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minidazzler

Lab_Mouse wrote: »

Its all blokes....on my list anyhows:o:eek:I think its a bug.Well it has to be a bug.....

Boards is telling you something! :P

Chinafoot

shellyboo
Thaedydal
iguana
LZ5by5
ibarelycare
Silverfish
SheRa
Dudess
Ickle Magoo
Darthhoob
bluewolf

I guess its unrequited love for me and Thaed :P

Dudess

Earthhorse wrote: »

But historically they would have thanked you more than others. Their love echoes through the ages.

Still not convinced. There are people on whose lists I am and I don't thank many of their posts (not because of who they are or anything, I just don't happen to). And there are people who thank a lot of my posts because they share a lot of the same views as I, and they're not on my list.

Ideo

ooops!

My name is URL

Dudess wrote: »

Still not convinced. There are people on whose lists I am and I don't thank many of their posts (not because of who they are or anything, I just don't happen to). And there are people who thank a lot of my posts because they share a lot of the same views as I, and they're not on my list.

It could be to do with how many times thanks is reciprocated between users within a thread.

None of the people on my list are 'friends'.. and one of them has been banned for 5 months.. so I dunno

Earthhorse

Dudess wrote: »

Still not convinced. There are people on whose lists I am and I don't thank many of their posts (not because of who they are or anything, I just don't happen to). And there are people who thank a lot of my posts because they share a lot of the same views as I, and they're not on my list.

v:)v

It's just an educated guess. You wouldn't have to thank users an awful lot, just more than anyone else who thanks them. Dunno, maybe they eliminate people who thank your posts too much, as they're clearly just trying to game the system. I'm sure that's why you're not on mine.

convert

Walls wrote: »

Nowt there.

You have zaraba on your list! :eek: :mad:

cooperguy

My name is URL wrote: »

It could be to do with how many times thanks is reciprocated between users within a thread.

None of the people on my list are 'friends'.. and one of them has been banned for 5 months.. so I dunno

Your my number one Dudess your in there too!

deadhead13

I think it is the number of times you thanked each other. The times you thank them added to the times they thanked you. Highest combinations goes on the list.

TimTim

I'm quite interested to know how this is actually calculated...

Here are the lucky few...

kickoutthejams
pikachucheeks
liah
Sea Devils
janeybabe
Krieg
Pixie-Fairy
The guy
Aussie Sean
impr0v
Khannie

Handsome Bob

Chinafoot wrote: »

shellyboo
Thaedydal
iguana
LZ5by5
ibarelycare
Silverfish
SheRa
Dudess
Ickle Magoo
Darthhoob
bluewolf

I guess its unrequited love for me and Thaed :P

Yay! :pac:

alwaysadub

I have a mixture of men and women on mine.
Does this mean i'm bi sexual??

Who needs PI when you have Feedback:D

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Can we keep the icon as a smiley?

I it

convert

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Yay! :pac:

Username
star-pants
Thaedydal
Sparks
Gordon
RichieLawlor
doctor evil
smccarrick
byhookorbycrook
LZ5by5
sceptre
DeVore

You're on my list, too....

Looks like I got a decent number of wimmins on my list.... 4 wimmins and 6 'others'

Handsome Bob

Nerin
keefg
Chinafoot
That Guy
Dr. B
star pants
Wibbs
K-9
Dudess
Master of Nothing
Chopperbyrne

Sorry Convert. :P

The_Joker

Dav wrote: »

Following on from this announcement, I'd like to open this thread up for people to comment on and report any bugs with our new Match Making service.
Dav

Come on Dav own up it was your idea....you want to see how many boardsies you can notch up per month

Good god above all my matches are MALE! Does this mean I'm......

Whose gonna tell my missus?

convert

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Nerin
keefg
Chinafoot
That Guy
Dr. B
star pants
Wibbs
K-9
Dudess
Master of Nothing
Chopperbyrne

Sorry Convert. :P

But you told me I was special... And that it meant something....
I'm crushed....

Oryx

deadhead13 wrote: »

I think it is the number of times you thanked each other. The times you thank them added to the times they thanked you. Highest combinations goes on the list.

Thanked rhymes with..

Aha!

Chinafoot

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Nerin
keefg
Chinafoot
That Guy
Dr. B
star pants
Wibbs
K-9
Dudess
Master of Nothing
Chopperbyrne

Sorry Convert. :P

HOMGZ you love me a little bit more than i love you :P

Adyx

Sully
abouttobebanned
OutlawPete
Waynecarr
m@cc@
Rigsby
Ledger
Cabaal
davyjose
Kotek Besar
Frada

Hmm, mine has changed since yesterday. I did have Lolth(?) at the bottom where Frada is now. Four of them are from the Waterford City forum but I have no idea who Kotek Besar is. Also I feel very like I got a bit of a raw deal here.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Username Compatibility
Wibbs
dlofnep
CDfm
metrovelvet
Dudess
AARRRGH
Chinafoot
Thaedydal
Jakkass
Liam Byrne
shellyboo


I don't think its down to thanks, only ones I tend to thank regularly on this list are dlofnep, Wibbs and AARRRGH. Regularly tend to completely disagree with some of the others. The rest could go either way

Though I do tend to post in the same threads as nearly all of the above. Maybe down to quoting each other?

Dudess

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

Though I do tend to post in the same threads as nearly all of the above. Maybe down to quoting each other?

Think that's what it is - general on-thread engagement.

Sparks

Thaedydal wrote: »

Thats nice of you but he's not on my dance card...:D

Jilted!

Sparks

convert wrote: »

You have zaraba on your list! :eek: :mad:

Ha-ha!

stovelid

brummytom
Gavin "shels"
javaboy
Des
dr.bollocko
Frada
Wibbs
Xavi6
dfx-
My name is URL
super_furry


Memo to matchmaker bot: just because other boardsies support League of Ireland doesn't mean I want to sleep with them. Thx.

Gaspode

Dudess wrote: »

Think that's what it is - general on-thread engagement.

Clearly then nobody agrees with anything I say, which I kinda like, makes me feel like a maverick or rebel of sorts.

albeit a lonely rebel.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

brummytom
Gavin "shels"
javaboy
Des
dr.bollocko
Frada
Wibbs
Xavi6
dfx-
My name is URL
super_furry


Memo to matchmaker bot: just because other boardsies support League of Ireland doesn't mean I want to sleep with them. Thx.

Teh heh - and every single one of them a guy... :pac:

stovelid

Dudess wrote: »

Teh heh - and every single one of them a guy... :pac:

Not even interesting or attractive ones either.

/flounces off

sceptre

Thaedydal wrote: »

what genre of 80s classics?

Hmmm, probably mostly new wave and synth pop. I have a full set of Now albums.

I also listen to good music though. Well, my last.fm listings are in my sig so "good" is publicly debatable.

*goes and plays unmitigated crap for an hour*

Kiera

sceptre wrote: »

Hmmm, probably mostly new wave and synth pop. I have a full set of Now albums.

I also listen to good music though. Well, my last.fm listings are in my sig so "good" is publicly debatable.

Madonna? Really? :P

smashey

Kiera wrote: »

Madonna? Really? :P

Shush you. Ray of light rawks.

Kiera

smashey wrote: »

Shush you. Ray of light rawks.

What would you know about music, old timer!

sceptre

Kiera wrote: »

Madonna? Really? :P

Plenty of crap too but when Madonna's god she's very good.

I like the Natasha Bedingfield cover of Ray of Light better mind you:p

Kiera

sceptre wrote: »

Plenty of crap too but when Madonna's god she's very good.

I like the Natasha Bedingfield cover of Ray of Light better mind you:p

Have never heard that version, will YT it later. I just dont rate Madge at all. I see you have the Kinks in there too so you're not all bad!

Nevyn

sceptre wrote: »

Hmmm, probably mostly new wave and synth pop. I have a full set of Now albums.

I also listen to good music though. Well, my last.fm listings are in my sig so "good" is publicly debatable.

*goes and plays unmitigated crap for an hour*

Have you watched Synth Britannia ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg

Earthhorse

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

I don't think its down to thanks, only ones I tend to thank regularly on this list are dlofnep, Wibbs and AARRRGH. Regularly tend to completely disagree with some of the others. The rest could go either way

You wouldn't have to though, they would be thanking you. And even people who disagree with you could be thanking you.

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

Though I do tend to post in the same threads as nearly all of the above. Maybe down to quoting each other?

Dudess wrote: »

Think that's what it is - general on-thread engagement.

Thing about that is, I would imagine it's pretty expensive to run a query on the database to find that out. I don't think that info is held anywhere explicitly i.e. I don't think there's a table called Quotes where you can find out that information, instead you would have to go through all of a user's posts to find out who they'd quoted. That's a lot of posts.

It could be down to the number of times you've both posted in the same threads but again that's a lot of threads to get through, though I think that information might actually be held somewhere so it could be a factor.

I'd say it's more than likely down to some combination of the following:

- who thanks you (determines who is on your list)
- who you thank (determines whose list you are on)
- friends
- last X profile visits
- subscribed forums
- percentage distribution of your posts (i.e. 50% in AH, 10% in Humanities, 40% in Feedback)
- threads you've both posted in

Thing is, some of that stuff is too much work to do (unless it's already done elsewhere) for a feature that's not a feature. Unless the guys are using this as a learning exercise for some future features (such as forum recommendations).

On the other hand, I can't believe I've put this much thought into something that's probably based on the sum of the position of the letters of your username in the alphabet. On Good Friday. Is that what Jesus would have wanted?

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stovelid wrote: »

Not even interesting or attractive ones either.

OutlawPete

Will the equation used be revealed?

I'm thinking:

Times they visited your Profile X Times you thanked them

That's where my money is .. :cool:

Dudess

watty wrote: »

Someone has FAR to much free time.

I think I saw yahoo groups and Source Forge yesterday claimed they would be down for maintenance today for a while...

Smart move.

brummytom

stovelid wrote: »

Not even interesting or attractive ones either.

/flounces off

sceptre

Thaedydal wrote: »

Have you watched Synth Britannia ?

No, excellent, thanks!

I'll even watch it before that eight part BBC documentary on bread narrated by Tom Baker (Bread: A Loaf Affair)I've managed to acquire.

No I'm not being sarcastic. It was on BBC4. It had lines in it like "From the exotic thighs of ciabatta to the mainstream baps of ordinary bread".

4zn76tysfajdxp

I think Modutils might have something to do with it as well.

Thaedydal wrote: »

Have you watched Synth Britannia ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg

I look forward to watching that.

Conor

It was a points system.

If you are user A and I'm calculating the matching score for you with user B:

• 3 points for each time user A thanked user B
  • Excluding buddy list
  • Excluding ignore list
  • Excluding any user B who hasn't been active in the last 6 months
• 6 points for each time user B thanked user A
  • Excluding buddy list
  • Excluding ignore list
  • Excluding any user B who hasn't been active in the last 6 months
• 1 point for each time user A replied to a thread started by user B
  • Excluding buddy list
  • Excluding ignore list
  • Excluding mod & admin forums
  • Excluding threads over 6 months old
• 2 points for each time user B replied to a thread started by user A
  • Excluding buddy list
  • Excluding ignore list
  • Excluding mod & admin forums
  • Excluding threads over 6 months old
• 1 point for each time user A PMed user B
  • Excluding buddy list
  • Excluding ignore list
  • For mods, excluding PMs to co-mods
  • Excluding PMs over 6 months old
• 2 points for each time user B PMed user A.
  • Excluding buddy list
  • Excluding ignore list
  • For mods, excluding PMs to co-mods
  • Excluding PMs over 6 months old

The points were added up and then adjusted to a 0-10 scale. 0 was 0 and 10 was the highest number of points by any person you matched with.

If you got no-one with more than 0 points, you were told:

I'm afraid we don't have enough data to find good matches for you. Perhaps you would like to flirt with Tar?

The interesting thing from my perspective was all the people complaining "I got all men!" or "I got all women!". If you got all men, you probably don't interact much with women and vice-versa. If you want more men/women in your list, start talking to them!

Spiritoftheseventies

that explains a lot

GuanYin

Conor wrote: »

[*] 2 points for each time user B PMed user A.

This explains SO much.


Most notably why I was matched with users who have sent me abusive PMs

Tar.Aldarion

Conor wrote:

I'm afraid we don't have enough data to find good matches for you. Perhaps you would like to flirt with Tar?

lmao!



I kinda thought the friends list thing was part of it as brummy was my top guy and excitedly added me to friends list...then I did t again and he was gone. Blew his load too soon poor chap

RoundyMooney

Thanks Conor, interesting way to highlight our interactions on boards if nothing else

phasers

Mine still makes no sense... well most of it does, but not my top person...

Gamesnash.ie: Pat

phasers wrote: »

Mine still makes no sense... well most of it does, but not my top person...

+ 1

I think the top person was a random / done on different criteria.

4zn76tysfajdxp

phasers wrote: »

Mine still makes no sense... well most of it does, but not my top person...

The top person must be random: