High Impact Posts: February 19, 2013

Welcome to priestspring49 (user_id 682357) who registered at 2013-02-20 04:58:48 EST, the most recent of 2053 in the preceding 24 hours.

Yesterday 160 Kogs posted 195 posts of which 189 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1934 recommending readers; 129 posts were recommended by 10 or more readers, 56 by 30 or more, and 15 by 100 or more. Commenters (1757) visited 195 posts; 103 had 10 or more commenters, 40 had 30 or more, and 0 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 195 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.193, average = 0.39, max = 3.54, total =   75.8 bharns
r50 = 22 (at 0.81 bharns)

Recommendations and comments were collected Wed Feb 20 05:00:10 2013 EST.

2013-02-19 00:00:08 - 2013-02-19 23:55:07
DailyKos posts = 195;  195 per day;  8.1 per hour
Active Kogs: 2828 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	1757	863	160	807	73
recommend	863	1934	73	1071	73
write	160	73	160		73

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	195	189	129	56	15
commentators	195	195	103	40
connections	195	189	153	81	23

Impact statistics from all 195 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.193, average = 0.39, max = 3.54, total =   75.8 bharns
r50 = 22 (at 0.81 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 8559
Maximum possible such pairs: 2828 x 160 = 452480
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.892%
Average degree (links/user) = 8559/2828 = 3.027

tags: approved|workspace|cleanup|quickjobs|search|tag user_guidelines
Number of distinct tags: 314742
Number of tag size classes: 1232
Most often used tag: ('Barack Obama',) (79672 posts)
Singleton tags: 211070 (attached to only one post)
n50: 607 (number of tags accounting for 50% of tagged posts)
r50: 800 (number of posts tagged by the tag just exceeding the n50 level)

• Up to 150 posts, those with impact > 0.15, are shown below.
• The posts are sorted by number of recommendations (nrec); those in bold were on the front page recommended list.
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• For a more complete description of the lists and statistics see this post.

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EST
1	326	155	3.54	The Many Problems with Maddow's "Hubris"	Vyan	14:31
2	289	231	3.13	TRIGGER WARNING: Reading this post will give you nightmares	Horace Boothroyd III	09:05
3	278	239	2.99	NYTimes should be embarrassed. Almost certainly isn't ...	A Siegel	10:43
4	245	198	2.66	Doggy Mug Shots (Your Laugh of the Day) Part 1 - Updated	Puddytat	13:26
5	218	83	2.28	UPDATE on the worst case I've ever seen - ACTION BY YOU IS NEEDED - now w/Rachel Maddow	llbear	18:04
6	217	128	2.41	So, the Tea Party Patriots® just sent out this e-mail....	Scarce	13:18
7	181	112	1.94	Walker drops bomb #2, this time on Wisconsin's private sector unions	Giles Goat Boy	17:53
8	175	53	1.87	In 2010, A Man Was Brutally Assaulted by the Philadephia Police. Today He Was Acquitted.	jpmassar	18:08
9	167	159	1.93	Alabama Republican says a baby 'is the largest organ in a body' because she's a moron	Kaili Joy Gray	11:49
10	153	166	1.81	Permanent GOP minority status has arrived	kos	16:57
11	126	60	1.36	Arctic Death Spiral: Sea Ice Volume Now One/Fifth its 1980 Volume	beach babe in fl	10:50
12	123	184	1.48	Watching Maddow's "Hubris: Selling the Iraq War"	chloris creator	07:56
13	120	83	1.35	John McCain verbally assaulted by angry Tea Partiers at Town Hall meeting on immigration	grytpype	20:42
14	117	58	1.25	On Angola, America's Racist Slave History is Celebrated	Grizzard	01:13
15	100	87	1.11	1. Obstruct Obama 2. ??? 3. Win Presidency in 2016	Ministry Of Truth	13:23
16	97	99	1.17	Media crisis, day two: Panties still in a knot	Barbara Morrill	13:24
17	87	96	0.99	NYT Lead: “Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.”	bobswern	05:42
18	84	104	0.93	CNBC/CNN put Tesla to the Test.  NY Times Fails.	DisNoir36	20:53
19	82	25	0.86	New Report Confirms 3,000 Died at Indian Schools	Nulwee	13:22
20	81	68	0.91	Budget sequester or no, Pentagon still will spend like a drunken sailor to fight 20th century wars	Meteor Blades	15:07
21	81	34	0.89	Projected Medicare spending falls dramatically	Joan McCarter	18:29
22	75	37	0.81	What’s So Great About Unions, Anyway?	Liz Shuler	13:59
23	73	84	0.76	Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile	Black Kos	15:59
24	68	14	0.72	Tar Sands Waste Contaminate Alberta Groundwater	beach babe in fl	15:05
25	66	148	0.71	Toosdai Critters	triciawyse	14:14
26	65	84	0.75	Daily Kos endorses Ed Markey in the race to replace John Kerry	Joan McCarter	12:51
27	63	49	0.67	S(slash)he	rserven	19:00
28	63	26	0.67	Today was the first day of chemo	teacherken	22:19
29	63	23	0.68	A Message To Mark Sanford From God	Paul Bibeau	11:17
30	62	39	0.71	Former Republican chairman to GOP on sequester: 'You're going to lose this'	Jed Lewison	17:13
31	60	206	0.85	Supreme Court likes dogs who are good at meth	Adam B	12:34
32	56	144	0.59	* New Day * - Calling Colorado, Texas, NY, New England, Kansas, Missouri & N. Carolina! Events 4 U!	navajo	10:30
33	56	105	0.78	Donald Trump threatens $25 million 'shut the f- up' lawsuit against activist	kos	15:23
34	56	216	0.69	Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday	Bill in Portland Maine	08:19
35	54	22	0.58	Rep. Joe Heck calls Gabby Giffords "A Prop"	blue aardvark	18:28
36	51	37	0.58	Media Carnival	Matt Bors	09:50
37	45	33	0.53	Republicans throw pity party for Richard 'Rape babies are a gift from God' Mourdock	Kaili Joy Gray	13:00
38	44	59	0.54	Supreme Court gives itself another chance to gut campaign finance law	Adam B	11:39
39	44	9	0.46	Indians 201: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680	Ojibwa	11:20
40	41	152	0.45	Top Comments: Pop Culture Edition	brillig	22:00
41	40	105	0.42	The Morning F Bomb	Floja Roja	10:00
42	40	108	0.64	Maybe Lindsey Graham shouldn't be putting so much emphasis on chasing down internet rumors	Jed Lewison	09:35
43	39	13	0.41	Another day in the (gun crazy) U.S.A.	Tom Begnal	16:38
44	39	8	0.41	Black history month	keefknight	17:50
45	38	281	0.54	RKBA: Liberal Alternative to the NRA	KVoimakas	09:16
46	38	51	0.46	My very first real life encounter with a Tea Partier	Educatethe Masses	23:33
47	38	39	0.41	* New Day * - Comprehensive List of Kossack Groups Around the Nation. Check Here to Find Your Region	navajo	01:05
48	35	90	0.41	Stricter gun measures passed by Colorado House of Representatives face tougher go in its Senate	Meteor Blades	11:21
49	35	44	0.43	The new, real Simpson-Bowles plan: Less revenue, more cuts	Joan McCarter	14:24
50	34	66	0.42	What would you have done?	Colorado is the Shiznit	01:13
51	34	55	0.45	Mark Sanford: I didn't spend a DIME of taxpayer money on the Appalachian Trail!	Laura Clawson	10:47
52	32	33	0.33	Overnight News Digest: Presidents Day Edition	maggiejean	00:00
53	32	8	0.33	#hawkpup goes to a climate rally.	RLMiller	15:48
54	32	89	0.42	Abbreviated pundit roundup: Rallying for climate change action	Georgia Logothetis	07:32
55	32	56	0.42	Rubio's non-convincing temper tantrum over immigration	kos	11:15
56	32	19	0.35	KY-Sen: Mitch McConnell (R) Attacks Ashley Judd & Dems While A Serious Tea Party Challenger Emerges	p o o p d o g c o m e d y	13:33
57	29	49	0.32	MOT- Typing from the seat of my pants.	angelajean	06:31
58	29	34	0.31	RAF Museum, Hendon, Mosquito B.35 - and the rise of a movement!	s h o r t f i n a l s	19:00
59	28	25	0.32	If I only had a back yard (aquaponics)	jared the bassplayer	14:21
60	28	8	0.31	Wall Street Won't Like This: Swiss Pharmaceutical Executive Hands Back Golden Parachute	Berliner2	05:30
61	27	18	0.29	DKos Special Diary: Archeoastronomy, Part I of III	r i c h h o l t z i n	17:19
62	27	27	0.29	LGBT Literature: James Barr, Quatrefoil	Dave in Northridge	08:00
63	26	10	0.27	POGO Sticks It to the SEC	Bill Moyers	16:56
64	25	67	0.28	Daily Bucket - Tuesday 2-19-2013	jim in IA	12:26
65	25	31	0.31	New York Times Responds to Tesla Review Criticisms	KenInCO	18:38
66	25	31	0.26	Autism, Hockey and Goals	Damnit Janet	11:51
67	24	9	0.27	BREAKING: President Obama Throws Out Gauntlet on Sequester–Congress Must Act (VIDEO)	Progressive Liberal	13:32
68	24	8	0.26	Travesty!  Limbaugh Advertiser Turns Murder into Money from the Pulpit	ProgLegs	16:31
69	23	15	0.27	apropos of nothing of importance	teacherken	07:17
70	23	12	0.24	Another opportunity to protest the Keystone XL pipeline	DWG	11:18
71	22	53	0.23	What's Happenin'? Forward on Climate 2.19.13	joanneleon	08:31
72	22	23	0.25	'No one who works full-time should have to live in poverty,' but at $7.25, they do	Laura Clawson	17:29
73	22	32	0.25	Don't Rape (trigger warning)	t e r r y p i n d e r	15:05
74	22	19	0.23	Winnemem Wintu Chief says Frankenfish must be stopped	Dan Bacher	11:07
75	22	18	0.26	Dunkin' Donuts Lobbying Feds To Change Definition Of Full-Time Employment To Evade ObamaCare	james321	17:01
76	22	8	0.24	All Hands On Deck: Georgia About To Commit Massive Human Rights Violation; ACTION REQUIRED	james321	14:46
77	21	60	0.29	Open thread for night owls: Gun law reform, Montana Republican style	Meteor Blades	23:30
78	21	18	0.23	Political Geography of the States: Part 2, the Mid-West	Stephen Wolf	11:04
79	21	15	0.22	Labor, Environmentalism and Wal-Mart	cskendrick	20:25
80	20	52	0.36	Scott Brown denies drunk tweeting. About that excuse? Bqhatevwr.	Laura Clawson	12:16
81	20	42	0.23	Dear President Obama	Noddy	17:22
82	20	10	0.22	Rep. Mark Amodei reintroduces rip-off mining bill that would squelch environmental review	Meteor Blades	18:18
83	20	5	0.21	High Impact Posts: February 18, 2013	jotter	13:51
84	19	42	0.20	will there be volunteer admissions or scholarships for netroot nations this year?	edrie	19:10
85	19	6	0.21	Mario Cuomo tried to contaminate Allegany Co, NY.  This is why he failed.	NancyWH	15:54
86	19	1	0.20	A once in lifetime moment	Jim Dean	14:43
87	18	15	0.20	How Do Immigrants Become Americans?: Review of "Patriotic Pluralism"	Ian Reifowitz	08:43
88	18	51	0.33	Boehner says sequester replacement must balance budget by 2023	Jed Lewison	12:36
89	18	26	0.21	Another Day, Another Shootings Spree (Orange Co., CA)	Beetwasher	13:27
90	18	23	0.22	GA-Sen: PPP, Democrats Now Have A Shot At Making This Race Competitive	p o o p d o g c o m e d y	14:35
91	18	17	0.21	Minimum Wage a Winner Both Politically and Economically	Kenneth Thomas	12:45
92	18	12	0.20	Rubio squirms, looking for differences with White House on immigration	b r o o k l y n b a d b o y	13:49
93	17	20	0.19	Meet Matt Bevin, Mitch McConnell's potential Tea Party primary challenger	DeadHead	00:29
94	17	34	0.24	NBC hires Axelrod.  NYT calls him the Rove of the left	joanneleon	14:05
95	17	14	0.19	Non-transiting exoplanets	Frank Palmer	20:33
96	17	12	0.19	Daily Kos Labor digest: Albuquerque won't enforce voter-passed minimum wage increase	Laura Clawson	18:00
97	16	7	0.18	kimberly point park	b l u e y e d a c e 2	07:02
98	16	14	0.17	The Dalai Lama: Street Prophets Coffee Hour	Ojibwa	16:06
99	15	88	0.31	Obama urges House Republicans to replace sequester with compromise	Jed Lewison	10:35
100	15	16	0.16	The Evening Blues - 2-19-13	joe shikspack	20:00
101	15	14	0.17	North Carolina slashes jobless benefits despite 9.2% unemployment	Laura Clawson	16:41
102	14	8	0.15	More on the NY Times/Joe Nocera Climate Change Article	tonymil	20:22
103	14	36	0.20	Former defense contractor who slapped toddler on plane must go to PRISON	Christian Dem in NC	18:13
104	14	20	0.19	KY-SEN:  Hits On Ashley Judd Keep Coming But She Gets Support From Unlikely Voters!  (Videos)	pipsorcle	18:43
105	14	11	0.16	Jelly Omelettes at the Blue Colony Diner	JR	12:45
106	14	4	0.15	Blue Cross Suspends Mandatory HIV/AIDS Drug Mail Order Program	Consumer Watchdog	14:00
107	13	25	0.18	Reality May Just Be Indifferent	Yosef 52	02:30
108	12	74	0.18	Favorite Songs: Let's Get Demented Edition	blueoregon	21:00
109	12	54	0.23	Midday open thread	Kaili Joy Gray	15:00
110	12	42	0.15	The circle of death: or, hey, come steal my guns!	tytalus	12:49
111	11	26	0.19	Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: After just four years, Mike Johanns bails on the Senate	David Nir	08:00
112	9	134	0.27	Do we really need 10 obsolete aircraft carriers?	Michelle Smith	14:59
113	3	37	0.16	WTF Is Going On?	i t i s j u s t m e l o r r i e	18:20
114	1	306	0.33	Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 2/19	David Nir	09:00

Impact total:   69.8

 nrec - Number of recommendations
  ncom - Number of comments
  tator - Number of commenters or commenTators (ow, ... sorry, I know).
  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 posts.
   

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

 One Year Ago In Daily Kos

2012-02-19 00:00:03 - 2012-02-19 23:58:58
DailyKos posts = 170;  170 per day;  7.1 per hour
Active Kogs: 3299 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	1956	1163	154	725	86
recommend	1163	2504	86	1341	86
write	154	86	156	2	86

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	170	165	117	48	25
commentators	170	170	100	37	9
connections	170	165	140	77	29

Impact statistics from all 170 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.212, average = 0.53, max = 5.03, total =   90.5 bharns
r50 = 15 (at 1.70 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 10159
Maximum possible such pairs: 3299 x 156 = 514644
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.974%
Average degree (links/user) = 10159/3299 = 3.079

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EST
1	468	498	5.03	Opus Dei: Neofascism Within the Catholic Church	Ollie Garkey	19:14
2	435	475	4.91	Okay, Santorum's most grotesque statement, yet.	bkamr	10:05
3	321	260	3.58	You don't own me	Mark Sumner	09:00
4	309	232	3.37	What Conservatives Really Want	jamess	00:11
5	286	137	3.01	Beauty Happens: Holders of the Lights and a Madison Overpass	noise of rain	01:37
6	286	118	3.03	The Real, Deadly Consequences of  Rick Santorum's "Morality"	Dartagnan	09:03
7	277	124	2.95	It's not rape, you gave a blanket consent	C l y t e m n e s t r a	20:08
8	267	302	2.87	KosAbility: Abandoned by Big Pharma, I designed my own medication	KelleyRN2	17:00
9	247	210	2.81	Santorum calls for the abolition of public schools	Paleo	10:12
10	236	223	2.52	Birth Control Battle, A Rant	triciawyse	14:59

 One Election Cycle Ago in Daily Kos

2010-02-19 00:02:05 - 2010-02-19 23:52:07
DailyKos posts = 240;  240 per day; 10.0 per hour
Active Kogs: 4023 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	2721	1448	222	1142	91
recommend	1448	2747	92	1298	91
write	222	92	226	3	91

Posts

posts with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	240	211	119	43	19
commentators	240	240	170	67	13
connections	240	211	203	103	22

Impact statistics from all 240 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.182, average = 0.42, max = 5.39, total =  101.7 bharns
r50 = 15 (at 1.66 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader  or writer) pairs: 12565
Maximum possible such pairs: 4023 x 226 = 909198
Network Density (observed/possible):  1.382%
Average degree (links/user) = 12565/4023 = 3.123

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	EST
1	485	408	5.39	GOOD NEWS: Obama has caught more Taliban Leaders in 1 month than Bush/Cheney did in 6 years	Ministry Of Truth	11:02
2	442	266	4.70	The Governor Who Did the Right Thing	Frederick Clarkson	21:11
3	427	482	4.64	Lack of Respect	rserven	19:15
4	396	288	4.22	MoveOn, HCAN, SEIU join us for massive Feb. 24th 1,000,000 Voices for HCR mobilization	nyceve	08:42
5	367	255	3.92	Monsanto Submitted "Fake Scientific Data" Says Former Exec	dsnodgrass	12:45
6	347	340	3.83	Sy Hersh just got me good and angry.	Jyrinx	00:23
7	313	111	3.31	End the Insurance Monopolies: Repeal McCarran-Ferguson	Congressman Frank Pallone	09:36
8	296	201	3.19	Friday's photo-video diary. For you, Lorikeet :)	b l a c k w a t e r d o g	16:54
9	283	340	3.20	CPAC Civil War	Vita Brevis	18:48
10	264	171	2.81	All HANDS ON DECK-Join Our 1,000,000 Voices Virtual March!	s l i n k e r w i n k	15:20