Are you on a keyboard yet or still thumbing away? π
There is no hard cut off, I do try for around the same time each week, but this one is later than usual.
How many different people you interacted with last week - what about that for a scorable metric?
Hey, @abh12345. You asked me as similar thing elsewhere. Is what you're asking similar to what we had before with CE? Can't remember what you called it, but you replaced whatever it was with CR. I actually liked that previous metric. The question is, though, what would you be replacing? If you're adding another column to do it, I'd say, go for it. If you're replacing another column, I would just suggest that it not be C, CR, or CL, since I think all of those are part of the true engagement equation already. :)
Hey, yes i was looking at adding a column and not removing any.
I'm wondering if it's fair to stick a score on unique persons chatted to, perhaps with a minimum character length?
With a minimum CL, eh? Hmmm. 50 characters, maybe? 100? If you go too much higher than that, a lot of comments are going to get wiped out in this new metric. :)
The metric would be just against comments to unique authors, to stop the 'nice post' earning value. 50/100 chars sounds reasonable to me.
Okay. So, are you planning to add that as a new stat this week? Or are you still thinking about it. I guess it doesn't matter, I'll do what I can regardless. :)
Sounds like a brilliant plan to add.
I can admit myself that the only week I really went for a top10 ranking I did post a few useless comments with a smiley or very short text. I think it would be fair to kill those or give them a lower number of points.
@abh12345 tag, which causes that I only have to write one comment to share my opinion.
Well, in thinking about this, the way this has been set up, and will be added to, the sheer number of comments and CL end up being byproducts of what's happening while engaging. If you are engaging with the same person back and forth, you're going to generate CR, and if you're widening the field, you will create numbers in the new category. The amount of comments will follow and so will the CL, as long as something is being said.
So, really, in my mind, it's less about the overall comments as it is what's going on with those comments. If you're getting around to as many people as you can and engaging them for as long as a conversation is warranted, then the rest of the numbers are going to follow.
And, I really don't mind a lower level CL sort for the new category. I'm afraid that there might be some people who do, though. Maybe it will act as a reminder to push for more value, rather than commenting for commenting's sake.
In contrary of you I am swiping instead of typing. And all the metrics I count manual. So counting the number of different people I interacted with is almost impossible. As that would cost me a lot of time. And if I do that same count for Janton then my week is over.
If you send me the plain data in Excel then I can do such a post π
About swiping I wonder how many signs I can do on average per minute? Funny thing is that I thought about this before numerous times, but so far I'm clueless about how to test it?
Probably very simple by writing a comment like this. Use a stopwatch to time how long it takes. Next I count the number of characters. And voila, only a simple calculation to finish and determine how many characters per minute I can swipe.
At this moment I guess it's close to 100 characters per minute. That's at least what I always use to calculate how much time I spend each week in writing comments. So this week it was something like 4-5 hours.