Ideally it’d be good for it to be done in one Discobot-ing, so the dice would have to have the same number of sides. I think that way would need a 14 sided and a 10 sided? (it’s early, so I may have misunderstood )
I think using two dice like I have been makes it easier to roll a mid-range number, as there are multiple combinations to make each. Whereas there are fewer combinations to make numbers at the lower/higher ends (eg 1 + 1 vs 49+51/48+52/47+53 etc etc). So the probability of rolling 100 is much greater than rolling a 2.
I’m thinking 1 die is the only way to go. I’m thinking alternate weeks will dictate the start point. So even rounds are 1-120, and odd 20-140 (the top number will increase by 1 each week, but this method should cover us until there’s 240 posts ).
Ooh, comes with complications when it isn’t a total of multiple of 10 (…though 141 could be a 3 sided and a 47 sided, 142 could be a 2 sided and a 71 sided?) but I like it because it does result in a completely fair roll combining the two numbers this way with the first dictating the section of numbers to use and the second the specific number within it. Means, despite rolling the 2 dice every outcome is weighted equally. Impossible for prime numbers but all others would work.
@Ian_Chimp@Peitho Sorry had a bad night sleeping so only just decided I got enough sleep just recently.
So I was thinking 1d15 (if I’m understanding the die then this would role number between 1 & 15), then another 1d10
Bot rolls 9 & 6 so this would be 96
Bot rolls 3 & 10 = 30
Bot rolls 15 & 9 = 9 (I think we have below 150 based on other messages so the 15 would be 0 so we can use the low numbers)
Not rolls 13 & 9 = 139
Hopefully you can see my thoughts now, I think it should make the odds of any number very even
It’s taken me 2 months to notice something off with the method I’ve been using, so I’m not going to pretend I can tell if either of those ways is fair or not.
I think my main hesitation is that they’d take two Discobot interactions, rather than one. I could do it in my Discobot topic to keep the topics tidy, but then I may as well just pick one myself and lie to you all about it.
I’ve asked Brenna if we can have a better dice roller. Hopefully she says yes.
If so, you can highlight the text you want to blockquote and press the quote mark symbol in your format bar. Or you can put the > symbol manually at the start of each paragraph you want to blockquote (+ the line spaces inbetween if you want it to be continuous).
<small>by @username, Date of Review
[Product Name](Product Link)</small>
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<big>Review Title</big>
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> **Overall Rating:** ? out of 5 stars
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> **Cons:**
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> **Bottom Line:**
And then just copy and paste the bits of the review from the product page into the right places.
Edit: After a little tweak, it’s now possible to copy the above and paste it into your reply window to create a base-template.
I genuinely don’t know if this will be helpful or not, but here’s my method:
Go to the product page.
Grab photo and paste into correct spot in review template. Change size to 200x265.
Copy product name, and paste that into the image name field (optional, but makes the photos appear in Search results). And then paste it again under the byline at the top.
Copy the product page link, and then highlight the product name you’ve just pasted under the byline and turn that into a hyperlink ()
Go to your review (you can search for keywords you know you like to use to thin them out a bit). Take a note of the review date, and type that into the review template.
Open ‘read more’.
Highlight the title and a sizeable chunk of the review text, and then swipe up and past the header (if using a phone/tablet) to avoid getting tangled in the header. Highlight all of it, including title and pros/cons/bottom line, and copy.
Paste into the main review text section. From there split out the title and cut and paste that into the proper spot.
Delete the ‘read more…’, ‘read less’, any extra gumph.
Add paragraphs, fix any formatting (they’ve all reverted to original submissions, so there are a few { brackets and stuff knocking about).
Re-jig Pros, Cons, Bottom Line. Add Overall Rating (counting the stars is the easiest way).
Nope, I can’t get to grips with this at all. I can’t manage to upload the image without it appearing in the wrong place or being massively large and also all the text is literally all over the place
To be honest, I don’t really understand any of it! I think I’ll be giving this a swerve until I’ve read the whole of The Sandbox thread and got a grip on how to do this!
I’m just pinning all my hopes on Lovehoney bringing back the reviews link to our profiles!
Grabbing images is useful though for lots of different stuff. That’s worth a mini-practice if you’ve not cracked it yet.
If you long-press on the main product image you can copy it, and then paste it into a reply window. It’ll be 375x500, so quite large, but you can change that to 200x265 and that will make it more screen-friendly. (and you can change ‘image’ to the name of the product too so it shows up in search)
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