Would overnight be enough? How many bytes would it need to retrieve? (I’m considering the practicality of using a script/program to cancel an account’s votes and recast them from another account; upvotes (also subscriptions) initially and downvotes once enough karma is earned.)
Probably, and note that I’m talking here about the wedrifid account. At last count wedrifid had more comments than any other and also likely exposure and votes on more comments than most.
How many bytes would it need to retrieve?
Less than a gigabyte is my estimate. If your account has only been around for a year or two you can likely save time/downloads there too.
(I’m considering the practicality of using a script/program to cancel an account’s votes and recast them from another account; upvotes (also subscriptions) initially and downvotes once enough karma is earned.)
Interesting thought. That certainly seems possible. If you do create it for your own use may I perhaps suggest that you never release it to others? While automatically cancelling votes and casting them from a different account is perfectly fine a single line of code commented out makes this same script into a troll-sockpuppet nightmare.
Probably, and note that I’m talking here about the wedrifid account. At last count wedrifid had more comments than any other and also likely exposure and votes on more comments than most.
Isn’t that irrelevant, since a vote-counting script would have to check every comment on the site regardless?
Isn’t that irrelevant, since a vote-counting script would have to check every comment on the site regardless?
I was allowing for an imperfect optimisation of your ‘move account’ script where you don’t bother checking posts from years before you arrived. Most of the votes can be expected to be on more recent content so returns would be diminishing the further back you go. Obviously this doesn’t work well with all possible usage patterns so mileage may vary.
I got it now. Specifically, the comments I have downvoted will have the “class” attribute set to “down mod” on the anchor text “Vote down” (which causes the anchor text to be bolded) whereas the comments I have not downvoted will have it set to “down”.
Not exactly true. I could check it by spending 10 minutes writing a script then leaving it to run over night...
Would overnight be enough? How many bytes would it need to retrieve? (I’m considering the practicality of using a script/program to cancel an account’s votes and recast them from another account; upvotes (also subscriptions) initially and downvotes once enough karma is earned.)
Probably, and note that I’m talking here about the wedrifid account. At last count wedrifid had more comments than any other and also likely exposure and votes on more comments than most.
Less than a gigabyte is my estimate. If your account has only been around for a year or two you can likely save time/downloads there too.
Interesting thought. That certainly seems possible. If you do create it for your own use may I perhaps suggest that you never release it to others? While automatically cancelling votes and casting them from a different account is perfectly fine a single line of code commented out makes this same script into a troll-sockpuppet nightmare.
Isn’t that irrelevant, since a vote-counting script would have to check every comment on the site regardless?
I was allowing for an imperfect optimisation of your ‘move account’ script where you don’t bother checking posts from years before you arrived. Most of the votes can be expected to be on more recent content so returns would be diminishing the further back you go. Obviously this doesn’t work well with all possible usage patterns so mileage may vary.
If you did that, though, you would no longer have a supply of downvotes to use; is that not so?
No. Not if you just count your votes on every comment ever. “just”
I can count how many downvotes I have used on top-level submissions by scraping http://lesswrong.com/user/rhollerith_dot_com/disliked/, but how would I count the downvotes I have used on comments?
(It seems that every time I reply to you it is to pick at something you wrote. I hope you do not think I’m hostile to you. I’m just curious.)
lesswrong.com/comments/; lesswrong.com/r/discussion/comments/
Every. comment. ever.
(I have not investigated what happens to deleted comment votes, a slight complication. )
I got it now. Specifically, the comments I have downvoted will have the “class” attribute set to “down mod” on the anchor text “Vote down” (which causes the anchor text to be bolded) whereas the comments I have not downvoted will have it set to “down”.
Exactly!
Of course. Forgive my denseness.