yes.
On Dec 21, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Steven Lehrburger wrote:
> (haha)
>
> one crude metric for determining signal-to-noise ratio might be how
> many words there were in response to a given email… so that would
> penalize people who killed threads and answered questions, and
> reward people who asked lots of questions and started flame wars.
> maybe you could look for ?marks and flag those as questions to make
> things a little more nuanced. but then that leaves us (or, at least,
> those who care) jumping through semantic hoops to ask as many
> questions as possible without the appropriate punctuation. does that
> make any sense
>
> alternatively, if words-in-response wasn’t considered a good goal,
> you could invert it to reward the first group (who killed threads
> and answered questions) and penalize the second group (who asked
> lots of questions and started flame wars). it of course depends on
> what sort of environment the President of the List wanted to create.
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> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Jorge Just wrote:
> Dimatos, you’re an idiot.
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM, john dimatos
> wrote:
> What I also want is the ability to have individual noise to signal
> ratios for each poster, and an overall list score as well. However
> that would requir e some form of digg like system and since I can’t
> whip out the API/XML fu that @lehrblogger
> Did, georgio justice (that’s his fetish scene nickname ) will deny
> me the genius mantle.
>
> Dammit!
>
> Jsd
> Sent from my medulla omblongata
>
> On Dec 21, 2008, at 1:37 PM, “Jorge Just” wrote:
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>> Lehrburger, you’re a genius.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Steven Lehrburger > > wrote:
>> what we really need for this is word counts per person. i dont
>> think google groups have an API, but if you can get the posts as an
>> XML feed it would be easy to write something to tally it..?
>>
>> (in case anyone needed a 4-in-4 project)
>>
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>> On 12/21/08, Ruthie Doyle wrote:
>> ; ( sorry. bad read-through…cracked out end-of-semester-
>> lag…just a typo…
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>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:28 AM, John Dimatos
>> wrote:
>> DIAMTOS? that’s a first.
>>
>> I’ve heard diamatos diamato Dimato DiMato D’amato and damatio but
>> never DIAMTOS.
>>
>> there should be a social genius with last names for people like you.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Jelani John
>> wrote:
>> > Towards the end of the semester I started wondering who this
>> Ruthie chick
>> > was. I had to get someone to point her out.
>> > From: Ruthie Doyle
>> > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:22 AM
>> > To: ITP Students
>> > Subject: Re: Lost my Position!
>> > !! Am I the only lady?? (Midori so doesn’t count…) # 4!
>> > Tymm, you have a life. Just…own it. ; ) You crack me up; funny
>> I “met”
>> > you for the first time at the show all like, “we’ve met on the
>> list.” We’re
>> > stuck in front of our screens…
>> > The problem with quantitative statistics is that it doesn’t take
>> into
>> > account posts like some of Diamtos’ that are crazy long and
>> complicated.
>> > Ok, Syed, we gotta keep teaming up…anymore James lyrics, or
>> shall we move
>> > on to new plans…?? “Say something, say something, anything/I’ve
>> shown you
>> > everything/Give me a sign”
>> > You can’t say I haven’t tried to be a part of making community!
>> > After tomorrow, post-paper, I am totally spending my time with
>> trees, kids,
>> > cars, Tex-pats, dogs and cameras in the 76 degree sunny weather,
>> > XO Ruthie
>> >
>> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Swerdloff
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Where is this again?
>> >>
>> >> I used to be #1, and I’m itching for a comeback…
>> >>
>> >> .oO( much to all of your chagrin… )
>> >>
>> >> :misses MOOs sometimes
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Corey Menscher wrote:
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>> >> Dude. I’m 10th on the “Top Posters” for The List this month. I
>> don’t
>> >> think I’ve ever been that low:
>> >>
>> >> 114 tmt…@nyu.edu
>> >> 85 syed.itp@gmail.com
>> >> 80 jelanij…@hotmail.com
>> >> 78 ruthie.do…@nyu.edu
>> >> 73 midori.yas…@nyu.edu
>> >> 65 ot…@nyu.edu
>> >> 62 mh1…@nyu.edu
>> >> 60 jonat…@swerdloff.com
>> >> 56 ari.l.jos…@gmail.com
>> >> 54 corey.mensc…@nyu.edu
>> >>
>> >> You go, Tymm!
>> >>
>> >> Corey Menscher
>> >> corey.menscher@nyu.edu
>> >> http://www.crackblur.com
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