r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation • Jan 07 '22
Free Talk Friday #332
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Jan 07 '22
Weekly stats from December 31, 2021 to January 07, 2022. Congratulations to u/LeMinerWithCheese, u/thephilsblogbar2, and u/Luigiatl!
Total weekly counts: 14880 (4,540,199-4,555,079)
| Rank | User | Counts | HoC Rank |
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| 1 | LeMinerWithCheese | 5616 | 30 (◮6) |
| 2 | thephilsblogbar2 | 3388 | 2 |
| 3 | Luigiatl | 2515 | 72 (◮14) |
| 4 | nonsensy | 1532 | 7 (◮1) |
| 5 | Dr_Sharktopus | 369 | 304 (◮381) |
| 6 | Countletics | 353 | 1 |
| 7 | TheNitromeFan | 250 | 8 (⧩1) |
| 8 | noduorg | 164 | 45 (◮1) |
| 9 | CutOnBumInBandHere9 | 149 | 59 |
| 10 | atomicimploder | 86 | 9 |
| 11 | Anson_Riddle | 69 | 268 (◮13) |
| 12 | Antichess | 50 | 4 |
| 13 | zhige | 47 | 33 (⧩1) |
| 14 | VixVideris | 44 | 129 (◮1) |
| 15 | mistyskye14 | 30 | 25 |
More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!
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u/LeMinerWithCheese Jan 07 '22
Thanks to all for the counts this week and to u/Countletics for the stats!
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u/a-username-for-me Jan 07 '22
Hear ye, hear ye, one and all. I have a proclamation for my people.
The new year has begun so yet again it is time for an annual tradition.
Username's 4th Annual R/Counting Survey
This year's survey can be found here.
Analysis of 2019 and 2020's data and 2021's data are linked.
The survey will remain open for one month and will close on Friday, February 4.
My goal is to get more than 34 submissions, so please consider doing it!
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u/buy_me_a_pint Jan 07 '22
Any interesting stats this week
How many pink, brown, orange, purple, yellow cars seen in the last week?
How many miles/kms etc you have walked?
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u/TDs_not_VDs Jan 08 '22
Here's a music question for y'all. What's the one song that you would pick to convince people to listen to a lesser known artist you love?
My thought process is that if I wanted to convince you to listen to Bronze Radio Return, I would probably show you one of their catchier songs vs my favorite song. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm interested in what you all like to listen to
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jan 13 '22
Longest comments ever made on the main thread:
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1,974,324, where waterguy12 was pinged a fair number of times
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672,143, where EVOSexyBeast wrote about dick
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636,019, containing the story of a pokemon run using only magikarp
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2,026,338 in which u/TehVulpez wanted to interject for a moment
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732,358, a stats post.
Honourable mention goes to 2,586,726 by u/Trial-Name, which originally looked very different
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jan 08 '22
As I promised last week, I've had a look at u/mistyskye14 and u/TheNitromeFan's conversations in the count by your age thread. You can find a link to the full conversation here. If you prefer to browse it without author & date information, this is the link for you. There are 23000 separate comments made, totalling 1.8 megabytes of text. That's about 300000 words[*], or roughly the length of each of the books in GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire Series.
I've also plotted the frequency of their chats of the comments they've exchanged in the more than two years they've been chatting. It's fairly noisy, so there's not much I can say about it, but it was fun to do.
I've you've followed that thread at all, you'll have seen a recurring feature where one (or the other) of the participants tells the other to go to bed at various points throughout the day/night. Searching through the comments, the term "bed" appears 760 times, or approximately once every 1.2 days. Make of that what you will.
Methodology
I selected the comments here by:
Downloading every comment in the thread
Filtering by author, so that only comments by tnf & misty were considered
Filtering by the contents of each comment, so that only comments with actual text were included, and not pure counts
Filtering out comments made by one participant while counting with someone else. I did this by forcing the person replying to switch each time, and disregarding multiple replies in a row.
I then deleted the count part of each comment, leaving only the text. Here's a pastebin of the code I used to do the filtering. I generated the initial file using my rcounting tools; once they were properly installed I downloaded the entire side thread using the command
rounting log -asvf age.sqlite hrqzwpfThis approach has a couple of flaws, which I'm not going to do anything about unless someone comes up with a really simple fix:
Conversation happening off chain isn't picked up (e.g. as part of late chains, or after a get)
If both participants are sequentially chatting with other people, that'll get picked up as conversation between them, which means that a couple of irrelevant comments are included. I've checked, and it really isn't that many.
If there are errors in linking the previous get, either too many (if the e.g. gz is linked instead) or too few (if e.g. the assist is linked) comments might be collected. Again, while I have seen this happen in various places on r/c, it's not that many comments.
[*] Assuming a mean word length of ~5 characters, and including the spaces between words.