I collected it (or the original 4-word story) once; did that by going into Print View, and copying the entire thread into a text document, and simply removing all but the words manually. I think that since most of the bits are fairly repetitive - for example, taking this randomly -
Re: 5 Word Story: The Sequel to 4 Word Story
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 4:52 pm
by Behemoth
how we make this thread
Re: 5 Word Story: The Sequel to 4 Word Story
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:03 pm
by Just_Ice_au
better than the last one.
most of the clean-up can be done by rather simple scripts.
The story would still need a manual look-over for when people post more than 5 words, emojis, and punctuation.
Keep in mind that the new phpBB engine and the layout used uses even more fancy formatting, so there are things such as horizontal separators that crop up from time to time.