Okay, but what changes need to be made for it to "feel" like the MBs?
Yes, buy out LMBE.
I'm not the one you should say that to. I'm the one who agrees with you and wanted to make the old LMB Theme.
I told you, it's the profile pages, the likes pages, the users online... all the weird little things add up for me. Furthermore, the lack of real lego avatars is a buzzkill. Speaking of that I do have all the ORIGINAL MB avatar heads (like 220 of them) saved if you could make use of that.
Maybe I should join staff. Are you still accepting new members?
I'm working on all of that. Also, when you say original MB heads, do you mean these: ? If so, as you now see, I have them.
We are still accepting new staff members. You can send in an application if you're interested. New designers would be preferable to mods.
I told you, it's the profile pages, the likes pages, the users online... all the weird little things add up for me. Furthermore, the lack of real lego avatars is a buzzkill. Speaking of that I do have all the ORIGINAL MB avatar heads (like 220 of them) saved if you could make use of that.
Maybe I should join staff. Are you still accepting new members?
I'm working on all of that. Also, when you say original MB heads, do you mean these: ? If so, as you now see, I have them.
We are still accepting new staff members. You can send in an application if you're interested. New designers would be preferable to mods.
Yes but obviously not in gif form. That gif is going to give me a seizure
Why are you guys so obsessed with the design? The freshest design imaginable isn't going to pull people here from the depths of the internet
I'm working on all of that. Also, when you say original MB heads, do you mean these: ? If so, as you now see, I have them.
We are still accepting new staff members. You can send in an application if you're interested. New designers would be preferable to mods.
Yes but obviously not in gif form. That gif is going to give me a seizure
Why are you guys so obsessed with the design? The freshest design imaginable isn't going to pull people here from the depths of the internet
It would be pretty easy to split up a gif into different images I think.
The only design we're obsessed with is the LMB Theme design. The word "development" is probably more accurate, as we're developing the LMB theme to be as accurate and convenient to use, as possible.
Yes but obviously not in gif form. That gif is going to give me a seizure
Why are you guys so obsessed with the design? The freshest design imaginable isn't going to pull people here from the depths of the internet
It would be pretty easy to split up a gif into different images I think.
The only design we're obsessed with is the LMB Theme design. The word "development" is probably more accurate, as we're developing the LMB theme to be as accurate and convenient to use, as possible.
In general you might lose quality but the quality of those things might as well be nil so you're probably right. I should try running a neural net on these things and see if it generates anything funny...
I'd moderate, but I'm not learning web dev. >benboy saying he'd moderate: you either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Yep. Probably not a lot of room for creativity, at least in finding discoveries that actually work.
Ah, very interesting. Glad you're feeling a little better and hopefully breathing a lot clearer too. It'll feel nice having some fresh oxygen to do your work with.
However, for some good innovations I guess a little creativity is necessary.
Yes, it's been quite strange getting used to the changes. For a while I was confused every time I looked in the mirror.
That's true, it's just that most times the creative ideas I have end up not working, but at least it guides me in some direction to keep going.
Very interesting. It's almost like seeing a different person if you didn't recognize yourself in the mirror.
It would be pretty easy to split up a gif into different images I think.
The only design we're obsessed with is the LMB Theme design. The word "development" is probably more accurate, as we're developing the LMB theme to be as accurate and convenient to use, as possible.
In general you might lose quality but the quality of those things might as well be nil so you're probably right. I should try running a neural net on these things and see if it generates anything funny...
I'd moderate, but I'm not learning web dev. >benboy saying he'd moderate: you either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
I think it would be easy. I'm sure a website already exists that can convert gifs into a folder of images.
But web dev is so much fun... Also, if you ever make a tensorflow model in python, I heard that it's easy to convert it to tensorflow.js so that it's compatible on the web. And, also, if you're comfortable with Python, you can use it on the web (look up Brython) Imagine if you start moderating, and then you get promoted to full moderator and then your posts are able to go through moderation (as full mods don't need their posts to be approved), and then there's like no more posts to moderate since the majority of posts that need to be moderated are yours. Also, imagine if you become junior mod and then a few days later you get promoted to mod, and then a couple of weeks later you're senior staff, and then a month later you're eternal staff, and then a day later you become owner of the website. That's the dream. What would your first action as admin be?
In general you might lose quality but the quality of those things might as well be nil so you're probably right. I should try running a neural net on these things and see if it generates anything funny...
I'd moderate, but I'm not learning web dev. >benboy saying he'd moderate: you either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
I think it would be easy. I'm sure a website already exists that can convert gifs into a folder of images.
But web dev is so much fun... Also, if you ever make a tensorflow model in python, I heard that it's easy to convert it to tensorflow.js so that it's compatible on the web. And, also, if you're comfortable with Python, you can use it on the web (look up Brython) Imagine if you start moderating, and then you get promoted to full moderator and then your posts are able to go through moderation (as full mods don't need their posts to be approved), and then there's like no more posts to moderate since the majority of posts that need to be moderated are yours. Also, imagine if you become junior mod and then a few days later you get promoted to mod, and then a couple of weeks later you're senior staff, and then a month later you're eternal staff, and then a day later you become owner of the website. That's the dream. What would your first action as admin be?
My only concern was losing quality, not whether it can be done
Well, you make a valid point. I think working on a moderation AI or something of that ilk from the ground up would be pretty instructive for me...
Advisor: what have you been doing Me: made lego message board bot Advisor: understandable keep up the good work
If you think it's feasible to work in python with this stuff, it's honestly what I want to do already, just with a bit of a twist.
Perhaps me being a moderator would be useful to you guys even if I didn't moderate a single post... What's the general time progression on staff promotions?
First action of admin? Easy... I'll advocate for studs in the old MB style
I think it would be easy. I'm sure a website already exists that can convert gifs into a folder of images.
But web dev is so much fun... Also, if you ever make a tensorflow model in python, I heard that it's easy to convert it to tensorflow.js so that it's compatible on the web. And, also, if you're comfortable with Python, you can use it on the web (look up Brython) Imagine if you start moderating, and then you get promoted to full moderator and then your posts are able to go through moderation (as full mods don't need their posts to be approved), and then there's like no more posts to moderate since the majority of posts that need to be moderated are yours. Also, imagine if you become junior mod and then a few days later you get promoted to mod, and then a couple of weeks later you're senior staff, and then a month later you're eternal staff, and then a day later you become owner of the website. That's the dream. What would your first action as admin be?
My only concern was losing quality, not whether it can be done
Well, you make a valid point. I think working on a moderation AI or something of that ilk from the ground up would be pretty instructive for me...
Advisor: what have you been doing Me: made lego message board bot Advisor: understandable keep up the good work
If you think it's feasible to work in python with this stuff, it's honestly what I want to do already, just with a bit of a twist.
Perhaps me being a moderator would be useful to you guys even if I didn't moderate a single post... What's the general time progression on staff promotions?
First action of admin? Easy... I'll advocate for studs in the old MB style
Why would it lose quality? It's not like it's getting resized.
Yes, and besides, if you become our AI department, I'll be able to get more done, since that'll be one less thing I need to focus on here.
Well, yes, we can easily implement Brython into this website, but you can't import anything that isn't native to it, so no using numpy or pandas unfortunately. Brython is just browser JavaScript in the skin of Python.
However, you can just train a regular tensorflow model with python - independent of this website, and then load that model into tensorflow.js, which is compatible with this site. It's also possible to host python code on an external web server (which is what I'm doing, except with node.js instead of python). And then you can make it that TBB can fetch data / information from that web server, or you can even make it that the python web server tracks what happens on TBB (like making TBB send information to the web server every time a post is liked or a member joins) and then the web server can store that information on it's database. I explained this concept before. I dunno why I'm explaining it again. Either way, I'm now using Node.js for the development of TBB maybe I can even get into web sockets and put live chats on TBB but it would be just as easy, if not easier, to use Python for TBB development. And I doubt it would be much of an adjustment for you. Coding in python would be the same, except you'd need to display on the web instead of the console, which is very easy afaik. Either way, making AI models and then putting them on this site wouldn't be too hard I think (although what do I know? ).
Time progression on staff promotions is variable. Depending on how actively the person moderates / develops or designs, they could either be promoted quickly or slowly. If a person is doing phenomenal work, they'll probably see a promotion very quickly. If all they do is make a few buttons that do nothing, or moderate one post a month, then it'll take a while (or they'll just be demoted). And then after a person becomes a full mod or a full designer, the next step is senior staff, and that only happens if there's a space open. When Quark (former eternal staff member) left staff, Zach got promoted from senior to eternal, and then since I was next in line, I filled Zach's spot on the senior team. If any eternal staff members leave, either I or RuleJJ would be promoted to Eternal Staff, and Ardent Four would probably be promoted to Senior Staff. Generally there's only 3 eternals and 2 seniors, so if one leaves, someone will fill the spot. And then there's the highest position: Admin. Currently Sam is the Admin, but if he were to leave, then there would be a small in-staff election for the next admin. The thing is, is that anyone on staff can run for admin, even if they're juniors, but traditionally, the only people who have become admins afaik were eternal staff members. Anyway, the people running give speeches, and the staff votes. The incumbent then transfers the Admin account to the winner.
My only concern was losing quality, not whether it can be done
Well, you make a valid point. I think working on a moderation AI or something of that ilk from the ground up would be pretty instructive for me...
Advisor: what have you been doing Me: made lego message board bot Advisor: understandable keep up the good work
If you think it's feasible to work in python with this stuff, it's honestly what I want to do already, just with a bit of a twist.
Perhaps me being a moderator would be useful to you guys even if I didn't moderate a single post... What's the general time progression on staff promotions?
First action of admin? Easy... I'll advocate for studs in the old MB style
Why would it lose quality? It's not like it's getting resized.
Yes, and besides, if you become our AI department, I'll be able to get more done, since that'll be one less thing I need to focus on here.
Well, yes, we can easily implement Brython into this website, but you can't import anything that isn't native to it, so no using numpy or pandas unfortunately. Brython is just browser JavaScript in the skin of Python.
However, you can just train a regular tensorflow model with python - independent of this website, and then load that model into tensorflow.js, which is compatible with this site. It's also possible to host python code on an external web server (which is what I'm doing, except with node.js instead of python). And then you can make it that TBB can fetch data / information from that web server, or you can even make it that the python web server tracks what happens on TBB (like making TBB send information to the web server every time a post is liked or a member joins) and then the web server can store that information on it's database. I explained this concept before. I dunno why I'm explaining it again. Either way, I'm now using Node.js for the development of TBB maybe I can even get into web sockets and put live chats on TBB but it would be just as easy, if not easier, to use Python for TBB development. And I doubt it would be much of an adjustment for you. Coding in python would be the same, except you'd need to display on the web instead of the console, which is very easy afaik. Either way, making AI models and then putting them on this site wouldn't be too hard I think (although what do I know? ).
Time progression on staff promotions is variable. Depending on how actively the person moderates / develops or designs, they could either be promoted quickly or slowly. If a person is doing phenomenal work, they'll probably see a promotion very quickly. If all they do is make a few buttons that do nothing, or moderate one post a month, then it'll take a while (or they'll just be demoted). And then after a person becomes a full mod or a full designer, the next step is senior staff, and that only happens if there's a space open. When Quark (former eternal staff member) left staff, Zach got promoted from senior to eternal, and then since I was next in line, I filled Zach's spot on the senior team. If any eternal staff members leave, either I or RuleJJ would be promoted to Eternal Staff, and Ardent Four would probably be promoted to Senior Staff. Generally there's only 3 eternals and 2 seniors, so if one leaves, someone will fill the spot. And then there's the highest position: Admin. Currently Sam is the Admin, but if he were to leave, then there would be a small in-staff election for the next admin. The thing is, is that anyone on staff can run for admin, even if they're juniors, but traditionally, the only people who have become admins afaik were eternal staff members. Anyway, the people running give speeches, and the staff votes. The incumbent then transfers the Admin account to the winner.
Well, if the images had been made lower quality to create the gif in the first place. I don't think they were in this case as they're already pixelated.
I think I'll have to do a little research and find out if message board AIs would be too tangential to what I want to work on. At a high level, I can't imagine they would be too tangential, particularly since I'd be able to work with it in the language I'm endeavoring to learn anyway (I've primarily just used MATLAB for everything and am trying to get up to speed with Python ). The Brython seems a bit odd, but it seems like you have experience in that so I assume we could each use our strengths to get farther on a project than we could alone.
Also, you've entirely destroyed the "LMBE staff black box" that was in my mind. I legitimately had no clue how it worked before.
I might put in an application soon, actually. I'm fairly certain that moderating wouldn't take much time, given activity around here. I'll just want to look into this AI business a bit first.
Why would it lose quality? It's not like it's getting resized.
Yes, and besides, if you become our AI department, I'll be able to get more done, since that'll be one less thing I need to focus on here.
Well, yes, we can easily implement Brython into this website, but you can't import anything that isn't native to it, so no using numpy or pandas unfortunately. Brython is just browser JavaScript in the skin of Python.
However, you can just train a regular tensorflow model with python - independent of this website, and then load that model into tensorflow.js, which is compatible with this site. It's also possible to host python code on an external web server (which is what I'm doing, except with node.js instead of python). And then you can make it that TBB can fetch data / information from that web server, or you can even make it that the python web server tracks what happens on TBB (like making TBB send information to the web server every time a post is liked or a member joins) and then the web server can store that information on it's database. I explained this concept before. I dunno why I'm explaining it again. Either way, I'm now using Node.js for the development of TBB maybe I can even get into web sockets and put live chats on TBB but it would be just as easy, if not easier, to use Python for TBB development. And I doubt it would be much of an adjustment for you. Coding in python would be the same, except you'd need to display on the web instead of the console, which is very easy afaik. Either way, making AI models and then putting them on this site wouldn't be too hard I think (although what do I know? ).
Time progression on staff promotions is variable. Depending on how actively the person moderates / develops or designs, they could either be promoted quickly or slowly. If a person is doing phenomenal work, they'll probably see a promotion very quickly. If all they do is make a few buttons that do nothing, or moderate one post a month, then it'll take a while (or they'll just be demoted). And then after a person becomes a full mod or a full designer, the next step is senior staff, and that only happens if there's a space open. When Quark (former eternal staff member) left staff, Zach got promoted from senior to eternal, and then since I was next in line, I filled Zach's spot on the senior team. If any eternal staff members leave, either I or RuleJJ would be promoted to Eternal Staff, and Ardent Four would probably be promoted to Senior Staff. Generally there's only 3 eternals and 2 seniors, so if one leaves, someone will fill the spot. And then there's the highest position: Admin. Currently Sam is the Admin, but if he were to leave, then there would be a small in-staff election for the next admin. The thing is, is that anyone on staff can run for admin, even if they're juniors, but traditionally, the only people who have become admins afaik were eternal staff members. Anyway, the people running give speeches, and the staff votes. The incumbent then transfers the Admin account to the winner.
Well, if the images had been made lower quality to create the gif in the first place. I don't think they were in this case as they're already pixelated.
I think I'll have to do a little research and find out if message board AIs would be too tangential to what I want to work on. At a high level, I can't imagine they would be too tangential, particularly since I'd be able to work with it in the language I'm endeavoring to learn anyway (I've primarily just used MATLAB for everything and am trying to get up to speed with Python ). The Brython seems a bit odd, but it seems like you have experience in that so I assume we could each use our strengths to get farther on a project than we could alone.
Also, you've entirely destroyed the "LMBE staff black box" that was in my mind. I legitimately had no clue how it worked before.
I might put in an application soon, actually. I'm fairly certain that moderating wouldn't take much time, given activity around here. I'll just want to look into this AI business a bit first.
Yes, research. You should look up "toxicity tensorflow.js". It's a premade model that could detect whether text is toxic, obscene, racist, adult, etc. The problem with it is that it doesn't get sarcasm. I've tested it out and for some reason it would reject a post that says "I'll slap you" even if there's a or a "lol" right after it. So, it doesn't really get sarcasm, and it sometimes doesn't get inappropriate references, so it's not really practical for TBB, but maybe you can look at the model and see what it does, and maybe we can expand upon it. I was thinking maybe feeding an AI all of TBB's rejected posts and thousands of approved posts, and maybe it could learn the difference between the two, or something. I don't have any experience in AI (although I've been researching a bit), but it seems like such a project would utilize NLP (natural language processing) and Sentiment Analysis. And yeah, I'm experienced in Brython and Python. I'm excited to hear that you might apply soon, but please put a lot of thought into it before you apply. It's more of a time investment than you'd think, and if you're otherwise pretty busy, it might not be the best idea. With that being said, if you were to join, I think that would be cool especially if you work on development.
Isn't there some old saying about a lot of failures being involved in innovation?
I wouldn't say a different person, it's just a subtle difference that throws me off, because it's hard to put your finger on the change exactly.
Yeah, there probably is, though I forgot how it goes.
That makes sense. Just a little difference that is big enough to be noticed.
I was kind of worried that faceID on my phone wouldn't like it, but apparently it has enough margin for error, or looks at different facial structures, that it didn't care. Hopefully I can get comfortable enough with ML algorithms soon that I can learn more about how those facial recognition things work...
Well, if the images had been made lower quality to create the gif in the first place. I don't think they were in this case as they're already pixelated.
I think I'll have to do a little research and find out if message board AIs would be too tangential to what I want to work on. At a high level, I can't imagine they would be too tangential, particularly since I'd be able to work with it in the language I'm endeavoring to learn anyway (I've primarily just used MATLAB for everything and am trying to get up to speed with Python ). The Brython seems a bit odd, but it seems like you have experience in that so I assume we could each use our strengths to get farther on a project than we could alone.
Also, you've entirely destroyed the "LMBE staff black box" that was in my mind. I legitimately had no clue how it worked before.
I might put in an application soon, actually. I'm fairly certain that moderating wouldn't take much time, given activity around here. I'll just want to look into this AI business a bit first.
Yes, research. You should look up "toxicity tensorflow.js". It's a premade model that could detect whether text is toxic, obscene, racist, adult, etc. The problem with it is that it doesn't get sarcasm. I've tested it out and for some reason it would reject a post that says "I'll slap you" even if there's a or a "lol" right after it. So, it doesn't really get sarcasm, and it sometimes doesn't get inappropriate references, so it's not really practical for TBB, but maybe you can look at the model and see what it does, and maybe we can expand upon it. I was thinking maybe feeding an AI all of TBB's rejected posts and thousands of approved posts, and maybe it could learn the difference between the two, or something. I don't have any experience in AI (although I've been researching a bit), but it seems like such a project would utilize NLP (natural language processing) and Sentiment Analysis. And yeah, I'm experienced in Brython and Python. I'm excited to hear that you might apply soon, but please put a lot of thought into it before you apply. It's more of a time investment than you'd think, and if you're otherwise pretty busy, it might not be the best idea. With that being said, if you were to join, I think that would be cool especially if you work on development.
I feel if you managed to teach a bot the subtleties of sarcasm you might be pretty close to passing the Turing test However if you trained a bot to pass messages like that through, you might be able to get actually threatening posts through by slapping a lol at the end... Sometimes I think about how much awesome raw language data was made inaccessible when the MBs went offline... though I'm not sure how much a bot could actually get out of it... still 2 million posts have to account for something.
Yes, working on algorithms would definitely be a time investment, but as that's something I'm already interested in, I think it might be a good marriage. How many hours on moderation alone would you say you spend per week?
Yes, research. You should look up "toxicity tensorflow.js". It's a premade model that could detect whether text is toxic, obscene, racist, adult, etc. The problem with it is that it doesn't get sarcasm. I've tested it out and for some reason it would reject a post that says "I'll slap you" even if there's a or a "lol" right after it. So, it doesn't really get sarcasm, and it sometimes doesn't get inappropriate references, so it's not really practical for TBB, but maybe you can look at the model and see what it does, and maybe we can expand upon it. I was thinking maybe feeding an AI all of TBB's rejected posts and thousands of approved posts, and maybe it could learn the difference between the two, or something. I don't have any experience in AI (although I've been researching a bit), but it seems like such a project would utilize NLP (natural language processing) and Sentiment Analysis. And yeah, I'm experienced in Brython and Python. I'm excited to hear that you might apply soon, but please put a lot of thought into it before you apply. It's more of a time investment than you'd think, and if you're otherwise pretty busy, it might not be the best idea. With that being said, if you were to join, I think that would be cool especially if you work on development.
I feel if you managed to teach a bot the subtleties of sarcasm you might be pretty close to passing the Turing test However if you trained a bot to pass messages like that through, you might be able to get actually threatening posts through by slapping a lol at the end... Sometimes I think about how much awesome raw language data was made inaccessible when the MBs went offline... though I'm not sure how much a bot could actually get out of it... still 2 million posts have to account for something.
Yes, working on algorithms would definitely be a time investment, but as that's something I'm already interested in, I think it might be a good marriage. How many hours on moderation alone would you say you spend per week?
"I will kill you tonight lol. Sleep with one eye open lol" So, basically, the solution is to play it safe I guess. The AI would just have to flag the post if it's not sure, since it's better safe than sorry. And also, there's the fact that no one here threatens each other except whenever I'm dealing with 𝓐𝔯𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝓕𝔬𝔲𝔯. Basically, all posts by default are approved for the public to see. However, when a post is created, a bot checks to see the contents of the post, and if it thinks it should be rejected, or it isn't sure, then it would flag the post and hide it from the public, and then a human mod would have to look it over and either approve it or reject it. And yeah, it would've been interested if MB data was made accessible. I mean, I don't know why LEGO felt like they couldn't archive the MBs themselves since they probably had all the tools necessary to do that, but for some reason they just didn't want to.
Well, moderation doesn't take that long (I maybe moderate on average ten, maybe fifteen minutes a day - although each day is kind of different, and I'm not sure how long the other mods moderate for each day though), but if we got another mod, then I might stop moderating since I would like to invest more of my time on TBB developing. But you should know that mods don't code for TBB. They just moderate. If you want to help out with programming stuff, then you should apply as a designer, not a mod. Designers generally don't moderate unless they're also moderators (like me). And moderators don't help with design and development unless they're also designers. Once again, I apologize for the term "designer", when "developer" is more accurate. I didn't choose that. Most designers' posts don't need moderation (except for mine until I became a moderator). Now, developing is way more fun than moderating, but I suppose, if you really want to, you can apply to be a mod and a designer.
? If so, as you now see, I have them. 
Goodbye LMBs...
Goodbye LMBs...
