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Re: .loc.au stats for October
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Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:18:39 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
The quality of a post can be coarsely approximated <big snip> Waddya reckon?

Kerry

[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 comment" must be
extranumerative too.]
[not to mention "extranumerative" itself.]


Magnifique! [points for foreign words]
Positively persuasive post! [do I get points for alliteration?]

Richie

PS Note that I kept my score up by not mentioning Insectoids at all. Oh.



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  Re: .loc.au stats for October
 
(...) 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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