I will never understand "stats"... those that collect
them, those that read them, the idea that one can judge
whats a good echo or not based on an arbitrary number of
posts. Especially busy-idiots who post them routinely as
part of some stupid script out of a need to feel
important.
Some echoes have lots of messages but are completely devoid of any interesting content while others have only a few posts but can be very interesting.
[...] And nothing much has changed in the last
couple of years, so I think you remember it wrong...
So I think all the information you want is there, but
maybe not in the form you were used to by Janis. And
Janis's was a big system, with most areas (which probably
were mostly empty for a big part of them)...
Granted, the stats of some of the echos are highly skewed with
the repetative auto-posts with rules and stuff. However, it is
good to have something to indicate that some life in them
exists and that someone has an eye on them.
I *do* miss the top echo list that showed the weekly message
counts.
128 STATS
127 COOKING
128 STATS
127 COOKING
Meaning 2/3 of what passes your system
are statistics and cooking-recipes from a database which over the
years have been posted at least 5 times.
are statistics and cooking-recipes from a database which over the
years have been posted at least 5 times.
There is some chatter in COOKING, not only recipes...
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