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Meme it
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.
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I guess that means I'm not really all that liked on LJ, maybe?
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Or, to be honest, the entire concept is fucked up. When you add in community commenting and self-commenting, the whole balance idea pretty much collapses under its own weight.
Oops! :D
My Tally (for your comparison)
Posted: 6,173 - Received: 4,859
You also might want to note in your info comparisons based on number of journal entries, as I actually know some folks who just comment on others LJs and don't actually post in their journal very much at all.
Journal entries for me: 2,826
So yes, you get more comments in comparison to the number given. It's one of the reasons why I get a bit frustrated with my journal in comparison and then hearing you complain about your invisibility. I'm running at 0.7871375 in regards to your balance. Putting in more effort than I'm getting back.... But I also average 1.7193913 comments received for each journal entry, by those numbers.
Unfortunately I can't verify this, since the software records don't show it, but I beleive in general my number of comments received is dropping over time and my number of comments to others increasing. There's been a huge churn of readers and who's actually on LJ in the past year, and a lot of the folks on my Flist end up as dead accounts over time..
Re: My Tally (for your comparison)
But I was up way too late last night, my head feels like it's filled with fuzzy cotton, and I'm not thinking well right now.
Having said that, LJ does seem to be a lot quieter lately. And I haven't been commenting on my flist as much as I used to. Nor have I done any fiction for a while now, although I don't know if that means anything.
I'm really not thinking well right now.
Maybe we should all move to MySpace. What do you think? :D
Re: My Tally (for your comparison)
No Thanks :-)
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My ratio is 295 posted to 30 recieved, or 0.1016949. But my goal, in joining LJ, was to be able to post comments, not to write my own journal. So that just proves I'm getting what I want out of it.
The key is that people respond to (and appreciate) my comments. But that's not what LJ is tracking - at least not in this case.
Kiralee
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It's also a lot of fun and an effective way (for me anyway) to socialize.
As for what most people are doing here... it looks to me like most of the people here are writing journals, not that much different than the pen and paper journals of years / decades / centuries past. Now, I'm not certain why so many people like journal writing (either now or in the past) but clearly there's a call for it.
Kiralee