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United States24770 Posts
I compiled all available data on blogs ratings (for all users on TL who have blogs) and performed a rudimentary analysis. I wanted to verify some hypotheses I had formed over the years about blog ratings. The first and most obvious thing was: how often is each rating given out (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)? Here is the result:
As you can see, 1 and 5 are handed out the most, by far. In fact, out of the 317 blogs I have written (prior to this one), over half of them received a balanced number of "1"s and "5"s with no 2 3 or 4.
Moving on, I took a look at how post count affected the average score offered (I had to round to various posting landmarks):
There doesn't seem to be any recognizable pattern here. I realized I have to dig a little deeper in order to figure out what makes users rate blogs the way they do. I moved on to a study of how the number of times a user was banned affected the blog ratings they tended to issue on average:
A hah! A clear linear pattern! I haven't double checked the linear regression yet, but it's clear that getting banned more very predictably decreases the score you give blogs. Something I want to study but don't have the necessary data for yet is how rating tendencies of my blogs are affected by me temp banning the user.
I didn't want to stop there... I went a full step further still. For all users who share their SC2 names and battle tags I looked up their game history and saw if it could be used to predict ahead of time how they would tend to rate blogs on TL:
The last thing I did was comb through the data to find out who the biggest abuser of TL Blog ratings was. The answer is + Show Spoiler +
  
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Baa?21244 Posts
This blog is so good haha.
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I fell for it until that last one.
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Yess! I average 100-110 APM, I must be one of the best bloggers on this site!
+ Show Spoiler + the only reason my blogs got lower rating was because the wrong people viewed them and marked poorly, it was luck, not because my blog was ACTUALLY bad
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obligatory 1 for kicks and giggles
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Katowice25012 Posts
Never change, micro. Best blog yet.
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Hong Kong9174 Posts
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LOLOL
4/5 because 5/5 is apparently too mainstream
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Damn, a glitch in the matrix! I am both 5 and 0, perfect and the perfectly incomplete.
edit - You get a 2 because I don't think I've ever rated a blog a 2/5 before.
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Blazinghand
United States25559 Posts
Somehow I suspected that ban thing. 5/5 to skew your data.
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Its funny cuz I pretty much only give 1/5's and have a shit ton of bans (and 300+ apm)..YAY FOR ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE!~!~!~!~
I only do it because 'career bloggers' are annoying tho ;/, good blog micro.
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On October 18 2012 16:08 Megaliskuu wrote:
Its funny cuz I pretty much only give 1/5's and have a shit ton of bans (and 300+ apm)..YAY FOR ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE!~!~!~!~
I only do it because 'career bloggers' are annoying tho ;/, good blog micro.
What are career bloggers?
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United States17042 Posts
so good ^_^
Now can we see the stats pre-"this blog" and post-"this blog" to see if this single blog affects the blog proposting meta game?
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My blogs only got 5/5 ratings, so my readers are essentially 110apm users who have never been banned ? Interesting.
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since i got a temp i've no shame to only give you a 4 :D
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