If we want to distract him, wouldn't it be better to write bad reviews with all sorts of spelling and grammar errors? Then he'd have to spend hours cleaning them up!

:-)

Anyways, congrats!

No, I don't think that would work. I'll bet you the second he sees the word "teh" he hits the delete button :)

If he's been at this site for any length of time, he'll know who to ask to write a script to check the spelling and automatically delete files with poor spelling and grammar.

Automated Grammar Nazi...cool

I WILL NOT BE REPLACED SO EASILY!

Nor will I, because it would only regulate reviews, not posts.

Everyone's heard the "Weapons of Math Instruction" joke, bu I think that the Grammar Nazis are much more dangerous.

I agree--writing an automated grammar correction program that corrects the right errors nearly 100% of the time and makes nearly no mistakes wouldn't be easy.

It wouldn't correct them, it would simply delete the file on the first incorrect thing.

It would still be difficult to ensure that it wouldn't sometimes find what appears to be an error but really isn't.

Yeah, everyone knows how bad the Word grammar checker is...

Actually, the grammar checker is one of my favorite features of Word. If I had to pick one feature in Word to use to reccommend it to someone, I would pick the grammar checker.

Really? I guess it has some great humor value... I turned it off long ago because it was always "correcting" grammatically correct sentences. It's not just me (see link).

Or we could write marginally acceptable reviews that are lengthy, grammatically correct and follow a basic critique structure that would apply to any: Assembly Game, Basic Game, et cetera. While it may meet the criteria it wouldn't be unique, or seem like an original review on a file. Hence causing difficulty differentiating these reviews from authentic well thought out ones.
...much like understanding this comment (has 30 reviews in some txt file for such occasions).

If wee wunt to disstruct him, woodnt it be gooder to write bad revioos with all sports of selling and grammer errers? Then he'd have to spend howers cleening tehm up!

:-)

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Oh no way, man, no way.

Poor guy... Congratulations, BTW.

Maybe you need my über-automatisch-grammatik-Nazi program. (Or script MS Word to do it.)

I just realized: using a mixture of cron scripts, bash/tcsh scripts, AppleScript, and MS Office, I could do that on Mac OS X, depending on how good Word's scripting ability is. Wow.

hehe...Someone should subit a review like that. I wonder how he would handle it. Hey good luck man!

I don't know about you, but if I had to read though a bunch of pointless reviews night after night from the same people, I might start to catch on and delete their account.

I've considered that on occassion, but it'd be too wrong :\

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Bork Bork Bork!

This one was too hard for me.

ROTFLMAO

If it were me, I'd completely reject reviews written like that, rather than trying to correct them. :-)

On the other hand, who's actually going to write a review like that?

Just because I know a hundred people are going to reply with this, the reply to this post of "ME!" is banned.

Well, apparently Kevin Kofler will...

No, I won't, I was just joking. ;-)