Snowflake Challenge #14

[florianschild]

Challenge #14

In your own space, create your own fandom challenge. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

My challenge is called "Raise Your Ratio".

On your Dreamwidth profile there is a statistic:



Comments posted and comments received. If you divide these numbers, you get a ratio. I've posted 557 comments and received 605 comments so my ratio is .92. The aim of this challenge is to raise your ratio. My personal goal is to get above 1. But maybe your ratio is already above 1 so your goal is to get to 1.4 or 2. Or maybe you're a super popular blogger with an active comments section so your ratio is .25 - maybe then your goal is to get to .3. Whatever you want your goal to be is great, as long as you're raising your ratio of comments posted/comments received. So go make some friends and leave them some comments!

Comments

[muccamukk]

Oh dear. My ratio's at .68, which I think has something to do with importing from LJ back in the day. 20,000 comments to bring it up to 1! (assuming no one comments on my journal in the meantime)

[florianschild]

Ha yes I originally thought of calling the challenge "Ratio to 1" but then I realized that is SIGNIFICANTLY harder for some than for others :D

You could try to hit .7 by the end of the year if that seems like an attainable goal!

[muccamukk]

Do you know what counts for comments in each category? Is comments left only ones on other people's journals/posts?

[florianschild]

Great question! Any comment you leave on your own journal, other peoples' journals, or on posts in communities appears to count toward the number (I just did a little test for each one and saw the count increase).

[hamsterwoman]

I love the idea and the name of the challenge (nicely alliterative!)

Looks like my ratio is 0.200 currently -- like muccamukk said, I think this must have something to do with LJ imports. I don't know how much I can move the needle on that, lol. Maybe I need to add more significant figures and target the thousandths or something XD

[florianschild]

Thank you!

Yes, I think comments do get imported from LJ and it makes sense that those you left on LJ wouldn't count. A little unfortunate. Feel free to adapt accordingly!

[muccamukk]

I think the issue is that the comments imported count as comments received, but the however-many-years of comments I left on other people's LJs (people who didn't import) aren't counted.

[florianschild]

Right, I totally get the problem. If your livejournal account is still up you can actually see how many comments you received there and subtract that from your Dreamwidth "comments received" number to get a more accurate count.

I actually just tried that and my ratio shot up to 2.2 lol.

[hamsterwoman]

That's an interesting thought! Doing that kind of math puts me at 1.2, which sounds about right... It is probably not exact, because I have continued to use my LJ divergently, but I think it's probably in the right ballpark...

[sisterdivinium]

This is a pretty cool idea! Every now and again I take a look at those numbers and think "hmmm, do I receive a lot more comments than I give??" only to find out my ratio is... 1,2. Recent account privileges, I suppose. Then again, the challenge might be to if not necessarily increase it then at least keep it that way :)

[florianschild]

Thanks! Well done on your ratio!

Yes, I see the challenge as self-perpetuating because as we all attempt to raise our ratio we will be commenting on each other's posts and sort of balancing the scales. :D

[sisterdivinium]

Just went back to notice the order and I got it flipped because of course I did, LOL, numbers have never been my forte. But it's still cool! I stand by my statement!

It can also help, I think, when we get a little insecure about saying something: "huh, why am I being shy about typing a comment up?? I have the ratio to improve!!" :)

[regshoe]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this ratio and cared about keeping it up :D But I haven't been paying it much attention lately, so this challenge is a nice opportunity to do so again! Hmm, it's currently 0.98—I'll get to work on it...

[florianschild]

Ha, no I definitely noticed. We're the detail people. :D

Good luck!

[schneefink]

After adding my comments posted on LJ my ratio is 1.28 (without, still 1.26.) Aiming for 1.3 then :)

[florianschild]

Oh wow, well done! That's a great ratio.

[gothikmaus]

I'm also among the people with a lot of comments imported from LJ, but not so many posted here on DW. And if you add the fact that I haven't been very active on DW in general... Yeah, my ratio is VERY bad. XD All the more reason to try and raise it!

[florianschild]

My goal for the challenge is that there is no "bad"! There is just your starting point and whatever arbitrary goal you think would work for you. Good luck!

[jacquelee]

My ratio is 2.91, lol. I like commenting on other people's posts but I don't post myself, so I don't get comments. That was fun to see though.

ETA: I was also in a whole lot of landcomms when they still existed and am still doing challenges like halfamoon and fandom_empire, so that raises my comment count.

[florianschild]

Wow, well done! That's the highest I think I've seen!

[pronker]

Mine is 0.75 and thanks for this challenge, never considered it before 0.o

[florianschild]

Thanks for participating! .75 is a very nice number!

[silveradept]

My comment ratio is currently above two, which makes sense to me, since I like being in other people's comment sections and I don't post a lot of things that invite comments, despite my best attempts to invite in people.

[florianschild]

Oh well done! I think it's lovely that there are people like you taking the time to read and respond to what others are saying.

It's hard to know what exactly prompts lots of responses in the comments. I don't usually get many comments on my posts either (Snowflake aside, which is why I've loved it so much!)

[silveradept]

What I've found so far of the things that get comments are people life-posting, or if they've found a cache of people with the same fandom and fandom enthusiasm that they have. Snowflake does a good job of cross-pollinating, so there's a higher percentage of people who might stop by and stay a while, and it's also prompt responses, which can make comments easier to leave when someone has a hook to work with. And theoretically, communities are also for this kind of metering of people, but it's still hard to get them off the ground and developing a robust group without a lot of effort put into the promotion and maintenance of them.