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What a difference a roll call makes! In October there were 67 posters to .loc.au (23 were foreigners) making a total of 321 posts. The average number of posts made by Australians was 6.25, but the standard deviation was 9.1. The top eleven (in (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) So that'd be one post from Ben that wasn't a whinge then... :-) -- Cheers, Paul (a little tired of Ben's whinging too) LUGNET member 164 (URL) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) WOOHOO! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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I'm still waiting on the scale that is based on quality of post rather than quantity.... Perhaps some ideas for grading could be: -Average word quality multiplied by the total number of words that a LUGNetter posts -The Sum of all Quality posts -The (...) (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Uhhh... I just hope this last post was intended as a satire on "post quality"! :-) Cheers, Paul "Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message news:H53tIA.6EF@lugnet.com... (...) per (...) metrics (...) say, a (...) words (...) negative (...) (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) The quality of a post can be coarsely approximated by applying quality metrics to each individual word, giving an overall posting content quality. So, say, a message involving quality words like "sensate", "post-expressionalism" and "45.7%" (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) My concern here with taking on the Italians is that they post in Italian. Therefore any quality metric has to be multi lingual. That goes without saying so that's presumably why Kerry didn't say it, but I needed to boost my new/quoted material (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Ah the perils of cutting and pasting, I forgot this bit while reformatting In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes: (what any mechanical grading system would SURELY have to rate as a very high quality post, as it contained lots of big and obscure (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Don't you mean 'post-expressionism'? (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Okay, hands up all those who think Kerry's spent too long in post-modern academia. The use of the word 'sensate' is obviously a troll to all those who are familiar with academic discourse. David. (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) So obviously that post would receive a hideously low quality rating, because it mentions "insectoids" twice.... ROSCO (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) [judicious snipping raises new/quoted text ratio.] ["judicious" earns points] [phrase "new/quoted text ratio" earns bonus points] [please note bonus points for bracketed editorial comment] [ooohhh... and the phrase "bracketed editorial (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -neither more nor less." -- Lewis Carroll, "(Alice) Through the Looking-Glass" Kerry (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I had thought of discussing the I18N issues but decided against it for two cogent reasons: 1. if the Italians were not alerted to it, we could have quickly slipped the quality word metrics into place using only English -- thus all postings in (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) There is a difference between using words like the above quoted and unquoted. Unquoted they would rank as low quality, quoted they become highly intellectual as it denotes a meta-concept. I observe you quoted your use of the said word, thus (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"David Drew" <david@hydrowash.com.au> wrote in message news:001b01c28516$aa...0@David... (...) Oh, I'd go further, and suggest that the level of verbosity that she employs in her 'quality' discourse is actually so over-informative (and overly (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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You are of course correct. "Me too" posts are generally of a fairly low quality. I suggest that we use "I concur" instead, or "you are of course correct." Regarding online dictionaries: I use a little .exe file that latches itself to IE. When you (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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There is the secondary use of quotes was to indicate something which was described as something, but was actually not. Often used to show saracasm within text, particularly with those who are decrying post-modern discourse. Post-modern (and feminist (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hey! That's me. Apart from the bit about being a protestant, that is. food for thought: "nothing is absolute" is in itself an absolute statement. Allister (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It would appear it's working (URL) .debate be far behind? And then .general? The mind boggles. Good show, Kerry! (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Or you could let each post start at a value of 100 points, then add or subtract other points for 'good' or 'bad' qualities. For loc.au we could have... * bonus 10 points for mentioning something actually relevant to Lego. * lose 50 points for (...) (22 years ago, 9-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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