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Better Writing Through Automated Judgment!
I belong to The Voluptuaries, a writer's group started by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kitfox and eposia. The requirement is to post at least one work for critique per month, and two critiques of other's work per month. Previously this was enforced by hand, which, on an ever-expanding body of work coming from as many as ten writers, is a daunting task. Recently its difficulty combined with busyness on the part of our admin has led to no enforcement, which, naturally, has led to laxity. We've only had one contribution at all in February.
Thinking on this conundrum, I realized it was probably possible to do this accounting programmatically.
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kitfox and eposia. The requirement is to post at least one work for critique per month, and two critiques of other's work per month. Previously this was enforced by hand, which, on an ever-expanding body of work coming from as many as ten writers, is a daunting task. Recently its difficulty combined with busyness on the part of our admin has led to no enforcement, which, naturally, has led to laxity. We've only had one contribution at all in February. Thinking on this conundrum, I realized it was probably possible to do this accounting programmatically.
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. It's a huge pain in the ass to accomplish, but once you get good at it, you suddenly have a salable skill that many other programmers don't have the patience or insanity to master.