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   TechDirt Story Gen

   

   Another Coward, Feb 6th, 2001 @ 12:32pm

   
   

   would be the same SSG story, but four hours later. just kidding guys, great site, less noise than the others.

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   Re: TechDirt Story Gen

   

   Mike (profile), Feb 6th, 2001 @ 12:47pm

   
   

   Except that... on average stories that show up on both sites actually tend to (though not always) show up here first. Oh well... Anyway, I think the repeat level is fairly low.

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   Re: TechDirt Story Gen

   

   Ed, Feb 6th, 2001 @ 1:36pm

   
   

   The story generator lacks the cynicism needed for techdirt stories.

   But to be serious for just a second, techdirt stories cover a broad range of topics, and would be much harder to parody, IMHO. Slashdot is too easy, which says something about the narrow viewpoint represented there.

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   Re: TechDirt Story Gen

   

   Ryan, Feb 6th, 2001 @ 4:55pm

   
   

   So would you say Techdirt kicks slashdot's ass? Hehehe... my evil scheme is expanding

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   Re: TechDirt Story Gen

   

   Ed, Feb 6th, 2001 @ 7:38pm

   
   

   Don't get a swell head. I was originally going to say something like "Take the SSG and replace Linux with VC, ..." then I realized that other than some well-deserved VC bashing, there's hardly any easily parodied "tone" to techdirt, unlike another site that would implode if a single story managed to mention Linux, Microsoft (negatively), privacy, anime, hacking, and geeks.

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   Re: TechDirt Story Gen

   

   Ryan, Feb 7th, 2001 @ 5:24am

   
   

   It would be amusing if someone put one together, I guess you could try to use something like those boolean recognition systems to try to interact with the site (currenly used in a few knowledge management portals). You could have different triggers for preset replies.

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