MetaTalk

The biggest change in the way that mefites participate on the blue in years has been the rise of US politics megathreads. We have had several discussions of the qualitative impact of them, but it occurred to me that it might be useful to dig into the infodump and see what quantitative picture might emerge. I think my findings are worth sharing - while a quantitative analysis on its own can't tell us whether the megathreads are a good thing or not, there are several negative trends regarding community engagement and participation that are happening in close concurrency with the rise of the megathreads. [more inside]
posted by strangely stunted trees on Mar 27, 2017 - 435 comments

How many FPPs have more favorites than comments? [more inside]
posted by vidur on Feb 7, 2011 - 51 comments

InfoDump Analysis Request. Who asks the most interesting questions in AskMe? [more inside]
posted by marsha56 on Jul 28, 2010 - 41 comments

The Metafilter Infodump is back, and moderately better than ever! Statistics nerds rejoice! [more inside]
posted by cortex on Aug 13, 2009 - 502 comments