Hi Everyone. I just spoke with Jotter and confirmed that tomorrow he will once again run the expanded Top Readers list, that he did for us last week, showing the 120 people who gave out the most recommendations to our writers. (Rather than just the usual 20 to 40.) He also honored the readers by placing this list above the accumulated author impact, although no one seemed to notice the symbolism.
Jotter did this so we could measure the impact of the post, Striving towards a more nurturing, generous, supportive, fun, and successful writing culture (poll), I wrote a week and a half ago, urging everyone to be more supportive to emerging writings which was resoundingly ignored and or rejected by our community. To spare me embarrassment we didn't even run statistics, so I could slink off in the dark with my tail between my legs to find a new hobby.
HoundDogs are anything if not persistent, so trying again I posted, Breaking: Jotter's High Impact Posts discovers only 51 of yesterday's 126 posters rec'd even 1 post yesterday, which received a warmer response of 325 plus recs from the community if not from the founding team, or Front Pagers.
What really moved me to a next action step was seeing vickijean's post
I pledge to encourage new diaries, after I dropped by and recommended one her earlier posts on my daily pledge to recommend 10 new, emerging, or under-appreciated writers each day.
She wrote, she was "Taking The Pledge!" which cheered me up immediately.
After reading our chatisement about not rec'd each other's diaries, I hung my head in shame and made a pledge.
1. From now on I will read the non-recommended diaries first.
2. I will keep reading until I have recommended at least 5 new diaries.
3. Then I will read the diaries from the "popular kids".
Finally, we had "moved the needle! Some evidence of "progressive action" at work. Some evidence that this could be work a sustained effort.
Hypnotoad says "you will recommend Jotter's High Impact Post Tomorrow!"
So I called Jotter and he's going to run he expanded list tomorrow and next week.
Here's what we ask. You do not have to set a Daily Goal or Pledge for yourself unless you want to which you can do in the comments, or just say, "I"m in." OR "Go Kossacks. or something inspiraitional."
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1. Please Recommend Jotter's High Impact Post tomorrow. We will interpret any number higher than 10 and an endorsement of this idea. (which we need a good name for.)
2. Next week we will compare the total recs for the top 120 authors, and I am waiting to hear back from Jotter if we can track the total rec's for the whole site.
3. At the end of the week we will asses our experiment both qualitatively and quantitatively, and if learn we can make a positive measurable impact we could keep on going, refine our efforts.
Here is the list from last week. One of the great this about data and the scientific approach is that we can make hypothesis and test them with data. What can we learn from looking at our data on the people who already made the most recommendations. Who are these people? How many recommendations did they make?
Holy Smoke! Our site's top Recommender is "a2nite!" One of my best friends here, and one of our most Frequent Flyers in the Bridgegate posts. She recommended 211 posts last week, or just over 30 posts a day.
Also may we call you attention to the fact that you could have been on this top 120 list by only recommending 8.3 authors a day for the week. If everyone recommends more this number will be higher next week.
I'll leave it to you all in the comments to draw out other obserations.
Jotter and I may start a special interest group for this project, if there is enough interest. We will let you know. Thanks. Please recommend his High Impact Post tomorrow.
Impact total: 284.4
nrec - Number of recommendations
ncom - Number of comments
tator - Number of commenters or commenTators (ow, ... sorry, I know).
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx
post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
Author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
Time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly posts.
The analysis of readers includes the
number of recommendations awarded, the number of authors recommended,
the number and percent of their recommendations on the most recommended list (conversion)
and a ratio reflecting how much better the recommendations they made matched
the top hit list than would the same number of random picks.
rec number of posts recommended
authors = number of authors recommended
TopHits = number of recommended posts in top hit list
conversion = 100 * TopHits/rec; percent of recommended posts on top hit list
ratio = TopHits/predicted, where
predicted = ntop * rec/nposts, where
ntop = number of posts in top hit list = 127
nposts = total number of posts = 1129
Thanks everyone and please join me in giving a special thanks tomorrow by giving a special recommendation to his High Impact Post tomorrow. Thanks so much!
8:46 PM PT: Several of you have noted this post may place too much emphases on the lists making this seem like a competition which is not our goal. I will hear back tomorrow about alternative possible measures of aggregate Recommendation for the whole site, and aggregate tips given and tips received.
Also, emerging is an idea about the potential usefulness of an aggregate counter for tips received and tips given which perhaps, we could combine into an aggregate "Site Energy" or "Gross Domestic Progress." or Aggregate Site Mojo.
Anyhow, if you all could help spread the word that it would be appreciated if people gave Jotter a little special appreciation tomorrow in his high impact post it would be great.
Cheers