…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 :
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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
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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.
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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.
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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”
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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
- #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)
- #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.
- #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.