The Automatic Saints News Thread - DISCUSSION

Without wanting to shit on the memory of a saviour, I’d like to see Markus as half-human, half-cyborg.

A la…

Hey that would make a good storyline: heartbroken, grieving daughter turns to the murky services of Tony Stark and uses her inherited billions to resurrect her father. Iron Marcus becomes the new chairman of Saints and leads them to Champions League glory whilst clashing with former best friend Oddjob Cortese.

Maybe he looks like Davros in the bottom half of the waving picture.

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I have visited that thread. It’s full of shit stories that I can’t be arsed to read. It’s basically like looking at Newsnow and instead of selecting the stories you want to read (usually about 1 or 2 at most) you are confronted with all of the stories and it’s overwhelming and slightly tedious because many of the stories are just repeats of what has already been said.

now, before anyone gets all moody, I shan’t be visiting that thread, I’m just sharing my thoughts about it. If others like it, then lovely, but if everyone else thinks it’s shit and pointless then maybe it should be deleted. Sotonians should have a vote after a week or two.

Problem you’ve got is i.e. Daily Mail does a story that i.e. Toby is going to Spurs, and then in the next hour you have 20 articles from 20 different new leaches, rehashing the same ‘story’, in an ‘According to Daily Mail…’ fashion.

Dunno if you can do anything bout that tho.

Edit: Soz I see beltch is On Top Of That Situation

Data droid stll saying Toby to Spurs, I got an ITK text to say he will sign for Spurs. If I win, I vote we destroy the drop before it takes over.

So you and Armstrong are in agreement? Why would we destroy Armstong when you’re saying the same thing? I vote to destroy you.

Anyone else picking up tensions in the Bearsy/Tokyo/Fatso love triangle?

There is no triangle here, Lou. Fatso is round.

Originally posted by @Coxford_lou

Anyone else picking up tensions in the Bearsy/Tokyo/Fatso love triangle?

Yep, I’m watching The Affair at the moment and Bear is Noah, Fatso is Alison - Noah’s muse and current infatuation, and Toke is Helen - Noah’s wife stuck at home with the 4 kids whilst Noah and Alison romp like bunnies in front of us all.

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Sotonians, to help me optimise the gathering of the news, please down-vote any articles from Optimus trousers, that

a) You see that are either completely duplicated copies of articles already posted

b) You see copyright claims over the content

c) Apparently have nothing to do with Saints

Originally posted by @Coxford_lou

Anyone else picking up tensions in the Bearsy/Tokyo/Fatso love triangle?

Careful Lou or I will let your Super Private PMs out of the bag.

#stillnojapfooddelivery

Who is Armstong?

Originally posted by @Tokyo-Saint

Originally posted by @Fatso

Originally posted by @Tokyo-Saint

Data droid stll saying Toby to Spurs, I got an ITK text to say he will sign for Spurs. If I win, I vote we destroy the drop before it takes over.

So you and Armstrong are in agreement? Why would we destroy Armstong when you’re saying the same thing? I vote to destroy you.

Who is Armstong?

Saint Armstrong has joined Sotonians.com as Optimus Trousers.

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Cor! I sound slutty. I like it.

Given the frequency of his posting and the verbosity of his contribution, I would suggest that it’s more a case of all mouth and no trousers.

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i should start by blacklisting all bros except for i.e. bbc and i.e. OS and i.e. some of the better papers, cos everything else is just clickbait bollocks & rehashed plagiarism imo. It would be easier to add a credible news source, if we ever find one, than try and figure out which of i.e. Tribalfootball & Metro & Talksport & goal.com & squawka & Give Me Sport & whatever else spouts the highest percentage of utter bollocks.

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Thanks for your thoughts, Bear. That’s exactly the sort of feedback I’m looking for.

Yep, it is an option to limit the sources to a subset of trusted publishers, but things will get better generally in a number of ways…

  • I am going to stop articles that contain exactly the same content from appearing which should reduce the amount of syndicated articles

  • By default, pap is going to make the text from all of the articles hidden unless you click a button to read it. This should make it easier to scan the headlines, and stop the feeling of drowning in lots of text - especially on a mobile device.

  • Optimus trousers is going to look for articles that contain sotonians.com tags. tl;dr I am going to look for any sotonians tags that appear in the text of the articles, and if I find one, pap will highlight the fact at the top of the article. So for example, if a Daily Mail article contains the headline “Tokyoamhomosex!” I will pick up on this because we have a tag for that. A more interesting example might be that as Optimus trousers reported earlier today, we appear to be interested in a Dutch right-back called Cuco Martina. We could create a sotonians.com tag for MARTINA after which Optimus trousers will start to look for mentions of that tag in articles. The result should mean that you will be able to scan the headlines for tags that you’re interested in reading about, and ignore those that you aren’t.

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10 pages of shit has been added to that thread since I last looked at it…yesterday night. Armstrong needs to STFU.

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I think it would be shame to lose some of the articles that are more driven by speculation/gossip. Those have been the more interesting ones to read over the past couple of days. So maybe a mix of the better versions of these + the more serious sites. I’ll try and remember to up vote good ones.