On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:15:40 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> How popular are Roy's postings in here? My guess, not that popular.
>
> Let's take a look at Roy's Digg profile. Most of the stories he posts
> here, he also posts to Digg.
>
> http://www.digg.com/topusers
>
> In the short time Roy has been posting stories to digg, he's already the
> 22nd top user, with 924 submissions. However, he has the fourth lowest
> poularity ranking at a mere 13%. Only 12 of those 924 posts have been
> marked popular.
So what? Is this of any concern to us? This isn't Digg, it's COLA.
>
> The other three posters have 2015 and 3280, and 3726 total posts and an 8,
> 8, and 9% popularity respectively. In other words, most of those people
> post either stories that have already been posted, or stories that nobody
> cares about, or they don't do a good job writing a summary.
>
> What's even more interesting is that out of his 924 posts, only 129
> comments have been generated.
Blame the participants on Digg, or indeed on COLA for not bothering to
generate discussion on the points Roy posts.
> The guy in the 21 spot, by contrast, has 123 total posts and 122 of them
> popular with a 99% popularity rating and has generated 275 total
> responses. The guy in the 20 spot has 124 popular posts out of 711, but
> has generated 655 comments.
Big deal? What does that have to do with anything? This isn't Digg. It may
have - indeed most probably does have - a completely different readership
and rationale.
>
> What does all this mean? Digg doesn't seem to care much for most of
> what Roy spews. My guess is that COLA would have similar numbers if you
> could accurately poll it.
Since the majority of people who've posted any kind of preference have
said Roy should keep it up, I'd say you're the one spewing crap here.
Maybe if the trolls were to start posting good advocacy he'd have less
need of posting his News items.
>
> My problem with roy is not that he's posting articles to COLA, it's that
> he's posting 90% crap that nobody has any interest in, and he's flooding
> the newsgroup, which has the very real effect of pushing non-Roy content
> off of the majority of news servers out there..
Big fucking deal. Don't like it? Post something better. Filter it. Or just
stop whining about it. Who says anyone here wants to listen to *you*?
>
> But hey, if you guys want this newsgroup to be an RSS feed, then I guess
> that's your call.
Don't be a bigger dickhead than you've show yourself to be, Erik. If you
can do better, do it, and stop making attacks on Roy.
--
Kier
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