July 05, 2004
comment tracking
for some reason, I felt inspired (ok, maybe compelled is a better word) to write a simple graphical comment tracker for our blog. I was perhaps noting that maybe something like this could be turned into some sort of competition w/ prizes (self-congratulation would be a good prize), or use the data to do a simple game. Ok, maybe I'm pushing the *fun* merits of all this, but maybe it would inspire more people to read and comment on our page. For example, Erin is a comment machine lately, but it would be nice to have his recent level of commenting matched by others. I suppose the next step would be to composite comments + posts into a OBA level (overall blog activity). I admit, between baseball and the tour de france, I've become a little over obsessed with statistics, but take this how you will.
Oh, the other thing: comments are tracked by author name -- in an open system like this it's really the only way (or, the best way I could think of in 1 second). So in order to track everyone's comments fairly, I need to make sure I have the name that everyone here is posting under. the current list of these commenting names is reflected in the current tracker, linked to below. But clearly, there is inconsistency with these names, although I think what I've got is relatively decent. Basically, if everyone could pls. comment on this post with the name they have been consistently using for making comments, or a name they wish to use consistently in the future, that would be excellent.
link [flash]
disclaimer: this is in no way meant to point out who comment stragglers are, nor is it meant to reveal my personal commenting prolificness (although high comment counts, yeah, huge ego boost...)
Posted by will at July 5, 2004 11:01 PMComments
The race is on! Is their a way to track relevance?!!?
Posted by: SEDinehart at July 5, 2004 11:19 PM
if there was, there'd be no way we could compete with the liptor people.
Posted by: will at July 5, 2004 11:27 PM
Where am I?
Posted by: jenova at July 5, 2004 11:45 PM
whoops - sorry - often times I am an idiot. my apologies and you are now on the list. I had forgotten jason too, so thanks for reminding me.
Posted by: will at July 5, 2004 11:59 PM
love the way the levels grow. now we just need anonymous 1-5 star voting on the usefullness/intelligence of comments (ala Amazon) so the egos can really inflate. ;)
Posted by: brad at July 6, 2004 04:15 PM
Hey, what are you complaining about, your black bar is huge! I feel so... inadequate. I'm growing though and soon I'll be a big bar just like u (according to my doctor).
Posted by: SEDinehart at July 6, 2004 05:02 PM
i grew up catholic, so i'm not fazed by the guilt-o-meter.
Posted by: kurt at July 6, 2004 07:30 PM
Hey Will, can you do this for posts?
It'd be interesting/vain as well to implement a tracking system to track unique ip's, location, etc. (don't remember the specific software that leonard uses, but it's damn kick ass...maybe a subscription service).
Posted by: brad at July 26, 2004 07:33 PM
haha!
i have moved into the third spot, behind will and mike. i dont think i can overtake will, but mike better watch out.
its only a matter of time, esp with comments like this one.
Posted by: tripp at September 30, 2004 11:48 PM
we need to link this from the page somewhere (other than this post).
I also need to get a list of the 1st years preferred names, and do more interesting sorting, etc... overall leaders, class leaders, etc.
Posted by: will at September 30, 2004 11:58 PM
and blog posts would also be interesting.
im sure we can squeeze this in on the left side somewhere...
oi.
who is admin-ing this now?
Posted by: tripp at October 1, 2004 12:02 AM
so it's quantity over quality eh?
well in that case
45...
Posted by: Julie at October 1, 2004 01:49 PM
46...
Posted by: Julie at October 1, 2004 01:50 PM
47!
Woohoo!
Posted by: Julie at October 1, 2004 01:50 PM
So anyway...I definitely think this needs a link on the blog, because I just found this for the first time today. I am sure my little joke would have had much more relevance had it occurred in July. I wonder how it would have affected my commenting performance in the past month. I guess we'll see now that I have been made aware.
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Posted by: Julie at October 1, 2004 01:58 PM
oh, you havent even broken 50 yet. talk to me once you hit triple digits.
Posted by: tripp at October 1, 2004 04:05 PM
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