[HN Gopher] LOL Verifier
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       LOL Verifier
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 133 points
       Date   : 2023-02-19 14:39 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (brianmoore.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (brianmoore.com)
        
       | NoZebra120vClip wrote:
       | Up next: a floor mat to verify RO[T]FL[MAO]
       | 
       | And then: ADS-B tracking of rofflecopters!
        
         | anamexis wrote:
         | I would be quite concerned if anyone actually did LMAO.
        
       | stocknoob wrote:
       | That's funny.
        
       | IncRnd wrote:
       | kk
       | 
       | gg
       | 
       | ima afk brb
        
       | yoursunny wrote:
       | I include my LOL video when I comment LOL:
       | https://bit.ly/sunnyLOL
       | 
       | This ensures my LOL is authentic.
        
       | yieldcrv wrote:
       | dead
       | 
       | Not the link, it means I laughed
        
       | hahamrfunnyguy wrote:
       | Thank you for this important work, I LOLed but did not ROFL.
        
       | starkd wrote:
       | Maybe your next work can be a sarcasm verifier.
        
       | sublinear wrote:
       | Are we finally done with this attitude yet?
        
       | reaperducer wrote:
       | Reminds me of the browser plug-in that automatically downvotes HN
       | comments that begin or end with "LOL."
       | 
       | The same plug-in that auto-downvotes comments that start with
       | "So..." or "I mean."
        
       | prng2021 wrote:
       | Lol this guy's is hilarious.
        
       | jordanreger wrote:
       | lol (LOL verified at 12:44:35 19/02/2023)
        
         | bookofjoe wrote:
         | Time zone please
        
       | garashovb wrote:
       | Loool!
        
       | koof wrote:
       | Now we just need this for mdr, en francais
        
         | lucb1e wrote:
         | This is how I confuse french people. Join a server and say slt,
         | then later mdr. That's basically the only french I know but it
         | keeps up long conversations.
         | 
         | For russians, closing parentheses are the weapon of choice))
         | Elegant weapons for a more civilized age, some say (obligatory
         | https://xkcd.com/297/). (Edit: I just realized this can be
         | taken as a comment on them being currently uncivil; I did not
         | mean to refer to the war, actually. I only meant to quote XKCD.
         | Not sure if I should self-censor and remove this... /edit)
        
       | wpietri wrote:
       | Does this mean you can't talk about philologists who lollygag
       | while getting lollipops?
        
       | m3kw9 wrote:
       | The TAM for this device is the size of the internet
        
       | jansan wrote:
       | This has been posted before (edit: not several times), so I will
       | simply repeat my joke here, too:
       | 
       | You can combine the LOL Verifier with a special map (sold
       | separately) to build the ROTFLOL Verifier.
        
         | bookofjoe wrote:
         | I apologize for posting this if indeed "This has been posted
         | several times...", but I couldn't find evidence of this here:
         | 
         | https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
        
           | jansan wrote:
           | You seem to be correct, maybe I saw it on multiple websites
           | at the same time. I found only one previous post. Sorry about
           | that.
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34237195
        
             | bookofjoe wrote:
             | >seem -- you're a tough audience!
        
       | andrewstuart wrote:
       | Glad this has arrived.
       | 
       | The most frustrating thing about LOL is integrity - or lack of
       | integrity.
       | 
       | I feel LOL is thrown about without being backed by real world
       | action and it's devaluing the core and origins of the true LOL.
       | 
       | I guess I just don't trust LOL any more and a device like this
       | will go al long way towards restoring that faith. Hopefully it
       | gets built into phones and computers in the future.
       | 
       | And as for ROFL....
        
         | ricardonunez wrote:
         | For ROFL there's a mat with sensors or something like Xbox
         | Kinect.
        
       | NoZebra120vClip wrote:
       | More feature requests:
       | 
       | - Non-repudability: I like big laughs and I can't deny.
       | 
       | - Copyright protection: store a database of LOL hashes and send
       | DMCA takedowns for anyone who's stealing your thunder.
       | 
       | - LOLspotter for low-income ghettos: track down incels who spend
       | all night in their parents' basements watching Twitch.
       | 
       | - Humour check: feed the original joke to ChatGPT to make sure it
       | was actually funny.
        
       | nluken wrote:
       | Funny little project, though the days where "lol" meant something
       | was truly funny have long past. The way we use the word today is
       | actually very important to conveying tone over text, and so I
       | don't know if I would call an "lol" without laughter inauthentic
       | as much as it is reflective of a relatively new kind of
       | communication.
        
         | reaperducer wrote:
         | _the days where "lol" meant something was truly funny have long
         | past._
         | 
         | Just like in real life, the quality of your conversation
         | depends on the company you keep.
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | I still use lol to mean "I would've laughed if this was an
         | audio conversation", although of course it does mean anything
         | from a slight giggle to more intense laughter.
        
           | MalcolmDwyer wrote:
           | A brief exhalation of air from the nose ==> lol
           | 
           | Two brief exhalations of air from the nose in quick
           | succession and a slight smile ==> rofl
        
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