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Post by nikita on Mar 30, 2011 21:05:34 GMT
I wasn't motivated enough today to do anything productive. Instead, with the help of regular expressions and everybody's almost robotic adherence to the "[page number] page title" pattern, I made a chart showing the post count of the discussion threads of each page! Don't know if this is interesting to anybody else, but I certainly had fun making and using it! |
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Post by Eversist on Mar 30, 2011 21:14:44 GMT
That's very nifty! It's nice to see the increased activity over time (which I'm sure is due to more and more readers, and some of those readers joining the forums).
It's funny to see the comics that you'd think would spark the most discussion not garner many posts at all.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 30, 2011 22:11:47 GMT
Funny how much discussion was about 567, as it is not at all dramatic or cliff-hangery, which I had assumed before looking at the comic. It seems the page doesn't include all the comics.
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Post by todd on Mar 30, 2011 22:14:37 GMT
Of course, a lot of the discussion revolves more around the gags and pop culture references than around the main story.
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Post by nikita on Mar 30, 2011 22:24:34 GMT
All pages that had a discussion page should be listed.
Pages that were published before Tom started the forum are almost completely missing, as well as pages that don't have a regular discussion page like summer breaks.
The rest should be there if the thread title was properly formatted, i.e. started with [number].
PS: If something seems odd, you can always look at the title of the thread as a quick consistency check. They are usually a quote from the page.
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Post by jayne on Mar 30, 2011 22:36:48 GMT
I'm partially to blame for 794 being so long. Someone said we're all descended from murderers, which let to a very extended discussion about what "murder" meant. I think it was over 11 pages long.
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Post by smjjames on Mar 30, 2011 22:54:06 GMT
The data for 583 is missing, just letting you know.
Also, the forum search is kind of broken.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 31, 2011 5:55:39 GMT
When I last checked, 576 wasn't there. Now it is is, but the data are completely different. Problem with the forum software, maybe?
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Post by nikita on Mar 31, 2011 10:56:44 GMT
I fixed some things - AND the bars are now linked to the thread itself, so you don't have to use the forum search! URL stayed the same: nkdev.de/misc/gc-disc-postcount.htmjasmijn: In the post above you were talking about 5 67, not 5 76edit: Quotation mark fixed. Thanks jayne! |
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Post by jayne on Mar 31, 2011 11:04:10 GMT
It doesn't matter but there's an extra quotation mark at the end of the URLs.
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Post by jasmijn on Mar 31, 2011 15:34:38 GMT
jasmijn: In the post above you were talking about 5 67, not 5 76 Oh, right. Should've been 576. Still, 567 is not on the page (while it is on the image), and the page and the image claim something completely different for 576. |
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Post by nikita on Mar 31, 2011 17:57:54 GMT
Ahh... it seems that the page numbers in the image somehow got remapped to start at 1. I deleted the image.
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Post by bgb16999 on Dec 23, 2016 0:05:34 GMT
So...anyone want to rerun nikita's script (or re-implement a similar script) to see what the most discussed strips are more than five years later?
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Post by Druplesnubb on Dec 23, 2016 11:34:27 GMT
I was wondering why 621 had such a long discussion for such a trivial page. Turns out people were spending way too much time debating how Annie is seen by her classmates, to the point where Tom himself had to get involved.
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 23, 2016 17:52:31 GMT
I wasn't motivated enough today to do anything productive. Instead, with the help of regular expressions and everybody's almost robotic adherence to the "[page number] page title" pattern, I made a chart showing the post count of the discussion threads of each page! Don't know if this is interesting to anybody else, but I certainly had fun making and using it! 1) That's really neat!  2) Why only include up to page ~850? 3) I'm curious if there is any way to generate a chart of post count versus the number of members registered on this website at the time. EDIT: Aaaand I forgot this was a post from 5 years ago. My questions stand though. |
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Post by Druplesnubb on Dec 24, 2016 10:56:01 GMT
Such a chart would be really skewed towards older pages because as time goes on there will be more registered members who've stopped posting here.
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Post by gpvos on Dec 25, 2016 9:56:05 GMT
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Post by Druplesnubb on Dec 25, 2016 15:31:41 GMT
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Post by Grabix on Dec 25, 2016 18:51:16 GMT
Oops. While reading this list, I've looked at page 792. And this sentence captured my attention: "We wanted to lure him into the court, but ~ we didn't he would kill someone to do it." I wonder what "we" means here. a) "we - the court" Or rather b) "we - group of friends who get too bold, decide to deal with that on their own, and somebody died because of this" ? |
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Post by bgb16999 on Dec 25, 2016 23:04:19 GMT
Wow, thanks gpvos ! Oops. While reading this list, I've looked at page 792. And this sentence captured my attention: "We wanted to lure him into the court, but ~ we didn't he would kill someone to do it." I wonder what "we" means here. a) "we - the court" Or rather b) "we - group of friends who get too bold, decide to deal with that on their own, and somebody died because of this" ? Or "we- the group of friends who were instructed to capture Rey by the Court administration, but weren't told that he was likely to kill someone even though they knew it to be the case." |
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Post by Druplesnubb on Dec 26, 2016 18:43:52 GMT
Seeing how Coyote had to hypnotize Rey for him to actually do it, the Court Administration would have been pretty wrong on that.
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Post by gpvos on Dec 27, 2016 11:51:46 GMT
Seeing how Coyote had to hypnotize Rey for him to actually do it, the Court Administration would have been pretty wrong on that. Hypnotize? On which page is that? |
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Post by fish on Dec 27, 2016 14:27:42 GMT
Seeing how Coyote had to hypnotize Rey for him to actually do it, the Court Administration would have been pretty wrong on that. Hypnotize? On which page is that? . Although it looks more like brainwashing than hypnosis. |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Dec 28, 2016 21:50:01 GMT
Hypnotize? On which page is that? . Although it looks more like brainwashing than hypnosis. Coyote's eyes are glowing more than normal, and have the spiral in them... I'm not sure if it was Tom showing how persuasive Coyote was trying to be, or if he really was trying to hypnotize/enthrall Rey. |
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Post by OGRuddawg on Dec 28, 2016 21:51:12 GMT
18 freaking pages... It rarely goes more than 10. |
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Post by Storel on Dec 30, 2016 1:06:06 GMT
Wow. I wasn't around then, but I can't imagine how anyone could have thought that was Zimmy.  |
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Post by fish on Dec 30, 2016 2:01:53 GMT
Wow. I wasn't around then, but I can't imagine how anyone could have thought that was Zimmy. It was amazing, absolute conviction and commitment to explain away every problem with the hypothesis. Even Occam's Razor was invoked in favour of it being Zimmy, if I recall correctly. It was the forum at it's most... typical. |
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Post by keef on Dec 30, 2016 19:59:16 GMT
Wow. I wasn't around then, but I can't imagine how anyone could have thought that was Zimmy. You mean it wasn't her!? It was amazing, absolute conviction and commitment to explain away every problem with the hypothesis. Even Occam's Razor was invoked in favour of it being Zimmy, if I recall correctly. It was the forum at it's most... typical. It was entertaining, mostly in good spirits, and completely planned by Tom; a masterpiece of trolling. A lot more fun than some of the other peaks of forum activity. |
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