Spartan

Brutal

I'd run through a wall now

My first suggestion would be to bring up previously written articles that somewhat mirror the writing style he claims to have been consistent with the denied article. Second might be to go back to Grammerly or whatever tool he uses since sometimes I think they leave a history of recent pieces reviewed? As you said it's not a court of law, we don't have that sort of "innocent until proven guilty" with what you claim for TPE. If something looks off and updaters agree, then the user can find some way to communicate with us and explain how our analysis of their work is wrong and can provide more details.

Everything else in here is your opinion, which you're allowed to have and is fine. Not going to push back on anything else other than this. There would never have been a league ban involved, only a TPE ban at most which is fairly standard for people caught using AI for their tasks. The punishment thread has a few of the recent ones to show that a TPE ban is standard there. If you pushed back with V.2, the head of PT who has been given jurisdiction on final say on tasks and punishments for breaking task rules, it would go to the mod team, aka Fong. Personally if you had proof of not using AI or some other sort of rebuttal, I don't see how V.2 wouldn't have taken it unless he simply disagreed with you. Listen, detecting AI is never going to be definitive here - we're not going to get every decision right and we generally try to give people a window to explain to an Updater. That's why we have the denial PMs and are on Discord to chat as well. However, you even claim to use software that changes your sentences and words. That's stuff that might get triggered for AI input here, and seemingly did trigger one of the primary sites Updaters use, including a few others that I ran your original submission through. Others were not as high percentage, some were very low. I just don't know why these comments or proof wasn't brought up with whichever Updater you spoke with, or V.2 before it would ever need to get to mod appeal. At the least, I never saw any follow up comments from you passed on in the Updater chat. Anything that goes through AI checkers and comes off as AI generated, yes. We've tossed in old staff member media spots and vhl.coms to see what the false positive rate is, and we feel fairly comfortable about avoiding false positives. However, we can't say the same for pieces that go through sites like Grammarly and get essentially rewritten. For graphics we usually ask to see layers if we're not comfortable with originality. Maybe media spot users will have to save their pre-Grammarly or whatever write-ups if they're going to go through those avenues that might get flagged. That way updaters can see that there was original content prior to the modification by the editing site. But again, this would only get triggered if your work contains elements of AI, which most completely original content doesn't get flagged for. Dunno what this means, but surely we're not advocating for Updaters not to be checking tasks for compliance with guidelines right? We're not comparing Updaters to Big Brother? Don't think the rules for content are that harsh either. Hit the word count and keep it original. We don't want to have to look at every task through a fine tooth comb, but as we see submissions with AI elements pop up more frequently, its the community itself that forces the league to keep a closer eye out for infractions.

Vote in poll, maybe another poll for how we play. Just gauging interest now so @Dil can see if its worth hosting.

There's a lot to talk about, but not much I want to talk about. Motivation for this VHL.com article is significantly lacking, along with my general VHL interest recently. Now that's not a bad thing I'd say, because I'm still max earning and doing everything I should be doing. However, I'm not rushing to get my capped TPE all done at the start of a week and am relatively content to finish my claims midway through the week or so. I will admit, I've forgotten whether I've claimed all my stuff for a week a few times recently and panic check my player page to make sure I haven't forgotten anything on a Sunday evening. Maybe I'll get back in a groove soon. The gen chat discourse still runs strong, which I love to see. For anyone new to my opinion on gen chat, I've always thought that gen chat should only be a landing spot for the league and a space for a little bit of casual chit chat, but I am a strong advocate for most activity to be funneled into team LRs. A massive community all in one channel just doesn't seem appealing, and is more intimidating for people to engage in. Breaking down that activity into LRs (use public chat channels!) makes the community seem less intimidating and its just a more intimate and relaxing setting. Every GM has a vibe and the LR will generally match it. Gen chat has always been the place where you go if you're super bored or procrastinating and want to shoot the shit or stir some shit. However that's really not what a central channel for the league should be, and that's probably why new members generally avoid it. So yeah, I'll still agree that gen chat is a cesspool that often has conversations that people simply get turned off from ever wanting to join. It's basically just the new thunderdome to me.

Locking for further investigation.

I know you're joking, but I'm curious to see what people get if they take the text and run it through an AI detection tool of their choosing.

YEAHHHH BEAT HIS ASS UP Get wrecked @Garsh

Fart Vandelay

Warsaw of course! Or maybe Davos, I still think it's a punishment to play there.

He probably has a gif made and is waiting for that moment

@STZ

I'll just temporarily re-open trades to punt Grape

Real glad you picked the next 2 games instead of the last 2 games We can go for 4-0

Idk, you've negotiated like half the trades I know WAR has made in the last 2 seasons

Sure give me all your picks and Thor Reingaard

1. How about that hockey? 2. How cold is it rinkside? 3. How do you feel about this being your new permanent assignment? 4. What are the rules of hockey? 5. How do you pronounce Skjei? 6. It's not cold down there right?

Fart Vandelay

Ah I thought you guys had partnered with some third party company for it, props to you in that case. I dunno if we have anyone with the experience who isn't 1. either already working on our portal and 2. has the longevity or interest to take this project long term. Tuff luck I guess.

Can't wait for someone to try and find your players in 20 seasons and their brains just get fried

As of when were these stats? Moscow dropping from 3rd to 7th while on a 15 game win streak is a bit surprising!

Holy shit we're a lil NASTY

I usually don't write two VHL.com's in the same week. I also don't usually pick songs based on the topic of what I'm going to write about, but rather just a song I'm enjoying at the moment. But New York has managed to buck the expected trend themselves, meriting this article. I'm sorry @STZ . One thing you might see when looking at today's VHL standings, is NYA's accomplishment of allowing the least Goals Against in the entire league. A lot of credit has to go to stellar defense led by veteran Malum Maellard @frescoelmo and rookie Callum Gary Yannick Janser @Daniel Janser, and also top rookie goaltender WxWhatever # that is @rory - who is not only a league favorite for RotY, but also very much in the hunt for VHL-wide hardware for goalie performance. However despite allowing the least goals against in the league, New York is sitting in 6th place in the NA - outside of a playoff spot, and 13th overall in the VHL. I was genuinely curious to see how many times this phenomenon has occurred in the VHL's history, so I did a little digging. Here are my results: Season Team GA Reg Season Standing S92 NYA 100 13th S91 TOR 161 6th S90 DAV 165 1st S89 MOS 172 1st S88 CHI 172 4th S87 CGY 180 2nd S86 CHI 155 3rd S85 VAN 179 3rd S84 MOS 153 1st S83 SEA 154 1st S82 VAN/LAS 220 1st/2nd S81 VAN 220 1st S80 CHI 193 2nd S79 CGY 209 6th S78 LDN 223 4th S77 LDN 203 2nd S76 MOS 180 1st S75 HSK 189 2nd S74 MOS 194 1st S73 CGY 184 4th S72 CGY 179 1st S71 VAN 159 1st S70 VAN 163 2nd S69 RIG 141 2nd S68 DAV 173 5th S67 TOR 180 1st S66 HSK 176 1st S65 RIG 174 2nd S64 RIG 167 2nd S63 QCM 160 4th S62 CGY 141 1st S61 CGY/NYA 128 1st/4th S60 SEA 150 3rd Beyond the interesting scoring differences across the eras, you might notice that not a single other team since at least S60 managed to lead the league in fewest goals against while missing the playoffs. In fact, it was much more common to lead your conference or the league in the standings by leading in least GA, let alone miss out on the playoffs. I honestly just got bored after hitting the early S60's with just 8 teams in the league where it was essentially impossible to miss the playoffs with a half decent defense. Fortunately for New York, they're on pace to make some history in a disappointing season otherwise. Perhaps just not the type they'd prefer to make. At least Rory should be able to win some hardware, right?

Posted in the wrong subforum so your Malmo praise is invalid, Moscow praise is fine.