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
Psst. I'm giving away an amazon gift card in a drawing you can enter at the bottom of the post. Rafflecopter will pick the winner, but I hope by blurting it here I can tip the scales in favor of a friendfeeder. I'm not exactly wealthy, so it's a gift card that will only get you the baseline, entry-level, wi-fi-only kindle with "special" offers, but it doesn't have to be used towards that kindle, it's a straight up gift card good for anything your little heart desires (that amazon sells). Check it out :)
- cdogzilla | downgraded
Just ranting .. My wife is a member of the PTA, volunteers at our school all the time, is the coordinator of the Box Tops donation program (which is, not to get all scientific, is a metric shit ton of work), and has done countless little things to help the teachers and staff, not the least of which has been volunteering my time for various ...
... events. She does a lot of the school. But, she decided she wasn't crazy about how the Boosterthon thing worked last year, so this year we decided we would donate and raise money on our own to give directly to the school, cutting out the middle man as it were, because of how much of the money donated gets diverted to things other than our school. We talked to the teachers and principal about why we weren't going to have our kids participate in the fundraising, and let them them know our donation plans. While we weren't participating, we still helped with some stuff like contributing supplies and doing some of the decorations for the effort. Unfortunately ...
- cdogzilla | downgraded
My wife decided to post something on facebook about how challenging it's been to explain to the kids why we're not calling and asking family and friends to pledge, but doing our own thing instead. She posted this privately (non-publicly, I guess I should say, to just a circle of friends) and someone who was in that circle of friends decided they needed to go tell the PTA board that my wife was "bad-mouthing" the boosterthon behind their backs ...
- cdogzilla | downgraded
Since only a few people could see the post, and none of them were on the PTA, whoever the person initiated the gossip chain to asked for a screenshot of what was said, which that person (henceforth, "the rat") provided. The PTA took the screenshot and went to the Principal and said, "Look, this lady is saying Boosterthon is a shady operation, sabotaging our efforts." Now, our Principal knows our position already, so none of this was news to her, but now my wife's "sabotage" is ...
- cdogzilla | downgraded
sort of a messy discussion around the school circles. No real point to venting this, it's just my wife was so upset that the PTA thought this was something that needed to be brought to the Principal's attention, and even more upset that someone would take her post and bring it to the PTA as a smoking gun in the case of the Boosterthon Sabotage Ring of Doom, and do so without even discussing it with her first.
- cdogzilla | downgraded
On the one had, I feel like you take your life in your hands posting anything on facebook, or anywhere online. You just can't rely on people taking your wishes for how you'd like your thoughts, pictures, and whatever shared -- or not shared -- seriously. Anyone can printscreen and make anything public. But on the other, you'd like to think someone along the line would say, "WTF is wrong with you people, you wouldn't take someone's mail and start showing it around, that'd be psychotic. Same thing here."
- cdogzilla | downgraded
I think the end result of this will be my wife will distance herself from the PTA and we'll stick to just working with our kids' teachers. Which means some other poor sap is going to be stuck counting and sorting giant trash bags full of those little Box Tops in the future. I will not miss that.
- cdogzilla | downgraded
Wow, that's terrible. People feel entitled to pass judgement, and do so with impunity. I'm sorry you're having to deal with that :(
- Jennifer Dittrich
One thing to note: The complete asskickery of your wife remains intact.
- Johnny
from iPhone
It's kind of funny that the person who felt it was so important to share my wife's post outside its intended audience thinks her/his privacy is worth protecting. Clearly they value at least anonymity, if not privacy.
- cdogzilla | downgraded
Thanks for hearing me out and the kind words. I'm sure it'll all blow over soon enough. And, yes, her asskickery is unquestionably intact. :)
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"A good exit is one, that when announced, is permanent. The dramatic exit followed by the "I'm back!" a couple weeks later is one of the lamest moves I've seen in the blogosphere."
- cdogzilla | downgraded
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- Thomas Page
from Bookmarklet
"My first thought was of E Honda from Streetfighter with that crazy long arm swat move ... and then I saw this dude: http://mydisguises.com/wp-cont... and I was totally weirded out :P"
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"Filthy Dalek, I bet it throws the slimy butt-end on the ground when it's done ... even if there's an cigar receptacle right next to it."
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"I just floated a vote pairing offer on my blog (http://cdogzilla.blogspot.com/... and then did some searching to see if anyone else was doing the same. Looks like you haven't found a taker yet?"
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"I voted llama because I drive a Fit. I don't have, or anticipate the need to transport, a llama but it's good to know I could if I needed to."
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"No "moon racists," just moon races (as in "the races that live there." Been watching those Nazis from the dark side of the moon you tube videos, have ya? :P"
- cdogzilla | downgraded
I heard "moon racist" too and assumed it was a sly poke at Gingrich and his moon colony ideas.
- Soup in a TARDIS
"Steven, your most recent post is about something I couldn't agree with more, there is a desperate need for accountability in political reporting. That there is virtually no consequence for being wrong, or outright lying, on the part of so-called analysts and the talking heads on shows like Meet the Press, is a huge problem. Added you to my blogroll and look forward to reading more :)"
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"I'll start with a site I read regularly, Bret Alan's "Anything But Theist," which by the url alone you could be forgiven for thinking was a blog about how to abscond with purloined items using an uncomfortable hiding place: http://anythingbuttheist.blogs... Now for shameless self-promotion bit, I'm Chris, AKA cdogzilla, and my blog is Cryptonaut-in-Exile. Secularism and atheism are common topics, but I blog about anything that interests me from pop culture to philosophy, history to pop culture, music to sports. I've been at it for over eleven years now, still finding I can learn something new every day."
- cdogzilla | downgraded
One of the private temples in the back of the forbidden city. This is the most north that people can go before you hit the street and Jinshu Park. Unfortunately the pollution was really heavy when the picture was taken, this would be more awesome with a blue sky. I'll see what I can do when I get back and get on photoshop.
- Comics Forge
"I agree that not everything needs to be remade, but if for no other reason than to remind people of the original, I'd love to see this one made again. I'm not the biggest fan of Johnny Depp, but I think it's a role that suits him. (Though I'd prefer to see David Tennant in it.)"
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"Speaking of "losing their sht*t." Let's not mistake poor taste for the most "messianic" in politics. Remember Rick Perry's ridiculous prayer event? Remember every politician ever who said or implied a magical sky fairy told them to run for office?"
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"I would do this if my birthday were before the election. But even though I like the idea in theory, the ask looks a little ... tacky. This something only someone else can do for you, I think, not something you ask people to do without looking ... well, tacky. I think the wingnuts are going to lose their sh*t over this, if they haven't already."
- cdogzilla | downgraded
"I'm with you. Number one on my flickchart, and the movie I've re-watched the most number of times. More than I could count since I started watching it 30-odd years ago."
- cdogzilla | downgraded
It may comfort you to know that you will remember that moment forever.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Micah, I had a similar moment when my (now 13-year-old) daughter sprained her ankle recently. I had to carry her to the car and it struck me how much she had grown.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
I feel this way a thousand times a day. Bitter. And Sweet. Bittersweet.
- Martha
Mine are four, too. Right there with ya. Just appreciating the moments by being in them. The memories are always with you, and there's always something to look forward to ... the stuff like Little League and that first hit. I was a handful as a teenager. To CW's point, I'm hoping karma short-circuits before I get my due.
- cdogzilla | downgraded