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This is not a meme.
Correction, maybe this IS a meme that someone already made. But if it is, I haven't run across it.
If I could create some sort of program to do this, I would.
But anyway, I noticed that profiles show how many comments you've made, and how many comments you've received. In my case, I've posted 1,821, and received: 2,204. Thus my rate of return is 1.21, which means that I get six comments back for every five I make - recognizing, of course, that the giving and receiving are almost certainly unrelated.
I should also note that this probably doesn't reflect postings on communities. Likewise, I'm not at all sure how a comment that I do myself would affect the numbers. I checked things out with LJ Comments Stats Wizard tonight, and it says that excluding anonymous and self-comments, my received comment total is 1,490.
Still, this does seem to indicate that I get more out of LJ than I put into it - or close to it.
So I started looking at some of the people on my flist. I'll use no names, but...the results honestly surprised me in many cases. Check out this partial table:
"Balance" means the ratio of comments posted to comments received; a value less than 1 indicates that the person gets fewer comments than they give. Depending on how you look at it, you could say that they're not getting what they deserve from LJ.
The thing is, in most cases what I expected was very different from reality.
I'd blather on more about this, but it's late and I'm tired.
Correction, maybe this IS a meme that someone already made. But if it is, I haven't run across it.
If I could create some sort of program to do this, I would.
But anyway, I noticed that profiles show how many comments you've made, and how many comments you've received. In my case, I've posted 1,821, and received: 2,204. Thus my rate of return is 1.21, which means that I get six comments back for every five I make - recognizing, of course, that the giving and receiving are almost certainly unrelated.
I should also note that this probably doesn't reflect postings on communities. Likewise, I'm not at all sure how a comment that I do myself would affect the numbers. I checked things out with LJ Comments Stats Wizard tonight, and it says that excluding anonymous and self-comments, my received comment total is 1,490.
Still, this does seem to indicate that I get more out of LJ than I put into it - or close to it.
So I started looking at some of the people on my flist. I'll use no names, but...the results honestly surprised me in many cases. Check out this partial table:
"Balance" means the ratio of comments posted to comments received; a value less than 1 indicates that the person gets fewer comments than they give. Depending on how you look at it, you could say that they're not getting what they deserve from LJ.
The thing is, in most cases what I expected was very different from reality.
Posted Received Balance 4764 1606 0.337111671 616 305 0.49512987 2312 1405 0.607698962 1466 1131 0.77148704 13056 11984 0.917892157 3410 3620 1.061583578 28861 32688 1.132601088 1821 2204 1.210323998 (me) 10568 12901 1.220760787 330 425 1.287878788 7182 11169 1.555137845
I'd blather on more about this, but it's late and I'm tired.
