5 ms·
Right on, swombat. Last year, upon Iteration 27 of this same subject, I threw something like this together in jest: Quality of HN Comments Ov
by edw519 16y ago
Right on, swombat.
Last year, upon Iteration 27 of this same subject, I threw something like this together in jest:
Quality of HN Comments Over Time
| . .
| . .
q| . . . .
u| . . . . . .
a| . . . . .
l| . . . . .
i| . . . . .
t| . . . you are here -->. .
y| (that's all)
|________________________________________________________
M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A
'09 '10
I must have been on to something because so many didn't realize it was a joke. What fun that was. All I have to do is shift the x axis every n months: some things never change.
Original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926604 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926604
- kaiserama 16y agoSadly this is exactly what the CEO of a company (maybe all companies?) I worked for would do with his projected sales chart...and he still has his job. Now THAT's funny. Good work :)
- messel 16y agoHoly crap I remember that plot. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926806 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926806 Damn, we're always in the same spot, the years just keep flowing underneath us.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- jacquesm 16y agoThis is the best way to measure change on HN I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best The ratio of HN vs non-HN items as observed by any individual is of course different.
- jurjenh 16y agoWouldn't it be nice if we could actually keep track of the quality by some measure and thus validate your model? Things said in jest are often true, and I think you actually have a valid model. It would be interesting to have some live feedback on the current quality level, and see if that affects the response of the community, but this would require some sort of metrics on quality, which is quite a subjective field. I believe a while ago there was a submission about parsing text to see whether the author was male or female, and wonder if there is a similar algorithm to check whether a comment is positive or negative, technical or shallow and thus create some objective measure of quality.
- Osiris 16y agoThis is completely off-topic, but how do you format your comment to force mono-spaced font? I haven't been able to find an instructions on what formatting can be used in comments, like to quote a previous post, for example.
- Hates_ 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc