Re: An Apology

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CT's great, with a remarkable roster. But just b/c I'm troubled by the earnestness of your post: Rank 'Em! My list is as follows (grouped, in order):

Group 1: Healy, Davies, Barlow, Waring;

Group 2: Quiggin, M. Farrell, Farrell, Holbo;

Group 3: Brighouse, Hargittai;

Group 4: The Rest.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 1:45 PM
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Good lord, man, you can't do that!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 1:46 PM
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Are you trying to break up CT?


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 2:10 PM
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I understand one of them is dating Yoko.


Posted by: sexualchocolate | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 2:21 PM
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Yoko's a screamer.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 2:23 PM
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I agree, Ted Barlow totally kicks ass.


Posted by: Totally Not Ted Barlow | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 2:32 PM
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Hey, I inoculated myself! I said that they're all great; we're talking about very small differences here. Personal preferences, even! And I thought we were all snark, all the time! I guess this is the New Earnestness, the New Decency. Soooorry!

(But admit it; you're list looks just like mine).


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 2:46 PM
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I deny a list. (Except that I'd make a group 5, and put Hargittai in it. Take that, New Decency.)


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 2:49 PM
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Let's do this for Unfogged posters.


Posted by: Iron Lungfish | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 2:59 PM
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Then we can do it for Unfogged commenters.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 3:00 PM
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I'll go first:

1. Alameida (duh)

2. Labs, Unf, Bob

3. *crickets crickets*


Posted by: Iron Lungfish | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 3:00 PM
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Crickets! We need more crickets!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 3:03 PM
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Actually, Lungfish, you've reminded me to do something I've meant to do:

Total Unfogged posts: 3209

Ogged: 2405, 75%

Fontana: 357, 11%

Bob: 261, 8%

Unf: 146 5%

Alameida: 40, 1%

I guess that makes you a glutton for punishment.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 3:23 PM
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Ranked in order of frequency of posts (roughly posts/week):

Ogged: 21.47

Fontana: 5.95

Alameida: 4.44

Bob: 2.86

Unf: 1.3



Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 3:56 PM
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I'd like to see a graph of post frequency over time. Anyone?


Posted by: textualist | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 3:58 PM
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I'd like an Irish and water, and someone else to write this piece of crap for me. This motion is simply too dull to write. (And a sure loser -- we're just keeping the client happy.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:00 PM
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As far as ranking commentators go, the #1 is easy enough to determine - we all know what that is.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:03 PM
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Here's the data as an Excel file. (Numbers bit different because I took out unposted drafts.)


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:03 PM
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Thanks Michael!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:04 PM
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Michael, how many weeks were you figuring? Those posts/week seem high.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:05 PM
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I am so going to play with that excel file when I get home.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:05 PM
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No, I guess they're right; nevermind.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:06 PM
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I just counted the ones listed on the archives. So, I counted 112 weeks as the total lifespan of Unfogged.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:08 PM
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ok, neverminding.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:08 PM
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LB, you're not having much of a time at work today. Maybe you can spice it up a bit? Write sentences with words the first letters of which spell "this client is a big dummy" or something?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:08 PM
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Or perhaps quit my job and regroup with Mr. Breath and the kids, running a fish and chips shack on the beach in the Bahamas.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:14 PM
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Or that, though my plan is much easier, and pays better, and can enlist the help of the other commenters.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:15 PM
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Here's the data as a pivot table, with one very hard-to-read chart (which you should be able to play with, by adding trend lines and the like). 1MB file.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:49 PM
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Grouping by week would make the chart much easier to read, but I couldn't get Excel to do that.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 4:53 PM
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And I am done (or at least I've sent drafts off to the partner. They suck, and I'm going to spend the weekend rewriting them after I get comments back, but I can go home now.).

Life would be so much easier if I weren't such a slow, painful writer.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 6:09 PM
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I'm the same way. Sucks, I agree.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-15-05 6:15 PM
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Alameida is the victor in the average length of a post title contest, averaging 25.45 words/title; Fontana Labs is a close second with 24.31. Bob manages 22, while the original co-founders, Unf and Ogged, languor below twenty, with 18.06 and 16.65, respectively.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-16-05 12:42 PM
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I think either your calculations or your units may be off.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-16-05 12:45 PM
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Duh, characters, not words. Not thinking.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-16-05 12:47 PM
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In words (calculated by just breaking on whitespace) it's FL 4, Bob 3.7, Ogged 2.8, Alameida 4.3, Unf 3.2.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 04-16-05 12:48 PM
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The last six posts on CT are all quite good, possibly the best material I've seen there for a month or two.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 04-16-05 5:06 PM
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I dropped Bertram, somehow - probably just before or just after Holbo. (For the sake of historical accuracy - "The Rest" was intended to ref. people I don't remember reading).


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-17-05 4:19 PM
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