The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Brun Ugle » Sat May 05, 2018 12:37 pm

IronMike wrote:Wow. Just saw the graphic in post #2 (was it there before? Don't remember seeing it) and am surprised Youtube audio less than 10 min doesn't count. The vast majority of my "films" for Esperanto are podcasts (pola ret-radio mostly), but I also watch some Youtube guys like Evildea and his episodes are short, on the order of 3:00 to 4:00 each. Not much else out there and no I'm not gonna watch that horrible Shatner movie 100 times. ;)

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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Serpent » Sat May 05, 2018 2:03 pm

IronMike wrote:Wow. Just saw the graphic in post #2 (was it there before? Don't remember seeing it) and am surprised Youtube audio less than 10 min doesn't count. The vast majority of my "films" for Esperanto are podcasts (pola ret-radio mostly), but I also watch some Youtube guys like Evildea and his episodes are short, on the order of 3:00 to 4:00 each. Not much else out there and no I'm not gonna watch that horrible Shatner movie 100 times. ;)

No, I had put up a placeholder post until jeffers sent me the updated graphic (originally it said 15 minutes rather than 10). The 10 min limit is also mentioned in the first post of the thread though.
Well... let me just say that some youtubers definitely split their content into very small pieces, for marketing reasons and/or due to assumptions about everyone's attention span :? I don't know if this applies to the videos you're watching.
However if there's a shortage of videos in Esperanto, remember that you can also count subtitled videos, audiobooks, radio programmes (no music, no listening in the background), and maybe you should consider doing a half-challenge instead of a full one.
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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby sfuqua » Mon May 07, 2018 6:20 pm

I'm not a big twitter person.
So, the bot is taking our tweets but not responding?
Is there any way to check if it's actually seeing them?
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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Brun Ugle » Mon May 07, 2018 6:28 pm

sfuqua wrote:I'm not a big twitter person.
So, the bot is taking our tweets but not responding?
Is there any way to check if it's actually seeing them?

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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby sfuqua » Mon May 07, 2018 8:10 pm

Thanks!
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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby PeterMollenburg » Mon May 07, 2018 9:32 pm

Given that the new SC content is being collected by the bot, yet displayed in the same graphic as the previous SC content from the last challenge (with a large gap -edit: long straight line- between the two SC’s in the display of the graphic), which can be seen in sfuqua’s SC stats provided in the link above by Brun Ugle... my concern is that we’re going to have a situation here which may require a lot of people to retweet a bunch of stuff (which they have already tweeted) once this possible issue no longer is an issue (if it actually is one). Thus, I’m holding off with any tweets to the SC bot until further evidence or reassurance suggests 1. there is definitely no issue and 2. the graphics adjust to suggest this.
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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby IronMike » Tue May 08, 2018 12:14 am

Serpent wrote:
IronMike wrote:Wow. Just saw the graphic in post #2 (was it there before? Don't remember seeing it) and am surprised Youtube audio less than 10 min doesn't count. The vast majority of my "films" for Esperanto are podcasts (pola ret-radio mostly), but I also watch some Youtube guys like Evildea and his episodes are short, on the order of 3:00 to 4:00 each. Not much else out there and no I'm not gonna watch that horrible Shatner movie 100 times. ;)

No, I had put up a placeholder post until jeffers sent me the updated graphic (originally it said 15 minutes rather than 10). The 10 min limit is also mentioned in the first post of the thread though.
Well... let me just say that some youtubers definitely split their content into very small pieces, for marketing reasons and/or due to assumptions about everyone's attention span :? I don't know if this applies to the videos you're watching.
However if there's a shortage of videos in Esperanto, remember that you can also count subtitled videos, audiobooks, radio programmes (no music, no listening in the background), and maybe you should consider doing a half-challenge instead of a full one.

Yeah, there's not a lot out there that is subtitled in Esperanto. I've got a few audio books in Esperanto, and listened to them for the last Super Challenge. I'll just stick to podcasts I guess. I don't think it is fair to suggest I just go for a half challenge because most E-o youtube videos are less than 10 minutes. :(
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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby demri » Wed May 09, 2018 2:20 pm

I keep tweeting, but nothing appears on my SuperChallenge page (as if I read 0 books). Am I doing something wrong? :(
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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby Monox D. I-Fly » Wed May 09, 2018 3:00 pm

Serpent wrote:
Monox D. I-Fly wrote:3. Does The Holy Koran count?

3. Yes, why wouldn't it count? Depending on the formatting you may be able to count each page as 1.5 or even more. Feel free to post a scan/photo of a sample page.

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Re: The Super Challenge - discussion thread 2018/2019

Postby PeterMollenburg » Thu May 10, 2018 12:03 am

When can we expect the SC results webpage to adjust and display the current SC results only? I’m getting a little impatient. Sorry, I do sincerely appreciate the work/effort put into to such things, I’m just really itching to follow the ‘leaderboard’ accurately and watch the results of my language learning efforts as they have an effect on my standing. It’s motivating dammit!
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