High Impact Posts: November 3, 2015

by jotter

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Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2015 Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2015 at 11:49:03am PST

Yesterday 184 Kogs posted 223 posts of which 215 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2344 recommending readers; 141 posts were recommended by 10 or more readers, 66 by 30 or more, and 23 by 100 or more. Commenters (2373) visited 222 posts; 127 had 10 or more commenters, 47 had 30 or more, and 9 had 100 or more.

Impact statistics from all 223 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.210, average = 0.46, max = 5.99, total = 103.0 bharns
r50 = 19 (at 1.27 bharns)

Recommendations and comments were collected Wed Nov 4 05:00:03 2015 UTC.

2015-11-03 00:00:08 - 2015-11-03 23:36:46
DailyKos posts = 223; 223 per day; 9.3 per hour
Active Kogs: 3622 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who	comment	recommend	write a post	only	all
comment	2373	1099	180	1168	74
recommend	1099	2344	74	1245	74
write	180	74	184	4	74

Posts

posts with >	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	223	215	141	66	23
commenters	223	222	127	47	9
connections	223	215	176	100	33

Impact statistics from all 223 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.210, average = 0.46, max = 5.99, total = 103.0 bharns
r50 = 19 (at 1.27 bharns)

Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader or writer) pairs: 11881
Maximum possible such pairs: 3622 x 184 = 666448
Network Density (observed/possible): 1.783%
Average degree (links/user) = 11881/3622 = 3.280

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.

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.

rank	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	UTC
1	518	128	5.41	Um, thanks to all	Bill McKibben	13:49
2	505	1288	5.99	I Won't Accept a Clinton Nomination Because I Won't Accept Being a Lost Generation	g r e y w o l f e 3 5 9	02:06
3	353	223	3.74	Taibbi's case for Bernie Sanders	roonie	22:03
4	337	152	3.65	President Obama skewers GOP Candidates: Can't handle a bunch of CNBC Moderators	Egberto Willies	06:01
5	271	133	2.94	In other words, the man's a grifter.	Radiowalla	21:19
6	229	257	2.95	MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Has On-Air Mental Breakdown Over Liberal Media Myth	News Corpse	03:07
7	228	96	2.39	BNR - 'Sanders Starts To Name Names' & 'Bernies Expanding N.H. Ground Game'	Liepar Destin	10:59
8	225	127	2.51	Let's recap hilariously wrong Republican predictions about Obamacare	kos	18:04
9	224	63	2.40	Jon Stewart is coming back!	Walter Einenkel	20:11
10	213	167	2.45	Mississippi man set off explosive device at a Walmart because they won't sell Confederate flags	Jen Hayden	14:24
11	199	406	2.32	I voted! Roll call and elections open thread	Denise Oliver Velez	11:40
12	192	263	2.12	Bernie blasted the Clintons' Welfare Reform as: “the grand slam of scapegoating legislation..."	Lefty Coaster	20:17
13	189	59	2.01	Bernie Sanders has encounter with a homeless citizen	VL Baker	00:44
14	174	181	1.97	I voted today and there were Zero Democrats on the Ballot for Five Local Offices	Steven D	20:24
15	166	607	2.09	How Hillary Clinton sold out working women and never apologized	VL Baker	15:48
16	156	28	1.64	One of the driest places in the world is suddenly covered under a blanket of pink flowers	Leslie Salzillo	20:30
17	152	133	1.76	Arizona man arrested after leaving granddaughter in the desert with cocked and loaded gun	Jen Hayden	14:51
18	136	51	1.48	GOP candidates’ war on debates is backfiring	Molly Weasley	15:27
19	119	50	1.27	Can We Finally Put to Rest this Myth about Boehner’s Resignation?	Mopshell	00:08
20	118	48	1.28	Call to suspend Keystone XL review shows pipeline moribund, but Obama should end it officially	Meteor Blades	17:00
21	109	107	1.15	Hillary News & Views 11.3: Meeting the Moms of Racial, Gun Violence Victims	Lysis	12:32
22	109	85	1.18	Saudi Arabia has a hay farm in Arizona because Saudi Arabia is out of water to grow hay	Walter Einenkel	22:37
23	100	155	1.14	Momentum! Clinton Leads in NH, GA, FL and Nationwide	Scan	23:23
24	96	27	1.05	Cartoon: No limits on poverty	Jen Sorensen	14:50
25	81	81	0.96	Kochs to Scarborough: Sure we're trying to buy government, but it's for all the right reasons	Joan McCarter	16:32
26	76	84	0.80	Toosdai Critters	triciawyse	18:45
27	71	92	0.86	Trey Gowdy did Hillary Clinton a big favor with partisan Benghazi hearing, poll shows	Laura Clawson	16:26
28	69	176	0.88	Poll: Clinton Overtakes Sanders With "Slim" Lead in NH	joelgp	16:13
29	68	160	0.98	Rand Paul: Free college is like free heroin	Hunter	02:30
30	61	87	0.78	Can Jeb fix it? No he can't.	Hunter	01:30
31	58	52	0.61	Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile	Black Kos	21:00
32	57	282	0.84	Its Early! People don't know Bernie! But once they do...	b r o o k l y n b a d b o y	12:44
33	56	114	0.75	Abbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans vs. the media	Georgia Logothetis	12:36
34	56	37	0.61	Open thread for night owls. Michelle Obama—Let girls learn	Meteor Blades	04:01
35	55	72	0.62	White middle-class America: "Half a million people are dead who should not be dead"	Magnifico	01:15
36	54	95	0.67	Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday	Bill in Portland Maine	13:16
37	53	229	0.84	Daily Kos Democratic Primary Straw Poll 11-03-15	kos	16:56
38	52	104	0.74	Ben Carson blames a 'submarine' from a rival campaign after he gets caught lying	Laura Clawson	17:16
39	51	10	0.54	Moving new ad from Jewish group on anti-immigrant rhetoric: 'We've heard it before'	David Nir	01:08
40	46	99	0.65	How did you learn about sex?	Doctor RJ	03:30
41	45	25	0.50	Well-being in the hands of a Republican -find myself terrified	jplanner	08:23
42	43	85	0.46	Kitchen Table Kibitzing - 11.2.2015 — Deer and fall food still growing	paradise50	01:01
43	41	31	0.44	Top Comments - Republicans are Laughing at You to Your Face	BeninSC	03:01
44	41	24	0.45	This is the obscene form of profiling many of us must endure	Egberto Willies	17:22
45	40	169	0.53	Why the Lesser of Two Evils is Actually the Greatest Evil of All	angel d	05:46
46	40	60	0.52	'Top' Republican: This time Obamacare is really going to collapse	Joan McCarter	17:21
47	40	9	0.42	Indians 101: The Old Spanish Trail and the Indian Slave Trade	Ojibwa	16:30
48	39	72	0.56	Trump blasts Ben Carson for not having the 'temperament' to be president	Hunter	21:30
49	39	34	0.44	America is Killing Middle Age White Americans	Lib Dem FoP	02:24
50	39	29	0.44	Bernie's Small Donor Army, And The General Democratic Advantage With Real People	Tasini	18:23
51	38	13	0.40	Orange County swim school creates homeless veteran	rserven	00:00
52	38	10	0.41	Legal challenge ties fracking companies in Oklahoma to state's meteoric increase in earthquakes	Kerry Eleveld	15:49
53	37	34	0.44	When reframing the heroin epidemic as a public health crisis, who gets left behind?	Vann R Newkirk II	01:01
54	36	45	0.39	Turkey's President vows to stop U.S.Kurd advance against ISIS	gjohnsit	20:00
55	36	26	0.43	Wow: Two more polls show David Vitter trailing by double digits in Louisiana	Jeff Singer	18:21
56	35	47	0.49	Republicans redefine 'fair' in debates to mean 'being on our side'	Laura Clawson	15:05
57	33	40	0.40	Days after protests, Hillary Clinton meets with families of victims of police violence	Vann R Newkirk II	22:30
58	33	13	0.36	Two Kentucky jailers indicted in federal civil rights charges in the killing of a detainee	Vann R Newkirk II	17:00
59	33	10	0.35	Arizona Election Official Caught Breaking Into Vote Tabulation System: 'BradCast' 11/2/2015	The Brad Blog	01:11
60	32	20	0.37	That Giant Albatross Around Paul Ryan's Neck	wdrath	22:47
61	31	30	0.35	NBC/WSJ national poll - Hillary 62%, Bernie 31%	f l o r i d a g e o r g e	10:26
62	31	108	0.33	Connect! Unite! Act! Tucson & Valdosta Meet-Up Info — Your Boogaloo?	Azazello	15:28
63	30	102	0.45	Idaho rancher dead after gunfight with deputies over raging bull	Walter Einenkel	18:57
64	30	44	0.33	The Daily Bucket - back roads, in rain and sun	OceanDiver	17:20
65	30	36	0.37	Rep. Steve King wants to deport undocumented immigrants who protest on Capitol Hill	Hunter	21:00
66	30	14	0.32	What's a Crannog? (Photos): Street Prophets Coffee Hour	Ojibwa	21:06
67	29	35	0.33	How to Kill Half a Million Americans and Nobody Notices	jfromga	19:41
68	29	30	0.32	Supreme Court hears case on racial discrimination in jury selection	Josie Duffy	20:07
69	29	17	0.33	The Lost State of Franklin	Lenny Flank	20:00
70	29	9	0.31	Homeless 64	sheddhead	17:32
71	28	23	0.30	California got rain!	Steven Payne	04:57
72	28	32	0.31	Chalabi is Dead, Long Live Regime Change	enhydra lutris	19:09
73	28	16	0.32	Obama mocks Republicans: They say they can handle Putin, but not CNBC moderators?	Laura Clawson	17:52
74	27	11	0.29	TWiH (November 2-8): No pagans allowed, madam governor, we're devout Monopolists	Krotor	00:33
75	26	82	0.35	NBC/WSJ: Hillary 62-31	Tuffie	20:46
76	26	22	0.29	Self Induced Chaos Strikes The Republican Candidates Again	La Feminista	20:41
77	26	5	0.28	Republicans Attempt to Unionize, Fail.	Chris Reeves	15:18
78	25	31	0.29	TransCanada requests a halt to Administration's review of Keystone XL	Lefty Coaster	01:42
79	24	17	0.28	La Gov Poll: John Bel Edwards (D) Surging	Skywatch	02:34
80	24	13	0.26	MSF Kunduz: The Silence is Embarrassing. Plus the ever expanding carnage	La Feminista	09:07
81	24	6	0.26	Stephen Colbert on the Republican debates is something funny to watch	Walter Einenkel	18:17
82	23	23	0.24	Overnight News Digest: Russian Jet Crash Edition	maggiejean	04:59
83	23	131	0.45	Daily Kos Elections Nov. 3, 2015 liveblog thread #1	Daily Kos Elections	23:00
84	23	98	0.38	New NBC/WSJ Poll: Hillary Beating All GOPers, Carson Ties	Derek Jack30	23:35
85	22	64	0.28	The Right wants progressives to help elect Republicans	Lisafr	17:46
86	22	19	0.25	My response to those white folks who say, "All lives matter"	b i g j a c b i g j a c b i g j a c	05:23
87	22	18	0.24	The Grieving Room: To Those That Are Lost In The Quagmire Of Bereavement And Grief...	Tevye	00:56
88	21	164	0.33	Tom Harkin: Bernie and Hillary are both establishment politicians	Phoenix Woman	03:17
89	21	120	0.52	Poll: Ben Carson hits new highs as Republican primary leader	Laura Clawson	15:43
90	21	37	0.32	Morning Digest: It's Election Day in America—again!	Daily Kos Elections	13:00
91	21	21	0.23	Virginians Go To The Polls Tomorrow	Crimson Quillfeather	03:07
92	21	15	0.25	Is someone using angst about Black Lives Matter to railroad a Pennsylvania candidate?	Vann R Newkirk II	22:01
93	21	13	0.23	Wolf PACs and Hillary’s Wedge Issues	DonMend	17:14
94	21	11	0.23	Still here	irishwitch	22:31
95	21	7	0.22	Without REGULATION, this is what happens when a (energy) company bails!	kellyb2	18:17
96	21	5	0.22	2015 - The year extreme weather arrived	Justin Mikulka	15:39
97	21	4	0.23	Cartoon: Little Victories	keefknight	22:50
98	20	42	0.28	PPP: Hillary Up Big In Iowa!!!	Zeta Retuculi	00:39
99	20	17	0.23	A Case of Manufactured Christian Persecution Exposed	Fang hua	13:04
100	20	16	0.22	As of Today, At Least 1000 People Have Been Killed by US Law Enforcement This Year.	jpmassar	05:12
101	20	6	0.21	"This Changes Everything" Moves Focus to Communities on Fossil Fuel Frontlines	Willinois	21:02
102	18	46	0.21	Open Carry, Open Season, Guns are Good	88kathy	15:39
103	18	27	0.24	Are Republicans afraid of confronting Black Lives Matter on the campaign trail?	Thandisizwe Chimurenga	00:00
104	18	26	0.24	Deconstructing the Look on Ben Carson’s Face	disinterested spectator	21:34
105	18	13	0.20	I have been ill, no energy.	Liberal Granny	17:00
106	18	4	0.19	The way I wanted to remember him	Lesboyd	22:01
107	17	86	0.26	I GET IT but I still don't see how he wins	nklein	14:20
108	17	77	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Lets have a moment of silence.	m a r t i a n e x p a t r i a t e	11:30
109	17	28	0.20	Comparing Social Security Positions – O’Malley Vs. Sanders Vs. H Clinton	askew	17:54
110	17	26	0.22	Florida poll - Hillary winning the youth vote	sholmberg	18:54
111	17	21	0.23	Ben Carson: birthright citizenship was 'not intended' for 'anchor' babies	Kerry Eleveld	16:37
112	17	20	0.20	It's the Guns: Colorado Springs Shooting	bbitker	23:06
113	17	9	0.18	Just some good ol' wannabe terrorists. I mean boys. Same thing.	Thandisizwe Chimurenga	21:33
114	17	9	0.18	A letter from Donna Edwards	teacherken	02:40
115	16	51	0.21	Fight The New Drug: Rise Of The PornoCops	Randle Aubrey	18:00
116	16	4	0.17	Antarctic Ice Loss Algebra	Climate Denier Roundup	16:06
117	15	36	0.22	Argh....I hope you don't mind...	BFSkinner	03:50
118	15	26	0.21	WSJ/NBC: Trump melting, Clinton cementing	joeknapp	10:29
119	15	18	0.18	My insurance premium IS going up this year	LibrErica	18:41
120	15	17	0.16	IAN: November 3, 2015: It Rained. . . and What Happened to October?	ejoanna	05:55
121	15	2	0.16	World Congress of Families attendee explains how U.S.-based groups spread homophobia in Africa	Kerry Eleveld	21:36
122	14	21	0.18	Done. Diary Deleted. And thanks for advice	Ole Texan	01:16
123	14	14	0.17	Millennials are becoming less religious, says new poll	Walter Einenkel	22:35
124	14	12	0.17	House Republicans start spending fights, try to gut financial reform in highway bill	Joan McCarter	18:23
125	12	32	0.20	Ahmed Chalabi,man responsible for Iraq war is dead.	restondem	14:27
126	11	48	0.17	Hillary on top in Georgia	sholmberg	16:55
127	9	96	0.24	I Won't Accept a Bernie Nomination Because I Won't Accept It	johnnygunn	12:20
128	7	150	0.33	Enough with the "Bernie" infantilism, already...	gedde	14:50
129	3	214	0.42	Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 11/3	Daily Kos Elections	14:00
130	1	73	0.23	Never Forget: Bin Laden attacked the U.S. because of Hillary's policies	a l l t h a t i s h u m a n	15:03

Impact total: 96.2

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

Two Years Ago In Daily Kos

2013-11-02 00:00:12 - 2013-11-02 23:56:47
DailyKos posts = 143; 143 per day; 6.0 per hour
Active Kogs: 2680 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who comment recommend write a post only all

comment 1518 839 123 618 62

recommend 839 2000 62 1161 62

write 123 62 124 1 62

Posts

posts with > 0 1 10 30 100

recommendations 143 138 94 55 16

commenters 143 143 80 27 4

connections 143 138 117 65 19

Impact statistics from all 143 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.211, average = 0.50, max = 3.82, total = 71.4 bharns
r50 = 13 (at 1.48 bharns)
Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader or writer) pairs: 8021
Maximum possible such pairs: 2680 x 124 = 332320
Network Density (observed/possible): 2.414%
Average degree (links/user) = 8021/2680 = 2.993

rank nrec ncom impact post Author UTC

1 352 392 3.82 The Republicanization of the Democratic Party. We Need More and Better DEMOCRATS. Puddytat 20:42

2 329 198 3.66 Another Republican Switches To The Democratic Party Egberto Willies 12:30

3 313 272 3.43 SPLC: LAX shooter had manifesto aligning himself with right wing extremists Steven Payne 19:50

4 305 145 3.31 GOP "Civil War"--S#!t Just Got Real Crashing Vor 20:47

5 289 277 3.14 Israel Furious w White House for Leaking Syria Strike, Calling it "Scandalous" Behavior for an Ally David Harris Gershon 13:38

6 275 168 2.98 ALEC "Limited Representative Government" About to Be Launched MNDem999 15:56

7 250 91 2.64 Update & Question re: Today I explained #ObamaCare to my hairdresser j a n 4 i n s i g h t 02:53

8 205 136 2.22 NY Times 'drops the ball' re: Ted Cruz' religious identity. quinn 18:08

9 200 130 2.24 Who Cares That It Was Huntsman: Was He Right About Romney's Taxes?? Upper West 04:55

10 195 86 2.12 Ted Cruz tries to respond to father's birther comments--and fails Christian Dem in NC 17:46

One Election Cycle Ago in Daily Kos

2011-11-01 00:00:02 - 2011-11-01 23:54:39
DailyKos posts = 265; 265 per day; 11.0 per hour
Active Kogs: 3307 (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

Kogs who comment recommend write a post only all

comment 2076 1151 203 817 95

recommend 1151 2377 95 1226 95

write 203 95 208 5 95

Posts

posts with >= 0 1 10 30 100

recommendations 265 248 143 50 16

commenters 265 265 126 47 7

connections 265 248 190 85 23

Impact statistics from all 265 posts.
min = 0.01, median = 0.135, average = 0.35, max = 5.30, total = 92.9 bharns
r50 = 18 (at 0.93 bharns)
Graph statistics
Observed writer-(reader or writer) pairs: 10368
Maximum possible such pairs: 3307 x 208 = 687856
Network Density (observed/possible): 1.507%
Average degree (links/user) = 10368/3307 = 3.135

rank nrec ncom impact post Author UTC

1 498 277 5.30 OccupyOakland: Something Big is Happening. Updates x N. jpmassar 02:44

2 450 257 4.77 Blistering indictment of U.S. healthcare system from Dr. Oz explains why we must fight and #ows nyceve 16:22

3 433 154 4.56 Horrific Pics of a Massive Lake Michigan Coal Ash Spill Muskegon Critic 18:04

4 426 451 4.61 Obama on Banking: "Zero credibility. ZERO." Jbearlaw 19:54

5 401 195 4.28 Protesters turn their backs on Eric Cantor during his University of Michigan speech (PICS & VIDEO) E c l e c t a b l o g 12:10

6 354 238 3.80 Lawmakers Probe $75T Derivatives Dump by Bank of America The Anomaly 03:10

7 200 328 2.25 "The homeless" ARE the 99%, not a "problem" for #ows camps Scipione 12:21

8 200 71 2.12 FOIA request reveals Zuccotti Park owners Brookfield Properties heavily taxpayer subsidized nyceve 13:35

9 192 52 1.99 The Giving Project: Shane's Inspiration. $856, looking for $1000 JeffLieber 15:56

10 177 238 2.02 Breaking: Oakland PD "Confused." Ollie Garkey 23:45