Just out of curiousity, I compared myself to the most notable HNN names I could think of.
My highest is 83.79. Compare that to patio11 at 77.89 or Chromatic at 80.90, or pg at 81.91. RiderOfGiraffes manages to top us all, though, with a comment saying "This is a thin veneer on the slide-show already discussed here. [link]" which scores 91.44. The next one after that falls clear down to 76.97, which is itself rather typical (it seems that many of us have a steep drop after one "geekiest" comment).
I'm not convinced that this is a useful metric. It's an interesting experiment, perhaps, but one problem is that "geekiness" isn't necessarily what we want in comments (or perhaps it is necessary, but not sufficient).
I can't believe that short link was RoG's best comment this month, for example. And the top few comments from pg are certainly not his best (the more interesting ones seem to start a bit below the 50s). YMMV.
It looks like jibber-jabbering about continuations and call/cc rates highly. I agree that it's probably not a useful metric, but my inner stats nerd is fascinated all the same.
It's all coming from 'defacing', your comment is actually the only one in this corpus of 25k comments that uses that term; probably not a coincidence. Taking a deeper look now, thanks for your help.
My highest is 83.79. Compare that to patio11 at 77.89 or Chromatic at 80.90, or pg at 81.91. RiderOfGiraffes manages to top us all, though, with a comment saying "This is a thin veneer on the slide-show already discussed here. [link]" which scores 91.44. The next one after that falls clear down to 76.97, which is itself rather typical (it seems that many of us have a steep drop after one "geekiest" comment).
I'm not convinced that this is a useful metric. It's an interesting experiment, perhaps, but one problem is that "geekiness" isn't necessarily what we want in comments (or perhaps it is necessary, but not sufficient).
I can't believe that short link was RoG's best comment this month, for example. And the top few comments from pg are certainly not his best (the more interesting ones seem to start a bit below the 50s). YMMV.