Hubski:
Reddit:
That's going by subreddit (sorted by highest words per comment and characters per word). The TMI page does count by words, right?
Nonetheless, I'm very impressed. Also, it appears I'm the wordiest commenter of the last 200 comments :P
You know, that reminds me, I just saw a reddit thread titled something to the likes of "What's the funniest name you've ever heard," that left me with a handful of chuckles. The Karma Game was strong with this one; some two-word comments earned some points, most of which were unoriginal. Perhaps it has a lot to do with originality. There is no doubt it my mind that here the 'per capita' originality of hubski, as if such a thing could be measured, far exceeds reddit's. If it's a 'new' thought, it takes more rhetoric to satisfactorily explain it.
This does not surprise me. Think of all the comments on Reddit that are "this" or "what he said" or similar. All of the short comments are going to drag the average down very quickly. I bet if we drew a graph of comments on Reddit it would be skewed to the short end. What would interest me is if you could somehow scrape this data and then filter for age of accounts. i.e., see if older accounts are more likely to post longer comments. Or not post at all.
Yes, then Change my view actually has longer comments than on Hubski (if you look at the last 200 comments). Kind of makes sense since changing someone's view takes a lot of explaining (try changing someone's view on the Beatles hahah). Reddit has a couple of civilized subreddits worth checking out, but it's different because you're limited by the topic of the subreddit, unlike here :) I like it here, Hubski!
It appears you can be quite verbose when talking about how much the Beatles suck :-) I've never really been cognizant of how long or short my comments are on Hubski or anywhere else. I guess I just comment. In fact, many of the comments I make aren't very long at all. Having kleinbl00, Owl, theadvancedapes and countless others that put thought and time in to their communications certainly raises that word count. No doubt. I should check TMI more often. Are there any other stats that you think would be cool to see?
I just tend to be long winded :P. When speaking IRL my replies are a lot shorter and I find it difficult to figure out the words I want to say. I spend a lot of time on my longer comments, as I frequently have to pause to find the right word. I'm only aware of how long my comments tend to be because I frequently hit the comment size limitations of several websites (Facebook, IndieDB, etc). As for commenting on how much the Beatles suck... I can assure you I've had longer comments on topics I'm more interested in. Usually when something grabs my attention I put all of my focus into it, leading to longer comments. That's part of the reason I found the word/character counts interesting. Is that longer comments tend to be new/original ideas that need explaining, or on topics where there is a lot of material to cover. On Reddit, there doesn't tend to be a lot of that type of conversation going on (it mostly happens in the "true" subreddits, and the other more serious subreddits). On Hubski, the whole site is kind of focused towards that. As for other stats... I can't think of any off the top of my head. I think the only thing I was interested in and couldn't find was the number of users that 1. have registered an account, and 2. that actively use the website (say in the past month or two). When I joined Hubski I wasn't sure how big of a community it was (I'm still not that sure). If I had to take a guess, I'd wager it's probably somewhere between 200-800 active users. But that feels kind of high compared to the content I see. And I'm not sure if that's just due to hubski's design or if it's due to how many users there are. A TMI stat for that would be nice. I think another nice feature would be to see the users who submit the most content to the tag currently being viewed. That way if I go to, say, the #gaming tag, I can see who actively submits stuff (so I can follow them). As it stands, I just kind of have to look at the content and make my best guess.