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Re: Microsoft's Shiils in Digg.com

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:05:32 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:23:22 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ Tim Smith ] on Monday 18 December 2006 20:08 \__
>> 
>>> On 2006-12-18, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> page. he submits a lot pro-Microsoft material. To those who claim I am
>>>> unpopular on social bookmarking sites, I am actually ranked 9th in
>>>> Netscape, among ~100,000 users. The trolls prefer to deny the facts and
>>>> nitpick.
>>> 
>>> By what metric?  Number of stories submitted?
>> 
>> Number of votes, as well as overall rank.
> 
> Yeah, You've submitted 5159 stories to Netscape, and only recieved a total
> of 7097 votes, or less than 1.5 votes per story.
> 
> Yeah.  If you vote for your own story just once, you're already 2/3 of the
> way there.
> 
> Netscape's ranking system seems broken.  It only counts quantity, not
> quality.  Someone submitting 100,000 stories with only 1 vote on each would
> have the highest ranking of anyone.  
> 
> And shall we look at the votes for your stories?
> 
> http://www.netscape.com/member/schestowitz/activity/stories/1/
> 
> 4 votes, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2....
> 
> Digg's ranking system is far more accurate, and it rates you:
> 
> http://digg.com/users/schestowitz/profile
> 
> Overall 39, with 9,340 diggs for 1,198 stories.  That's an average of less
> than 9 diggs per story, with only 178, or 15% making it to the front page.
> 
> of the top 40 posters, only 6 have popular ratios worse than you, with some
> as many as 100% and most in the 30-50% range.
> 
> To add insult to injury, there have been only 1041 comments to your
> articles, meaning a little over 0.5 comments per article, which is about
> your ratio here.  Comments are an indication of just how interesting
> something is to people... anyone can click a "digg" button, but how many
> people actually have something to say about it?





Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............

That's the sound of Roy Schestowitz thread slinking on this one.
I suppose we can expect Mark Kent to appear and claim you are a Microsoft
employee and then run and hide as well.

Roy Schestowitz is certainly not one to let facts get in the way of a good
lie.


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