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
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
Last friday I taped an iPhone to my head and ran around Paris capturing the most famous sights in a single (somewhat shaky) shot. Here's the video: http://vimeo.com/12906858
that explain other FF posts, looking for tapes and where can one upload large video files ;-).
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Yeah, I never did get the duct tape though, so I had to use clear packaging tape instead (with a sock stuffed between the iPhone and my hat to get the correctish angle).
- Paul Buchheit
this was perfect, I opened up my Paris map and followed you :)
- İpek Aral Kişioğlu
I'm surprised you were able to follow. I didn't have a map (my iPhone was taped to my head!) so I made a number of wrong turns, though the high-level route was pretty basic.
- Paul Buchheit
Saw the vimeo on your stream and watched a little of it. Great stuff! Cool to see new iphone vid quality. (er 3gs? quality, hmm) Oh yeah, and enjoy Paris!
- Jay
It's actually a 3GS, not an iphone 4.
- Paul Buchheit
I think I might tape a photo of Paul with an iPhone taped to his head to my head because I want to get arrested for being a menace.
- Akiva
Ahhh this explains the "ducktape in Paris" stuff LOL :D (that picture is full of geeky win!)
- Susan Beebe
@Paul just curious how much battery did you have left after you were done recording?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Something like 22%, as I recall. I had put the phone in airplane mode to reduce wireless consumption and also because I'm concerned that an incoming call would stop the video or something.
- Paul Buchheit
Not bad. I guess you could get at least 2 hours of recording on one charge.
- BRҰANSAҰS
from BuddyFeed
If so, it'll just be transitional until smartphones are replaced by glasses-phones. Or smart glasses. Do we have an official name for those yet?
- Andrew C (✓)
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly.
- Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook.
- Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the...
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- Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.)
- Bruce Lewis
I've uninstalled the FriendFeed application and now I cannot re-add it. I see the friendfeed app for a split second and then it reports an error.
- Erik Jacobs
Hacım, the search function is totally down, any news on that?
- mcd
Here are the stories of 14 animals thought to be extinct, but then rediscovered hundreds or millions of years later. I like to think of it as Mother Nature playing a little prank on us. And we probably, most definitely, deserve it.
- Halil
from Bookmarklet
"If we had but the eyes to see, and our heads were not so full of fat, then with obeisance and humility we'd acknowledge the King that is Cat."–Me
- Absentee
It still ignores the difference between a semi-monthly software update and a once-ever-two-years OS upgrade...
- Kevin Fox
Linux: "Maybe this one will give me a better looking UI!" Windows: "Crap, I hope the security holes this patches didn't already turn my PC into a spambot." Mac: "If this is one of the ones that makes me restart my Mac I'm gonna be pissed."
- Kevin Fox
I agree with this message but don't think it'll be an effective campaign ad.
- Starmama
loss of brain cells due to plant taking up mercury from soil and 80% entering bloodstream when smoked.. mercury levels higher in volcanic soils :(
- agirlnamedxine
from BuddyFeed
I don't think we know enough about what cannabinoids do in the brain to say whether it's a myth or not. If you look at Pubmed, there are lots of papers showing degeneration of certain brain structures after repeated high doses of THC in animal models, but there are also lots of papers showing how cannabinoids actually protect the brain from the neurotoxicity of other agents.
- Victor Ganata
Joe: How do you get the benefits of a marijuana cigarette without smoking it?
- Gabe
Cannabinoids Induce Cancer Cell Proliferation via Tumor Necrosis Factor {alpha}-Converting Enzyme (TACE/ADAM17)-Mediated Transactivation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi...
- Victor Ganata
But, like I said, there are an equal number of papers that show cannabinoids have beneficial effects. But I still think it's premature to say that it's a myth.
- Victor Ganata
Two things are for certain though, pot-tits and the pot-laugh are not myths.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
Gabe, you can eat drink or vaporize cannabis. And (AFAIK) there's actually not been any study linking smoking pot conclusively with lung cancer (without tobacco also being consumed), but I wouldn't say it doesn't - overall there is a huge need for actual research.
- Lo
Lo: The warning on both packages start with "Smoking...", and in fact the Marlboro packages doesn't even specify tobacco. I'd say it's reasonable that smoking enough of *anything* causes lung cancer. Of course there are ways of getting nicotine that don't cause cancer, too.
- Gabe
Yep, I have an e-cigarette too, though I hardly use it anymore. I'd be really interested to see more, larger studies about cannabis + cancer, though. I too subscribed to the common sense that smoking = cancer, but was really surprised by a result where guys who smoked tobacco + pot were less likely to get lung cancer than those who smoked only cigarettes. It's so counter-intuitive. I do *not* assume that pot is magically safe, but I'm willing to take my chances, but really want ACTUAL RESEARCH. Lots!
- Lo
Neither, one makes me useless, the other gives me a headache. I'd rather have a glass of wine.
- Richard A.
Neither. I want to achieve good feeling through accomplishing achievements such as learning of new stuff, growing business and making my wife happy. Chemical substances would only interfere with my goals by giving false sense of success.
- Jemm
I don't think that smoking one cigarette in your life is very likely to cause cancer. I think that the likelihood from one cigarette per day is also probably fairly low. Smoking 40 cigarettes probably has a pretty high likelihood. Most people don't smoke 40 joints per day, but many people smoke 40 tobacco cigarettes per day.
- Robert Felty
Slippy - interesting fact about the ovens. I would venture to say that that is not how the Native Americans dried the leaves. In fact, maybe this is a pretty recent methodology. My grandfather farmed tobacco, and I remember him telling me that they hung the leaves in a barn to dry. That doesn't mean that they weren't toasted though (there is an episode of Mad Men where they talk about toasting the tobacco)
- Robert Felty
"We just suggest you try to be objective about the feature set. Look at the functionality of a phone. Try the hardware and look at the screen to see if it feels like a solid experience to you. Consider battery life versus hardware speed. You might not be losing any real benefit by sticking with a 1GHz chip when the faster ones come out. So much of the performance that matters to you is tied up in the software. We like to see new CPUs in phones, but it's not the only consideration. We want to see more focus on optimizing the software, not giving us new hardware that outpaces the old."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
1ghz is fast enough. 8 megapixel is fine for a cell phone. I am happy. My battery has not gone below 50%. I have yet to reboot it. no issues. I understand that to some I have bought a worthless paperweight. I am a complete idiot for not using what they do. You just have to block that stuff out and be happy with what you have.
- Mike Nencetti
Speak for yourself. I want my quad core phone dammit
- Mo Kargas
I was just talking about this with a friend on IM. It's scary how fast time flies... o.O we were saying it's been a good year so far cause I made a cool travel, met someone special,,, but we still have 6 months to go.
- Olivia Lovag
That's inspiring Olivia. Thanks for sharing. What are the rest of you proud of or happy about doing in 2010?
- Clare Dibble
"On its official blog, Nokia has posted a detailed run through of the various positions you can hold your Nokia phone. In what is clearly an attempt to mock Apple and Steve Jobs’ “Don’t hold it that way” response to the frustrations over signal loss when you hold your iPhone a certain way, Nokia has descriptively illustrated an array of different hand positions where your Nokia phone won’t lose reception. Funny stuff."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Seesmic now offers the Twitter client you’ve been waiting for! A powerful feature-rich application that’s simple and easy to use. Share photos with your choice of image service, post videos to YouTube, share links connected with your Bit.ly account, fully configure your notifications and view your Direct Messages in a simple threaded view."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
I wish there was one for Nokia phones.
- Kol Tregaskes
The latest Seesmic update has added multiple account support, making it a viable alternative to Twidroid Pro.
- Andrew Perry
Hmmm really? Is it better than Tweetcaster?
- LANjackal
Tweetcaster and Seesmic are now in a dead heat for the crown of sole Twitter app on my phone, but both need to incorporate the ability to send old-style RTs AND new-style retweets. Tweetcaster does the new style only, while Seesmic only allows old style.
- Joe Bonner
Can anyone link to a review/overview of the latest Seesmic version that supports multiple accounts? Thanks
- LANjackal
from IM
LJ, it's pretty simple - an "accounts" selection option like in e.g. K9 mail. I stopped using Twidroid a while back in favor of Seesmic because it renders faster.
- John Craft
No dude, I'm looking for a full writeup so I can at least know whether to spend any time with it. That's how I got into Tweetcaster
- LANjackal
from IM
I don't think it's been out long enough for a full review. Seesmic is very similar to Twidroid, very easy to make the switch.
- John Craft
That's actually a good way of thinking, Olivia. Regretfully, I don't use any blocking service and the banners apparently pop up again, once removing Disqus from the blog.
- Nir Ben Yona
I use disqus on my tumblr, but since I use adblock too, I would never really know. I'm so used to adblock that I'm sometimes surprised to know that certain sites have ads, when I'm using a browser other than FF :)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I always give a chance to commercials :)
- Nir Ben Yona
oh I always thought everybody hated ads! :-) Unless you work for Adsense, of course ;)
- Olivia Lovag
Nah! just looking for surprises around the internet corner :)
- Nir Ben Yona
we had a one step backward morning, but they warmed back up again. Really its just the black one and her current weak point is if I get the grey one purring and happy. She can't resist coming closer and asking to be pet if her sister is getting love and being happy. We will get there. Slowly, but we will!
- Rachel Lea Fox