campylobacter = conventional

[campylobacter]

So, campylobacter , your LiveJournal reveals…

You are… 0% unique, 16% peculiar, 50% interesting, 21% normal and 13% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy science fiction). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 22

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 50% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!


Guess I'd better stop ReTweeting and Reblogging content if I wanna be unique! ;D

[via ivanolix  's meme]

Comments

uber lame even for an LJ toy

[lolmac]

Huh. Another online evaluation toy with an opaque methodology. Zero information on what the results mean, what the scales are, or how the conclusions are derived. Reminiscent of the "I Write Like" fraud that ran through the internets last year, until the Making Light people outed the greedy lying jerk behind it.

I ran both LOLMac and bethinexile through it, which usually produces enlightening results: LOLMac has almost no text entries to process, and the bethinexile profile is mostly empty. The results broke the meter, which is always fun:

Alas you have no LJ interests listed on your user info page - or there's been some sort of glitch. If you do have interests listed, please try again.

Campy, all it's doing is checking the following items on your User Info page:
- How many people have Friended you? ('popularity')
- How many did you Friend back? ('relating to people')
- How many of your listed interests and comms are shared with how many other LJ users? Which of those interests is listed by the largest number of other users?
- Do you use big words in your profile? ('writing style')

It's not checking the actual journal content at all.

OTOH, at least they spelled 'weird' correctly, even though the results are crap.

Re: uber lame even for an LJ toy

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

ZOMG I had such fun inserting famous authors into that I Write Like app!
http://campylobacter.livejournal.com/48621.html

I figured that the LJ Personality Test "analysis" was pretty shallow, given the instant result I got after clicking the Submit button.

Re: uber lame even for an LJ toy

[lolmac]

Yup. I did an eyeroll once I found out just how shallow it was, though. Really, if you're able to make an online toy like that, at least make it interesting.

Did you follow any of the relevant threads on Making Light during IWriteLike-Gate? After they had outed the hacker's plans to sell his cute little app to the self-publishing exploitation gang (they tracked down his hacker board posts about 'monetizing' the app), the little sh*t turned up in the thread himself and tried to bluster and deny and threaten.

Then the toy went offline, and then came back online without the affiliation to the vanity publisher. The whole thing was a scheme to set up hopeful noobs for getting fleeced. Thus did he suffer the wrath of Yog (yes, the Yog; Jim MacDonald was one of the people who outed him).

BTW, apparently it's mostly keyword driven.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Yes, I vaguely remember the related e-publishing kerfluffle! I think the programmer also caught some flack for not including enough women and PoC in his db, too. It's sad that aspiring authors are so victimized; someone on my F-List sold a novel to an e-publisher, but hasn't received her edits on it for over 6 weeks. :(

BTW, I ran my sock account through the Personality Test: http://sockyy.livejournal.com/2958.html

[lolmac]

Well, once the hacker had been outed as a greedy online gangster, accusing him of not being PC is a bit lame. He's a Russian hacker, for heaven's sake.

I adore the analysis of Socky. Especially since the 'analysis' showed that an orphan interest such as 'grudge wank' triggers a special bit of boilerplate all its own. Awww.

I'm now fighting the temptation to leave abusive anonymous trolling comments in your sock puppet account, just 'cause it's so cute. *g*

[sockyy.livejournal.com]

waaaaaaaaah!

i haz no frenz! WOE

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

Nah, just put down something like "FSM tentacle porn" as an interest, and you'll wind up unique.

Hmm... or maybe not...

FSM tentacle porn

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Rule 34 & 4chan have destroyed uniqueness.
http://bits.tombridge.com/post/253320343/nickdouglas-kids-stop-reading-4chan-someone

Re: FSM tentacle porn

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

LOL! I realized as soon as I typed it that Rule 34 had surely already applied.

[lolmac]

Tentacle porn is probably insufficiently unique for that kind of cheesy app. How about FSM meatball porn?

Re: buy facebook likes aj

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Hostname: 109.230.251.121 (http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/109.230.251.121)
ISP: Marcel Edler trading as Optimate-Server
Organization: xsserver.eu Dedicated Servers
Proxy: None detected
Type: Corporate
Assignment: Static IP
Blacklist: blackholes.five-ten-sg.com (http://www.five-ten-sg.com/blackhole.php?ip=109.230.251.121&Search=Search)

Geolocation Information

Country: Germany
Latitude: 51
Longitude: 9

[franthewndrhrse.livejournal.com]

campylobacter = conventional

Cause that's the first word that pops into *my* mind when I think of you!

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

ROTFL

Who can argue with an auto-script that parses only someone's LJ interests?