High Impact Stories: December 13, 2015

2015-12-13 00:00:20 - 2015-12-13 23:47:37

DailyKos stories = 155; 155 per day; 6.5 per hour

Yesterday 138 Kogs posted 155 stories of which 151 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1765 recommending readers; 96 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 46 by 30 or more, and 18 by 100 or more. Commenters (1375) visited 155 stories; 73 had 10 or more commenters, 29 had 30 or more, and 4 had 100 or more. Recommendations and comments were collected Mon Dec 14 05:00:02 2015 UTC .

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 155 POSTS

MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.18
AVERAGE	0.41
MAX	3.63
TOTAL	63.09 bharns
R50	16 (at 1.16 bharns)

Story Impact Distribution

Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	155	151	96	46	18
commenters	155	155	73	29	4
connections	155	151	124	61	23

KOG ACTIVITY

KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1375	809	133	499	66
RECOMMEND	809	1765	67	955	66
WRITE	133	67	138	4	66

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)

OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	7154
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	2335 x 138 = 322230
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.2 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	7154 / 2335 = 3.06

Graph Summary Data

• Up to 150 stories, those with impact > 0.15, are shown below.
• The stories are sorted by number of recommendations (nrec); those in bold were on the front page recommended list.
• The TableTools2 extension for the Firefox browser allows you to sort, copy and visualize tables.
• For a more complete description of the lists and statistics see this post.

HIGH IMPACT POSTS

RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	307	835	3.63	The privileged idiocy of 'Just let the Republicans win'	Laurence Lewis	22:00
2	252	55	2.64	My experience with political training for Bernie	leu2500	04:44
3	209	93	2.25	Matt Taibbi: It's Too Late To Turn Off Trump	Dartagnan	23:05
4	201	158	2.29	Woodland, NC bans solar farm out of fear it will steal sun's energy . . . No, seriously!	ecostar	16:01
5	179	62	1.86	Bernie News Roundup - 'Sanders Seeks Justice, Education, Equality, & A Focus On Issues In Iowa'	Liepar Destin	12:48
6	174	144	1.93	Fascism: It's what all the cool kids are doing these days	Frank Vyan Walton	15:21
7	170	442	1.94	I Am Apparently A Hard Working, Frequently Broke, Fed The Fu*K Up Privileged Idiot	Relevant Rhino	23:27
8	170	52	1.80	Why this young Iowan is voting for Bernie Sanders	jgreer267	14:02
9	166	80	1.82	Real Life Keystone Cops Break Into Wrong House, Shoot Dog, Homeowner, and Fellow Cop	Eternal Hope	05:29
10	163	191	1.83	Howard Dean's Campaign View of the Sanders Campaign	Sag	16:27
11	156	149	1.69	So what ever happened to the DLC?	jamess	20:59
12	141	110	1.49	Sista soldiers: Black American women in the military	Denise Oliver Velez	14:01
13	130	152	1.50	Conservative radio just loves to hate?and it's turning on the GOP	Susan Grigsby	16:41
14	124	37	1.31	The Open, Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament, Dumps Trump	ericlewis0	19:02
15	123	39	1.29	French Far Right National Front 'Routed' in Key Vote	SottoVoce	20:43
16	120	144	1.32	On this day 15 years ago: History was changed.	BFSkinner	16:44
17	108	111	1.16	We owe it to future generations to move aggressively to save this planet	One Pissed Off Liberal	17:36
18	107	68	1.15	The double devolution of the GOP and the U.S. media	Jon Perr	18:00
19	96	100	1.09	The 'market' has failed on pharmaceutical drugs?epically. Time for government to act	Ian Reifowitz	23:20
20	86	116	0.98	My affordable healthcare ends today	KathyK	20:24
21	85	131	0.98	James Hansen And Climate Scientists Aren't Impressed By The Historic Climate Agreement	bbwatch	06:23
22	82	62	0.88	Spotlight on green news & views: A climate agreement to build on emerges from Paris talks	Meteor Blades	01:00
23	76	118	0.85	Sunday Talk: Due process of elimination	Silly Rabbit	05:00
24	73	124	0.88	Abbreviated Pundit Round-up	Mark Sumner	12:00
25	72	37	0.76	Sekrit Army Strategery (A Forgery)	akmk	23:26
26	58	59	0.71	Words matter: When a radical is not a radical	Mark E Andersen	19:20
27	49	504	0.83	Bernie Sanders Isn't Impressed By The Historic Climate Agreement	sholmberg	01:44
28	45	111	0.59	Clinton vs. Cruz Matchup Inches Ever Closer to Reality	Scan	00:41
29	41	9	0.43	Ancient America: Idaho Prior to 6000 BCE	Ojibwa	16:31
30	41	24	0.46	The Voting Rights Act at 50: Seven reforms to protect and expand voting rights	Stephen Wolf	20:41
31	37	40	0.41	Paris: Musings on the Paris Agreement	boatsie	14:55
32	36	73	0.39	Daily Bucket: You Otter Be Breeding Now	Besame	19:10
33	36	47	0.38	Top Comments: Festivus goes Gay at Florida State Capitol	Steven Payne	03:00
34	35	49	0.40	Al Gore's statement on Paris	dpinzow	18:57
35	35	41	0.44	How Well Do YOU Know religion? Take Nick Kristoff's Pop Quiz and Find Out	xaxnar	16:16
36	34	10	0.36	Bernie in Iowa: Media doesn't reflect reality in America	geebeebee	14:35
37	34	9	0.36	OND: Saturday Science Edition	Man Oh Man	04:56
38	31	26	0.33	Kitchen Table Kibitzing, December 12	r e m e m b r a n c e	01:00
39	31	15	0.33	Live Stream: Bernie Sanders in Waterloo, Iowa, Watch Now!	VL Baker	01:41
40	30	55	0.32	Books So Good They're Delicious: Holiday Recipe Edition	Ellid	02:00
41	29	113	0.40	Sanders Ad removal suggests that Hillary is NOT being "funded by big money interests"	First Amendment	01:34
42	28	147	0.34	WYFP - 12/12 - Loneliness	nchristine	01:00
43	27	29	0.30	This is how you do it. This is how you win elections.	ZenTrainer	21:46
44	27	21	0.28	The Inoculation Project 12/13/15: Solving the Mystery of the Contaminated Creek	nomandates	15:01
45	27	14	0.29	A native Texan, avid hunter and pastor speaks out in today's Houston Chronicle against guns	dewtx	20:18
46	25	50	0.27	Dawn Chorus: Winter Wonder(bird)land Open Thread	Kestrel	07:19
47	25	15	0.28	How Fast Can It Change? Lessons from prior elections	Tom Rinaldo	02:34
48	25	10	0.26	H.Res.561: Expressing support for support of transgender acceptance	rserven	00:01
49	24	29	0.29	California Assisted Suicide- "LIFE" Interrupted	arodb	00:28
50	24	8	0.26	Florida gave 70 million to charter schools that later closed. Did not get money back.	floridagal	20:45
51	23	46	0.26	What's For Dinner? v10.20 - Pasta part 2	esquimaux	00:30
52	22	18	0.25	Bernie Sanders proposes his own plan to curb global warming	Downstate Democrat	01:30
53	21	15	0.24	Oregon Independent Party colluding with Republicans to Defeat Democrats	James Allen	16:14
54	21	11	0.23	Homeless 93	sheddhead	20:26
55	20	34	0.22	On The First Day of Christmas...	Mopshell	19:01
56	20	5	0.21	Drought legislation could threaten the very existence of salmon and other fish species	Dan Bacher	18:13
57	19	13	0.20	Some Airliner Photos	Lenny Flank	18:59
58	18	6	0.19	How the Grinch Failed to Steal Christmas	Crashing Vor	14:44
59	18	5	0.19	Sylvester Turner defeats Bill King in close Houston mayoral runoff election	johnatx	17:00
60	17	27	0.20	On this day 15 years ago: ?A Senator is needed but missing.?	davej	20:06
61	17	18	0.21	Nullification...Again	sfbob	17:17
62	16	26	0.19	The Primary and Why Being a Democrat Matters	E l l i n o r i a n n e	19:28
63	16	15	0.18	Who's Donald Trump Bashing Now? A Principal Owner Of Fox News	News Corpse	04:05
64	16	35	0.22	Keith Olbermann to return to MSNBC?	Rob Dapore	23:01
65	16	8	0.18	Dales Homework Assignment	airwing24	18:55
66	15	68	0.18	Morning Open Thread - Hamilton, the hip-hop musical, part 2	Joy of Fishes	11:31
67	15	11	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	13:39
68	15	11	0.16	Vote for the chance of Single Payer	s t u d e n t o f e a r t h	14:35
69	15	10	0.17	CREDO Action Joins The Call For Rahm Emanuel's Resignation	p o o p d o g c o m e d y	17:39
70	13	23	0.19	Headline: Ex-conservative teen endorses Bernie Sanders for President	debocracy	08:32
71	9	63	0.18	For Bernie, it's NH or Bust.	Methuen Progressive	00:38
72	3	108	0.20	Why Does Daily Kos Tolerate a Call for an Assassination on this Site?	dmd76	15:58

Table Legend

• Impact total: 53.5
• nrec - Number of recommendations.
• ncom - Number of comments.
• tator - Number of commenters .
• impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
• post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
• Author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
• Time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter