This morning I have four jiggling circles and a white stripe across my little picture in top right corner of the forum. Is this a Christmas celebration or something more personal to my account?
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if you click on the icon, it will then prompt you to view your Discourse Rewind for the year (same thing as eg Spotify Wrapped, or your iNat Year in Review). Seems like itâs a new feature that Discourse introduced this year
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where Discourse told me off for using their AI summary tool 
The âsummaryâ for this thread is twice as long as the actual comments. Fail. But it is useful on long threads which have been open for years.
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Related: What on earth is a readability score, and how is it generated by an algorithm? Isnât that rather subjective?
readability metrics have been around for a fair few decades now, see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FleschâKincaid_readability_tests for an explanation
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Ah thanks, I was not thinking about it in that context.
iNat being sciency will offend readablility scores. So many mysterious big words, starting with all the taxon names.
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Upon noting their motion, I nearly posted them as a whirligig beetle observation. 
Hereâs a still life screen capture of them:
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Oh Iâm sure, far too many syllables!
I got 61 out of 100, which Iâm guessing might actually be high compared to those who discuss taxonomy more on the forum.
The amusing thing was, Iâve only ever seen readability metrics applied to childrenâs literature and paired with a grade level, where less readable isnât bad, just for a higher grade.
Without the grade level, and applied to forum posts instead of childrenâs books, I didnât get the reference at all. I thought the algorithm was accusing 39% of my writing of being garbled nonsense.
Then I followed the Discourse link above and saw that some people had received negative readability scores, which confused me even more.
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Sometimes the people here hurt my brain. Not a complaint, I like it here just fine.
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Taxonomy is a new language to learn. Homo sapiens, Not Wild ;~)
Unfortunately, after I looked at my Forum year in review once, the link (twirling balls) disappeared from my icon and I can find no link or bookmark to it. Is there a way to revisit that summary?
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You can also navigate to it with https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/{username}/activity/rewind
If anyone wants to permanently disable it, you can go to https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/{username}/preferences/rewind
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Underwhelmed by what the Forum chooses to review and evaluate. Twice is twice too often to read neon colours flickering on black.
Readability 68/100 = Agatha Christie = Plain English, as I intended for people who are kindly using MY English as their second or third language.
Instead of forum posts I could have read Terry Pratchettâs Discworld series !
My BFF changes each time I click. Forever is not what we thought it was.
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I thought at first I had been hacked.
Apparently you are my Forum Best Friend.
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You are also my Forum Best Friend Forever. Maybe it changes for you because youâre the FBFF of all of us. :D
Wow. All of it? That is very impressive. :0
It seems like it is around that value for most of us. I got 65. The âreadability levelâ changes between Agatha Christie, C.S. Lewis, G.R.R. Martin, and Stephen King.
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then I choose C S Lewis.
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