Slight inconvenience for our “Early Starters”

About an hour from now the kiwi New Zealand crew will be starting but the new bot is acting a little oddly at times so I’ll be putting the old bot up while i finish finding the problem.

What does this mean for you?
It means you won’t have the ability to input multiple updates per tweet nor can you put extra numbers in your update tweets. Sorry for the inconvenience and I hope to have it up sometime later today.

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多読コンテスト Round 2 For Dummies

…or not since I’m horrible at explaining things. A lot of this is going to be the same as the old post, new parts will be larger and bolded.

Round 2 starts on 4/1/2011 0:00:00 your time and ends on 4/30/2011 23:59:59 your time

Updating your score

As in the first round, we shall be using the TadokuBot to update our score*.

The biggest changes here are :

1. You can have multiple updates per tweet.

   Place a semicolon between medium updates inorder to update multiple counts with 1 tweet.
   Ex: @TadokuBot 25 #book; 65 #manga; 36 #sentence
   If you forget the semicolon get ready to use the #undo function

2. Updates must be in a certain format.

Updates must be in the following format “@TadokuBot [number] #[optional tag like dr or language tag] #“. Reasoning for this explained in number 3.

3. You can have other numbers in your update tweets.

As long as you follow proper format, you can put extra number in your updates now. So “@TadokuBot 1789 #book; I read 3 books today in 1 sitting!” will work just fine.

4. Languages other than Japanese

If you are reading a language other than Japanese you will have to let the bot know by including the languages tag before the medium.
Ex.”@TadokuBot 542 #fr #sentences”

5. Submitting reading times for Subs and Nico

   Instead of calculating the minutes your self, you can now submit times using the following format “@TadokuBot H:MM #subs”. H being hour and MM being minutes. Seconds are ignored on purpose since they are worth 1/300th of a page in subs or 1/600th if its ニコニコ.

list of all the current tags

• #book
  • #dr ( for Japanese use only)
• #manga
• #net
• #fullgame
• #game
• #lyric
• #subs
• #news
• #nico
• #sentences
• #undo
• #[insert language here]
  • #fr – French
  • #de – German
  • #es – Spanish
  • #en – English
  • #kr – Korean
  • #th – Thai
  • #cn – Chinese
  • #it – Italian
  • #nl – Dutch
  • #pl – Polish
  • #el – Greek
  • #ru – Russian
  • #eo – Esperanto
• #repeat

The rest of this is mostly copied from the last “how to” post.

The non medium tags explained

1. #Undo will obviously be used when you make a boo-boo in your updating tweet. It will make it so that your last update never even happened. Usage is as follows: “@TadokuBot #undo I f’ed up” That last part is completely optional :p (Note: Please wait until the undo action takes place to update your score again)
2. #Repeat was born from our new rule letting you re-read material for a smaller return (#fifth is the maximum) . Syntax goes like this: “@TadokuBot 200 #manga #fifth” #fifth could be #second or #third etc.
3. #dr means double rowed and is to be used in case you have a book that is formatted like this. It gives a small boost (*1.48) to equal out the extra reading you are doing per page. #dr is only to be used with Japanese books and requires the #book tag to work. ( f’n BDH)

Where you stand

Q: “But Silent, how will everyone know my awesome score if I’m only tweeting what I’ve read in the last [insert time period]”

A: Fear not, everyone will know just how awesome you are because TadokuBot will tweet your completely calculated score [so you guys might want to follow it] when you update it. You can also always view the scores the old way on the ranking list(won’t be active until the competition starts).

(small note : the new system updates every minute)

* Currently working on another method of updating, hopefully will be up this weekend.

多読Contest Round 2, Register now open!

The register is open and waiting! The procedure is the same as last time “@Tadokubot #reg” minus the quotes. I’ll be keeping a list here but to view the super up to to date check here.

note: If your tweets are protected you will NOT be able to register/participate
note 2: Please inform me in your register tweet or here what language(s) you will be reading if its not Japanese.

1. LordSilent
2. Little_Strokes ← Round 1 winner! Reading Japanese and English
3. BlackDragonHunt← Tadoku 1.0 winner!
4. Bluemchenblatt
5. nac_est
6. Sakatsu
7. HolySt4r Reading Japanese and English
8. e_dub_kendo
9. xatlasm
10. takkie3 Reading English
11. zhongruige Reading Chinese
12. Yuffie89
13. Yakkoe
14. aiorral
15. Seizar86 Reading Japanese and Korean
16. Squallxyz
17. veeontour
18. don_rivers
19. japaneseme
20. chmijo
21. tummai
22. JapanNewbie
23. meghanventura
24. Kanjiwarrior
25. jyemenai
26. Cush1979
27. Incorporeality Reading German, French, and Spanish
28. qqkachoojp
29. tonesvenn
30. distefam
31. k2yama
32. KSaiydT
33. Landorien Reading Japanese and German
34. paboseki
35. burritolingus
36. i_Bassam Reading English
37. loafyi
38. TakehikoKoizumi
39. TokyoBoysClub
40. mletterlejp
41. sandkatt
42. emilyrct
43. jsj2003
44. Jaylant
45. Squintox Reading Korean
46. mikotoneko
47. HanaYanaa
48. momonigiri
49. Nekesu Reading Japanese, Spanish, and Korean
50. KudouUsagi
51. RinoaHeartilly_
52. skr1p7k1dd
53. revenantkioku
54. mochidzuki
55. simhuman
56. IvanMeredith
57. Lorata
58. loolnashi
59. jimjamjeniko
60. diogovk
61. mikankun
62. MrsMalone_emmie Reading English
63. _nicksan
64. o7400
65. syreinrage
66. peterjcarroll Reading Spanish
67. Nerienea Reading Japanese and French
68. crystalcampbell
69. maryag
70. bakunin3 Reading Thai
71. doviende Reading German, Dutch, and Polish
72. Reveriekun
73. KiraKirai
74. Mirohan
75. giada51291 Reading Italian
76. RichardMedh
77. languageez
78. qzchris Reading Chinese
79. Junesun Reaching Chinese, Greek, and Dutch
80. rachaeldarwin Reading Dutch
81. sloppier_r Reading English and French
82. thelanguagegeek Reading French and German
83. ongakunoiro
84. sade_wayan
85. Zetsubou_Robert
86. ayaneko31
87. csnorris
88. shyxormz Reading Japanese and English
89. ember_seed
90. legupli Reading Esperanto, Italian, and German
91. starsandsea
92. TheKwago
93. sizzlewriter Reading Chinese
94. firearnok
95. hanikamiya
96. samhy
97. mirab3lla
98. risasun39
99. drahcir14
100. penny_ffm
101. msklang
102. danielpwright
103. aerielle
104. kenrickchien_jp
105. Moniiku
106. pbadger
107. wordmoth
108. melitu
109. arthaey
110. togijoji

Currently have sentence per page averages for: Korean, Chinese, English, French, German, Dutch、 Russian, Italian, Spanish
Need: Greek ,Polish, Esperanto

多読 Round 2 rule changes

Unlike the last round, the rule changes this time are very light.

 

• Participants reading multiple languages will have their  score  over all languages combined and displayed that way. When you sign up for the contest you will be able to say which languages* you will be reading so you can post from one account instead of 2 like Little_strokes last contest.
• I am adding the #dr (double row) function for those of us that have books like this. This will give you a little more “page” since you are reading more than a standard page.

I anticipate the “new” server being ready soon so be looking out for my register opening announcement on twitter!

 

 

*Languages other than Japanese require you or me (preferably you) to get an average paperback sentences per page number for that language