RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues 🏆 - STEEM prizes & steem-bounty available! 🎁

[abh12345]

I had to take some points off for the folks that this week I spotted using fast reply and partiko.

This message is over 200 characters long:

My only method this week was to work out the length of the additional text that partiko, ulogs, fast reply add to the message, and multiply that by the number of messages.

None of this took place last week.

This is going to be very troublesome for me, especially as people switch around and use multiple access points.

I hope that helps.

Comments

[coinsandchains]

lol, you would pick that message... I guess the emojis take up Quite a few characters too. I probably used fast-reply for 80% of my replies, it stops working once the replies get to 10 deep.

That could be problematic, depending on the scripts you are using. I'm just starting to poke around on the dev and data side, but I think I saw that an app was recorded with the comments.
(I'm just guessing SQL based and on the field names as well...)

SUM(
    CASE WHEN app = 'fast-reply'
        THEN char_count = CHAR_LENGTH(comment_text)- 150
        WHEN app = 'partiko'
        THEN char_count = CHAR_LENGTH(comment_text)- 100
        ELSE char_count = CHAR_LENGTH(comment_text)
    END
    )

It might take a bit to get setup capturing the char count for each tag. It looks like it counts the markdown for the link in character count as well...
It would probably work faster as part of a subquery in the from statement.

The emoji's might be another issue altogether, they are at least 10 char each but would depend on what encoding the system is using. You might could count occurrences of either U+ or &# and multiply that by 10 and subtract it from the total.

Sorry, decided to let the nerd come out a bit, I rather enjoy complex problems like that.

[abh12345]

Thanks :D

Yes this will have to come into play programmatically next week. Oh the joys!

arcange and his database are unlikely to appreciate the extra load here, but I do need to make things as fair as possible.

More work, boo hoo!

[melinda010100]

I can't imagine the amount of work you put into this! Thank you for all you do. A curation question for you. I send out a lot of votes using autovoter. Is that what keeps me off the curation list?

[abh12345]

Hi @melinda010100

Thanks for the understanding that the post does take a reasonable amount of time to organise each week - it's well worth it for all, including myself I think/hope!

An autovoter is fine with regards to the Curation league, it's just fairly tough to appear. Also, if you have had recent delegations, you will also be knocked off the list for a few weeks - perhaps it is this that has done it, and you will appear this next week or the week after.

Cheers

Asher

[glenalbrethsen]

Can I just state for the record, at the risk of being rude and also upsetting some folks that I have come to know and admire, that while I understand that each one of those apps and sites are attempting to spread the word of their existence around the STEEM ecosystem with promotional taglines, that said taglines become utterly annoying and counter productive after the fifth or so time you see them.

Thanks, we get it.

I am no more inclined to use them today than the first million times I saw them.

As ever, however, I am the odd man out. I readily admit it. It's lonely here where I am, but you can't beat the peace and quiet. :)

I appreciate greatly, that while it does increase your workload to weed all of these extra characters out as best you can, that you are doing that. Although I suppose the rest of us who don't use them could just add our own taglines to equal things out. :)

[abh12345]

I'm with you Glen.

I was getting a bit sick of seeing them even prior to the fact i've now got to check each comment for reply source and deduct a certain amount of characters. I didn't really need this extra piece of work!