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[pokemonsuper9]

I don't know if it's necessarily AI, could just be good old-fashioned scrapers.

But if you were wanting to train an AI, 6.5 million human written messages here (ignoring the 1 million in the Quizzes and Games section), it'd be an excellent dataset, especially where there's technical knowledge.

The Enron Corpus is only 1.7 million messages and near enough every model has been trained on it due to the value of normal human discussion.



I'd be tempted to say if this keeps happening to just restrict it to only members, but obviously a lot of the visitors are guests so it wouldn't be fair to the actual humans. The way I found these forums in the first place was it showing up in Google search results.

 

[najaB]

But if you were wanting to train an AI, 6.5 million human written messages here (ignoring the 1 million in the Quizzes and Games section), it'd be an excellent dataset, especially where there's technical knowledge.

Oh, I don't doubt that it might be for AI, but it may well not be AI.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

But if you were wanting to train an AI, 6.5 million human written messages here (ignoring the 1 million in the Quizzes and Games section), it'd be an excellent dataset, especially where there's technical knowledge.

In the early days of this website, postings in the Quizzes and Games forum were eligible for inclusion in members' official posting count, but the website decided not to allow them for inclusion in 2012. I have made well over 100,000 postings in that forum since joining the website in 2011.

 

[brad465]

9,000 "guests" on at the moment and slow loading to go with it.

 

[JD2168]

Forum only managed to load for signing in for myself now after being extremely slow & not loading pages up

 

[Purple Train]

I had issues logging in but they were fixed very quickly - thanks admins!

 

[WWH44L]

Does anyone else have to log in every time they access this site? For some reason my log in details are not saving even when asked how long to keep me logged in for

 

[Horizon22]

Does anyone else have to log in every time they access this site? For some reason my log in details are not saving even when asked how long to keep me logged in for

Sounds like something to do with your cookies settings.

 

[Trackman]

Does anyone else have to log in every time they access this site? For some reason my log in details are not saving even when asked how long to keep me logged in for

Are you on MS Edge by any chance?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Never knew that the quiz threads on the Quizzes and Games forum were so popular with "guests" from what I have seen in the information shown that relates to the number of people watching each thread, if that matter is to be believed.

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Are you on MS Edge by any chance?

I am and have not had any problems.

 

[Trackman]

Are the forums poorly this afternoon, or is it something on my side?

 

[Adam Williams]

There have been issues on-and-off since just before midday.

It's very sluggish now, but not returning these errors anymore. Definitely had better days.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I did what I was advised to do and reported the matter via the "Contact Us" facility, details of which are at the foot of the webpage.

 

[Trackman]

I did what I was advised to do and reported the matter via the "Contact Us" facility, details of which are at the foot of the webpage.

That's why asked before reporting it, I have a new laptop that is pain in the ....

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I had a feeling that something may occur today when on the Quizzes and Games forum threads that I participate upon, I logged on in the early morning hours and instead of reading that just myself and a couple of "visitors" were on a thread, my popularity must have skyrocketted as a typical thread footnote stated myself and 27 "visitors" were on the thread...

This week gone by makes me think the website has been affected by a ballroom dancing course....Slow Slow Quick Quick Slow..

 

[Bayum]

Anyone still continuing to get errors?

 

[speedy1]

Yes been slow loading for an hour or so, plus a cloudflare error once about an issue with the server

 

[Bayum]

Hmmm. I keep getting offline notices and a screen that has the top banner but nothing else. Have to leave it five mins or so before trying again. Happening on both my MacBook and iPhone.

 

[DarloRich]

i have had a couple of problems connecting recently - I assume the site is being attacked by something.

 

[Mike395]

Apologies - I’ve been away over the weekend so timing could definitely have been better! I’ve made some changes yesterday and again this morning - hopefully it’ll look a bit better now but will keep an eye.