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"Squawk to Talk" ratio Squawk = number of words in your hacker news comments Talk = number of words in children of your hacker news comments
by chatmasta 8y ago
"Squawk to Talk" ratio
Squawk = number of words in your hacker news comments
Talk = number of words in children of your hacker news comments
- tyingq 8y agoWhat denotes good though? I can imagine scenarios where either high or low squawk/talk could be good...or bad.
- diffeomorphism 8y agoThat metric would seem more useful to find controversial comments, not good comments.
- wbkang 8y agoI don't agree with this. Some people write comments that are completely false or outdated, which is followed by a series of corrections and tangential discussions.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- yesenadam 8y agoI imagine some people perhaps prowl 'new' and mostly do ground-level comments on stories with very few or no comments; others favour stories with already many comments and leave 4th or 5th level comments mostly, as on pages with hundreds of comments, most are at that height or higher. Early commenters vs late commenters.