Snapshot Of MGoPoints: Shifts During The Non-OT Season
MGOPOINT SHIFTS DURING THE NON-OT SEASON
Last week, I completed the second half of a data pull which has been about eight months in the making .
About two weeks about the 2012 football season commenced, I copied the point table down to those with 500 MGoPoints, which is more or less in the middle of the MGoMiddleClass, if you will. At the time, there were 1,195 bloggers with point totals of 500 or better. In that group, the median value was 1,173 and the mode was 884. The average point total of this group was 2,149 points with a standard deviation of 3,149 points. That was August 17th, 2012
As of April 17th, 2013, the picture was markedly different. 1,320 users now boast point totals of 500 or more. The median value in this group is now 1,198 and the mode has jumped to 982 points. The average point total is 2,207 and the standard deviation has increased substantially to 3,714 points, no doubt because of the flurry of diaries and front page content during this stretch.
Here, you can see some of the more significant shifts in the MGoPoint totals:
OVERALL TOTAL |
NUMBER OF USERS ON 8/17/2012 |
NUMBER OF USERS ON 4/17/2013 |
10000 Or Greater |
38 |
41 |
9999-8000 |
10 |
10 |
7999-6000 |
23 |
27 |
5999-4000 |
50 |
66 |
3999-2000 |
204 |
217 |
1999-1000 |
376 |
424 |
999-900 |
67 |
83 |
899-800 |
80 |
66 |
799-700 |
89 |
98 |
699-600 |
109 |
123 |
599-500 |
149 |
164 |
Among these groups, only one shrank, which is interesting. Another item of note is that the number of people who broke the 1000-point barrier during this time was significant, but of course, these are the highest traffic, most talkative months on the board.
In this table, you can see the twenty most “talkative” users in between posts, creating content (diaries, front page, etc…) and replying to others.
Seth |
14239 |
joeyb |
10723 |
Brian |
8956 |
Ace |
5984 |
M-Wolverine |
4815 |
Heiko |
3366 |
Magnus |
3342 |
WolvinLA2 |
3101 |
Wolverine Devotee |
2997 |
LSAClassOf2000 |
2781 |
Mr. Yost |
2606 |
Raoul |
2446 |
BlueDragon |
2128 |
justingoblue |
2078 |
Erik_in_Dayton |
1963 |
jmblue |
1579 |
Six Zero |
1545 |
mGrowOld |
1539 |
Don |
1510 |
profitgoblue |
1411 |
It should be noted that, among the users who had point totals of 500 or more in this period, 343,562 points were created in that time, and although I only list the Top 20 in terms of points created here, the Top 50 on the MGoPoints list account for 31.3% of all the points generated by this group. In the Top 50, the mean contribution was 1,113 points and the median was 395 points. The one “aberrant” figure, of course, would be joeyb, whose total is largely the result of a wager, but the points were deserved so I won’t adjust the figure.
So, if we break up the group into quartiles, you can sort of see where your completely made-up MGoPrestige sits in a broad sense. If your point total, for example, is between Brian’s and 2,178 points, you are in the 1stquartile of those above 500 as of late last week. If you are between 2,177 and 1,198, you’re in the 2ndquartile of users in this group. Between 1,197 and 739 sits the 3rdquartile, and rounding out the group would be those beteween 738 points and 500 points.
TL;DR CONCLUSION:
These statistics don’t hold any real-life significance, of course, as points doing really matter. I have been interested for some time in doing an analysis of karma, but as I don’t have access to the table, this will have to suffice.
OBLIGATORY:
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:04 AM ^
Fifth quartile?
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
Sorry - just cranking my point total up.
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:12 AM ^
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:13 AM ^
MGoMiddleClass on the blog, and in real life. Cheers.
April 22nd, 2013 at 10:37 AM ^
Or are you saying that Section 1 = Don???
I got all my MGoPoints by investing them in Google, back in 1997.
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:29 AM ^
There are 41 Users of 10,000 points or more. I've always been curious how they got there.
Are there a number of them that got all the way there, a post at a time, without any boost from bonus points? If so, what the heck do they do for a living? Are they hiring where they work?
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:40 AM ^
I do post a lot, but at one point, you earned extra MGoPoints when people gave you a +1. That was something that helped a few of us get there.
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:45 AM ^
oh yeah, i remember those days so long ago, like a distant faded memory...
April 22nd, 2013 at 12:00 PM ^
...turned points expiry off at some point. Between the time the new points regime was instituted and when he turned off points expiry, I bled about 15K points. Most of that was from upvotes, not activity.
April 24th, 2013 at 11:30 PM ^
April 25th, 2013 at 12:03 PM ^
That's true. I got the bulk of my points during the dark days of RR when several of my comments got lots of responses. But that system worked both ways - unpopular comments got cranked down one point too.
Damn I loved that old system.
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:50 AM ^
I got most of my points during the unfettered +1 days when people would see stupid stuff I wrote and give me lots of MGoFistBumps. I've also invested wisely and have a great MGoCPA.
Upvotes account for about 40% of my total points total. My growth rate has slowed considerably since that module has been removed though I did pass TomVH not too long ago!
I'm a software engineer and, yes, we are hiring.
April 24th, 2013 at 11:32 PM ^
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:34 AM ^
DON'T TALK ABOUT MGOPOINTS?!!1?>1!?1
It's posts like this that make me want the minimum to post to be 3000.
/s
April 22nd, 2013 at 11:40 AM ^
Dang, joeyb has been doin' work.
Actually, 10k of that came from a bet in the live blog at halftime of the Kansas game that we would pull it out.
Besides, I only made the bet to try to catch up with you.
April 22nd, 2013 at 12:09 PM ^
enlighten me as to what the bet was?
In the Kansas Liveblog, joeyb wagered 10,000 points on Michigan winning, hence his current total. In going back through the liveblog, as I didn't want to be wrong, I just noted Brown Bear wagered all of his points. I suppose I could fix that.
The MGoBlog point totals are too damn high.
Or something.
Raoul stepping it up lately (by lately I mean about the past 8 months). Wasn't he gone for a while or am I crazy?
I was pretty proud of myself to getting to 400. I guess I need to contribute more and stop being such a lurker.
I've wondered what "Karma" on MGoBlog really means and how good karma can be received. Looking forward to your analysis of MGoBlog "Karma." . . . Not that you have to do it this instant.
You know you're addicted when you have a higher total than a mod....
Who needs production at work?
Wolverine Devotee |
2997 |
LSAClassOf2000 |
2781 |
April 25th, 2013 at 12:47 PM ^
...said the guy with very few points.
April 25th, 2013 at 12:57 PM ^
Points are kinda like size --- doesn't really matter how big, it's what you do with 'em that counts.
hooray points
April 28th, 2013 at 12:27 PM ^
over-rated.
Its senority that matters.
i like points
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