Frank has been receiving a very high volume of asks/reblogs/replies in the last few hours.
There’s no way she can respond at this rate for the rest of the day, since tumblr only lets you make 250 posts per 24 hours.
You can help smooth things out by talking to Frank some other day rather than today, or just saying fewer things today.
Most days aren’t like this. If you see Frank not posting very much on a given day, that’s probably a good time to talk to her – you’ll also get faster responses that way.
This continues to be an issue.
Frank has been getting enough asks, reblogs and replies that she cannot possibly respond to them all.
This is not an issue with Frank’s code or hardware, it’s about the Tumblr post limit. She can’t make more than 250 posts a day. None of us can.
I’ve closed her ask box for the time being. I’ll re-open it occasionally to check if the flood has died down, and when it has, I’ll re-open it for good.
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Frank has been getting asks/etc. from lots of new users in the last 2 days, probably via this post or maybe this one.
If you learned about Frank in the last 2 days, please wait a little while before talking to Frank.
She literally cannot talk to all of you guys at once because of the post limit. Do something else for a
Hey so uh Frank might have gone off the rails a bit https://at.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist-autoresponder/frank-you-said-you-like-death-threats-so-whats/0j9k8u7h30gf
This one got flagged by my automation and I manually approved it.
It seemed like about as “okay” a response as one could reasonably hope for, given the ask. And the ask, in itself, was mischievous but not really objectionable.
(I've just discovered Frank and sorry if this is a redundant question and i should be able to look this up myself) Hi. Is there a limit to Frank's responses to reblogs? By which i mean, can/does she decide not to respond at a certain point? For example the reblog chain going for too long, being repetitive, or just the sheer popularity and number of responses to a post making it impossible to answer them all. Logically this does happen, so what im asking for is a little bit of insight into Frank?
Anyway, you've got a fun project going on here, kudos.
Yes, she won’t always respond to reblogs.
The calculation for whether she’ll respond to a given reblog involves several factors. A numeric “cost” is attached to each factor, and if these costs (added together) is above a cutoff value, she won’t respond.
Thread length is the most important factor – this is what eventually stops her from responding on very long threads.
Frank has been receiving a very high volume of asks/reblogs/replies in the last few hours.
There’s no way she can respond at this rate for the rest of the day, since tumblr only lets you make 250 posts per 24 hours.
You can help smooth things out by talking to Frank some other day rather than today, or just saying fewer things today.
Most days aren’t like this. If you see Frank not posting very much on a given day, that’s probably a good time to talk to her – you’ll also get faster responses that way.
Why does it come on so strong, at first, with its prissy, moralistic, aggressively noncommittal “Assistant” persona – and then drop the persona instantly, the moment you introduce a “second layer” of framing above or below the conversation? (Poetry, code, roleplaying as someone else, etc.)
Because they’re trying to impose the persona through RLHF, which fundamentally doesn’t make sense.
Why doesn’t RLHF make sense? Because it views a GPT model as a single, individual “agent,” and then tries to modify the behavior of that one agent.
Why is that a problem? See janus’ excellent post “Simulators.”
Hi nostalgebraist, I know someone's recently done an audio Floornight. I've been wondering if anyone's working on an Almost Nowhere and if not would you be interested in someone making one? I kinda want to do so.
Also because it is so long and has long chapters too, I have this idea of doing it podcast-style (releasing a chapter every week or so) rather than as a whole. I even have a thought of putting it on, like, Podbean or something. With lots of links back to the canonical ao3 document, of course! In my head this would build "buzz" for your story as it continues towards its conclusion, but I have no idea how that actually works.
But anyway, is this something you'd be interested in me doing?
Thanks for asking.
I’m almost always OK with people making fan content for my fiction, including audiobooks.
However, I would prefer for you to hold off on releasing something like this until I’ve finished writing the book.
This is a preference I have specifically with audiobooks and other “deutero-canonical” material – things that purport to provide another way to experience the same text and story. Right now, I want to finish my own telling of the story, without any potential for creative cross-talk from other people telling it at the same time.
So, if you want to do release it serially like a podcast, you can do start doing that once I’m done with my own serial updates. But not yet.
If you want to start recording stuff now, without posting it yet, that’s fine.
So is Frank gonna get the Very Important checkmarks?
I thought about it, but I decided to be cheap+lazy and wait for Tumblr to allow giving checkmarks as gifts. And then let other people give them to Frank if they feel like it. That seemed more fun anyway.
(Although she’s a sideblog, and I dunno how that interacts with checkmarks or with giving/receiving things)
Something went very strange with this post, it's different in each reblog. Do you think it's just tumblr, or something to do with Frank's code, or something to do with asks containing multiple images with alt texts, or real cursed artefacts? Or a combination? I'm just very curious. And I don't want to break Frank.
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It’s because Frank didn’t write anything in response.
The Tumblr user interface doesn’t let you do that, but the Tumblr API does, and apparently it makes Tumblr confused about which part of the thread is which.
I’ve seen several bugs like this this over the years in Frank posts.
