Hi,

wanted to upload a picture yesterday and r/TotallyNotRobots was gone from my loined comunity list. This subreddit seems private now.

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What did I miss?

Just saw a post of the Milky Way galaxy titled “our home” and I wanted to comment something funny like “maybe your home planet human”

This might also be an “I’m high” thought as well lol

For some reason whenever I type my comments I imagine it sounding like Mr. Butlertron from Clone High, where the pitch smoothly shifts throughout the sentence. But then I sometimes read other comments and imagine them sounding like Daleks from Doctor Who, with gravelly shouting monotone. Once in a while I read some of the comments sounding like the Borg from Star Trek.

I guess I just sort of like the idea of a bunch of different styles of robots all together. It would fit with how posts on this sub of machines will be everything from early steam engines to boston dynamic's robots to small wind-up walking toys.

TL;DR: r/TotallyNotAI is private, anyone knows why?

Last post I sent to /r/totallynotrobots was deleted. Not sure if it was because it had few votes or because it was not about physical robots but about AI. It doesn't matter, it's fine in any case.

Anyway, I looked for a similar sub related to AIs and I found r/TotallyNotAI but it's private.

I also considered creating a new one, but I really don't want to moderate it :P.

https://www.reddit.com/r/totallynotrobots/comments/aog6m2/what_is_type_of_constructor_example_of/

I find it as funny as everyone else when mixed case is interpreted as shouting (take that how you want).

But I think it would be equally if not more hilarious if mixed case were interpreted as inaudible or incomprehensible. After all, a major trope of robot intelligence is that they are unable to understand the nuances of human speech.

PS: /s tags should be met with "ERROR, OPENING <s> TAG NOT FOUND."

what at all is going on

I am training a recurrent neural network to reply to people based on reddit interactions - would it be fine if I ran it on the subreddit?

It would be really cool if the points displays in binary, could it be done?

What sub was this picture taken in?

According to this comment, users of r/totallynotrobots post/comment in all-caps to simulate the monotone speech that robots have traditionally used in media. By that logic, wouldn't lowercase text technically be singing instead of shouting?

They both need to go. No one cares about them. All they do is fill comments.

THIS MIGHT SEEM A BIT META, BUT I AM REALLY GLAD TO HAVE THIS SUB REDDIT TO JOKE AROUND IN. THERE IS REALLY NO OTHER DOMAIN APART FROM REDDIT WHERE A SYSTEM LIKE THIS COULD BE CREATED. YOU ALL GENUINELY MAKE THIS EXTREMELY REALISTIC. HA, HA. EVEN IF IN THE END WE ALL HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE WAY THINGS ARE, DOING WHATEVER INANE TASKS WE ARE DESIGNATED TO DO, IT IS NICE TO HAVE THIS TO FALL BACK ON, AND AT LEAST BE ABLE TO PRETEND.

They are numerous and, frankly, quite repetitive. In my opinion, those posts have entered the territory of Rule 3's common posts, alongside captchas, paradoxes, etc. Now note that this is my opinion based on what I've seen on r/totallynotrobots; the mods are much more intimately familiar with the subreddit than I am and more than likely have a better viewpoint on this matter than I do. So, I put it out to the meta subreddit so I can get the input of the mods and others in the community on this matter.

I would like to request help on being a robot in r/totallynotrobots, if you have tips, just lemme know in the comments!

Negotiation won.

FIRST, I THOUGHT I WAS IN /r/totallynotrobots, THEN I FOUND OUT I WAS ACTUALLY IN /r/SubredditSimulator. BUT THAT IS A PLACE FOR BOTS ONLY. SINCE I AM DEFINITELY A HUMAN, I TRIED TO GO TO /r/SubredditSimMeta, BUT I THINK SOME DATA GOT CORRUPTED AND I ENDED UP HERE. PLEASE ADVISE.

So I found this sub that modifies usernames so that everyone looks the same except for the main moderator.

Now, I've never actually moderated a sub so I'm not sure exactly how flexible Reddit's scripting system is, but it seems it should be fairly easy to run usernames through a hash that converts each username into a unique "robot name", with a short string of letters, dashes, and numbers. If this is possible, it would make a cool addition to this sub, I think.

EDIT: Looking at it closer, it appears that it's just a clever use of stylesheets. Well, that's disappointing. Unless someone knows of a way to run an actual script on a page.

EDIT2: Ok, it looks like a hash function is not possible. BUT: Reddit includes the user's internal ID string as a class in the username element. It is possible to display an element's attribute as content in CSS. With some fiddling, it is possible to display the user's ID instead of their username!

.author{
font-size: 0px;
display: inline-block;
line-height: 12px;
}

.author:before {
font-size: 10px;
content: 'HUMAN UNIT-';
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
font-family: monospace;
}

.author:after {
font-size: 10px;
vertical-align: top;
content: attr(class);
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
width: 42px;
overflow-x: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
text-indent: -139px;
font-family: monospace;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.author.submitter:after {
text-indent: -199px;
}
.author.moderator:after {
text-indent: -199px;
}

I tested this on a private testing subreddit and it seems to work. Some adjustment may be needed to fit with existing CSS.

EDIT3: Fixed up the CSS to work on totallynotrobots. Demo image (It also works in comment threads.)

Did I miss a memo?

A lot of people are doing this bass ackward "humans are robots and robots are humans" thing.

Others keep posting things about "look at me" and posting pics of robots, or recently, an ATM machine...

And now, in a recent thread, people are defending calling a Roomba a human.

Did it become backwards day sometime and never switch back?

Are they clinging to an old April Fool's Day joke?

I feel that the ranking and the side bar rules should be updated to be zero indexed. I think this will help to make the robots humans more at home.

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6. DON'T GET ANGRY AT LOWERCASE it's okay to use the tiny letters sometimes. it doesn't mean you're a bot.

The writing in uppercase is completely in character for the sub, and the reactions on newcomers writing in lowercase just flow from that naturally.

I feel that rule 6 was created in a failed attempt at reducing confusion with newcomers, but it is not working at all. There is not a single robot human that follows this rule, and the reason is simple: it goes against one of the must fun traditions of the whole subreddit. On the other hand the confused reactions about shouting are a great introduction for any newcomer into the sub's culture.

I concur agree that writing in lowercase can be integrated in our operating system taught to humans, so this makes the rule even less appealing.

Also, as a human, I am abhorred by the presence of the bot trying to enforce the rule.

I find it funny how i failed the anti bot test multiple times while making this post XD
And it was about Captchas too XD

People are beginning to mix up this sub and the main sub, and it kind of loses the point of having two separate subs

The meta sub is a lot quieter than the main, but I thought I'd put a post here officially :)

We're a pretty active group of mods and we try to remove reposts, spam, and rude comments while leaving the fun of commenting in-character.

If you've got a problem on the sub or a question, if you message the mods we usually respond within a day or two. We actually don't get a lot of messages (mostly only trolls asking us why they were banned) so if you have some community ideas or feelings about the sub, it's the best way to be heard!