hydrophilic attack
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How do you objectively track your quality as a neogaf poster? Other posters would probably want to engage with a good poster, so a good poster would be likely to be quoted a lot. So to measure how much you engage with other posters, a ratio of how many times you have been quoted to have many times you have posted should be an objective measure of your quality as a neogaf poster. This is the Q/P ratio A high value means that your posts invite discussion, and are objectively good. Thus, you are an objectively good poster.
Depending on how many quotes and posts you have, you have to use different methods to calculate your Q/P ratio. The different methods are explained below:
Method 1 - If you have been quoted less than roughly 1500 times: Just search for how many times you have been quoted using forum search. Search for "quote=username". For example I would search for "quote=hydrophilic" and count the results. Then divide the number of quotes by your number of posts according to your public profile
Method 2 - If you have been quoted more than 1500 time but haven't been around for all that long: Now shit gets annoying. Neogaf search will only give a maximum of around 1500 results, so the method described above will not be able to count all of your results. Instead you will have to do several searches using advanced search and specifying what time window you want results for (e.g. put newer than a year, ascending order) until you cover you entire gaf career. And then divide that number by your total number of posts according to your public profile
Method 3 - If you have been quoted more than 1500 time and been around for over a year: You probably won't be able to calculate your Q/P ratio for your entire time here, because the "find posts from" option in advanced search doesn't offer any granularity for posts older than a year. So you will have to settle for determining your one-year Q/P ratio (and if you post a lot you may have to settle for 6-months Q/P ratio). Use advanced search as described in method 2 to determine how many times you have been quoted in the last year (or last 6 months). Then use advanced search in a similar way, but instead of searching for "quote=username" use the "search by user name" option to determine the amount of times you posted over the time period you found your number of quotes in.
I had to use Method 3. To better understand how it works see the attached spread sheet I used to keep track of my search results:
As you can see, my one-year Q/P ratio is around 65%. I don't know any of y'all's numbers, so I don't know whether this is good or bad, by comparison. But I suspect it's pretty bad. It's below 1, which means that I have been quoted less times than I have posted. Probably my posts haven't been all that worthy of engaging. While I'm a decent thread maker (with a Thread Success Ratio comfortably above 50%) it seems my regular posting in threads not my own, is below par.
Even worse, I'm on a declining trajectory. Advance searching for quotes and posts over only the last month, I found 581 quotes and 950 posts, which corresponds to a Q/P ratio of 61%. Since my Q/P ratio is going down rather than up, it seems I'm objectively getting worse as a neogaf poster. That is quite depressing.
So what about you? What is your Q/P ratio? Are you an objectively good poster? Is your Q/P ratio increasing or decreasing? Also, feel free to discuss what strategies you use to maximize your Q/P ratio
Depending on how many quotes and posts you have, you have to use different methods to calculate your Q/P ratio. The different methods are explained below:
Method 1 - If you have been quoted less than roughly 1500 times: Just search for how many times you have been quoted using forum search. Search for "quote=username". For example I would search for "quote=hydrophilic" and count the results. Then divide the number of quotes by your number of posts according to your public profile
Method 2 - If you have been quoted more than 1500 time but haven't been around for all that long: Now shit gets annoying. Neogaf search will only give a maximum of around 1500 results, so the method described above will not be able to count all of your results. Instead you will have to do several searches using advanced search and specifying what time window you want results for (e.g. put newer than a year, ascending order) until you cover you entire gaf career. And then divide that number by your total number of posts according to your public profile
Method 3 - If you have been quoted more than 1500 time and been around for over a year: You probably won't be able to calculate your Q/P ratio for your entire time here, because the "find posts from" option in advanced search doesn't offer any granularity for posts older than a year. So you will have to settle for determining your one-year Q/P ratio (and if you post a lot you may have to settle for 6-months Q/P ratio). Use advanced search as described in method 2 to determine how many times you have been quoted in the last year (or last 6 months). Then use advanced search in a similar way, but instead of searching for "quote=username" use the "search by user name" option to determine the amount of times you posted over the time period you found your number of quotes in.
I had to use Method 3. To better understand how it works see the attached spread sheet I used to keep track of my search results:
As you can see, my one-year Q/P ratio is around 65%. I don't know any of y'all's numbers, so I don't know whether this is good or bad, by comparison. But I suspect it's pretty bad. It's below 1, which means that I have been quoted less times than I have posted. Probably my posts haven't been all that worthy of engaging. While I'm a decent thread maker (with a Thread Success Ratio comfortably above 50%) it seems my regular posting in threads not my own, is below par.
Even worse, I'm on a declining trajectory. Advance searching for quotes and posts over only the last month, I found 581 quotes and 950 posts, which corresponds to a Q/P ratio of 61%. Since my Q/P ratio is going down rather than up, it seems I'm objectively getting worse as a neogaf poster. That is quite depressing.
So what about you? What is your Q/P ratio? Are you an objectively good poster? Is your Q/P ratio increasing or decreasing? Also, feel free to discuss what strategies you use to maximize your Q/P ratio
