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What happened to Provider Poll 2025?
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Pay all monies to @jbiloh!
The funny thing is that I actually have all of those except CharityHost and am fairly happy with them. C1V Hosting is a bit weird because they make me pay VAT as an American but is otherwise pretty solid for a basement provider. iHostArt hasn't seen any real downtime in quite a while and is cheap. I have ServerHost which is a ColoCrossing reseller which has remarkably good specs for a literal $11/year VPS. Also VeloxMedia I guess.
Hmmmm
If we win, we will do 1 pushup or squat per received vote.
It will happen... give me some time to prepare.
HES ALIVE
that is an amazing update.
Has to be best post of year 2026 so far.
I believe the best post so far is that $5/year offer from MXRoute, in current economical and technological crisis.
I have 25G $10/3yrs during BF2026 😂
woot awesome thx @titus
Hey @zed how its going man? Well as you know I don't really use AI much but kind of just off the top of my head do I think its possible?
From a purely computational standpoint — yes — an AI agent could theoretically ingest the full semantic corpus of the LowEndTalk Provider Poll thread, construct a weighted engagement matrix, perform sentiment clustering across participating providers, dynamically reconcile giveaway sponsorship vectors, and deploy an automated polling infrastructure with real-time bilohbucks normalization.
In fact — a sufficiently tuned multi-agent system could:
• Scrape historical Provider Poll datasets
• Identify longitudinal voting patterns
• Detect anomalous meme velocity spikes
• Optimize giveaway ROI allocation
• Predict which provider will post “+1 DediRock” within a ±3 comment deviation window
However — we must consider the human variables.
An AI may be capable of counting votes —
but can it emotionally process the disappointment of a delayed February giveaway thread?
Can it truly internalize the cultural weight of a Spoiler tag containing nothing?
These are non-trivial community alignment challenges.
Moreover — delegating Provider Poll governance to artificial intelligence introduces governance-layer implications:
• Autonomous thread pinning escalation
• Recursive YABS amplification loops
• Giveaway hyperinflation events
The infrastructure could handle it — yes.
The culture layer? Unclear.
No, but it can incorporate that into its sentiment analysis.
Yes, by informing itself on how people respond to it. It doesn't need to feel anything to do that.
The real problem is that it can only summarize. It can't actually infer the quality of a provider because the information it is given contains quite a lot of noise. An unfriendly provider with a great service will be rated more poorly than a crappy reseller with an active, popular owner despite the former having a technically superior product.
It's the same issue that a random person would have when stumbling upon the forum. They may be able to learn how the community works, and YABS does help them get a good objective measure of certain performance metrics, but it doesn't tell them much more than how the community subjectively feels about certain providers.
Of course, the provider poll just measures how the community subjectively feels anyway, so everything I've just said was pointless.
@titus Thanks
Hey, I just analysed your AI generated great wall of text and it seems to me that it is dangerously close to generate an "anomalous meme velocity spike."
Where can I report safely on that? That is, whithout risking to cause a "recursive YABS amplification loop" in the process.
Thanks in advance for your help.
We are waiting..!
Glad to see Provider Poll 2025!
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