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i'm not sure - on the 'active rooms' - the 3rd most active room is called "Science21" - yet the last bit of activity in there was on Monday! What's going on there FFholic? :) - Zee.

Your algorithms are pretty good, but they are only serving to fuel my addiction...please make it stop! - Alex Scoble

where are you seeing the stats on the most active rooms? - Ruth Ferguson

Ruth, here: http://ffholic.com/Rooms... - Laura Norvig

FFholic....Jennifer Leggio doesn't like it when you re-tweet her posts.... - Sean McGee

Zee, looks like it's probably because there are some conversations on there with over 100 comments each. The algorithm blends number of users, and numbers of likes and comments as well as recency (that's not a word is it?) of posts. - Laura Norvig

Actually, maybe they don't even take into account how recent the posts are. Hard to tell. - Laura Norvig

I'd like to know what goes into determining the Most Discussed post. - Monique

Actually we look at the character count total of each post and find posts with more wordly comments. Only comments sent by someone other than the original poster are taken into account. - Baris Seker

Why are rooms missing from the most active room list? US Politics comes up as #6 in a search, but doesn't appear in the main list. - Steve Isaacs

Agree with Mitchell Tsai, both or FF. - Mike Reynolds

Both. - Sean McBride

FF item gives both a link to the original and additional features (like, comment, reshare). Why settle for less and link to the original? - ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod

And yes! Forgot to mention about 155 private rooms we discovered. - FFholic.com

I have a private room! I have a private room! I have a private room! And ya can't come in! ;0) - Yolanda

The Ladies Room doesn't show up in room stats, and our room is pretty freaking hopping even though it's private. We are tres offended! :D - Monique

Don't nobody care about y'all private-ass chick room! *runs ass off* - Rahsheen ™

Poor little Rah. It was nice knowing you. Mo is gonna whoop Sheenybuns. - Yolanda

I joke, I joke! I keed! I keed!.....please don't kill me :( - Rahsheen ™

Be afraid, Rah. Be very afraid. I can hear her plotting all the way over here. - Yolanda

I think you should create statistics page showing those numbers in "real time". ;) - Daniel Schildt

FF blocked you?! Is it possible? - Erhan Erdogan

I hope not :) - FFholic.com

If they really thought FFholic was trying to generate traffic to their website by these posts, they may have banned ? But why? - Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)

to be banned doesnt make sense. sounds unlogical - webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)

ohhhh. So that's where most discussed came from. - Monique

Most discussed doesn't always equal highest quality. I'm confused what this is referring to. -

What is your criteria for a "high quality" discussion?! hmmm sounds interesting! - Susan Beebe

Sounds like a Robert request. ;-) - jeneane sessum

I don't see you guys responding. It's been over 10mins...LOL. What makes a high-quality discussion? - Rahsheen ™

We believe high quality discussions doesn't have 1 word comments like "Wow", "LOL", "HaHa" and etc. Do you think it is true and do you have any suggestions to improve it? And actually do you find the current most discussed entries list useful and high quality? - FFholic.com

I agree with Alex - Lindsey is Fierce!

Request: RSS feeds for Most Discussed English Entries on FriendFeed and Most Liked English Entries on FriendFeed. - Sean McBride

The meaning of "Most Discussed" vs. "Most Commented" is hard to distinguish. I don't think "Most Discussed" is the right label. - Laura Norvig

FFholic: this entry (one of mine) occupied the number 1 slot on FFholic's Most Discussed English Entries earlier this evening: http://tinyurl.com/42dvdq Later in the evening it disappeared from the list. What happened? - Sean McBride

Sean: We already have feeds for them. Just click show all and click on the rss icon. http://www.ffholic.com/Rss... - FFholic.com

Most discussed entries have more wordy comments than average. We have a simple algorithm but I think it is pretty successful at picking out the hottest discussions. - Baris Seker

Great -- found the icon for the RSS feeds. This is a valuable service you folks have put together. You are doing much of the data mining I requested from Friendfeed a few months ago. - Sean McBride

Baris: how do you define "more wordy"? Total number of words in the discussion? Total length of the words in the discussion as measured by characters? Vocabulary level of words in the discussion? (I have a special interest in automated methods for measuring the cognitive complexity of texts.) Thanks. Again, love your work here. - Sean McBride

Do you guys track "most blocked"? Might be doing us all a service. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Jay -- an even more interesting metric to data mine -- social networks which engage in the most blocking. - Sean McBride

Good idea, Jay. - Yolanda

Baris -- regarding the RSS feed for Most Discussed English Entries: is there any chance you could include in the feed the text of the initial entries, with clickable links to the Friendfeed discussions? Currently the feed only provides clickable access to the links pointed to by the entries. - Sean McBride

Sean: Internally we were debating whether we should give the original link or the friendfeed link on the entries. I'll post a discussion and see what people think. Thanks - Baris Seker

Baris -- I for one would like to be able to see both the original and Friendfeed links for entries, as well as all the comments (as in the feed for Friendfeed Best of Day). What do you think? - Sean McBride

Yeah, I'm the geek who likes a good data post. Sue me! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

only problem is...that's it really not made up of "the most "techie"". - Carlos Ayala

That IS money. - Shawn Farner

Carlos: had to start somewhere. If I'm missing a techie, I want to know. - Robert Scoble

a metanalysis too far, methinks?? - john conroy

@john - no such thing. :-) - Louis Gray

FFholic: Make this list for everyone in friendfeed!! : )) For our all subscriptions! - Erhan Erdogan

Inherent problem with lists. There will always be solid people (and brilliant new people) left off. It's a decent reference for techie followers As for me, I'm following Alex :) - Charlie Anzman

Cool data analysis - notice the high number of subscriptions AND subscribers...very neat! - Susan Beebe

What is the take away here? - Russellreno

Charlie, I totally agree with you, some people will always be left off the list. Given the size of the list, there will be plenty of people missed. Robert also had a caveat to his list, he uses FriendFeed as an aggregator. So there will be people not "active" on FriendFeed, but active on Twitter or some other feed. - Rob Diana

FFHolic, is there any chance of getting charts like these for everyone? That would be very cool. - Rob Diana

Any marketers using FF or FB data on their own sites for demographic segmentation? Just wondering if we should ask, are you on FF? or FB? etc. - Alan Edgett

This also shows Robert is not only following "big name" bloggers. He's following the people he likes, regardless of how popular they are. - Michael Krigsman

I'd like to know what "Techie" means. It could be subjective. Because most of the people I know ARE techie but they're not on that list. - AJ Batac

How about tech-ish? - Kevin Bondelli