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
12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;)
- Chris Myles
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
When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94
- MiniMage
536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00
- Bren
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
0.87 (3770/4312), so I'm either getting more commenty or less likey. [0.74 (1970/2667) was what I previously reported back in June]
- In Search of Gender
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 #TeamMomo
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 H
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
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
0.75 (38,250 comments / 50,175 likes) (My entry above from 2 years ago said I had 10,782 comments and 7,666 likes for a ratio of 1.41. I've been busy, and my pattern seems to have changed.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Separate eggs. Whisk sugar and yolks until smooth. Pour in liquor slowly, whisking constantly. This will cook the yolks, so if they aren't whisked smooth with the sugar you will have bits of yellow floating in the nog. Add dairy, still whisking. Beat egg whites to soft peaks, then fold into the nog. Let sit for 24 hours. Serve with fresh nutmeg on top.
- Alex Scrivener
LO CAL? GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY EGGNOG!
- Alex Scrivener
If you want lo cal, get a smaller glass!
- Alex Scrivener
lo cal... what is the world coming to?! <mutters under my breath>
- Alex Scrivener
With all that alcohol, it's like a dairy version of a Long Island Iced Tea
- Spidra Webster
It is a recipe of halves. Of the gallon of liquid, It is half dairy and half liquor. Of the half which is liquor, half is whiskey. Of the half which is not whiskey, half is brandy. Of the half which is not brandy, half is light rum and half is dark. Of the half is dairy, half is milk and half is cream. Then you throw in the dozen eggs and the pound of sugar.
- Alex Scrivener
Oh yeah, this is some great stuff! Every year I forget, and every year I am reminded again.
- Alex Scrivener
from iPhone
Thanks for sharing, Alex. I'm going to hold some "taste test/QA trials" of your recipe around Christmas. If it's successful, you'll probably see about 15 drunken Jenny posts one evening.
- Jenny H
I'll be right over...unfortunately, this means I'll be there in 3 days.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Mmm, I'm at my mother-in-law's house and she makes something very similar. She makes the yolk/sugar/booze/dairy mixture the day before and folds the egg whites in right before serving though, I think. I know there was a bunch of Jameson's in it. Yum, can't wait - we get to drink it later today.
- Laura Norvig
Just did my first batch of this and it is nestled all snug for drinking tomorrow :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
This is some rock-star type egg nog. Damn.
- Bren
from iPhone
I made this for Thanksgiving. Everyone loved it.
- Trish R
Oh, I could make eggnog from the half-in-half left over from my Thanksgiving squash casserole recipe. I bought way too much.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Greg, as Trish says, this is a GREAT use for that :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
this recipe is the only one that actually tempts me to try eggnog.
- holly #ravingfangirl
OMG, it has so much booze in it. I think I was drunk after one cup. I'd like to make it again with about half the alcohol.
- Kelli H.
Kelli, same thing for me. I'm going to make it for Christmas with half the booze.
- Trish R
I make it at full strength (so that I don't have to worry about the eggs,) but then serve it with some extra milk to water it down a bit if people want to.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I wondered that, too, about the eggs. but it's just too strong for me so maybe I should dilute it that way.
- Trish R
Nice to see this bumped. I think we might have to make this this year.
- Laura Norvig
That's a good idea, Jenn. Or I could throw in some 7-UP (a weird family tradition of mine- I haven't yet met anyone else who drinks eggnog and 7-UP).
- Kelli H.
There's writing on that cover? Huh, hadn't noticed....
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Little does he know that this is the beginning of the most disappointing three-way.
- Andy
Sounds like a book I need to add to my TBR. If that busybody needs books to really complain about, I can make him/her a list. Actually, I may have to put in an ILL for it soon (if for no other reason than to mess with our ILL folks, but then, the other libraries may send a less risque cover edition. It still does sound ooh aah haha)
- Angel R. Rivera
It seems to me that, even if you're going to naked murder a guy, slipping a butcher knife between your butt cheeks just doesn't seem to be a thing you wanna do.
- Dan: Bibrarian
I guess killing them while she's naked means she won't have to clean the blood off her clothes.
- John (bird whisperer)
It's like Crying Freeman, except for all the other ways in which it isn't. :)
- Dan: Bibrarian
I actually have every cover Hard Case Crime has ever done. Their editor sends me the original files they send to the printer as soon as they finalize them.
- Alex Scrivener
from Android
We have that book. And the audiobook is checked out.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I like Block's Matt Scudder series. He wrote porn in his early years and kind of played with that genre in the standalone Small Town, which I liked with reservations. (Could have done without the extended sex scenes, but as a post-9/11 tribute to New York it's dandy.) I admit I really dislike that cover. I wouldn't remove or cover the book but I might make a face whenever I looked at it.
- barbara fister
everytime I see this cover in LSW I wonder what sort of internet room I've been transported to... then I realize where I am
- awd (canoeist in th wild)
Oh man. I missed the point that this book wasn't written in the 1970s. What is up with that font?
- Laura Krier
INORITE?! I am totes lodging a complaint about that!
- RepoRat
Remember this one, folks? Just got ANOTHER complaint, this time asking that we take this "pornographic" book away from where "impressionable teenage boys" can see it.
- laura x
Impressionable teenage boys have NO BUSINESS seeing typography that bad!
- RepoRat
I keep thinking she will change her mind and decide to go prep some dinner with that knife -- impressionable teenage boys are also learning all sorts of bad habits about food utensil cleanliness.
- Amandadon't
Indeed, I do. I was so jealous when someone posted from the west coast about eating crepes filled with Nutella, whipped cream and strawberries, but there was nowhere I could go for that. I was in Cincinnati yesterday and took advantage of Jungle Jim's proximity to pick up some things I can't find in town, and when I saw crepes (which I will NOT make myself), I nabbed 'em! Now I need the other three ingredients.
- MiniMage
from BuddyFeed
Reckon the comments in mutiple languages, I think the love for Nutella is a worldwide phenoma. <3 I think Nutella is the key to world peace. ;)
- Olivia Lovag
Nope. Neither the chocolate nor the hazelnut flavor seems to pop out to me, it just tastes sweet. I'd rather have the fresh ground chocolate peanut butter from Whole Foods.
- FFing Enigma
YES,yes,yes....i do and i like it even more when listening to my ipod and doors are locked,...must be a english thing to do ......nikki......^o^ -
- nikki hayes
hi, nikki ! ...... nice to meet you !! ........^_^
- keiko-san
@Ortaparmak - Since 1973>soudesu. nihonwa kyoukara "Golden-Week" ni hairimashita. demo, watashi wa shigoto desu. nichiyoubi to getsuyoubi dake oyasumi desu. doko e ittemo hito ga ookute.....
- keiko-san
Italian Restaurant de hataraite imasu. yoru dake desukedone......; p
- keiko-san
keiko-san, I fine and I'm busy at work. how about u ? : )
- Lost Abyss
@AyDin >hello!.....I did't know taht. What's so good? I tried looking on the Internet, I have little information. What is it made from hazelnuts, I guess? It seems to eat once. It also has made what countries?
- keiko-san
@ Lost Abyss >hi!.....are you busy?.....me, too!......^_^
- keiko-san
I'm home now : ) weekend rest time : )
- Lost Abyss
to ke dargire jabre mohiti hastio masaele zin das...papak...ba to hastam...to ke ba kasi ke tarside az un donya bara doori az atashe doozakhash hame jayash ra pooshande chon pooshanidan az atash kasi ke sarapa tarse va tars doshmane manteghe che manteghi bahs mikoni pas manteghi bahs kardan ba kasi ke door az mantegh hast khod eyne bi manteghie ;)
- peepoo
Keyko, stop rebumping same old posts. Now Nutella makes me throw up. Would you still like something that you see 3/4 times per day?
- Apostocosì (Vulvia)
Hi :) I'll write recipes with nutella a.s.a.p :P
- SanalMutfak (M)
No, it's disgusting. The worst such hazelnut cream produced, sticky, oversweet and at the same time flavorless. There are bunches of much better similar creams around, not necessarly hugely more costly: Novi cream is hugely better and still in the same price range!
- Alice Twain
Alice come on... a little spoon of Nutella could make you less ... :P
- Eta e basta
use translate button keiko :) (I know It doesn't perfect)
- SanalMutfak (M)
@Eta, nutella is disgusting. not hazelnut creams. The point is that nutella has next to no hazelnut in, that's part of what makes it so bad. Again, try some better hazelnut creams, stuff that does not feel like sugary glue in your mouth but rather is silky with a distinct taste of toasted hazelnut. You will taste the difference.
- Alice Twain
I'm in it for the chocolate, not the nut
- MiniMage
from Android
In Italian, "Slurp" is an onomatopoeia, i.e. this word means that someone is licking him/her own lips while thinking about the goodness of a food.
- Smeerch
Okay, FFers, I'm telling this social network first because I'm not ready to tell others yet. Anyway, due to many reasons, especially the fact that I'm stuck in my life and need to find a career path, I'm moving back to Norther VA at the end of July. I see it as a regrouping and it's temporary. This has been a hard decision, but it needed to happen.
It's taken me months to get to this point. I've lived here for 8 years. I survived a massive bipolar episode last year and got back to work. This is my decision. I can't keep living on stop-gap jobs. I'm 31 and need to figure out a plan and I can't financially do that here. I'm very conflicted about it and I've cried a lot. This is my home, where my friends are, where I've found a...
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- Lis
Good luck, Lis, and congratulations on making such a positive step. We'll still be right here :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Good luck with the move! I hope it gets you on a better path.
- John (bird whisperer)
My one fear is that my friends are here and I HATE making new friends. I have a plane-full of baggage and I'm scared of new relationships.
- Lis
I'm sorry, Lis. New beginnings can he hard. Can you email any theatres in the area you're moving to and see if you can make any connections in advance of you arriving? You may be able to get career leads and make friends in advance, that may be less scary because you share a common passion right off the bat.
- joey
good luck Lis hope everythig works out in your favor.
- VALZ/TT/TM
All change can be overwhelming. It takes some of us longer to get to where we want to be but if you stop thinking about years in advance and just take care of yourself now, it'll work out. Hang in there!
- Gabrielle
On the upside, you'll be closer to NYC, so you can take a bus or train in more frequently if there are shows you want to see or people you want to meet.
- John (bird whisperer)
Lis, I can totally relate to what you are going through. I wish you the best of luck on this new chapter of your life.
- Tamara J.
from FFHound(roid)!
hard decisions can make way for positive change. :)
- edythe
There are quite a few different paths out there; so yours is taking a turn...you will be stronger for it.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Doing what you need to do for you I fully support, no matter (barring extremes) what that is *hug* find happy
- Michael W. May
I can appreciate what you have been going through. Uprooting yourself is very difficult, especially with the health issues that you and I share. It takes courage to confront the fact that your current situation isn't healthy for you in the long run, because complacency and inertia are pernicious. They can become our worst enemies. Good for you, and good luck.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Actually, no, we don't. We're a nation of worriers, didn't you know? Oh, the polite, stiff-upper-lip thing is just a front. Inside we're constantly quivering like jellies in fear of our language - the last vestige of our once-great empire - being mutated beyond recognition. *stands to attention* *salutes* *plays "Land of Hope and Glory" mp3*
- Slippy like shiny things.
I find it hilarious how Britons get upset about "Americanisms" given the linguistic history of English. It's a language that's anything but pure. When you start getting all huffy about it, you get into French Academy territory.
- Spidra Webster
Ah, Spidra.....and there I was thinking you were a true Anglophile :-). Seriously though, this isn't a new post. Jimminy was helping my old brain to reminisce by bumping it. There are many "Americanisms" which have been adopted into the mother-tongue, but there will always be some (those mentioned above) which don't quite sit right. But still, there are some which don't sit right with...
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- Slippy like shiny things.
Hmm. That sucks. Looking at the way Posterous handles images, it looks like someone should be able to modify the existing Posterous importer and run a regexp search for \.scaled(\d+)\.(jpg|png|gif) and remove that string from all image URLs before actually importing them.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Connecticut teachers will now be evaluated mainly on student performance, which makes you wonder what they were being evaluated on before. No, seriously. What were they evaluated on before? [Interesting] - http://fk.cm/6911662
I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed that :) thanks for posting it!
- Starmama
I try to find interesting songs that people don't know. Check the Song of the Day room for some others. You may not like them all, but you might find a few more.
- Alex Scrivener
Alex, it's easy to get on my list. If I commented or liked 2 or 3 items then you're on. You need not have commented or liked anything I've posted.
- Dario Gomez
"The OWS protestors are a revolt — a shrill, cri-de-coeur wail at the betrayal of class solidarity — of the lower tier New Class against the upper tier New Class. It was, after all, the upper tier New Class, the private-public finance consortium, that created the student loan business and inflated the bubble in which these lower tier would-be professionals borrowed the money. It’s a securitization machine, not so very different from the subprime mortgage machine. The asset bubble pops, but the upper tier New Class, having insulated itself and, as with subprime, having taken its cut upfront and passed the risk along, is still doing pretty well. It’s not populism versus the bankers so much as internecine warfare between two tiers of elites. The downward mobility is real, however, in both income and status. The Cal graduate started out wanting to do “sustainable conservation.” She is now engaged in something closer to subsistence farming."
- Alex Scrivener
"Suppose someone proposed a "Brother's Keeper Bill." According to this BKB, people earning at least double the poverty line would be financially obliged to give 20% of their income to any sibling earning less than the poverty line. I doubt many people would support this bill. If you asked them "Why not?," here are some of the reasons they'd be most likely to profess:"
- Alex Scrivener
"Nan Terrie learned an expensive lesson last week about the importance of property rights. “Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” the 18-year-old protester told the New York Post. “I had my Mac stolen—that was like $5,500.” Why? Because she left it in a public place, amid a crowd demanding the redistribution of wealth. Imagine that."
- Alex Scrivener
"The morality of creating life is a big deal that we need to struggle with more. It is perhaps the most pressing moral question of the 21st Century." Sometimes I weep for the moral development of our culture.
- Alex Scrivener
"In short, the highest yield available to ordinary investors who seek a simple, low-risk investment of their funds is, at best, roughly equal to the rate of inflation—and then, with a 30-year term to maturity, only with substantial risk of capital loss if interest rates should rise. To put the matter another way, all ordinary investors are now being progressively impoverished because the nominal return on their investments falls short of the loss of purchasing power of the dollar during the term of the investment. Getting a positive real rate of return is effectively impossible for the proverbial widows and orphans. Only investors with the knowledge of how to invest in gold, crude commodities, and other such esoteric assets stand any chance of earning positive real returns, and then only with great risk of substantial capital losses."
- Alex Scrivener
"His town hall meeting is in an auditorium at the Figge Art Museum, which an audience of some 100 people has filled on a sunny fall afternoon. Other candidates may arrive to thumping music, but Paul gets a simple introduction as "the Thomas Jefferson of our day." Others may affect shirtsleeves or cowboy boots to show their connection to ordinary folks, but the 76-year-old Paul wears a business suit. He doesn't tell jokes or pay homage to local politicians. When he is done, he leaves without stopping to shake hands or pose for photos. Paul is the only Republican contender who can speak for more than an hour without attacking President Barack Obama by name or invoking Ronald Reagan. His rivals are running political campaigns. Paul has bigger fish to fry."
- Alex Scrivener