From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T15:04:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)


"Dr Balwinder S Dheeman" <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> schrieb im 
Newsbeitrag news:8vu2l2-lgv.ln1@news.sebs.org.in...
> On 05/09/2005 06:39 AM, Jim Freeze wrote:
>> * Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> [2005-05-09 
>> 09:44:22 +0900]:
>>
>>
>>>Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
>>>Top 10 posters for the period:
>>>
>>>rank posts kbytes  name <address>
>>>   1    50  132.3  Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
>>>   2    50  102.7  Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com>
>>>   3    34   80.2  David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net>
>>>   4    29   82.6  Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
>>>   5    27   65.7  Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
>>>   6    27   53.1  Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
>>>   7    21   49.9  James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
>>>   8    20   36.1  James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
>>>   9    19   46.5  Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com>
>>>  10    18   46.4  Mark Hubbart <discordantus@gmail.com>
>>>     ----- ------
>>>       295  695.3  Total for top 10
>>
>>
>> When this was first published, I thought, wow this is cool.
>> But, since then I have been reading a book called Freakonomics.
>> And now, well, I wonder if this email provides an incentive
>> (that did not previously exist) for those seeking public
>> recognition, to post 'junk' so their name appears near the
>> top of the stats.
>
> Yes, agreed.
>
>> Anyway, just wondering...
>
> I OTOH think optimistically, these stats will also provide us an 
> informations to locate and avoid such trolls.

Hm, honestly, I don't think so.  First, your stats come after the fact but 
more important, how do you tanslate quantity into a troll indicator?  I'd 
say we need at least more sophisticated figures for that (text pattern 
analysis or whatever)... :-)  Apart from that, usually you can detect them 
well by just looking at their articles.

And still ignorance is the best way to cope with them.

Kind regards

    robert