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by edw519 17y ago
Quality of HN Comments Over Time
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- hack_edu 17y agoGraph is shockingly accurate. I've deleted and created accounts in each peak and trough you laid out.
- andreyf 17y agoDid you generate that from intuition, or by some concrete algorithm?
- yan 17y agoI'm pretty sure intuition : )
- chasingsparks 17y agoI smell a GraphJammer.
- dskhatri 17y agoI assume this is what chasingsparks is referring to: http://graphjam.com/ http://graphjam.com/
- jurjenh 17y agoLooks very seasonal to me... probably indicative that most of the readers are in the same hemisphere. I know that when winter approaches for me, I tend to get a little disheartened with whatever I'm doing, want to quit and do something inspiring and new... Then when spring rolls around, things are so much better and I have a new lease on life. I'd suggest comments reflect people's internal barometer, and there probably have been studies on this...
- jshen 17y agomove to california ;)
- NikkiA 17y agoThe majority of the english speaking net is in the northern hemisphere anyway - with notable examples of southern hemisphere mostly being limited to australia and brasil, sure there are other net users south of the equator, but those are the two countries with the most presence online... The reason why brasil's huge online population doesn't really count in these kind of things is because they largely keep to their own communities, often portugese-speaking. So it being seasonal in appearance isn't really much of a surprise. I'd also argue that geek-types (which most of us are) seem to be more prone to SAD.
- anateus 17y agoThat looks like a damped harmonic oscillator to me. Which I guess makes sense :)
- grinich 17y agoHopefully it's driven.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- teeja 17y agoThat's different. In the early days of the web, the quality of any board <<<<< forum was destined to plummet every September, then slowly rise with attrition until after Spring break. But then maybe there aren't that many students here ???