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: 2) by frojack on Monday October 10 2016, @10:15PM
Says the gentleman among the most down-voted. Hypocrisy much?
I think you meant to say, most UP voted. Oh, wait, you didn't because you are an AC, and only throw insults.
And in that, what difference does it make if it is you or AC making the comment, speaking of specious arguments?
Makes a lot of difference. Some I pointed out. Some other are obvious. You can't carry on discourse with random voices in the wind who throws a bomb into a crowded room and runs away blameless.
Anonymity serves the the same purpose as it did when the Federalist Papers were published: to keep the raging mob from your door and to consider the argument, not the person.
The federalist papers were not anonymous. Even in that day it was widely know who two of the authors were.
"Hamilton, Madison, and Jay did not invoke the pseudonym Publius in order to hide as individuals from being credited with authorship, in order to help their tenure chances, or in order to avoid embarrassment at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
"Rather, their reason was precisely to the contrary: to share authorship, and indeed credit, with all the Framers of the Constitution."
(Wendy Long, author an Law Clerk to Clarence Thomas.).
I've read Publius. He is friends of mine. You sir, are no Publius.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @11:15PM
"At the time of publication the authorship of the articles was a closely guarded secret, though astute observers discerned the identities of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay. Following Hamilton's death in 1804, a list that he had drafted claiming fully two-thirds of the papers for himself became public, including some that seemed more likely the work of Madison (No. 49–58 and 62–63). The scholarly detective work of Douglass Adair in 1944 postulated the following assignments of authorship, corroborated in 1964 by a computer analysis of the text."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers [wikipedia.org]