More like hopping around in a teddy to the tune of "Dancing Queen."  Full disclosure, the wife & I, our two daughters and the eldest granddaughter all love Abba.  This July we're going to see our second performance of "Mamma Mia."

I know! They are coming back again next year, so I will go see it the 2nd time, and my co-workers and I are going to make it a work event.

Here's some food for thought on how to get people to catch Foreigner Fever -- come up with a story line that will factor in all of Foreigner's hits and get some Broadway mogul to bankroll it.

It would work even better if we hire some ex-Nazi to write the script and get more investors in the play than there are legal shares. That way when the horrible script tanks and it closes after one night we get the investors money, and nobody is the wiser.

But, what exactly is stumpstat telling you here when it runs the gamut over a variety of time periods telling you that 1 percent (through 100 percent) of commenters wrote 100 percent of comments?

It's just a metric to give you an idea of how "deep" our participation is - in other words, are just a few people making a majority of the comments, or do most people make about the same number of comments?

Also, and this is probably apt because you're an editor, what is the status of editors being able to promote a diary entry to a story?

It's being worked on.  The "easy" solution didn't work like we thought it would, but profwhat is working on it.

First off, here are the stats:

• 625 comments were posted by 46 users


• 100 percent of commenters wrote 100.00 percent of comments.


• 75 percent of commenters wrote 98.24 percent of comments.


• 50 percent of commenters wrote 94.24 percent of comments.


• 25 percent of commenters wrote 79.36 percent of comments.


• 10 percent of commenters wrote 52.64 percent of comments.


• 5 percent of commenters wrote 46.08 percent of comments.


• 4 percent of commenters wrote 39.36 percent of comments.


• 3 percent of commenters wrote 31.68 percent of comments.


• 2 percent of commenters wrote 23.68 percent of comments.


• 1 percent of commenters wrote 14.40 percent of comments.

For reference, each comment corresponds to 0.16% of all comments.

Analysis:

The data shows us what percentage of commenters were responsible for what percentage of the comments. Starting at the top, 100% of all 625 comments were written by people in the set of 100% of the 46 users who made comments, which is almost meaningless. The really meaningful data comes at the end of the stack:

• 46.08% of all comments (288) were written by the same 5% of our users, which is 2-3 people. Anyone wanna guess who? :-)


• 52.64% of all comments were written by the same 10% of our users, which is 4-5 people.

What's a little more encouraging is the jump from the 10% to the 25% bracket: 496 comments were by 25% (11.5) of the users. Subtracting out the top 10%, 7 people in the next bracket made 329 comments. This makes for less of a "hockey stick" graph that usually signifies an echo chamber. Jargon aside, that means it isn't just 2-3 people talking to themselves.

Still, in final summation, more traffic would be nice.

-=Logan
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