yes.<\/p>\n
On Dec 21, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Steven Lehrburger wrote:<\/p>\n
> (haha)
\n>
\n> one crude metric for determining signal-to-noise ratio might be how
\n> many words there were in response to a given email… so that would
\n> penalize people who killed threads and answered questions, and
\n> reward people who asked lots of questions and started flame wars.
\n> maybe you could look for ?marks and flag those as questions to make
\n> things a little more nuanced. but then that leaves us (or, at least,
\n> those who care) jumping through semantic hoops to ask as many
\n> questions as possible without the appropriate punctuation. does that
\n> make any sense
\n>
\n> alternatively, if words-in-response wasn’t considered a good goal,
\n> you could invert it to reward the first group (who killed threads
\n> and answered questions) and penalize the second group (who asked
\n> lots of questions and started flame wars). it of course depends on
\n> what sort of environment the President of the List wanted to create.
\n>
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\n> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Jorge Just wrote:
\n> Dimatos, you’re an idiot.
\n>
\n> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM, john dimatos
\n> wrote:
\n> What I also want is the ability to have individual noise to signal
\n> ratios for each poster, and an overall list score as well. However
\n> that would requir e some form of digg like system and since I can’t
\n> whip out the API\/XML fu that @lehrblogger
\n> Did, georgio justice (that’s his fetish scene nickname ) will deny
\n> me the genius mantle.
\n>
\n> Dammit!
\n>
\n> Jsd
\n> Sent from my medulla omblongata
\n>
\n> On Dec 21, 2008, at 1:37 PM, “Jorge Just” wrote:
\n>
\n>> Lehrburger, you’re a genius.
\n>>
\n>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Steven Lehrburger > > wrote:
\n>> what we really need for this is word counts per person. i dont
\n>> think google groups have an API, but if you can get the posts as an
\n>> XML feed it would be easy to write something to tally it..?
\n>>
\n>> (in case anyone needed a 4-in-4 project)
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>
\n>> On 12\/21\/08, Ruthie Doyle wrote:
\n>> ; ( sorry. bad read-through…cracked out end-of-semester-
\n>> lag…just a typo…
\n>>
\n>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:28 AM, John Dimatos
\n>> wrote:
\n>> DIAMTOS? that’s a first.
\n>>
\n>> I’ve heard diamatos diamato Dimato DiMato D’amato and damatio but
\n>> never DIAMTOS.
\n>>
\n>> there should be a social genius with last names for people like you.
\n>>
\n>>
\n>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Jelani John
\n>> wrote:
\n>> > Towards the end of the semester I started wondering who this
\n>> Ruthie chick
\n>> > was. I had to get someone to point her out.
\n>> > From: Ruthie Doyle
\n>> > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:22 AM
\n>> > To: ITP Students
\n>> > Subject: Re: Lost my Position!
\n>> > !! Am I the only lady?? (Midori so doesn’t count…) # 4!
\n>> > Tymm, you have a life. Just…own it. ; ) You crack me up; funny
\n>> I “met”
\n>> > you for the first time at the show all like, “we’ve met on the
\n>> list.” We’re
\n>> > stuck in front of our screens…
\n>> > The problem with quantitative statistics is that it doesn’t take
\n>> into
\n>> > account posts like some of Diamtos’ that are crazy long and
\n>> complicated.
\n>> > Ok, Syed, we gotta keep teaming up…anymore James lyrics, or
\n>> shall we move
\n>> > on to new plans…?? “Say something, say something, anything\/I’ve
\n>> shown you
\n>> > everything\/Give me a sign”
\n>> > You can’t say I haven’t tried to be a part of making community!
\n>> > After tomorrow, post-paper, I am totally spending my time with
\n>> trees, kids,
\n>> > cars, Tex-pats, dogs and cameras in the 76 degree sunny weather,
\n>> > XO Ruthie
\n>> >
\n>> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Swerdloff
\n>> wrote:
\n>> >>
\n>> >> Where is this again?
\n>> >>
\n>> >> I used to be #1, and I’m itching for a comeback…
\n>> >>
\n>> >> .oO( much to all of your chagrin… )
\n>> >>
\n>> >> :misses MOOs sometimes
\n>> >>
\n>> >>
\n>> >>
\n>> >> On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Corey Menscher wrote:
\n>> >>
\n>> >> Dude. I’m 10th on the “Top Posters” for The List this month. I
\n>> don’t
\n>> >> think I’ve ever been that low:
\n>> >>
\n>> >> 114 tmt…@nyu.edu
\n>> >> 85 syed.itp@gmail.com
\n>> >> 80 jelanij…@hotmail.com
\n>> >> 78 ruthie.do…@nyu.edu
\n>> >> 73 midori.yas…@nyu.edu
\n>> >> 65 ot…@nyu.edu
\n>> >> 62 mh1…@nyu.edu
\n>> >> 60 jonat…@swerdloff.com
\n>> >> 56 ari.l.jos…@gmail.com
\n>> >> 54 corey.mensc…@nyu.edu
\n>> >>
\n>> >> You go, Tymm!
\n>> >>
\n>> >> Corey Menscher
\n>> >> corey.menscher@nyu.edu
\n>> >> http:\/\/www.crackblur.com
\n>> >>
\n>> >>
\n>> >>
\n>> >>
\n>> >>
\n>> >> —
\n>> >> leave-9867689-3318462.ab566576cd5a25647d38e878510a97e4@lists.nyu.edu
\n>> >>
\n>> >>
\n>> >> —
\n>> >> leave-9867705-4327434.b52f08053e8624018ec3e87e96c6930d@lists.nyu.edu
\n>> >
\n>> > —
\n>> >
\n>> leave-9870813-4275494.c35dd09af2201348781fd7f21cf60547@lists.nyu.edu
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\n>> >
\n>> leave-9870969-4715501.b4dc1c24694184cbaae97651dfcff2cf@lists.nyu.edu
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\n>> ph. 917.650.5683
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