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    .loc.au stats for October —Richie Dulin
   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)
   
        Re: .loc.au stats for October —Paul Baulch
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: .loc.au stats for October —Robert McLean
     (...) WOOHOO! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! Fourth! (22 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: .loc.au stats for October —Stephen Hurn
   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)
   
        Re: .loc.au stats for October —Kerry Raymond
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: .loc.au stats for October —Paul Baulch
      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)
    
         Re: .loc.au stats for October —Larry Pieniazek
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: .loc.au stats for October —Kerry Raymond
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: .loc.au stats for October —Allister McLaren
       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)
     
          Re: .loc.au stats for October —Larry Pieniazek
      (...) 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)
    
         Re: .loc.au stats for October —Larry Pieniazek
      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)
    
         Re: .loc.au stats for October —Allister McLaren
      Don't you mean 'post-expressionism'? (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
     
          Re: .loc.au stats for October —Kerry Raymond
       (...) "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)
    
         RE: .loc.au stats for October —David Drew
      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)
     
          Re: .loc.au stats for October —Paul Baulch
      "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)
    
         Re: .loc.au stats for October —Ross Crawford
      (...) 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)
     
          Re: .loc.au stats for October —Kerry Raymond
      (...) 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)
     
          RE: .loc.au stats for October —David Drew
      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)
     
          Re: .loc.au stats for October —Allister McLaren
      (...) 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)
    
         Re: .loc.au stats for October —Richie Dulin
     (...) [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)
   
        Re: .loc.au stats for October —Pete White
   (...) 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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