it's a bot war. someone got mad at the first bot and made a bot to tell it how shitty it is and then someone made a bot to tell the second one that the first is helpful sometimes.
this has been happening for years and most subs just ban the bots to prevent the tidal wave of spam as they jerk each other off into infinity.
whoever came up with the "Hi, [post containing keyword], i'm dad." bot needs a slap
i once saw the damn thing insert a 6 paragraph long post into itselfHi, a spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact: I’m dad.
how do you find the end of the clause with regex? I can only think of ways to do it with a natural language parser and my brain literally won't tell me the dumb way to do it...
You look up whatever regex library you're using's eagerness/laziness settings and pay very careful attention, because no two regex systems are the same, and anyone who claims they are is a smug script kiddy.
yea but <noun phrase> is a hard pattern to match for, whatever your laziness settings
Now that has the be the most cursed shit I've heard in a while comrade.
Why not make it compile into befunge while we're at it?
No but more seriously compiling code into regex is not always possible and when it is possible it it tends to be an absolute nightmare. I think a basic parser would be more efficient to implement, even if it means coding it in Rust or C instead of python.
Oh god. I thought we were just going for the next word (chain of unicode letter characters, I know that's not actually correct all the time either). If you want to identify noun phrases... yeah don't use a regex. But also just don't get into a situation where you need to do that in the first place.
The person who got me into programming basically told me "don't get yourself into situations where you need regex, just find something else to do." While not really possible in a lot of cases, it does stand as good, practical advice.
Can’t wait to gulag the people responsible for those nonsensical metric bot converters, haiku bots that don’t make haikus, and the bot that keeps track of “nice” replies to posts containing le funney sex number.
uncritical support for bots on reddit, but only as long as they post lengthy videos to jam up the server data capacity
