I have no recollection of this. Maybe I just blacked out for a month and then told you I was out of town to cover up.
RiptideLab's Most Liked Posts of 2015
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I have no recollection of this. Maybe I just blacked out for a month and then told you I was out of town to cover up.
Onderzeeboot
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Fuck, I post too much! The most suprising statistic I could glean from that list is that Grillo has a really insane likes to post ratio* of over .8 likes per post, which really reflects the thoughtful posts he makes. Nice!
*He's beaten, if only just, by upstart Aston, who admittedly has a much lower post count (over 300 though!).
I'm at 728/738 for a 0.98 ratio, not that it's a competition, but if anyone's noticed increased effortposting it's mostly because i wanna hit 1.0
Onderzeeboot
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Oh alright, I'll like you
I only checked the top 12, and then wondered if the Bald whovian trading post was good for Aston's ratio. I must say though, 729/738 is really, really impressive!
I'm excited for the new likefarming meta on these forums that's about to develop
Going offtopic is better. Better? I 'ardly got ON ... topic! But that's okay, because I had enough tempo to pitcher to force for +1/+1 counter synergies.
So it's not a competition, eh? Well let me just tinker with my code and... tada!
Top Post to Like Ratios!
So first off I just made the ratios and these were the top 5:
So instead lets make the minimum post count 100 and see what happens:
If we went with just 10 posts or more then this is what the top 10 looks like:
Well, that is all I have to say about these (terrible looking) tables at this point. I hope they give you some interesting thoughts to chew over.
EDIT: Aww... My nice tables didn't get posted correctly. Oh well. I'll just leave them like this and fiddle with them later.
EDIT EDIT: Just took screenshots of the spreadsheet as they look nicer. Were really large images though so have put them in spoiler tags so you don't take 12 years to scroll past them.
Screw you guys, I'm sticking with quantity over quality.
Onderzeeboot
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I am glad that I not the only one to use likes-to-posts ratio as an allowance for shitposts.
It's bad when the shitposts get liked; it's akin to giving an animal a biscuit for pissing in your bed. I am consciously releasing this post into the wild; do not like it!
Oooh! Breaking the top 10. But then again, I don't post that much original content either. I just spew my opinions and experiences in relation to the topics at hand.
In regards to shitposting, my "most-liked of 2015" comment was literally a shitpost about shitposting. So I dunno.
In regards to shitposting, my "most-liked of 2015" comment was literally a shitpost about shitposting. So I dunno.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
We must go shittier
When I wrote this I was actually thinking the opposite. A lot of my posts this winter have been kinda shitty and non-contributive to the community as a whole (which is probably a function of me being away from drafting on the regular), and I'd like to change that. Meaning, I might post less or I might actually try to maintain my own Cube thread for once.
I used shitlanguage as a noneffortpost does not necessarily mean a shitpost. Anyway, I am subscribing safra's system of keeping a high like-to-post ratio to ensure that I am contributing to the forum with effortposts or maybe even just normal posts. I have a sneaking suspicion that infectedungposting could also lead to a high like-to-post ratio, though, Chrisbrethren Taylor. As Rave postulated, we soon most likely all shall be fecalfarmers fertilizing these boards with memes, emojis and the like.
Edit: I think I found a new artistic outlet- rewriting 1984 as though it were written by an individual that never passed the anal stage of child development.
Edit: I think I found a new artistic outlet- rewriting 1984 as though it were written by an individual that never passed the anal stage of child development.
I feel this statement is what I was concerned about when releasing the data. Everyone takes it in a different way. Some people will try and increase their likes (or post:likes ratio) by: Shit-posting more (Aston), shit-posting less (vennythekid) or effort-posting more (Safra).
Other people (Jason) just won't even care. To be honest, most people are lazy at their core, so even if they try to do one of these things, they will probably go back to posting how they usually do.
The one thing I hope this data encourages is effort-posting. The quality of the content on the site increases and can lead to further in-depth discussions, instead of the standard 2 sentence response.
I feel this is where the top 5 post:like ratio members excel (myself, Raveborn, Chris, Safra, sigh), along with Grillo. The posts we output feel like they have that touch more polish when I read them and help me induce my own thought processes.
Shit-posts are really hit or miss. You either get 5+ likes or you get nothing. Effort-posts consistently get you 3+ likes every time.
This type of data is fun to extrapolate, even if it is pretty meta.
Dom Harvey
Contributor
shit-posting is just effort-posting with a different audience
Onderzeeboot
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I forgot completely about 1337 5p34k. Thanks for pointing it out!
This Star Wars/Ghostbuster mash-up fan art reminds me... this forum is "missing" a fanfic thread.
What does this graph look like for 2016-21?It should be noted that nothing before 2015 stands a chance, because you guys became obsessed with liking posts this year.
Also, on another note, people are obsessed with posting these days. For the first time we had a week where every single day saw more than 100 new posts created.
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That said, earlier this week we set a record for the most number of likes in a single day in the history of RiptideLab.
Number of posts has historically been most indicative of posts likes, and they are pretty much 1:1. The blue spike in 2019 was from a day a spam bot came and made a couple thousand posts. Stats are daily averages per month.
These graphs are really interesting to review. Hopefully we can get back to 2015/16 levels of posting again!