| Author | Message | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1033 Registered: 9-2010 |
I have seen belowos in many places, mostly online, but I have not yet seen one on the LTPF Forum. And from past experience, I doubt it is possible but will probably not be able to test it out until after this puzzle is finished. Also, there is such thing as a super-belowo which accounts for a small fraction of all belowos and, depending on the location, may not be possible even if a regular belowo is. In fact, off the top of my head I can only think of one example of a super-belowo although I know of many belowos . So what is a belowo and what do I mean by super-belowo ? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2500 Registered: 7-2009 |
If it is not possible on LTPF, would that be because of technical limitations (the way the forum is set up to function)? Because of the type of behavior that occurs on LTPF? Because of the type of people who visit here? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1035 Registered: 9-2010 |
If it is not possible on LTPF, would that be because of technical limitations (the way the forum is set up to function)? This Because of the type of behavior that occurs on LTPF? Some of this too, although this alone wouldn't render it "impossible", per se Because of the type of people who visit here? Only as it fits in with the behavior | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1107 Registered: 12-2010 |
Is a belowo a person? If so, can a woman be a belowo? Can a man? Do belowos all share a certain character trait? A hobby? Their writing style? Habits? Manners? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2501 Registered: 7-2009 |
Is a belowo an image? a web structure (for lack of a better word...an example would be nesting replies on a message board)? A subject of conversation? A flame war? A style of conversation? Is a belowo related to time? (For example, we can't have a true live chatboard on this site because we can't all log into an area simultaneously, so everything here occurs on a kind of a time delay.) | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1036 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is a belowo a person? No, so irr to rest If so, can a woman be a belowo? Can a man? Do belowos all share a certain character trait? A hobby? Their writing style? Habits? Manners? Is a belowo an image? a web structure (for lack of a better word...an example would be nesting replies on a message board)? this is closest A subject of conversation? A flame war? A style of conversation? Is a belowo related to time? (For example, we can't have a true live chatboard on this site because we can't all log into an area simultaneously, so everything here occurs on a kind of a time delay) No, good thought though | ||
| Eli (Eli)
New member Username: Eli Post Number: 1971 Registered: 11-2003 |
When you find belowos outside the internet, do you find them in spesific media? like newspapers? magazines? books? are certain requirements necessary for one to see a belowo? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13019 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are images relevant to a belowo? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1598 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is a belowo a type of coincidence (for instance, two people answering the same question without realizing the other has done so)? another type of event? Does a belowo result from the actions of one person? multiple people? Does a super-belowo require more people than a regular belowo? | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 628 Registered: 7-2010 |
Is a belowo related to posting? Or to some aspect of the forum software? Search function? Sorting order of threads or posts? User ranks according to post count? Looking up all posts of one person over their profile? Seeing the thread in which one person is most active on their profile? Signatues? The user information right next to the post? Is uploading attachments relevant? Embedding links or images or spoilers via tags? Using buttons for formatting your post? Editing your post? Deleting it? Writing your post in a font/font size/color other than the default one? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1045 Registered: 9-2010 |
When you find belowos outside the internet, do you find them in spesific media? like newspapers? magazines? could be either of these books? Not really are certain requirements necessary for one to see a belowo? Please explain what you mean by this Are images relevant to a belowo? No Is a belowo a type of coincidence No, although a super-belowo could be considered one (for instance, two people answering the same question without realizing the other has done so)? But not this another type of event? Yes for svv of "event Does a belowo result from the actions of one person? could be multiple people? could be Does a super-belowo require more people than a regular belowo? Not necessarily Is a belowo related to posting? DOYD of "posting" but yes Or to some aspect of the forum software? Yes Search function? Sorting order of threads or posts? User ranks according to post count? Looking up all posts of one person over their profile? Seeing the thread in which one person is most active on their profile? Signatues? The user information right next to the post? But none of these Is uploading attachments relevant? Embedding links or images or spoilers via tags? Using buttons for formatting your post? Editing your post? Deleting it? None of these: Remember, I don't even believe it's possible on the LPTF, although as a hint, we will probably find out when this is $poyled. Writing your post in a font/font size/color other than the default one? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13033 Registered: 4-2010 |
Could you find a belowo on another forum? On a chatroom? | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2503 Registered: 7-2009 |
Are belowo's related to advertizing? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1050 Registered: 9-2010 |
Could you find a belowo on another forum? On a chatroom? could be either of these Are belowo's related to advertizing? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13037 Registered: 4-2010 |
Could you find a belowo on a social networking site? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1054 Registered: 9-2010 |
Could you find a belowo on a social networking site? It could exist on some, theoretically, but I don't know of any of them off the top of my head | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 633 Registered: 7-2010 |
Is chatting relevant? Chatting in a private chatroom? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1062 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is chatting relevant? Chatting in a private chatroom? Could be, but again, not necessarily. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13040 Registered: 4-2010 |
Video relevant? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1064 Registered: 9-2010 |
Video relevant? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13060 Registered: 4-2010 |
Emoticons relevant? Fancy text (i.e. flipped text)? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1067 Registered: 9-2010 |
Emoticons relevant? Fancy text (i.e. flipped text)? No to all | ||
| Noel (Noel)
New member Username: Noel Post Number: 2508 Registered: 7-2009 |
Are usernames relevant? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1602 Registered: 6-2008 |
Is a belowo something that continually exists (like a technical feature, a background image, etc.)? or is it something that occurs at a particular point in time, like the simultaneous question-answering example I gave above? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3854 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is censoring relevant? Such as changing or deleting swear words? Special caracters? Breaking the forum by using html or other code in a post? Are belowos usually intentional? How about super-belowos? If not, is it possible to make an intentional super-belowo? Is time or date stamps involved? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1070 Registered: 9-2010 |
Are usernames relevant? No, although I suppose it could apply in certain cases Is a belowo something that continually exists (like a technical feature, a background image, etc.)? or is it something that occurs at a particular point in time, like the simultaneous question-answering example I gave above? This is a tricky one to answer. Once the belowo occurs, I suppose it would exist indefinitely. Just see below though because Galfisk asked a very relevant question Is censoring relevant? YES! Such as changing or deleting swear words? Yesish Special caracters? no Breaking the forum by using html or other code in a post? No Are belowos usually intentional? No How about super-belowos? No If not, is it possible to make an intentional super-belowo? It's possible, but I don't see why anyone WOULD do so. A regular belowo can also be done intentionally, and it's slightly more likely that someone would do that than an intentional super-belowo, but I still doubt it. Is time or date stamps involved? No | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1609 Registered: 6-2008 |
Does it involve an automatic word censor deleting a string of characters within a word, when there is no etymological relation between the words (for instance, changing "shuttlecock" to "shuttlec***")? Does it involve a change in meaning resulting from deletion of a word? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 3857 Registered: 9-2009 |
Or is it the kind of censoring where the word is changed? such as ass->butt? Bass->Bbutt? Is a super-belowo where the filter strikes twice in the same post? Or strikes again when someone tries to correct their initial censoring? Or strikes twice in the same word? Such as Assassination->Buttbuttination? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13074 Registered: 4-2010 |
*is reminded of the Tyson Homosexual incident* Is that relevant? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1074 Registered: 9-2010 |
Does it involve an automatic word censor deleting a string of characters within a word, when there is no etymological relation between the words (for instance, changing "shuttlecock" to "shuttlec***")? Does it involve a change in meaning resulting from deletion of a word? See next answer Or is it the kind of censoring where the word is changed? such as ass->butt? Bass->Bbutt? Is a super-belowo where the filter strikes twice in the same post? Or strikes again when someone tries to correct their initial censoring? Or strikes twice in the same word? Such as Assassination->Buttbuttination? A regular belowo could be this or Biograd's answer, or it could be when they censor the whole innocuous word because of the presence of the other word, for instance "John Wilkes Booth *********** Abraham Lincoln at Ford Theater". Basically, a belowo is when an innocuous word gets censored in one way or another due to the presence of a "bad" word with no relevance inside it. I'll tell you that a "super-belowo" will always be of the assassination -> Buttbuttination variety, and furthermore that that example might be considered a super-belowo depending on how you look at things. After you determine what that is, I will post the $spoyler And if you're wondering the etymology, it's because I have seen "hello" get censored on sites for young children due to the presence of the word "hell", and that could conceivably cause "hello" to be changed to "belowo" as well, if they changed "hell" to "below" rather than censor it completely. Although that would probably not be a super-belowo. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13085 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is a super-belowo when two words are squished together, thus creating an IBW ("innocuous bad word") and getting censored? (Example that I saw: "Belushi then" -> "Belushithen" -> "Belu****hen") | ||
| Potato (Potato)
New member Username: Potato Post Number: 638 Registered: 7-2010 |
Can't think of an example right now, but is it a super-belowo, when the "new" word actually makes sense but changes the meaning of the entire sentence? Due to the "new" word having several meanings and just seeing the sentence without its context, it isn't clear which meaning is the applicable one? With "new word" I don't mean what is "butt" in the "assassination -> buttbuttination" example. Here, what I mean by "new word" would be "buttbuttination". Are e-mail addresses relevant? People who couldn't get an address containing their real name because their name contains a string that's not allowed? | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1078 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is a super-belowo when two words are squished together, thus creating an IBW ("innocuous bad word") and getting censored? (Example that I saw: "Belushi then" -> "Belushithen" -> "Belu****hen") No Can't think of an example right now, but is it a super-belowo, when the "new" word actually makes sense but changes the meaning of the entire sentence? To some extent, yes Due to the "new" word having several meanings and just seeing the sentence without its context, it isn't clear which meaning is the applicable one? Not really With "new word" I don't mean what is "butt" in the "assassination -> buttbuttination" example. Here, what I mean by "new word" would be "buttbuttination". Ok Are e-mail addresses relevant? People who couldn't get an address containing their real name because their name contains a string that's not allowed? No | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13090 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is a super-belowo when the censorship creates an actual word? When it still sounds dirty? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1612 Registered: 6-2008 |
Or maybe when the replacement of the first word causes a new censorable word to be formed, which is then censored too? Though I'd have a hard time thinking of a word that could work that way. | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1080 Registered: 9-2010 |
Is a super-belowo when the censorship creates an actual word? Yes! When it still sounds dirty? Well, aside from the fact that it was never dirty to begin with, YES! ****SPOILER**** A belowo is when a harmless word is censored in whatever matter due to the presence of a "bad" word inside. For instanse ******inate or rendering as all *******. A super-belowo is when it actually becomes dirty, for instance "buttbuttinate". While "butt" is less dirty than "a**", "buttbuttinate" is dirtier than the perfectly harmless "assassinate". And the example I was thinking of was the infamous "Tyson Homosexual" story from the 2008 Olympics Qualifying Trials. The American Family Association is a notorious anti-gay news source, going so far as to censor the word "gay" in articles its OneNewsNow news feed picks up to "Homosexual". Their article on USA Sprinter Tyson Gay thus read "Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has". And, even more ironically, particularly considering they are extremely anti-gay, a later part of the article read " 'It means a lot to me,' the 25-year-old Homosexual said. 'I'm glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me.' " Thus falsely calling him a homosexual in an article which praised him in spite of the fact that they are anti-homosexual and have run many articles criticizing (real) homosexuals. Not to mention the innuendo created by bringing homosexuality into the quote by Gay. Although I actually just realized that right now while reading over it. Good job everyone, especially Balin! Another neologism puzzle is about to be posted, although it won't be just about identifying the neologism, but also solving a legitimate LP puzzle. You'll see. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13099 Registered: 4-2010 |
I remember that well - I actually recently asked if that was relevant, but we cross-posted and it got missed. That super-belowo made it onto a few news sources as a laugh. Clever! | ||
| Gregoryuconn (Gregoryuconn)
New member Username: Gregoryuconn Post Number: 1092 Registered: 9-2010 |
Oh! I didn't even see that. I originally heard about that in Sports Illustrated's Funniest Sports News of 2008: Along with the restaurant in Beijing who tried to translate their name into English using an online translator. They then hung a sign above their door with the result: "Translation Server Error". | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1128 Registered: 12-2010 |
This translation thing reminds me of this story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm - "When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated"." | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 552 Registered: 8-2001 |
Very good one!! Sorry I missed it. |
