Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007
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Guardian
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 10:12
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Wow... Aran, I applaud you making the decision. And I echo what Alo said: there was never anything intrinsically wrong with the stats. It's just that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of Spiderweb kicked in: by telling people about how they ranked, their behaviour changed (I suppose the converse would be Alec's thread: by telling people how their behaviour sucks, their posting changes). I also don't think there's anything wrong with creating the stats for 'popularity', either. You did it pro bono, along with other, bigger things (the Encyclopaedia, the archives, free hosting...) Just think of the stats as a coding challenge you made for yourself, and passed. -------------------- As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all-black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away. - Ronnie Shakes [ Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:12: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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Skip to My Lou
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 10:51
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quote:Awwww, I wanted to be 13. :( -------------------- Take the Personality Test! Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 12:44
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Personally, I think you could get a pretty good idea of contents from posts. Do word counts, sentence counts, and comma counts. Look for the variation in words used, sentence lengths, and number of times parts of each post are quoted. Examine the average length of time between posts within a single visit to Spiderweb. Divide up the contents of each post into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and articles. Give bonus points for gerunds and proper use of the subjunctive! Put those who dangle participles on a special list! Make us watch our words! —Alorael, who is aware that his suggestions range from the possible to the impractical to the impossible. He has faith in the EndeavorBot. After all, its creator has created bots who have done well on their Turing Tests before. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 14:59
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quote:You are! I already demoted Synergy in another thread. Congratulations. -------------------- You lose. Posts: 2156 | Registered: Thursday, August 24 2006 07:00 |
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Canned
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 18:50
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quote:I am okay again. And my post count slowed down. Most of that 30 posts in one day was just spam. Yes, I admit to that. -------------------- I can transform into almost anything, though not sanity. Muffins n' Hell. Note that revisions of the first part is down the list. Posts: 1799 | Registered: Sunday, February 4 2007 08:00 |
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? Man, ? Amazing
Member # 5755
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 19:01
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Aran - you could evaluate posts for quality by deducting value for every instance of name dropping and every instance of URL linking within IronyCentral. That should demote 90% of the offenders. Replies that include quotes from 2 or more members should be given extra value. Once you determine the mechanics of the judging, don't publish them. It can be the meta-game! Figure out how to structure your posts to get a better ranking! This should allow you (Aran) to feed your power-hungry soul, as you tweak the bot to persuade posts that are more and more to your liking. :D -------------------- quote: Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 20:41
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URL linking depends upon the forum. For general it usually goes to a previous useless page to make a point. Over in games it usually means a reference to save retyping something that has already been done. The hard part will be a general program to detect spam. After all how would a bot consider a TM post that uses foreign languages to defeat the autocensor? In general TM as an example was usually spam, but in Blades he wasn't. Keywords will help, but spelling errors will confuse the bot. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, February 22 2007 20:57
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quote:Yes, and I should rename the project to Goog--- oh wait. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |