For those who are only interested in the stats, head below the orange thingamabob.
It's All Hallows, otherwise known as All Saint's Day, otherwise known as Sugar High! Aftermath. Bye, October, hello elections in 3... 2... 1...
Before I get down to chronicling the month's strangeness, I wanted to take a few lines (or paragraphs, we'll see) to say thanks to one of the unsung, and often excoriated, heroines of this site. That scourge of spammers, mistress of bots, and help for the helpless (and hapless), our very own
elfling. Of all the people on the site who might legitimately get away with being "extra grumpy" and doesn't, her name comes first in my book.
It was about four years ago that DK shifted the complaints path to the newly revised Help Desk, with elfling (who had been managing the shift to DK4) newly in the limelight as the prime target. And a target she has been; whenever a poster mourned the loss of Meteor Blades as the one man moderator for the site, another would come up with a diatribe about the biases of The Powers That Be, with special emphasis on elfling's "obvious" prejudices. I'm continually surprised (and delighted, and thankful) that she hasn't simply told kos to take his blasted job and....
11/5 - (wee small hours) The trolls are out in force - or people just need a target, I'm not sure. 14 hidden comments since the polls started closing, and a small raft of HRs on another 10 or so. 9:10 pm CST: Since yesterday morning there have been 29060 comments in 641 diaries, by 4,369 users, with 6 TimeOuts. That's 14.24 diaries per hour, or
one every 4.2 minutes, and
646 comments/hr. Considering that the average for the last few months has been a diary every 9 minutes, and about 250 comments per hour, wow. Just wow.
11/12 - Lessee - Kossacks are like the Tea Party/No, and that title is opprobrious/Progressives - i.e., the far Left - need to take over again to repeat what FDR did/Everything sucks/The Neoliberals were the reason we lost, and that's anybody within 2 sigma of the Center. Ah, pie and meta. Away, you rolling river...
11/14 - Richard Lyon's diary probably summarizes it best - we've gone from moaning about the election to running post-mortems on it, and everyone on the site who has a grudge is putting forth their own particular version of "these are the people the Democratic Party needs to stop listening to". Ferguson was responsible; the neoliberals were responsible; corporatists were responsible; lack of enthusiasm was responsible, and it was because the party wasn't paying enough attention to (fill in the blank). I don't think anybody is specifically blaming the anti-vaxxers for the election losses yet, or side effects from GMO foods, or the pollution from Bárðarbunga, but I wouldn't be altogether surprised if someone did.
11/25 - Today is all about #ferguson. The last two weeks (a bit foggy for me, since I've been hitting antihistamines pretty hard) have seemed to be a time for everyone with a Cause to have taken some time to write about it. A bite of pie here and there, a smidgen of meta.... Almost as though, in the wake of the elections, there's a space for hope that one or more of them can finally become a legitimate issue for Democrats in the next two years. Somehow, we have to figure out how to make sound bites substantive, and maybe we can sneak a few real issues in under the noses of TPTB.
11/27 in the wee small hours - the last two days have gotten a lot of pie: 381 diaries, 13,042 comments, 75 with HRs, 55 hidden, 2,818 commenters, 8 put on TimeOut, 20 BOJO on the Darren Wilson non-indictment. High trolling level, with a number of sleepers coming out. Site traffic, per Quantcast, is almost double that of the election. (999,199 for 11/25 vs. 573,310 for 11/5)
11/30 - Things are beginning to pick up on this last day of our recovery from overeating, but general the indolence is passing slowly. Who would have thought that the presence of large amounts of pie in real life would cut down the helpings of metaphorical pie here?
Midterms Comparison - Daily Kos Stats
November
diaries comments Quantcast vs 2010(1st on Monday)
1 128 2407 326466 281 14949 215316
2 159 3013 342582
297 24225 301307
3 205 4344 468024 516 31744 288930
4 257 7079 570520 297 20906 224801
5 397 9878 573310 316 21236 207927
6 230 5336 533991 170 11931 146130
7 218 4748 607496 163 13088 157312
8 141 2774 435883 228 15888 183745
I was curious to see what kind of difference there had been between DK's coverage of this year's midterms and the 2010 midterms, in terms of raw numbers.
- Quantcast: about double the unique views in 2014
- Diaries: 2014 roughly equivalent to 2010 (down about 13%) on election day, substantially lower (23%) on the day after.
- Comments, OTOH, were down about 80% for the 8 day period, and hidden comments were down 83% for the same period, so I'm inclined to put some of the blame on fewer pie fights, but much of the change has to be the shift to secondary venues (i.e., Facebook) since the last midterms.
November Stats
For the period of 11/1/14 through 11/30/14
Quantcast uniques:
8,422,836 Unique visitors: up 20% over October, up 44% from November of 2013
Number of signups:
18,025
780 first comments (including tip jars), leading to the banning of 150 new users, including 151 first diaries, leading to 52 bans.
Diaries (does not count spam deletes)
By Diary search: 5,050
Diaries by tip jar count: 4,481 (old measure - for comparison and HR percentages)
Avg diaries per day: 168 ; 1 diary every 9 minutes
Diarists: 1,878
Diaries with one or more HRs in the Tip Jar: 63 1.41%
Diaries with 5 or more HRs in the Tip Jar: 24 .53%
Diaries with 5 or more of both Tips and HRs: 5 .11%
Users who published diaries during that period and are now bojo: 118
Comments (includes tip jars, etc., but not necessarily tip jars from deleted diaries and not from Early BOJO'd users) 243,764
Commenters: - 10,515 (incudes diarists)
Number of those commenters now bojo: 205
Comments with HRs: 875 .36%
1 HR: 245 .10%
2-4 HRs: 381 .16%
5 or more HRs: 249 .10%
Comments actually hidden: about 450
Spam comments hidden by Scoop and despaminate3000 (automated spambots): 97 - includes 8 comments which were contested by the community.
For those who want daily or weekly stats on Diary Recommends and the relative status of actual diaries, see
Jotter's
High Impact Diaries series.
Previous Monthly statistics can be found listed under
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Whew. Note: some of this may be a little shaky - I
hate antihistmines. Feel free to submit revisions if you find problems.