Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny R
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
I had exactly a 2:1 ratio as previously reported [Aug 30, '09], now I am at: 1.7241:1 ratio. 6,067 comments to 3,519 likes.
- The Ghost of Library Past
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
"Very helpful, but S3 is not a CDN - Amazon's CDN is CloudFront (which can easily be extended from S3, however.) Also CloudFront is quite slow as CDNs go but it is easy to set up and administer. You might also consider resellers that offer faster networks, such as GoGrid (resell EdgeCast) or LiquidWeb (resell L3). [Disclosure: while I am a photographer, I also work for a CDN.]"
- Anthony Citrano
"So unless you're there, you're not allowed to have an opinion? Then shut up. About this, and everything that exceeds the physical bounds of your little life."
- Anthony Citrano
"Very friendly service, cool funky spot. Plenty of outdoor seating. Very good breakfast sammiches with lots of options. Tasty iced latte. Very reasonable prices. Overall a great spot for a…"
- Anthony Citrano
"Cool decor. The yogurt was meh; decent with good flavor, but a bit icy (which makes it very fast to melt.) And they were out of several of the fruit toppings at the topping bar. Girlfriend got a…"
- Anthony Citrano
"Excellent coffee drinks, superb customer service, and the pastries are fantastic. One suggestion: Wi-Fi; they don't have any. Since I am here in town on business, it would have been great to log in…"
- Anthony Citrano
"I'm here in town on business and staying at the W up the street. Yelp led me to this place and I'm glad it did. The chef was friendly and even gave me a couple things to try on the house. Very good…"
- Anthony Citrano
Another problem is that you rarely see news stories about government agencies working properly. This is a significant problem and gives the public, I think, a warped perception about our government in general since they only really hear about stuff when things go wrong.
I would ask of those who only post stories about government failures to do their utmost to look for government successes and not fall in to this selective bias trap.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Good news is never news. We could say the same thing about any subject. :-(
- Jeanine W.
from iPhone
If things go right, your just doing your job. If something goes wrong then its news.
- NotdaBOTTurlokin4
That's what sells papers and gets the most people to click through. People like to get their belief that the government can do nothing right confirmed.
- Eivind
Its a problem with media surrender to balance instead of truth. If MSM told truth, when people slammed Gov they'd talk about contervailing truth of useful agencies. Now even during floods they are hard pressed to give it positive spin
- WarLord
sorta like everything? I mean, it ain't like the satellite trucks show up because a baby *didn't* fall into a well.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Not just hear: I experience stuff going wrong just about every time I have to deal with the government myself.
- Andy Bakun
From all the horror stories I heard about SSA, my experience is actually the best so far of all the government agencies I had to deal with (DMV, USCIS, DHS). Granted, the waiting time for the initial take in was a couple of hours, but after that everything went smoothly. #GoodGovernment
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
I have used it for lots of good things the government has done. Letting people take pictures with arresting them, letting one-armed people buy switchblades... I think there were more.
- Alex Scrivener
from Android
Umm, those are not examples of good government. An example of good government is a government agency actually making people's lives better by doing something, not by letting them do what is lawful.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh. Yeah, I can't think of any time that has happened recently.
- Alex Scrivener
from Android
“The sheer amount of energy generated is difficult to comprehend. Although the crust probably shifted by only a centimeter, the incredible density and gravity made it well beyond anything humans have ever experienced. The quake would have registered a 32 on the Richter scale — mind you, the largest earthquake ever recorded was about a 9, and it’s a logarithmic scale. In just 200 milliseconds — a fifth of a second — the eruption gave off as much energy as the Sun does in a quarter of a million years.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
Seriously though, I think it was about $20.
- peamageddon
$800, if you consider investment in an illegal business a bet. If not about $60.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Akiva, but because we got the smarts, we only cancel after the 100th episode for sweet ass syndication.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Rob, I'd differentiate it from an investment (high risk our otherwise) because it deals with potential valuations versus a more our less fixed value to the winner and loser.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
@rob: buying *any* real estate is considered a wager. or stocks. or bonds. or t-bills.. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
"To make this, since it is such a simple recipe, use the very best ingredients you can. It’s very high in calories, so make each one count for something. You wouldn’t want to use crappy flour, or crappy margarine or fake vanilla. That would lessen the flavor, lessen the experience, and still make you fat. Best to use the best."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
*gets ready to fight ginger and LB for this*
- Jandy
"very high in calories..." Just to be evil, I tried to calculate that. Can't: Unclear how much chocolate it takes to make a cup of chunks. 4 oz? 8 oz? (Probably somewhere in between.) Consider it the Awesome Blossom cutoff: If the former, then that cookie has fewer calories than the fat-bomb/sodium-bomb that Chili's serves. If the latter, then...well, slightly more.
- Walt Crawford
*rolls up sleeves and brandishes fork menacingly at Jandy*
- Rollin' in the LB
I want this. I want this now. I would show that cookie who's boss. (I don't, however, get to make it without enough people around to share it so I only got one bite)
- ellbeecee
What ellbeecee said. Especially the part about showing that cookie who is boss.
- ωαřмaiden TeamOtto
What restaurant used to do something like this? Not that it matters, though. I'd eat that like <MESSAGE REDACTED>
- ha3rvey ($10 HUGS!!!)
Read the recipe again. REAL. BUTTER. FTW. I think I'll plan to keep these ingredients on hand at all times. One addition I might make: walnuts. Lightly toasted, of course.
- Julian
"Forensic scientists have developed a test that can match a suspect's DNA to crime scene samples in just four hours."
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
“In a way, it is human nature to want to construct a narrative to resolve anxieties, to be drawn to mystery or the perception of it.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
“According to author and historian Taylor Branch's interviews with Bill Clinton, on a 1995 visit to Washington D.C., Yeltsin was found on Pennsylvania Avenue, drunk, in his underwear and trying to hail a cab in order to find pizza.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
“All seven of our foreign tax havens are entirely legal,” Immelt noted. “But Americans have made it clear that they deplore laws that enable tax avoidance. While we owe it to our shareholders to use every legal loophole to maximize returns – we also owe something to the American people. We didn't write the laws that let us legally avoid paying taxes. Congress did. But we benefit from those laws, and now we'd like to share those benefits. We are proud to be giving something back to America, and we are proud to set an example for all industry to follow.”
- Anthony Citrano