An Obnoxious Poster Analysis (As of 20160517)
Back on April 24, 2016 I posted a thread in GDP entitled "Fun DU Factoids" which the hosts decided to lock under the "no meta" criteria. (No critiscm implied - host duties are tough, especially in GDP and although I thought the topic interesting, I could understand the argument used.) The link is http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511825904 for those interested.
Today I thought I would share some updates on that data, prompted by a casual comment made about "doing a report on who has their yellow transparency page showing".
Whose supporters are really being obnoxious?
Hillary Group:
Blocked - Apr 24: 846; May 17: 781
Trashed - Apr 24: 410; May 17: 437
Number of posts, 30 days: Apr 24: 32,725; May 17: 32,410
As of May 17, 2016 FOUR of the first 50 people on the "Hillary Block List" have their Transparency yellow tab showing. One of these people is currently in a "Flagged For Review" status with 12 hides.
Bernie Group:
Blocked - Apr 24: 349; May 17: 365
Trashed - Apr 24: 177; May 17: 184
Number of posts, 30 days: Apr 24: 27,266; May 17: 20,967
As of May 17, 2016 TWELVE of the first 50 people on the "Bernie Block List" have their Transparency yellow tab showing. Two of these people are currently in a "Flagged For Review" status with 10 and 13 hides respectively.
While it is tempting to just go with the obvious easy analysis of "there are three times as many Hillary supporters being obnoxious versus Bernie supporters" I must point out that right now there are significantly MORE Bernie people on this board at the moment, so this might be causing some unfair jury hides. (I didn't evaluate the hides - just did a quick look.) It also appears that anyone with double digit hides on either side is taking an admin enforced break. And these numbers are only on the first 50 blocked - since there are close to 1,200 "blocked folk" and this was just a fun thing, the first 50 seemed a reasonable quick check.
Make of the data what you will - it's a trivia thing.
