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.

[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!

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

I post way the hell too much.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Damn it. I just did it again.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

yes, since Dec. 2008.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Now now. It'll be all better!

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I think it's fun. Hence the tag (hope the OP doesn't mind).

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Spammers of the Net, unite! :-D

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Do it MOAR.

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

no problem, that was the intent

[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.

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

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

[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

[mijopo.livejournal.com]

Tied for 3rd actually!

Re: 21-40

[stewstewstewdio.livejournal.com]

steve_potocin 34

Bringing us entertaining posts since 2009?

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! :)

Re: 21-40

[tridus.livejournal.com]

It feels like so much longer.

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

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

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Yeah but you've surrendered the 1st place in the Master of Macros contest. To Telemann.

[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]

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.)