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Since the launch of SoylentNews in February of 2014, there have been 274,870 comment moderations made against the 412,100 comments that our community has posted to our site. Who has posted the most comments? Who garnered the most up-moderations? The most down-moderations?
Such simple questions, but they led to a fun bit of DB querying. The results surprised me, and I thought others might be interested, as well. Most surprising to me was the assessment of comments from Anonymous Cowards.
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Who received the most moderations?
For better or worse, to whom did Soylentils direct their greatest moderation effort?
| NICK | UID | TOTAL | DOWN | UP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mighty Buzzard | 18 | 2260 | 626 | 1634 | 1008 |
| takyon | 881 | 2315 | 103 | 2212 | 2109 |
| aristarchus | 2645 | 2494 | 615 | 1879 | 1264 |
| c0lo | 156 | 2717 | 183 | 2534 | 2351 |
| Thexalon | 636 | 3225 | 83 | 3142 | 3059 |
| Ethanol-fueled | 2792 | 3447 | 1238 | 2209 | 971 |
| VLM | 445 | 4401 | 346 | 4055 | 3709 |
| Runaway1956 | 2926 | 4531 | 992 | 3539 | 2547 |
| frojack | 1554 | 5855 | 593 | 5262 | 4669 |
| Anonymous Coward | 1 | 78936 | 13002 | 65934 | 52932 |
The single greatest target of moderation was the "Anonymous Coward" with 78,936 moderations. This was followed by frojack, Runaway1956, VLM, Ethanol-fueled, and Thexalon who garnered over 3000 moderations each.
Who had the most down-moderations?
Here, only the number of down moderations was considered — it mattered not whether it was Flamebait or Troll — they all counted the same.
| NICK | UID | TOTAL | DOWN | UP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VLM | 445 | 4401 | 346 | 4055 | 3709 |
| Hairyfeet | 75 | 1620 | 387 | 1233 | 846 |
| MichaelDavidCrawford | 2339 | 1513 | 387 | 1126 | 739 |
| frojack | 1554 | 5855 | 593 | 5262 | 4669 |
| aristarchus | 2645 | 2494 | 615 | 1879 | 1264 |
| The Mighty Buzzard | 18 | 2260 | 626 | 1634 | 1008 |
| jmorris | 4844 | 2144 | 753 | 1391 | 638 |
| Runaway1956 | 2926 | 4531 | 992 | 3539 | 2547 |
| Ethanol-fueled | 2792 | 3447 | 1238 | 2209 | 971 |
| Anonymous Coward | 1 | 78936 | 13002 | 65934 | 52932 |
Once again, our prolific AC topped the list with 13,002 down-mods. Ethanol-fueled was the only other user who topped 1000 down-mods, coming in with 1238. Runaway1956 made a valiant showing with 992 down-mods.
Who had the most up-moderations?
In the eyes of the community, who most often received an up-mod? Again, no consideration was given for the nature of the up-mod — Insightful, Interesting, or Informative — all were considered the same.
| NICK | UID | TOTAL | DOWN | UP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aristarchus | 2645 | 2494 | 615 | 1879 | 1264 |
| Phoenix666 | 552 | 2184 | 80 | 2104 | 2024 |
| Ethanol-fueled | 2792 | 3447 | 1238 | 2209 | 971 |
| takyon | 881 | 2315 | 103 | 2212 | 2109 |
| c0lo | 156 | 2717 | 183 | 2534 | 2351 |
| Thexalon | 636 | 3225 | 83 | 3142 | 3059 |
| Runaway1956 | 2926 | 4531 | 992 | 3539 | 2547 |
| VLM | 445 | 4401 | 346 | 4055 | 3709 |
| frojack | 1554 | 5855 | 593 | 5262 | 4669 |
| Anonymous Coward | 1 | 78936 | 13002 | 65934 | 52932 |
Once again AC reins supreme with 65,934 up-mods. This was followed by frojack with 5,262 and VLM with just over 4000.
Who had the highest net-moderation?
Putting it all together — subtracting the number of down-mods from the number of up-mods — who had the highest net moderation on our site?
| NICK | UID | TOTAL | DOWN | UP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wonkey_monkey | 279 | 1754 | 117 | 1637 | 1520 |
| maxwell demon | 1608 | 1786 | 55 | 1731 | 1676 |
| Phoenix666 | 552 | 2184 | 80 | 2104 | 2024 |
| takyon | 881 | 2315 | 103 | 2212 | 2109 |
| c0lo | 156 | 2717 | 183 | 2534 | 2351 |
| Runaway1956 | 2926 | 4531 | 992 | 3539 | 2547 |
| Thexalon | 636 | 3225 | 83 | 3142 | 3059 |
| VLM | 445 | 4401 | 346 | 4055 | 3709 |
| frojack | 1554 | 5855 | 593 | 5262 | 4669 |
| Anonymous Coward | 1 | 78936 | 13002 | 65934 | 52932 |
Once again, the shy but prolific AC tops the list with a net of 52,932 mod points. Only one other Soylentil was able to surpass 4000: frojack with 4,669. Two other Soylentils exceeded 3000: VLM with 3709 and Thexalon with 3059.
Who hath pointy horns?
Who managed to acquire the most down-mods as a percentage of all moderations on their comments? For a tie, number of moderated comments is the second sort field. Who is the devil in our midst?
| NICK | UID | TOTAL | #DOWN | %DOWN | #UP | %UP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scarboni888 | 5061 | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -1 |
| MooCow | 6048 | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -1 |
| cybergimli | 436 | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -2 |
| rancidman | 769 | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -2 |
| rmdingler | 1038 | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -2 |
| SoylentsISay | 1331 | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -2 |
| stupid | 2631 | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -2 |
| contrapunctus | 3495 | 2 | 2 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -2 |
| killal -9 bash | 2751 | 5 | 5 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | -5 |
Pfft, just a few minor imps around here. killal -9 bash topped (bottomed?) the list with 5 down-mods out of 5 moderations.
Who earned a Halo?
Whose comments had the best percentage of up-mods to total-mods? And in the case of ties, received the most up-mods? Who are the angels among us?
| NICK | UID | TOTAL | #DOWN | %DOWN | #UP | %UP | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dx3bydt3 | 82 | 69 | 0 | 0.00 | 69 | 100.00 | 69 |
| romlok | 1241 | 70 | 0 | 0.00 | 70 | 100.00 | 70 |
| Hawkwind | 3531 | 75 | 0 | 0.00 | 75 | 100.00 | 75 |
| jdccdevel | 1329 | 78 | 0 | 0.00 | 78 | 100.00 | 78 |
| rleigh | 4887 | 102 | 0 | 0.00 | 102 | 100.00 | 102 |
| DrMag | 1860 | 103 | 0 | 0.00 | 103 | 100.00 | 103 |
| SrLnclt | 1473 | 117 | 0 | 0.00 | 117 | 100.00 | 117 |
| Joe | 2583 | 126 | 0 | 0.00 | 126 | 100.00 | 126 |
| Aiwendil | 531 | 164 | 0 | 0.00 | 164 | 100.00 | 164 |
Here, it appears we've got a flock of angels, or at least people who know which way the wind blows. All folks listed here scored 100.00% meaning all of their moderations were up-mods. Aiwendil topped our list with 164, and we had 4 others — Joe, SrLnclt, DrMag, and rleigh — who each had over 100 such comment moderations... not even a single down-mod among them!
I must admit I was surprised to see the sheer number of positive moderations of AC comments, and the fact that 83.5% of those mods were positive.
[Update: Added two tables, one each for top percentage of down-mods and of up-mods. -Ed.]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @02:57AM
I personally usually post AC.
There are people out there who literally want you to starve in the gutter for holding a different opinion. They will go after your job, family, friends, and business associates to shame you into their opinion and then keep going as it will never be enough for them. I have seen it happen enough to know better. I am also looking for work. The wrong comment searched for by the wrong person could mean the difference between a cool job and a continued search. Luckily USENET these days is a pain to search through or comments from 20+ years ago could come back to haunt me. Hell I have been burned IRL by people by stating the wrong opinion to someone I thought I trusted and they turned around and burned me as something I said a year ago is no longer considered 'nice'.
Most of my 'real' comments under my real name on this site are very boring and helpful.
Under AC I post 'unpopular' and 'popular' opinions but I usually back them up with whatever 'facts' I can. I have got +5 to -1 on a variety of subjects. If they could even in any possible way be considered controversial I post AC. As search engines are a thing. I post AC a lot here as a community we have drifted into a semi political site. It is also one of the reasons I am considering moving on. I used to enjoy it but these days it just makes me depressed and does no real good and only causes anger for both parties.
The only weird one I never got was gewg. He would SIGN everything. Might as well log in and make your life a bit easier......... Then if you want AC just check the checkbox or logout.
(Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Monday October 10 2016, @01:39PM
we have drifted into a semi political site
TLDR of the below is politics is low effort and I/we need to post more/better story proposals.
Other people create infinite lists of political stuff to talk about. You could have the "techie opinion about Breitbart" but that does get old. At least everyone's got an opinion so we end up with like 100 comments. Its easy enough to do. How about that debate last night? Embarrassingly enough I fell asleep.
When we try to talk science, usually someone posts a journalist sites coverage of a press release so myself (or occasionally some other karma whore) will LMFGTFY and post a +5 informative link to the original NASA press release or the main mission page or whatever instead of some journalist (clickbait) site. Then we'll make fun of the journalist for being an idiot and still thinking rockets work because they "push against the air" in the current year, and a couple "merica F yeah" style posts will appear translated to "NASA F yeah" which we'll all agree with and upvote, and the story ends with like 7 comments. And that's the exciting ones!
On the "other site not to be named" they had a marketing contract no one is willing to talk about where every Wednesday at 2 PM central time they posted an e-ink story for years. At least we knew every wednesday afternoon we're talk about the glories of e-ink again and some shills would counterpost against any criticism of the holy display technology. Yeah yeah officially this never happened and Hillary never broke no law nowhere too. Anyway it might be interesting to schedule some stories, every Monday we'll round up whatever cool has happened on instructables and hackaday and similar hives of scum and villany (just kidding, or ... have you read the comments there?), then on Tuesday at 8am Eastern we'll talk about last weeks FLOSS weekly podcast topic or whatever. Back in the old days "the oil drum" used to post "the drumbeat" daily, talk anything you want about anything for one day. That might be an interesting idea. "A daily letters to the editor" or whatever.
I also miss /. book reports. Most of them were Packt and there's not much we can say about collated manpages. But maybe expanding it to all forms of media?
I've been continually agitating for a calendar post date on articles defaulting to submission date for ASAP I guess. Antares OA-5 might not be much of a story, but its still launching on oct 13th after 5 delays AFAIK. I'd suggest posting that story on the 13th exactly (unless its delayed again of course). Not last month and not some random day next week, the 13th.
Something I haven't seen in years is on the scene reports. Not to drop the docs I went to a "major city" makerfaire a couple weeks ago and I could write an interesting travelogue that might even be accepted. The point not being that I went to a makerfaire but we all have a lot of shared or shared-ish experiences that might make interesting general discussion. So I saw a giant robot arm. OK then. Also the amount of "little kid" stuff seems to be expanding which isn't so good because my kids are too big and I want to see adult stuff (adult as in IQ100+ college grad, not so much X rated, although the concept of a wing of X rated makerfaire is interesting... they used to have an scary wing at my local makerfaire so the costume zombie people don't accidentally scare little kids too much). Project Artemis was swarmed a year ago to the point of needing crowd control and abandoned this year, which was weird. Our tax dollars at work, NASA put on a hell of a good show, seriously was worth seeing the displays. I would have been happy to watch the blacksmiths outside for a long time or the fighting robots competitions but unfortunately I bought kids so its just like a zoo or museum where the kids think their grading metric is how fast they can visit each exhibit no matter how superficially. I'd like to see reports from tech-friendly tours, hamfests, makerfaires, cons, ...
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:39PM
Some very big changes are happening across the world, politically, at the moment. It's difficult to escape. For us whose beards are getting grey, the world is becoming unrecognisable.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].