drunkasaskunk 194 Posted January 11 On 09/01/2024 at 19:26, maryportfuncity said: Was just trawling obits for the man - he's hit the woefully low standards of Deathrace q/o and helped one team cash in a joker, seen nowt of DDP worthiness yet. I just hope that uk.news.yahoo.com 's sweeper-bot doesn't regurgitate (a polite way of saying COPY & PASTE) a non qualifying obit and turn it into a QO. If so it will illustrate, yet again, why IMHO uk.news.yahoo.com needs to be removed as a QO source UNLESS IT IS AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE written for the site. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,605 Posted January 11 3 minutes ago, drunkasaskunk said: I just hope that uk.news.yahoo.com 's sweeper-bot doesn't regurgitate (a polite way of saying COPY & PASTE) a non qualifying obit and turn it into a QO. If so it will illustrate, yet again, why IMHO uk.news.yahoo.com needs to be removed as a QO source UNLESS IT IS AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE written for the site. Yahoo doesn’t publish any original article I don’t think. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drunkasaskunk 194 Posted January 11 6 minutes ago, The Old Crem said: Yahoo doesn’t publish any original article I don’t think. Even more reason why (IMHO) it should be binned as a QO source. I can't see why a NON QO is suddenly and magically turned into a scoring QO just because a search engine has cut and paste an an article from it. The Hollywood Reporter, CBC, Huffpost and the Chicago Tribune are NOT permissible sources of a QO. I can not understand the logic of allowing articles that have been copied from them and harvested for a search engine - albeit a supposed UK search engine - are deemed to count. It seems that a copy is of more value than the original ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,605 Posted January 11 3 minutes ago, drunkasaskunk said: Even more reason why (IMHO) it should be binned as a QO source. I can't see why a NON QO is suddenly and magically turned into a scoring QO just because a search engine has cut and paste an an article from it. The Hollywood Reporter, CBC, Huffpost and the Chicago Tribune are NOT permissible sources of a QO. I can not understand the logic of allowing articles that have been copied from them and harvested for a search engine - albeit a supposed UK search engine - are deemed to count. It seems that a copy is of more value than the original ! Yahoo is not quite a search engine. It’s more like a news site that has licenses with websites. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,641 Posted January 11 I like the Yahoo UK addition. Yields a much higher number of hits and it makes it more inclusive for ppl outside the UK eg for US sporting stars that wouldn’t otherwise obit. Makes it far more interesting. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drunkasaskunk 194 Posted January 11 11 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: I like the Yahoo UK addition. Yields a much higher number of hits and it makes it more inclusive for ppl outside the UK eg for US sporting stars that wouldn’t otherwise obit. Makes it far more interesting. I take your point, however, I maintain that the powers-that-be have decided that (among many many more_ ) The Hollywood Reporter, CBC, Huffpost and the Chicago Tribune are NOT permissible sources, so I cannot understand why THIS LINK relating to the passing of Arthur Duncan Is NOT a QO but THIS LINK IS a QO when they are written by the same person for the same publication. Take the passing of Brian O'Donovan. THIS LINK is NOT a QO THIS LINK IS a QO Take the passing of Byun Hee-bong THIS LINK is NOT a QO THIS LINK IS a QO Take the passing of Lowell Weicker THIS LINK is NOT a QO THIS LINK IS a QO In all of the above examples the Qualifying Obituary has been copied from, word for word, and even CREDITED to, a source that does NOT count as a qualifying source. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted January 12 On 03/12/2023 at 18:22, Captain Hemlock said: And...we're off! I want to thank the committee again for the hard work they put in each year. This is the absolute greatest Dead Pool. I have some picks for 2024, who if they get a QO, will strain @Death Impends creativity in writing a DDP obit. I'm 100% sure Death Impends will rise to the challenge and I hope to keep them similarly busy with quirky DDP obituaries this year to make up for the drought of Crumble successes last year! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 15 The one year I don’t play and Joyce Randolph drops dead - woulda been a hit for Made In Detroit team that gets 1 or 2 a year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted January 15 It should be a matter of days til we're up and running. As usual, here's a list of 2024 names that were rejected under our FFBI rules. Selma Wilde - Apparently, a German supercentenarian. There's not even any mention of her on the 110 Club. The 110 Club FFS. Janet Gibbs - A centenarian, that's about it. Edwin Rayner - Old chap on YouTube who sings... to an audience of 1,000 followers. Jay Tenison - Terminally ill army veteran who got to fire a tank one final time. Gabriel Yeung Ka-piu - Terminal cancer patient who made the news for donating a lot of money to the Children's Cancer Foundation of Hong Kong. Clare Sacco - Cancer TikToker with nowhere near enough followers. Martin Butler - A food reviewer on YouTube who doesn't pass the follower quota. Gareth Morgan - As above. Emilio Betancourt - Cancer Tiktoker. Does have a sufficient amount of followers, but it was a following accrued entirely off his cancer. George Smith (x2) - There is a theme team of George Smiths. Lucky us. Two of them - George Smith of the Canadian Parks & Wildlife Society, and George Smith the centenarian schools engineer - were so obscure even by this team's barrel scraping standards that they were DQed. Ruth langsford mother joan langsford - I warned you she wouldn't count, and one of you didn't listen. David Marsh - Previously rejected in 2022. "He's a 60s musician I never heard of" might have been my greatest putdown of a no-name, and with him now dead I'm not going to get the chance to use it again... Jonathan Mills - Too low level a cricketer who never would've gotten attention without the cancer. Bruce Murray - The closest decision, while his camera assistant work is no doubt one of the many important cogs to Home and Away his public notability was very much embellished by the press. Phillip Mark Mehrtens - New Zealand pilot being held hostage by Indonesian insurgents. Terrorist hostages have been banned in the DDP since 2015, years before the more robust FFBI rules were set up. 19 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Commtech Sio Bibble 2,047 Posted January 15 @Death Impends You've probably said already somewhere else but how many followers on certain social media sites do people need to qualify. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted January 15 5 minutes ago, Commtech Sio Bibble said: @Death Impends You've probably said already somewhere else but how many followers on certain social media sites do people need to qualify. Half a million. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted January 15 Thanks for all your hard work @Death Impends @Banana and @Grim Up North I am full of appreciation and respect how much work, time, energy and passion you put into setting this up, running it and making it the amazing enjoyable success that it is. I take my hat of to you all. Looking forward to seeing the 2024 Website unveiling in the near future and especially excited to see how many unique picks out of my 60 names I have managed. 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,197 Posted January 15 1 minute ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: Thanks for all your hard work @Death Impends @Banana and @Grim Up North I am full of appreciation and respect how much work, time, energy and passion you put into setting this up, running it and making it the amazing enjoyable success that it is. I take my hat of to you all. Looking forward to seeing the 2024 Website unveiling in the near future. Ditto. Fantastic work. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ethnic cleansing 26 Posted January 15 Will Brian Barczyk get a Qualifying obit???? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,477 Posted January 15 4 minutes ago, ethnic cleansing said: Will Brian Barczyk get a Qualifying obit???? https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25372121/brian-barczyk-the-reptarium-owner-dead/amp/ An hour before you posted your question in fact! 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted January 15 Heh, well, Grim Up North left the committee over a year ago for Banana. I am leaving the committee now (except, maybe, for some last questions for the transition). I will hand over the score updates and all matters of database-related issues to our veteran forum member time. From what I've seen so far, he will be an excellent successor. The DDP will be lucky to have him. He has already updated a few scores last month and is currently setting up the 2024 game. Best of luck! 1 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted January 15 The teams, celebs, and Drop 40 pages have all been posted, and you can now access them from the front page. @time is still working on updating for deceased celebs. As @gcreptile has said he's been brill so far. Not sure when I'll start posting obits, not all of them have been written yet. Been busy with the new celeb bios. time, @Banana, and I, plus Reptile in his outgoing capacity and like last year @Whitehouse in a guest capacity, have taken care of all the bios, and once again the 5-person crew has made it a lot more feasible. 10 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted January 15 On 01/01/2024 at 15:19, Spade_Cooley said: By the look of gcreptile's teams, they exist to stop me getting any uniques. Well, Jane McAlevey was even picked by a 3rd person. So it's only David Elmore Smith that I spoiled. I think he's good enough for a main team, as a competetive pick, but then I thought that he might be too much bottom of the barrel for the main team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,398 Posted January 15 Damn good job, cmme members present and outgoing. Damn good bloody good damn good job. 1 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Hemlock 742 Posted January 16 It’s always interesting to see which uniques I get and don’t get. I’m amazed that John Okafor aka Mr Ibu is a unique for my B team. The guy has been poisoned many times and may have had one or both legs amputated recently. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TQR 14,398 Posted January 16 Oh fuck off. I claim mine to be superior as the title quote is correct and I've more uniques. 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Commtech Sio Bibble 2,047 Posted January 16 Thank you to everyone on the team who work hard to get this out quickly, great work!!!! I managed to get 2/4 of the uniques I wanted so I'm quite happy with that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Commtech Sio Bibble 2,047 Posted January 16 Just to make note of drop 40 changes DROPS Rhod Gilbert Kate Keltie Vladimir Putin Janey Godley Randy Jackson NEW (inc. re-entries) Esther Rantzen Derek Draper Bruce Willis Michael Tilson Thomas Theo Burrell Noam Chomsky Patrick Murray Toby Keith Denis Law Clint Eastwood Phil Collins Franz Beckenbauer Ozzy Osbourne Bob Newhart Pope Francis I'm very much surprised that Andy Taylor has managed to not just cling on but only drop from 12th to 19th. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,141 Posted January 16 Fantastic job, chaps. Thank you. Give me a shout if you want help with images again. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
