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Auction Feedback Generator

If you have bid on or sold items at online auction websites, you are familiar with the auction feedback system. Buyers and sellers record public statements of praise or complaint concerning each auction.

The first few tries at writing auction feedback are fun. You spend hours crafting 80 characters into a magnum opus, representing exactly your level of satisfaction with the auction.

After a while, however, writing auction feedback is no longer so exciting, and can even become a chore. You find yourself repeating the same trite phrases, and thinking that a machine could do just as well.

A machine can do just as well! I have developed the Auction Feedback Generator to automatically compose your auction feedback. At the push of a button, randomly selected words of praise or blame spew forth from your computer, to rescue you from writer's block. Never tax your imagination about auction feedback again!

Directions: Click the buttons until you get feedback you like. Select, copy and paste! It's yours!

Auction Feedback Generator
















The Bits
Thirty nouns, 80 adjectives, 16 adverbs and over 200 free-standing sentences - see them.


How does it work?

The Automatic Feedback Generator builds 65 to 80 character positive and negative feedback by randomly agglutinating these three items:
  • Random adverb-adjective-noun combinations.
    adjective"improper"
    adverb-adjective"horribly improper"
    adjective-noun"improper emails"
    adverb-adjective-noun"horribly improper emails"

  • Conjuntions of the random adverb-adjective-noun phrases:
    • "Horribly improper emails and illegal item!"
    • "Good goods and great packaging!"
    • "Nice and remarkably zippy delivery!"

  • Over 200 short, pre-composed sentences:
    • "Recommended to all"
    • "Will never deal with again."

A random percentage are converted to all caps, and random punctuation is sprinkled in for taste.

See the javascript.


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