Double-Post Culprits

October 2, 2006 8:49 AM

Is there a list somewhere out there of the users with the most double posts to their name? Or the highest ratio of doubles to legitimate posts?
posted by chunking express to Feature Requests at 8:49 AM (33 comments total)

No, but that sounds like a great Project!
posted by brain_drain at 8:51 AM on October 2, 2006

No there isn't, because I don't have "double post" anywhere in the data model of the mefi database.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:56 AM on October 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

So the deletion reason would be the only place that mentions the post is a double? Could the data be extracted that way? (Not that I want it, I'm just wondering. I think it'd be a cool thing to see.)
posted by chunking express at 9:08 AM on October 2, 2006

If only this guy were still around. I bet he would know.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:10 AM on October 2, 2006

I would bet the house on the fact that Postroad has the most deletions over all. But specifically double posts? I don't think there would be any way to figure it out unless you had some OCD type person go back and catalog it.

.... Some one call cortex.
posted by dios at 9:22 AM on October 2, 2006

There's a song in there somewhere.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:26 AM on October 2, 2006

It would be possible for someone clever to scrape the site for pages containing the "This post was deleted for the following reason" bit and the words "previous", "previously", "double", "old" etc., and pull out the "posted by" wouldn't it?
posted by jack_mo at 9:37 AM on October 2, 2006

You'd probably also want to check for reasons with URLs and "last week" and "yesterday" and the like. Or comments with the words. You could have a spam-assassin-like scoring algorithm. And then you could go through and manually remove any false positives. It'd only end up being a couple thousand, total, probably.
posted by Plutor at 9:47 AM on October 2, 2006

I don't think there's a need to keep track of double posts or comments.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:50 AM on October 2, 2006

I don't think there's a need to keep track of doubIe posts or comments.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:51 AM on October 2, 2006

.... Some one call cortex.

You're in the dog house, mister. And more to the point, I'd rather apply my OCD skills to the database dump—much more efficient.

Any movement there, Matt?
posted by cortex at 9:51 AM on October 2, 2006

My ratio is pretty high. 2 doubles, 4 legitimate posts. Sad.
posted by dead_ at 9:58 AM on October 2, 2006

I would like to see the statistics on most deleted posts per user, so I could give them a fools gold star. Aha!
posted by prostyle at 10:09 AM on October 2, 2006

I would bet the house on the fact that Postroad has the most deletions over all

as much as I'd like to bet against him, win, kick him out and give the house away for free to the ACLU, I agree with dios, Postroad's deletion rate is as appalling as his spelling. but to be fair, he's not as bad as he once was -- I remember that three years ago, give or take, for a few months Postroad seemed barely capable of posting something that didn't get deleted, it was like fish in a barrel. I guess Matt e-mailed him or something, because it got much better. he's not posting Debka links anymore, for example
posted by matteo at 10:23 AM on October 2, 2006

I've posted more doubles than I care to admit.
posted by scarabic at 10:56 AM on October 2, 2006

I just posted a double, which is why this was on my mind. Of course, once this information is out in the wild, I am sure people will start competing to post as many doubles as they can.
posted by chunking express at 11:08 AM on October 2, 2006

Christ, I hope not. I'd look like even more of a jackass.
posted by absalom at 11:19 AM on October 2, 2006

I've never made a double post. All of my front page posts are perfectly formed gems, free from flaw.
posted by crunchland at 11:20 AM on October 2, 2006

I'd like to see a comments posted to comments favorited ratio. That could reveal something about the snarkiest of us, perhaps.
posted by dead_ at 11:35 AM on October 2, 2006

I believe I'm at about 20%. And I always search. It's true.
posted by leapingsheep at 11:46 AM on October 2, 2006

I'd like to see a comments posted to comments favorited ratio. That could reveal something about the snarkiest of us, perhaps.

Often it's the snarkiest comments that get favorited, though, rather than the most insightful....
posted by dersins at 12:11 PM on October 2, 2006

doubles? ... we ain't no fuckin' doubles!
posted by pyramid termite at 12:53 PM on October 2, 2006

dersins, yeah that's what I'm saying. The higher the ratio the snarkier the bastard.
posted by dead_ at 1:42 PM on October 2, 2006

dersins, yeah that's what I'm saying.

Clearly I misinterpreted.

That's what I get for being a fucking idiot.

And drunk.

Oh, wait. I'm not drunk. Just a fucking idiot.
posted by dersins at 1:53 PM on October 2, 2006

The guy with the MOST double posts to his name? I'm pretty sure it's me.
posted by jonson at 4:11 PM on October 2, 2006

Also: I'm one "favorite" away from 700 different comment/posts of mine being favorited. Who wants to be lucky #700??? Next user to favorite me gets a free shoutout from me @ the next meetup!
posted by jonson at 4:14 PM on October 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

w00t! gleuschk FTW!!!
posted by jonson at 4:19 PM on October 2, 2006

you are such an attention whore, jonson.
posted by crunchland at 4:27 PM on October 2, 2006

I'd like to thank all the little pixels.
posted by gleuschk at 4:28 PM on October 2, 2006

you are such an attention whore, jonson.

I know. There might actually be something wrong with me.
posted by jonson at 5:08 PM on October 2, 2006

I like Postroad's blog
posted by growabrain at 7:25 PM on October 2, 2006

growabrain, that is all shades of NSFW. Although this, while still NSFW, is also disturbingly sublime.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:52 PM on October 2, 2006

Ah, goodshit. I got a link from them, once. Very surreal to follow that out of your referrer logs.
posted by cortex at 9:36 PM on October 2, 2006