High Impact Stories: August 22, 2020

2020-08-22 00:00:05 - 2020-08-22 23:47:00 UTC; DailyKos stories = 131;  131 per day;  5.5 per hour

Yesterday 114 Kogs posted 131 stories of which 123 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1765 recommending readers; 86 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 40 by 30 or more, and 22 by 100 or more. Commenters (1672) visited 131 stories; 67 had 10 or more commenters, 31 had 30 or more, and 9 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Sun Aug 23 08:00:03 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 131 POSTS

MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.18
AVERAGE	0.58
MAX	4.12
TOTAL	75.68 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 13 diaries, the lowest receiving 1.78 bharns

Story Impact Distribution

Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	131	123	86	40	22
commenters	131	131	67	31	9
connections	131	123	104	52	25

KOG ACTIVITY*

KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1672	736	113	871	48
RECOMMEND	736	1765	48	1029	48
WRITE	113	48	114	1	48

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

User Interaction Statistics (Network)

OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	8406
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	2702 x 114 = 308028
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	8406 / 2702 = 3.11

Graph Summary Data

• Up to 200 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	386	102	4.12	Holy F this is a powerful video!	SemDem	09:06
2	338	169	3.67	Every face at the RNC convention will be the face of someone who has betrayed their country	Dartagnan	20:33
3	322	265	3.62	Full of rage and spite, Trump ordered FEMA to withhold funds from California wildfire victims.	Pakalolo	14:22
4	310	193	3.49	Georgia farmers just found out Trump grifted them on his new Mexico/USA/Canada trade deal.	shrike	05:25
5	290	150	3.18	They all knew: Video compilation shows what Republicans really think about Donald Trump	Mark Sumner	19:20
6	289	221	3.24	Trump's negative partisanship isn't ready for the GOP convention	annieli	13:16
7	280	282	3.27	Tennessee passes a law that can permanently remove voting rights from peaceful protesters	Mark Sumner	19:00
8	254	437	3.21	Melania Trump's Final Raised Finger to America	Eyesbright	02:22
9	230	172	2.63	Nevada Democrat Jacky Rosen Destroys DeJoy in Senate Testimony	mceades	06:03
10	230	391	2.57	Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Successful Democratic convention finished, the dystopic RNC next	Greg Dworkin	16:30
11	215	75	2.29	If Anyone Needs Me, I?ll Be Living Vicariously Through the Post Office Agents That Busted Bannon	ShowerCap	07:03
12	189	426	2.47	White House Rose Garden renovation	DRo	22:10
13	177	208	2.10	'Skip A Meal To Contribute To Me' WTF?	VirginiaWave	23:14
14	163	74	1.78	Biden declares Trump's era of American carnage over	Kerry Eleveld	23:00
15	156	63	1.70	WTF? Trump Told Bill Barr To Tell Rupert Murdoch to "MUZZLE" a Fox News Trump Critic	News Corpse	03:44
16	152	136	1.71	House conducts special Saturday session to address Postal Service crisis, as McConnell vacations	Mark Sumner	20:38
17	150	40	1.61	More from a Trump Insider: A Fox News Host was the "Shadow Chief of Staff" of Trump Administration!	Alfred D Newman	00:43
18	142	32	1.51	The Lincoln Project -- Calling out the "Cons" for who they Really Are	jamess	19:45
19	141	243	1.51	Caturday Pootie Diary: Cleaning House	Flowergirl77	22:45
20	136	94	1.50	Disaster: Fires rage across California, the Gulf prepares for twin storms, and COVID-19 continues	Mark Sumner	18:04
21	132	316	1.42	This is Our Moment to Make Hope and History Rhyme: Saturday's GNR	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
22	115	60	1.28	Texas police arrest protesters at gunpoint after spending weeks investigating minor offenses	Mark Sumner	01:13
23	89	71	0.99	EVERYONE NEEDS A FURRY FRIEND	FLASHDOG	04:32
24	88	40	0.97	Tracing the roots of city boy Trump?s racist ?suburban dream? nonsense?all the way to Rush Limbaugh	Ian Reifowitz	18:59
25	88	26	0.96	Postal workers are speaking out to save our democracy, this week in the war on workers	Laura Clawson	03:55
26	68	41	0.77	My GOP rep got an earful of my prostate	ExMSM	08:19
27	50	175	0.55	Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol.16.34: Hot Sauce, Peppers and Other Odds & Ends.	DownHeah Mississippi	18:00
28	47	10	0.50	Latinas make up almost one-half of all COVID-19 cases among pregnant women	Hunter	02:00
29	45	56	0.54	Tonight, I called the police about a Black man	Auntie Neo Kawn	10:27
30	44	104	0.48	PWB Peeps Open Thread * "Mews" from the 2020 Pootie Party Campaign Trail.	CaptBLI	07:00
31	41	71	0.58	Trump 4-day telethon grift begins Monday: will you watch it?	annieli	03:32
32	41	10	0.44	DeJoy was recruited by Mnuchin - had to be coached through his Postmaster interview by board member	Lefty Coaster	05:11
33	39	53	0.48	Trump attacks the FDA as 'Deep State' for running Phase 3 Vaccine Trials "they are hoping to delay"	Lefty Coaster	00:32
34	37	60	0.40	The Daily Bucket Open Thread: Bats!	Angmar	21:44
35	36	15	0.38	Top Comments: I am SO tired of this!	Chitown Kev	07:00
36	34	41	0.43	The National Enquirer's Pecker is OUT!	slapDem	06:16
37	34	5	0.36	Pelosi rips president on voting: Don?t Pay Any attention to what the president is saying because ?	Egberto Willies	23:33
38	33	30	0.39	Team Kanye may have tricked people in Virginia into signing on as electors for him	Christian Dem in NC	04:00
39	32	15	0.35	adding to Trump's 20,000 lies: the DNC omitted the 1954 "under God" part of the pledge of allegiance	annieli	01:37
40	31	40	0.41	Trump lies about Democrats removing God from the Pledge of Allegiance	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	20:25
41	29	51	0.31	They Are Wrong for America - Evening Shade, Saturday	NotNowNotEver	04:30
42	27	67	0.36	Cosmetic Surgery and personal monies for some and Bannon still a mess.	Vetwife	22:49
43	26	15	0.30	Tucker Carlson nails it truth found outside context	Reinvented Daddy	01:18
44	25	125	0.27	New Day Cafe - Saturday: Similitude	Crimson Quillfeather	19:30
45	25	9	0.26	The Stutter heard around World	AKALib	03:03
46	24	60	0.28	What's For Dinner? v15.07 -- Yellow Squash	esquimaux	04:30
47	24	45	0.30	The Electoral College 2020, #9	psychbob	16:36
48	23	61	0.25	Kitchen Table Kibitzing, Aug. 21, 2020: Quick Pickles	Sara R	05:30
49	23	10	0.26	The Election is the Cake and the Pension is the Icing.	Raging Pencils	00:16
50	22	21	0.26	McSally says she's short on cash, so she's asking you to skip a meal and send her the bucks	azpenguin	09:19
51	22	15	0.24	Tropical Storms Marco and Laura to hit Gulf states with one-two punch next week	AKALib	21:03
52	22	14	0.23	Overnight News Digest: Friday in Africa (and art)	annetteboardman	08:56
53	21	28	0.25	Lincoln Project: "Don't buy GOODYEAR TIRES" Donald Trump Twitter	phoenixdreamz	18:07
54	20	28	0.25	538: Biden up 8.6 nationally, up 5.9 or more and at 49.9%+ in FL, WI, MI, and PA !	Dem	08:09
55	19	50	0.29	Here is the textbook example of misogyny from a female rvat who didn't vote in 2016	Dem	21:30
56	19	11	0.22	Kansas offers every county 2 more vote drop boxes for advance ballots	Christopher Reeves	19:50
57	19	2	0.20	Collusion is proven yet again as the GOP prepares to sandbag the nation	Frank Vyan Walton	03:09
58	18	141	0.24	Another Saturday Night - Party/Drinking Songs	WYgalinCali	04:02
59	18	100	0.21	Morning Open Thread- Grrl Power	sandbear75	15:30
60	17	17	0.19	World Religions	Ojibwa	01:06
61	17	9	0.19	Trump is only 62% fascist or 29 Benitos short of a dictatorship	annieli	09:57
62	17	8	0.19	101 Republicans against Trump. Part seventeen. We hit the ton! And #100 is a doozy.	Alan Austin	15:26
63	16	24	0.17	Photo Diary: Nature Walk at the Florida Botanical Garden, St Pete	Lenny Flank	19:15
64	16	14	0.19	?If you want to live like a Republican, you?ve got to vote for a Democrat.? ? Harry S. Truman	NebraskaDemocrat	20:01
65	16	11	0.18	Bet you didn't know that most of California's forests are yours, Donnie. So get out your vacuum!	LibertyForUs	20:58
66	16	9	0.18	Lake Mary Ronan State Park: An overview (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
67	15	9	0.18	Postmaster General DeJoy Conspires to Obstruct Mail-In-Voting to Win Electoral College for Trump	NewsPhotosFeatures	22:12
68	15	7	0.17	He's Trump, Stephen Miller & Steve Bannon's worst nightmare and he's turning North Carolina blue	Blue Tuesday	20:27
69	15	6	0.17	Bay Area activists respond to Phillips 66's announcement to convert Rodeo refinery to renewal diesel	Dan Bacher	00:59
70	14	16	0.19	The RNC ? Production/Technical Stuff Will Be Fine.   Content?  Not So Much	dsnottselliott	08:47
71	12	25	0.16	Joe Biden, and the Hopes of Progressives	Michael Lux	00:00
72	4	37	0.16	You know, they might have a point: (The opposite side)	CrystalHR	11:08

Impact total: 71.2

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
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