Hello Ian. I think the vote is belonging to the community. That means that your script should support the "common" community way of expressing their preferences rather than obviously ignoring some votes because your script will ignore anything not satisfying the format. Even if my attention span is large enough to change my vote, you can see several other community members that voted in similar fashion. Expecting everyone to express opinion on everything and then formatting it correctly for script to capture is not a valid expectation of this community. I would count by hand myself or write a better script rather than trying to enforce my format over everyone in the community, which as you can see yourself is not reasonable expectation of 50% of the members.Ian07 wrote: February 23rd, 2020, 10:18 am and not like any other format that doesn't consist of pound signs at the very beginning of each vote line in the message, followed immediately by two digits matching a numbered item from the list below, followed by a space, followed by one or two or three asterisks.
Following a certain format is the rule. For example, you can't post a pattern by using 0 and 1 and@rowett and say there is a bug in LifeViewer.simsim314 wrote: March 8th, 2020, 5:12 amHello Ian. I think the vote is belonging to the community. That means that your script should support the "common" community way of expressing their preferences rather than obviously ignoring some votes because your script will ignore anything not satisfying the format. Even if my attention span is large enough to change my vote, you can see several other community members that voted in similar fashion. Expecting everyone to express opinion on everything and then formatting it correctly for script to capture is not a valid expectation of this community. I would count by hand myself or write a better script rather than trying to enforce my format over everyone in the community, which as you can see yourself is not reasonable expectation of 50% of the members.Ian07 wrote: February 23rd, 2020, 10:18 am and not like any other format that doesn't consist of pound signs at the very beginning of each vote line in the message, followed immediately by two digits matching a numbered item from the list below, followed by a space, followed by one or two or three asterisks.
Who decides the "rule"? I can write a script in different way and if Ian will open the script, I'm capable of adding another rule. Can you as a person understand my preferences? If the answer is yes, adapt the script to fit the member preferred way of expressing themselves rather than enforce your rules. If you can't manage this type of parsing, the community should prefer the script that can (or even old fashion by hand counting).
The rule is in the first page by testitem, TWO DIGITS.simsim314 wrote: March 8th, 2020, 5:32 amWho decides the "rule"? I can write a script in different way and if Ian will open the script, I'm capable of adding another rule. Can you as a person understand my preferences? If the answer is yes, adapt the script to fit the member preferred way of expressing themselves rather than enforce your rules. If you can't manage this type of parsing, the community should prefer the script that can.
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001Hey I look at a script you posted and on line 43 the while loop without spacing will work. Don't see why you think it needs spacing? The script as it's now looks fine for my format as well.dvgrn wrote: February 23rd, 2020, 4:26 pm Really it would be easy enough to fix the script to handle simsim314's variation of the vote format.
It used to require a space. I adjusted it to allow your variant of the format a week or two ago. The version with the space is still preferable, just for readability, and because that’s what the first post asked for.simsim314 wrote: March 8th, 2020, 6:23 amHey I look at a script you posted and on line 43 the while loop without spacing will work. Don't see why you think it needs spacing? The script as it's now looks fine for my format as well.
I think I'm going to politely decline to do any more work on this at all. The current script will be run in four days, and then the Great Vote Format Problem will stop being of interest to anyone at all for another year.simsim314 wrote: March 11th, 2020, 5:12 am @dvgrn I would suggest to post the script on GitHub and anyone has two options:
1. Comply with the existing format.
2. Use their own format after updating the script themselves.
Thus we will allow more formats and less work for you.
Shall I correct my votes' indexing?
No need if you don't want to. The script doesn't care about leading zeroes, it just converts any string of digits into a number and records the vote against that number.
You were way ahead of the deadline -- it's still March 15th in American Samoa (but not in Samoa) for another hour and change.
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