Propeller Week In Review: November 16, 2007 »
Posted by: JamesMarcus 9 months, 2 weeks agoOur top story for the last week, with a whopping tally of 444 votes, was "World should ban human cloning, except medical: U.N." But we also had some lively discussions about John Mellencamp, moral relativism, and the thorny relationship between cetaceans and sonar.
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SonOfTheMask9 months, 2 weeks ago
Chuckle..."Halkovian". I like it! Way to go David. And, a deft touch, Mr. Marcus. :)
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gamahuche9 months, 2 weeks ago
The gremlins attacked somehow this week James!
The story starts with:
'Our top story for the last week, with a whopping tally of 444 votes, was "World should ban human cloning, except medical: U.N."'
and finishes:
'This story about waterboarding got the most comments for the week: 449.'
An error, unless there are factors for "top story" which are not being disclosed..
Plus! the highlighted link that accompanied the second one actually led to quite a different and more recent story of neo's.
Time to fire that copy editor - or to hire him/her!
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1-2-Oscar9 months, 2 weeks ago
Propeller members can vote (or sink) each story only once, but they can comment as many times as they want to, and often they do. Thus we can be sure that 444 members participated in the voting, while significantly fewer took part in the discussion.
Apples and oranges, gamahuche--or persimmons and grapes.
* (Memo to editor James Marcus--It looks like this fellow may be looking for a job. Check to see if he has any useful abilities. You can probably get him cheap).
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gamahuche9 months, 2 weeks ago
You're right Oscar - and my apologies James!
If they're still on offer, Oscar I'll definitely go for the persimmons and grapes. I can't even remember when I last ate a persimmon.. sigh.. When I lived in SF we had a tree right in the garden.
Re jobs.. I've done editing for some 40 years, all kinds of stuff from radical underground magazines that loved creative spelling and punctuation - and even stuff spilled on the copy, to an encyclopaedia of theatre translated from convoluted German by a German speaker and needing coherence, but I suspect propeller likes volunteer interns. If not I do live in a European time-zone which means that I can pre-empt US hours comfortably. And can translate Czech to English but NOT vice versa, though my gf does that..
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JamesMarcus9 months, 2 weeks ago
To assemble the WIR, I get two separate lists of stories, ranking them by votes and by comments. In that sense, we can have two "top" stories in any given week. But 1-2-Oscar's comment below is also on the mark. That is, 444 votes indicate a higher number of participants than 449 comments.
As for the blooper on the link--my bad! I'll fix it. Thanks for pointing it out.
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