[clug] An alternate place for longer, meandering threads?

[steve jenkin]

Jacinta,

Wow!
Actually mining the raw feed for data.
What A Good Idea! [It should be Bleeding Obvious, but is mostly Novel.]

I stand humbled.
I make mere conjecture and assertion, and your good self actually thinks
to Find The Facts and does the work.

This also reflects some of the basic tenets of FOSS - loosely stated as
'Just Do It' (or Stop Bellyaching and Fix it).

Thank you for this object lesson in objectivity.
(is that a pun or just poor English on my part?)

I think your conclusions are sound - there are topics that stir
response, and most people, most of the time are quiet on the list.

We've yet to collectively decide which way to head, but as yet not a lot
of support for a second list...

All the best (and severely awe-struck)
steve

Jacinta Richardson wrote on 13/9/09 4:00 PM:

> I wondered about this, so I did some very basic stats gathering.  I took
> a scrape of the subjects and senders from
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2009-September/ and found the
> following:

<snip>

> I don't draw from these statistics that this is a topic being held forth
> on by only a few people.  More than a third of the posters in the last 2
> weeks have participated in this topic.  The second most popular topic in
> the last two weeks has had at most 19 distinct posters, but as that is
> the number of posts with that subject line, it's probably much less than
> 19.
> 
> The "silent majority" will be silent on most topics, regardless of how
> on-topic, deeply technical, super-cool or otherwise interesting they
> might be.  I get that lots of people aren't interested in this topic,
> and I think it certainly has gone on a lot longer than it need to have,
> but I suspect that basing whether a topic has been engaging based on
> personal opinion is often going to be wrong.
> 
> All the best,
> 
>     Jacinta
> 
> 


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