Diarists and Commenters: We few, we happy few...
we band of brothers.1 (Cain and Abel were brothers, right?) Footnotes are below the orange mating octopi, as are definitions of terms. First, I'm green with envy. Jason Libsch has access to data I can...
View ArticleRecommends - Diary vs. Comment
Grrr. Jotter does wonderful diaries. They focus on Diary Recommends. They have to, because the picture he is painting is that of the ranked status of a day's, or a week's, diaries.The problem is not...
View ArticleAugust, pie she must - Pie & Meta Lovers Anonymous
For those who are only interested in the stats, head below the orange thingamabob. August Recap August began with that most innocuous of postings - a Mark Fiore video/diary about the Israel/Palestine...
View Article... the fire of September that made us - meta? Pie & Meta Lovers Anonymous
Monthly Stats and DK Glossary (work in progress) are below the curvy orange thingy September Recap Hard to write about endings rather than beginnings, but we ushered in the month with a loud and messy...
View ArticlePolitico - what's going on? Update: likely scenario
A diary out of sheer curiosity....After I read Denise' diary this morning, I went and poked around on Quantcast, and came up with something really, really strange.This is a graph of Politico's stats...
View ArticlePie and Meta Lovers Anonymous - October
Monthly Stats and DK Glossary (work in progress) are below the curvy orange thingy October Recap Chaunceydevega's September 29 diary was still going strong into October followed by much meta on the...
View ArticleIn case you're experiencing a slowdown - it's probably not you.
I was updating my monthly recap for November, and thought this might be of interest.9:10 pm CST: Since yesterday morning there have been 29060 comments in 641 diaries, by 4,369 users, with 6 new...
View ArticlePie & Meta Lovers Anonymous - November - In Praise of a Small Elf - Midterms...
For those who are only interested in the stats, head below the orange thingamabob. It's All Hallows, otherwise known as All Saint's Day, otherwise known as Sugar High! Aftermath. Bye, October, hello...
View ArticleMore and Better Diaries - With a Tip of the Hat to Joseph Campbell
I want to tell a story - the story the numbers below are whispering to me. It's about (don't laugh too loudly now) the hoped for second coming of Camelot. And people who had never before participated...
View ArticlePie & Meta Lovers Anonymous - December Reflections
It's hard to decide whether the pie concentration actually gets higher going toward Christmas, or whether it just stands out more because of the dissonance with what we hope the season will bring....
View ArticleThe Meta State of the Union: January - And a Note about the HOS Designation
Something strange happened between Christmas and New Years. For well over a week, barring blatant trolls and spam, there were almost no HRs (Hide Rates). I have this diary waiting to be published on...
View ArticleValentine Candy for Pie and Meta Lovers - The Vaccination Controversy
... and a love letter to tmservo433, who gave us this. It seems we're going to have a month of calls for "The Good Old Days"TM, if the anti-vaxer trolls swarming the site are any clue. The good old...
View ArticleFebruary Shivers/Chimeras: Pie & Meta Lovers Anonymous
Metastorm #1: If you'd asked me this time last year how I thought Daily Kos (or any media, actually) would react to a measles outbreak, even one with its epicenter at DisneyLand, I would have described...
View ArticleBreaking! Flush Rush Attacks DailyKos
In a bizarre stunt to gain who knows what, a coordinated attack by the group Flush Rush appears to have taken over the DailyKos Recent List. Will update when more information becomes available.
View ArticlePie and Meta Lovers Anonymous -- The Second Year
This is the 13th attempt at a monthly look at - well, it started off as an analysis of Hide Rate statistics for the site, more or less to see if I could counter some of the prevalent meme that...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Hiddens - A Short TUtorial
And the comments that don't quite get hidden; the Tip Jars that disappear and the diaries that vanish from the face of the earth Recent List, or never make it there in the first place.Welcome to the...
View ArticleOn the use and misuse of siglines and siggraphics
Well, we can start with the note that I would like to have this image come up the same size that it was actually made - which is about 200 pixels wide. I do not see any way within the diary to specify...
View Article***Update: Statement of Opposition to Racist Labels Used by Kossacks to...
***UPDATE - due to the overwhelming and gratifying response to this diary - it has now become almost impossible for some people to get it to load, and we are struggling to add all of the names of...
View ArticleOk, What do You Really Think About Tip Jars?
Honestly, I'd like to know. We haven't made a solid decision yet about just how to handle tip jars on dk-5. I know there are a lot of different tip-jar uses on site, and that tip jars are a real...
View ArticleHeadlines and Titles and "Click Bait", oh my. (And now, images.)
What's below is one of those diaries I half-finished and then let languish. I'm bringing it up now, because why not, it's beta, and I still have no idea where I want to go with it to finish it, so I'm...
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