saintbletch

EDIT: Correctly guessed by buctootim as, well, um, buctootim. Moderate?

EDIT: Correctly guessed as 100_Persaint by Fowllyd. Moderate? Dunno really.

EDIT: Correctly guessed as Dalek2003 by Fowllyd. Easyish.

EDIT: Correctly guessed as Cheese on Toast by pap. Easyish.

EDIT: Correctly guessed as Guided Missile by Fowllyd Easy.

EDIT: Correctly guessed as verbal by pap. This rates as easy.

Correctly guessed as hypochondriac by pap. This rates as easy on the Bletch-o-whatever.

EDIT: Correctly guessed as Spudders by notnowcato. This rates as easy on the Bletchograph.

EDIT: Correctly guessed as alpine_saint Saint by pap. OK, so as I'm off out on the lash this afternoon, I'll post a few more up to keep you guessing: For the thousands of you playing this game, can you please include the #post number in your guess. Thanks you. You're too kind. This rates easy on the Bletchometer.

Ding, dong. We have a winner. Good work lesbian view. It was the bland use of language (for which I mean no offence) that identifies it as The Man's posting record. I notice Toke has bottled it since all the obvious ones have gone.

No, not CB Fry, you louche language-letch. Your analysis is pretty impressive actually, and you're certainly in the right area. FYI I see the emoticons as text, and interestingly, a combination of the emoticons used would narrow down the poster you're looking for. I've added 'would' and other frequently occurring words to the stop list and changed the scaling of the visualisation, so let's see if this makes it any clearer. (It's the same poster as #270).

I've effectively written my own Tapatalk client in to get at the content - which is why I have restrictions on what I can get access to. The visualisation is done in the browser using Javascript.

Not The Kraken you old word slag. I picked someone who is well known, but has a pretty vanilla word corpus. It's quite tough. The examples I've shown so far do have the most common 'stop' words removed. As much as I hate to admit it, I think you're right that a further removal of frequently occurring words that are common to the majority of posters would more clearly surface posting personality. I'll have a think, but I'm sure you'll agree that it might remove some of the mystery to present a word cloud featuring Hoddle in a 100pt font. Hmm.

Once I'm more certain of the data, I'll post a couple of examples. But there are so many caveats about what I'm doing at the moment that we should look upon this as a bit of fun (or hilarious fun with words if you're a word bore). In any case there isn't much you can accurately infer from the frequency of a single, non-noun word. You need to look at word combinations (n-grams), to see how those words are used in context. That said, when such a large proportion of posters have the tokens 'would' and 'like' as their most frequently used, then when others have a different frequency distribution, it's fair enough to say that they have a 'different' posting style to the norm.

It's probably a contraction of some sort. I'm still not handling those properly.

We hadn't started yet, Toke. That doesn't count. OK, a tough one here. Who is this?

And the real tpbury...

I'd sooner clean-up one of Toke's dogs after a Sunday in the park, than try to accurately define irony Bear. And there are many types of irony. I once read something by Stephen Fry (I think) that explained the different types very well. (14 types springs to mind, but that doesn't sound right/possible/probable). Anyway, the one I am using is where there is a contradiction between what is stated and what is done. In this case the caller is claiming to help stop spam calls, but in order to deliver this message, he is making a spam call. His real intent is hidden from me. I'll find you some further reading Bear. I'll even set some homework. Do not copy Toke's work again! You will only be wrong.

We didn't get to the ironing bit Toke. He's coming round to dinner at the w/e, and we'll take it from there. As an aside, my wife used to charge me to do my "ironing" before she became my wife, and now that she is my wife, she does my ironing for free. Who says that there is no need to get married these days?

Thanks tpbury. You should see your word cloud. It's a pedant's delight.

Just had an excellent cold call conversation with a call centre in Asia. Bletch: "Hello?" Caller: "Is that Mr. Bletch?" (With a very thick Indian accent, and obviously reading from a script) Bletch: "Can I ask who is calling?" Caller: "This is (something like) DNC Centre, the Do Not Call centre. We understand that you have been having a high volume of unwanted sales and marketing calls. Is that correct?" Bletch: "I'm not sure how good your English is, but do you understand the concept of irony?" Caller: "I'm sorry sir. Have you been having a high volume of unwanted sales and marketing calls?" Bletch: "Yep, I said that I don't know how good your English is, but do you understand the concept of irony, do you know what irony means?" Caller: (hangs up)

The Bear across all forums: The Bear on his best behaviour in the main board: The Bear being all erudite and "don't mind if I do" in The Lounge: The Bear tonguing Tokyos in TMS: I've been experimenting with the appearance, so this should be a little easier to read. May I draw your attention to the text in the middle of the 'o' in 'tokyos' in the TMS word cloud? The algorithm that places the text is totally random. Artificial intelligence at work?

OK Bear, here it is. YO

I was wrong about dune. He really knew his onions. He was posting about Osvaldo years before we signed him.