We recently ran some statistics on user comment data: how much more do powerusers comment compared to the unwashed masses of dramatards? At time of analysis, we had 1.297 million comments and 10 142 user accounts registered. So the question became: how many users, starting with the most prolific commenters, write half of all the comments? The answer is 132, to be exact.
1.3% of rDrama users write 50% of all the comments.
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!blackjack100
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I'm too intimidated by yalls sharp wit to attempt commenting. My reddit-tier edgelord hot takes probably wouldn't be welcome.
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I don't remember any of them.
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more proof we're all just carp accounts.
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Are 99% of those who get banned.
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I love you!
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Okay so where did the other 80% go?
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Cut them off the graph to make it easier to read. The top 20% make 99% of all the comments—almost exactly, like 98.9998% by my numbers. And the graph gets too hard to read with them included. Just imagine making the image five times its current width with a flat line at the top.
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Oh frick! Am I in the top 1.3%?
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I regret to inform you that you are the #41 overall commenter (Snappy excluded) in my dataset, which puts you somewhere around the top 0.4%. If you'd like a second opinion on this unfortunate diagnosis, see the comments leaderboard.
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I’m terribly sorry for you lot.
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Why yes, I am dangerously neurodivergent, how could you tell?
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I wonder where i fall in that, 1.297m comments divided by 10,142 accounts means average comments per account is 128. Im just over 1200…oh…
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At time of analysis, the cutoff for being part of the 1.3% was somewhere around like 2675 comments. Guess that makes you solidly part of the upper middle class of powerusers, though at least you aren't part of the 1.3%.
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Interesting…im actually pretty ok with that, thanks
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Well I think this is the push I needed, ty
You should name and shame them tho
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50% of all comments are rightoids, the other 50% is leftoid complaining about rightoids.
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Am i one of them?
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Nowhere near it (and check the comments leaderboard to see just how far for yourself). God bless your low comment count—you still have hope to be saved before you become Terminally Online.
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Whoa there are a lot more users than i thought. I figured im more active than most lurkers.
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da joos of arr drama
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nums, checkum
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I'm only number 500 something, I need to pump my numbers.
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What about all the accounts with 0 comments
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See first chart in supplemental comment. They're included in the count, though we seem to have a lot fewer zero-comment accounts than one would expect for a Reddit or Digg-esque site. Like about 50% of accounts have never commented on rDrama, but usually you'd expect 80-90% who never comment. From there, it actually rises pretty quickly: most people who comment at least once comment a fair bit more, which is sorta visible on the third chart with the logarithmic y-axis.
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Once you make your first comment, it becomes easier to keep engaging. It's getting out of lurker mode that's hard.
For any lurkers reading this ... I was there once too. I'm not a poweruser by any stretch of the imagination, I read and upvote more than I share. But it's more fun not being alone here.
Sort the front page by new, and it will be easier to break the seal since you'll be commenting on something that's fresh. It's intimidating to jump into a post that already has 20 well-known commenters bantering, but if there's only one or two, it feels like your voice might actually be heard. Once you get your first few coins as a reward, you're in.
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(but v tru)
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Goes like this
1000 lurkers
100 make accounts
10 make comments
1 makes posts
This explains your log curve
P.S. despite 1.3 50
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You're the #45 r-slur in my dataset. And if you ever want to check yourself, we have a comments leaderboard.
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Watch this go nowhere in 2 weeks.
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I ran those numbers, though the data is too messy for me to feel comfortable posting an absolute ranking on it. Mostly because we don't count deleted posts/comments toward post/comment counts but we obviously let you keep truescore from deleted things. Which means people who delete all their shit look artificially highly ranked. But, with that disclaimer: you're somewhere around the 60th percentile and real Sal is somewhere around 50th.
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Excluding people who delete all their old comments, @lnternetCustodian and @MasterLawlz are almost exactly tied for first place in Truescore / (Comments + Posts) with about 37 truescore-per-item. Third place goes to @ABC at about 26 truescore-per-item. Everything past that gets too noisy with deleted comments. Honorable mention to Carp, who despite falling somewhere around #15 in these (admittedly noisy) numbers, has by far the best TS/item ratio for anyone near his number of comments, with ~20 truescore-per-item—he's not only highly prolific, he's a consistently good poster.
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Can you remove my posts in the admiggers threads and recalculate
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!slots200
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!slots200
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!slots200
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Cursed thread. I quit.
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Take back the comment section from the 1.3%! OCCUPY RDRAMA COMMENTS NOW.
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Oof
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typical 1/9/90 web 2.0 distribution
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I'm a proud Drama BIPOC. Are you?
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DramaBIPOCs unite
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FIGHT DRAMATARD INEQUALITY
LURKERS RISE UP
#IAmThe98.7%
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It’s actually 642 buddy
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How? Am I being psyop'd?
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You're the #453rd most prolific commenter. The top 5% trying to unseat the top 1% smh.
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It’s just like #OccupyWallSt
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Ew
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Pretty sure I've made more comments per day than any other power user
All the people above me on the comments ranking joined way earlier than I did
Could be there is someone lower down who joined sooner, and has made more comments per day, idk, I don't feel like doing all the math but I willl put this here and harvest some upsorens anyways
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You got me curious so I ran the numbers. Snappy is a cheating botter, and goombleking is a young account (and it's not like it's all that hard to do 210 blackjacks in a day and a half). You are, in fact, the true first place for comments-per-day.
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There was that one guy, epicman or whatever, who made more comments in the span of than 48 hours(I think it was closer to 36 actually), than I did over the course of 6 months(I think I had around 500 comments at that time).
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Just end it
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I wanted to grassmaxxx and legmaxxx today but it is raining so I will drive my numbers up instead
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WE ARE COMMENT LIST NEIGHBOURS!!!
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bb explain the math here to me in a remedial way pls
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It’s called the parado principal. The square root of any system provides 90% of the productivity.
Trans lives matter
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boy did u just gloss over the remedial part of my question but tysm anyways
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Square root means as the data set gets larger the square root gets smaller. The square root of 100 is 10. So 10 of the people will contribute 90% of the comments. When it gets too 1000 the square root is 31. So 31 of the 1000 people will provide 90% of the comments. As the data set gets larger say like the population of the United States of 300 million you get a handful of billionaires and 100s of millions that have either jobs that should be automated or work or get paid by the government ie the billionaires taxes
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Trans lives matter
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only a handful of posters make half of all comments, just like (((some people))) irl hoard all the wealth and the rest of us get shit
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As it should be
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Unlike me u don't make spamposts though, your comments are generally high quality
Also your profile song is great, I am stealing it and pretending I made it myself, thanks
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y-yes, high quality
i am a major chiefkeefcel, I even made a sosa marsey despite having no artistic talent
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I am near the 100th most prolific commenter
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You aren't even touching grass, just groomercording and banning schizocels from duckcord for no reason
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And after we invited him to janniecord! How ungrateful...
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What did he do?
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