Talkpolitics contributors

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

I ran a script this morning to grab the URLs for all my postings here.  While I was at it, I did a count of contributions. Here are the top 20 posters all time in talk_politics. These posters contributed 57% of all posts (2901 total). (ETA: I've listed 20-60 in comments below.)   246 different users have contributed posts, but over 80% of all posts have come from 52 users.

(if anyone can tell me how to get past the login page using wget (in perl), I'd be happy to try to grab the data for all commenters.  My initial attempts have been stymied by the login page.)

If anyone would like a list of the URLs and posting titles they've contributed, just let me know in the comments.


NOTE: Edited, seem to have missed some data on first go through, revised numbers, further errors possible, of course:

Total posts: 3126
Total posts by top 20: 1770
Total posts by top 50: 2475
Total Posters: 250

underlankers	240
gunslnger	120
sophia_sadek	109
telemann	107
enders_shadow	102
mahnmut	97
ddstory	96
malasadas	92
verytwistedmind	90
kinvore	87
abomvubuso	83
paft	79
futurebird	68
green_man_2010	67
htpcl	66
allhatnocattle	63
mijopo	59
meus_ovatio	52
airiefairie	47
sandwichwarrior	46

Comments

[telemann.livejournal.com]

*Boggles* I'm no 4? I had no idea honestly. Sheesh. Thanks for going to the trouble of writing the script and posting the results! Very cool stuff.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

Tied for 3rd actually!

Given my workload...

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

... you should edge me out of third place. I don't have much time for the Internets these days.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty ashamed of myself right about now.

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

Why?

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

This post violates several of the rules of TP but since I am on the list I'll not make a stink about it. :)

This is since the group started?

Thanks for posting this!

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

yes, since Dec. 2008.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Spammers of the Net, unite! :-D

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

You know Worldle? The software which scans websites and creates nice word clouds with the most frequently used terms on said website.

I tried to pass TP through Worldle but for some reason it gives me an error. It could be because of the Adult Content filter when logged off.

Great effort btw.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was my problem when trying to do the comment tallies, i could only get the ac filter. I looked up a few ways to work around it, but wasn't successful

21-40

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

hunterkirk 40
mintogrubb 39
panookah 35
steve_potocin 34
dv8nation 28
brucenstein 26
devil_ad_vocate 26
badlydrawnjeff 26
a_new_machine 24
ghoststrider 24
chessdev 23
mividaloca99 22
nairiporter 22
l555l 22
babystrangeloop 21
readherring 21
madali 20
lordtwinkie 19
r_frigg 18
evildevil 17

Re: 21-40

[stewstewstewdio.livejournal.com]

steve_potocin 34

Bringing us entertaining posts since 2009?

41-60

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

inibo 17
the_rukh 17
fizzyland 16
smokystein 14
johnny9fingers 14
luvdovz 14
jlc20thmaine 13
merig00 13
pastorlenny 13
reality_hammer 13
kardashev 12
lucy_chronicles 11
zebra24 11
rumorsofwar 10
stewstewstewdio 10
drcruel 10
rasilio 10
mrbogey 10
peebeebaynut 9
pmax3 9

Re: 41-60

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

What ever happened to Lucy? Did she ever move to wherever she was going?

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

Total underlankers domination. No surprise there! :)

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

You know, quantity does not make quality. (Oh, snap!) =))

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we need to correlate these numbers to an objective quality measurement...

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

I don't need a list of my URLs. They're all here (http://mahnmut.livejournal.com/98392.html).

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's exactly what I wanted. do you maintain that manually?

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

I just realize how closely community behaviour follows the Pareto Principle.

Almost precisely 20% (52/249) of the posters have done almost precisely 80% of the posting. (Of course, one might argue that the community at large is much bigger that 249, and that that's the relevant number, shooting the cool observation all to hell.)

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Aye, but can you count the comments? :p

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Could be roughly proportional, but then, there are some who are too shy to post posts but who regularly comment (Geezer, I'm looking at ya buddy!) And there are those who like to post and never come back to participate in the discussions (eh...*cough*Steve*cough*).

[anadinboy.livejournal.com]

right im gonna start making posts. Mature posts!

top 21-40, revised

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

panookah 41
hunterkirk 41
mintogrubb 39
steve_potocin 34
devil_ad_vocate 31
badlydrawnjeff 31
dv8nation 30
brucenstein 28
lordtwinkie 26
a_new_machine 25
nairiporter 25
ghoststrider 24
chessdev 23
mividaloca99 22
r_frigg 22
l555l 22
babystrangeloop 21
inibo 21
readherring 21
madali 20

top 41-60, revised

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

fizzyland 19
the_rukh 18
lucy_chronicles 18
evildevil 17
merig00 16
johnny9fingers 15
smokystein 14
pastorlenny 14
luvdovz 14
jlc20thmaine 13
reality_hammer 13
kardashev 12
xforge 11
rasilio 11
dwer 11
zebra24 11
pmax3 10
rumorsofwar 10
stewstewstewdio 10
drcruel 10

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

*whistles* 240 posts, eh? O.o

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Be sure to pick up the lovely prize at the front door when you come by again! lol

TP on Wordle

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Re: TP on Wordle

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

That looks like it's only doing the past few posts.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I've got them right where I want them!

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Thanks to all who contribute so much. This is my primary source of what's going on in the world; if I have time only to read one news source, it's this.

[singlethink.livejournal.com]

Is the list of commenters up somewhere?

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

Yes, see this post: http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/885633.html

and this link gives all the commentators: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkSv4pXhV0fBdHBKdDI0cjZNSGU0QWljTlF6VFVhZmc&hl=en&authkey=CImv2YEN

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Wow. I knew I posted a lot, but jeesh.

Well, I'll take my triple digit victory and run with it.