such an ass, really. Killed all my fun I could had learning this language. Well, as we all know, it«s always the fault of the teachers ;) And I got my diploma though, so... 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted May 24, 2002 Yeah, Arioch banned Esco, then Ling unbanned him, then he registered a new username, then posted a bit, then left...why would he be banned again? 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted May 24, 2002 the_Danarchist said:Yeah, Arioch banned Esco, then Ling unbanned him, then he registered a new username, then posted a bit, then left...why would he be banned again? That's the really really short version. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted May 24, 2002 Yup. Thats not counting all that time when Arioch claimed Esco was pissing him off and such. BTW...Zaldron, you post way the Hell to fast. Like every time I post, you post 2. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Kid Airbag Posted May 24, 2002 the_Danarchist said:BTW...Zaldron, you post way the Hell to fast. Like every time I post, you post 2. :P Posts: 8382 He's had practice...lots of practice :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Da_Esco Posted May 24, 2002 Yeah, Arioch banned Esco, then Ling unbanned him, then he registered a new username, then posted a bit, then left...why would he be banned again? You guys are ALL behind on da times.... I've been unbanned since da new forums went up.... I just have been busy as fuck lately, plus I mod at DDF. I had jost forgotten mah PW.... but Lüt took care of dat for me (as you can see cuz I'm usin mah old account). Yo Lüt: thanks again, big dawg! Dis blunt's for you! ¦]-~ 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted May 25, 2002 Please don't encourage Lüt to smoke blunts. He's bad enough already. Think, MILLENNIUM! 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted May 25, 2002 This thread is something I find most supercalifragialistically stupid. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zaldron Posted May 25, 2002 kristus said:This thread is something I find most supercalifragialistically stupid. I concur. WHY THE FUCK DOES IT KEEPS COMING BACK!?!?! 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted May 26, 2002 Zaldron said:WHY THE FUCK DOES IT KEEPS COMING BACK!?!?!Cause you forgot to lock it? 0 Share this post Link to post