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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Hartree on Monday March 23 2015, @10:03PM

    by Hartree (195) on Monday March 23 2015, @10:03PM (#161718)

    Sorry guys, but I can only tell you about how often I do. I flunked mind reading twice and don't have access to any logs that have IP numbers.

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  • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:36PM

    by zocalo (302) on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:36PM (#161900)
    Or you could look on it as an exercise in thinking logically to make up for the absense of some hard data. It's clearly not going to be 0% due to people not wanting to say things on record or just being too lazy to log in before they post. Taking a look at a few of the busier threads makes it pretty clear that most posts are by signed in users, so of the remainder there will be a mix between genuine ACs without an account and users who are not signed in. The brackets are pretty broad too, so 0-25% is almost certainly the correct answer.
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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @12:39PM (#161901)
      And by replying to myself anonymously, I can guarantee that anyone who voted 0% or 100% is wrong. :)

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:15PM

        by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 28 2015, @12:15PM (#163509) Journal

        Given the list of options, it's obvious that the values are to be rounded to a full multiple of 25%. So "0%" actually means "less than 12.5%" and "100%" means "more than 87.5%".

        If the options were taken at exact value, it's practically guaranteed that none of the options fits. To start with, the 50% option being exactly true requires that the number of posts is even, therefore every second post it is guaranteed not to hold, and the 25% and 75% options can only hold if the number of posts is a multiple of four, that is, only once in four posts it is possible that one of them holds exactly.

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    • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:03PM

      by bart9h (767) on Tuesday March 24 2015, @01:03PM (#161909)

      Or you could assume the wording was wrong, and it obviously meant to be "How often you registered SN user post as AC?"

  • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday March 26 2015, @06:06AM

    by buswolley (848) on Thursday March 26 2015, @06:06AM (#162617)

    You are modded +5 insightful, yet you failed to appreciate why I worded it the way I did.

      It would have been rude to ask a registered user how often they post anonymously; I mean go dox thyself. By framing the question around what others do, I figured that I might get an accurate answer.

    After all: The only direct evidence people have to base their answer is their own posting behavior.

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    • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Thursday March 26 2015, @04:13PM

      by Hartree (195) on Thursday March 26 2015, @04:13PM (#162779)

      You failed to appreciate that I was making a joke. The first mod point was funny, which was what I was intending.

      As to the other two mod points, I not only flunked mind reading, but also telepathic suggestion. I promise I'll try harder to beam my intention into the minds of others, but no guarantees. ;)

      • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday March 26 2015, @05:23PM

        by buswolley (848) on Thursday March 26 2015, @05:23PM (#162843)

        Touche

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        • (Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 28 2015, @09:03PM

          by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 28 2015, @09:03PM (#163644) Journal

          Touché

          FTFY

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          • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Sunday March 29 2015, @11:57AM

            by buswolley (848) on Sunday March 29 2015, @11:57AM (#163781)

            Not sure how to get that character

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            • (Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 29 2015, @12:15PM

              by maxwell demon (1608) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 29 2015, @12:15PM (#163787) Journal

              I guess that depends on your operating system and keyboard layout. For example, on a French keyboard you generally have a key for it. On a standard German "dead-keys" keyboard, you'd use the key sequence [´] [e]. On any Unix/Linux keyboard with Compose key, use [Compose] [´] [e]. If you have a way to enter Unicode characters directly by code number, the character is U+00E9 (decimal code 233; probably on Windows you could enter it by holding Alt and typing on the numeric keypad [0] [2] [3] [3], but I can't check because I don't have any Windows). When all else fails, you can go to the character table, seek for that character, and then copy/paste it.

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