UPDATED (w/ Poll): Observations on ET and on blogging... | 58 comments (58 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Seriously (4.00 / 2)

Some researcher should do a calculation of the incidence of on-topic comments related to the order of the comment on the thread, so that we can get statistical data on the probability of an nth-order comment being on-topic.

If it hasn't been done already.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 05:06:58 PM EST
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Re: Seriously (none / 1)

Hey, if you want the job, have at it...but why do you blog in the first place?

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 05:09:04 PM EST
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Re: Seriously (4.00 / 4)

One of the informal rules of threads is that people never write what you want them to. Well, mostly.

This blogging business can give you a high and it's important to continue once you've gotten off that.

So, to your poll, which was a good idea, I answered to write about issues I care about, which is also why I blog in the first place.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 05:32:17 PM EST
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Re: Seriously (4.00 / 3)

Hey hey - the diary author introduced the topic. On what basis do you ordain it to be off topic? :-)

Perhaps we should do a statistical analysis of the location and frequency of meta comments in comment stream. Someone is bound to flick the ball in another direction from time to time!

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 05:32:16 PM EST
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Re: Seriously (4.00 / 2)

It was the rhetorical figure erotema, framed with an irony so ironic that it bordered on snark :)

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 06:02:26 PM EST
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Re: Seriously (none / 1)

your link gives as an example of erotema the question "Just why are you so stupid?" Is that what you meant to ask?

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 06:25:04 PM EST
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Re: Seriously (none / 1)

LOL no. Maybe I should have read the page I linked to first.

What I don't want is another flame war breaking out.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2009 at 06:32:25 PM EST
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UPDATED (w/ Poll): Observations on ET and on blogging... | 58 comments (58 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)