Mr.Shrugglesã
Banned
I can't believe I knew what the Q / P referred to.
What a crazy metric.
What a crazy metric.
This feels like taking a math test
Try doing other people's yourself and you should quickly find your method is flawed for the reason identified here:
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1357742
I'm a vanguard mod, I represent that will and interests of the common working GAFers, in fact, I'm the personification of them.If you don't want the free market to determine poster quality, what is your proposed alternative?
Poster scores determined by mods? Welfare quotes to help lower quality posters? Why would anyone make an effort on gaf in such a socialist dystopia
If you are affected by the problem in that thread, it just means you showed a lack of foresight in your choice of username. It's not an indictment of the usefulness of the Q/P ratio
Having seen the error of my decadent ways, I have rescinded my previous, counter-revolutionary post. I will now admit myself into a re-education camp under my own volition.I'm a vanguard mod, I represent that will and interests of the common working GAFers, in fact, I'm the personification of them.
I, through the Standing Subcommittee for Poster Evaluation, have declared your post to be adequate, if counter-revolutionary.
a good poster would be likely to be quoted a lot
Having seen the error of my decadent ways, I have rescinded my previous, counter-revolutionary post. I will now admit myself into a re-education camp under my own volition.
Signed, hydrophilic attack.
Don't be surprised. Consider yourselves introduced to that alleyway to the shaded alcoves of NeoGAF.
Have you not remembered that "Neo-" as a prefix means "new"? Why do you think there are four sub-Boards of this forum? Four Boards to the forum, four walls to the room. But what is the floor? And where is the ceiling?
It's easy to forget that our posts are but light on a plane. For most of us, that is enough.
Yet I tell you there is an old GAF, and you may read each other's messages off your personal screens but what is up to us, is down to old GAF, from which our own opinions were born before they were forgotten. For whom that is enough, I tell you it is madness to glimpse this dimension.
To old GAF, your quotes are but echoes. Yet old GAF was not the chamber's roof.
To old GAF, GAF Gold is only the surface. Yet GAF Gold was never real to anyone but us.
There will come a time when our posts are lost count of and our avatars left unrecognizable to those who come after us, if anyone at all.
Yet old GAF will still be there, archived, awaiting.
Shitposts early in a huge thread can get dozens of quotes. And tons of good, informative posts get completely ignored.
I also question the method, I've been posting on GAF for around 7 years and have 20k posts but Google only returns 431 results for quotes. I'm pretty confident I've been quoted well over 431 times, especially since I have a history of being an active poster in threads that have an emphasis on back-and-forth conversation like the Need a PC ones.
12%... damn :/ thought it would be at least 30...
And a post of '.' got rewarded with a bunch of quotes too.
Shitposts early in a huge thread can get dozens of quotes. And tons of good, informative posts get completely ignored.
I also question the method, I've been posting on GAF for around 7 years and have 20k posts but Google only returns 431 results for quotes. I'm pretty confident I've been quoted well over 431 times, especially since I have a history of being an active poster in threads that have an emphasis on back-and-forth conversation like the Need a PC ones.
Edit: Oh, I searched threads. 1499 in roughly 1 year, back to last May.
Extrapolating my posts gives me somewhere in the ballpark of 3k posts in that time. So right around 50%. Now THAT seems high to me.
But that was quoted as a meta joke to discredit my method. I found it very funny and well-deserving of quotes. So the system works.The system is not working.
Something about this post is ironic.
EDIT4: I just realized can keep inflating my Q/P ratio by editing my initial post to hell and back.
But that was quoted as a meta joke to discredit my method. I found it very funny and well-deserving of quotes. So the system works.The system is not working.
This post adds nothing to the discussion. Quote it so I can get some quick GAF karma.
you need mark yourself one by one good posters and bad one.
You earned a yellow tag from me
you need mark yourself one by one good posters and bad one.
You earned a yellow tag from me
But that was quoted as a meta joke to discredit my method. I found it very funny and well-deserving of quotes. So the system works.
Join date: 2013
old GAF, pffft. What a poser!
If I was a mayfly, that would be one-thousand-four-hundred-and-sixty lifetimes ago
Think about that, hotshot
"Meta joke"...
Yeah...
Sure...
That's exactly what I was doing...
Just a meta joke, bro.
Really makes you think...
I love statistics, but what's the relationship between quality and the number of posts that have been quoted? I mean, you say it's an objective measure, but if I go into a thread and start flailing some stupid garbage around, plenty of people are going to quote me with a reaction image at best.
And then the mods come and you'll be lucky to get a humiliating title!
Number of times you've been quoted is not an objective measure of the quality of your posts. Thus, I reject this claim.
The fact that you manually misspelled my user name so as to not give me the satisfaction of getting quoted means that you on some level agree with the quote-as-a-reward theory
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.
Method 4 - do they use light theme
i found method 4
Damn, OP. You're really obsessed with your posting habits lol.
Just have fun, man. It's a fun forum.
Last year I did a study on what affected your chances of being quoted. It wasn't super robust (It was a for a professor who focuses on qualitative methods so he was easily impressed with what I managed to do) but maybe my data and conclusions would be interesting in this context.
I collected data on the number of times users were quoted and the number of times users quoted throughout a sample of 25 threads. Here's a history gram of the number of times users who posted in threads quoted others (outDegree).
So there is actually very little quoting going on compared to posting. I don't have the corresponding graph on this computer though but if anyone is interested to see it, I can dig it up.
I split the study in two: post content and user characteristics. For post content, I compared the emotional content including joy, anger, sadness, trust, surprise, anticipation, etc. The type of thread really seemed to have an effect on how much emotional content differed between quoted and non-quoted posts. In general, the angrier and more disgusted posts were quoted more often.
For user characteristics, I compared user title/tag, years of membership, posts per day, avatar, and position in the a sample of the NeoGAF social network. The regression I ran only explained about 25% of the variation in number of posts quoted. Posts per day and years of membership were the only significant predictors.
I didn't account for the interaction between post content and user characteristics, which would be the next step. Maybe one day I'll go back to it.
So according to my study, if you want to be quoted: stay longer, post more, and be angrier.
(I never checked to see if I was in any of the threads I used for the study so I don't know how I fared.)
Oh, I'm good at that.I can tell this is going to be a *great* thread.
Maybe another measure of bad poster would be how many times someone's post is *last* in the thread. As in, your last post is so bad that everyone now thinks the thread is lame and leaves the party.
one of you fuckers better post after me