Raise the Hammer

This new system isn't so new anymore and I must admit IT kinda grew on me. And I really like the structure of the whole RTH site, in particular, the consistency of page formatting by Quandy has allowed me to assemble a collection of simple data processing scripts written in bash, to pinch interesting information from the RTH stash.

For example, near the end of this two year old thread, JonC and UrbanRenaissance mention the idea of rating a topic discussion via vote ratios:

JonC

What would be interesting is a ratio of total comment scores to number of votes (which would theoretically indicate articles with more interesting comments.

UrbanRenaissance

Not a bad idea, assign the rating to the discussion of the article, rather than the article itself.

I agree, that would be a neat idea so I did exactly that and more, for all 3500+ article and blog topics in the RTH store. On my Linux desktop in a Command Prompt X terminal emulator (Bourne Again SHell), a simple command reveals the information we seek:

wrcu2:$ cat article/874/DR
raisethehammer.org/article/874/
New RTH Comment Voting System
78 100 78%

This ain't that big of a deal however and compiling a discussion rating for all RTH submissions took only mere seconds. Nevertheless, there are many other calculations which may be performed with the plethora of OpenData contained in the RTH user-space strata.

As another example, here is a list of all the users who were part of the original discussion two years ago and myself, along with our current ratings determined by ourselves and other registered RTH users:

ARTICLE COMMENTS

Ryan 3280 3588 91%
reuben 69 77 89%
smz180 -4 14 -28%
Meredith 676 776 87%
Brioski8 37 39 94%
nobrainer 1573 1823 86%
jason 3924 4514 86%
z jones 1265 1467 86%
UrbanRenaissance 622 658 94%
Blossomful 1 1 100%
jason 3924 4514 86%
WRCU2 169 571 29%

I am somewhat embarrassed by my own personal score for comments I've made to articles, however, my score is much better on blogs so I guess there's still hope for me yet:

BLOG COMMENTS

Ryan 3179 3517 90%
reuben 95 109 87%
smz180 5 5 100%
Meredith 504 566 89%
Brioski8 35 39 89%
nobrainer 1442 1636 88%
jason 4513 5277 85%
z jones 1214 1364 89%
UrbanRenaissance 780 802 97%
jason 4513 5277 85%
WRCU2 58 86 67%

Great work Ryan and Staff, you and RTH are simply the best, Cheers!

Comment edited by WRCU2 on 2011-06-17 17:06:47