Qt3 member posting statistics: Modern Expansionists Wordtest

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This is the second thread in the word association series, the first being “Heaven and Hell”. This time I cover Modern Expansionists and their modus operandi, war.

Hitler*, Bush*, and War are the three wordsets tracked by this survey. Words like Hitler’s or Bushites are handled with the use of the asterisk (tip o’ the cap to Anders Hallin). A Qt3er’s rating in Hitler* is determined by the total number of his posts which include at least one use of Hitler* (case insensitive, including quoted material) divided by his total number of posts. Likewise for Bush* and War. War does not have an asterisk to avoid words like warm and warning, which would throw off the survey.

The only ‘Least frequent use’ listing is for War, since in the cases of Hitler* and Bush* there are too many Qt3ers with zero uses.

Only Qt3ers with at least 176 total posts (as of December 1st) qualify for the survey. 177 Qt3ers qualify.

The first listing, “Most frequent Modern Expansionist users”, adds up the rankings for most frequent use of each of the three wordsets (Hitler*, Bush*, and War). I, for example, ranked 41st in Hitler*, 79th in Bush*, and 30th in War, for a rating of 150. The next three listings are for the most frequent use of the individual wordsets, and the final listing is for the least frequent use of War. Commentary is included.

[size=5]Most frequent Modern Expansionist users:[/size]

#1: Daniel Morris: 9
#2: Lizard_King: 25
#2: ydejin: 25
#4: Brett Todd: 27
#5: bmulligan: 46
#5: Jim F.: 46
#7: Kyle Wilson: 47
#8: jeff lackey: 48
#9: Captain Cookiepants: 50
#10: Squirrel Killer: 52
#11: TSG: 61
#12: Idar Thorvaldsen: 63
#13: Jason McCullough: 65
#14: HaveFun (Bill Huffman): 66
#15: Ignatius P. Reilly: 70
#15: Rywill: 70
#17: XPav: 83
#18: Brad Grenz: 87
#19: Jakub: 88
#20: Brian Rucker: 89
#20: Tim Elhajj: 89

Its no surprise to see Daniel Morris at the top, but ydejin tied for 2nd? I didn’t know he was a political war poster.

[size=5]Most frequent Hitler* users:[/size]

#1: Lizard_King: 2.10%
#2: Brett Todd: 1.64%
#3: Jack: 1.52%
#4: Daniel Morris: 1.37%
#5: Ignatius P. Reilly: 1.34%
#6: Peter Frazier: 1.30%
#7: Jason Levine: 0.96%
#8: Jakub: 0.90%
#9: Captain Cookiepants: 0.90%
#10: Tim Elhajj: 0.84%
#11: Kyle Wilson: 0.83%
#12: Peter Olafson: 0.75%
#13: TSG: 0.73%
#14: XPav: 0.69%
#15: Christoph Nahr: 0.69%
#16: bmulligan: 0.67%
#17: Dirt: 0.66%
#18: Brad Grenz: 0.66%
#19: ydejin: 0.64%
#20: Anders Hallin: 0.63%

Close to half of all qualifying Qt3ers have never used a Hitler* word.

[size=5]Most frequent Bush* users:[/size]

#1: ydejin: 11.2%
#2: bmulligan: 8.98%
#3: Lizard_King: 8.95%
#4: Daniel Morris: 8.47%
#5: Brian Rucker: 8.05%
#6: Jim F.: 7.91%
#7: triggercut: 7.66%
#8: Chris Floyd: 7.63%
#9: Squirrel Killer: 7.21%
#10: asspennies: 6.82%
#11: jeff lackey: 6.45%
#12: Sharpe: 6.27%
#13: Brett Todd: 6.16%
#14: Dirt: 4.83%
#15: Jason McCullough: 4.75%
#16: graller: 4.70%
#17: HaveFun (Bill Huffman): 4.37%
#18: Rywill: 4.36%
#19: Linoleum: 4.34%
#20: XPav: 4.25%

[size=5]Most frequent War users:[/size]

#1: Daniel Morris: 21.0%
#2: Brian Rucker: 15.8%
#3: Idar Thorvaldsen: 15.0%
#4: Chris Floyd: 12.3%
#5: ydejin: 11.4%
#6: Cleve Blakemore: 11.1%
#7: triggercut: 9.91%
#8: Captain Cookiepants: 9.45%
#9: Squirrel Killer: 9.01%
#10: Jim F.: 8.87%
#11: TSG: 8.14%
#12: Brett Todd: 8.08%
#13: HaveFun (Bill Huffman): 7.42%
#14: AIM: 7.07%
#15: Kyle Wilson: 6.82%
#16: jeff lackey: 6.45%
#17: Jakub: 6.45%
#18: Peter Frazier: 6.32%
#19: Woolen Horde: 6.09%
#20: graller: 5.98%

Daniel Morris is 4th in Hitler*, 4th in Bush*, and 1st in War. Brian Rucker is a surprise, 5th in Bush* and 2nd in War.

[size=5]Least frequent War users:[/size]

#1: Tom Ohle: 0.00% (566 posts)
#2: Timemaster Tim: 0.00% (364)
#3: Rob_Merritt: 0.00% (327)
#4: DrDel: 0.00% (225)
#5: nutsak: 0.00% (192)
#6: ciparis: 0.26%
#7: Murph: 0.26%
#8: Matthew Gallant: 0.28%
#9: DaveC: 0.32%
#10: Drunkagain: 0.34%
#11: JD: 0.37%
#12: extarbags: 0.44%
#13: Angie Dietrich: 0.46%
#14: Jon R.: 0.46%
#15: Roger Wong: 0.49%
#16: Mike Cathcart: 0.51%
#17: Jim Preston: 0.52%
#18: Stroker Ace: 0.56%
#19: Charles: 0.64%
#20: Slothrop: 0.66%

Tom Ohle is an unusual story. He’s the only qualifying Qt3er to have zero uses of any of the wordsets, which is especially remarkable since he has made 566 posts.

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Since I don’t give a crap about this I’ll just post a question…
Was Tim Elhajj banned or something?

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I think someone said he went to the West Bank.

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A Qt3er’s rating in Hitler

Can we get our Hitler rating displayed below our post count?

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Ah, but see, our current CIC has too many nicknames for this to work. You’d also need to include Dubya, Shrub, Shrubya, W, and The Usurper, for instance, to catch all the QT3 mentions.

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I’m honestly shocked to see my name up there for Hitler. I guess a lot depends on context.

As for “war”, is this just Politics, or all forums? I play a lot of strategy games and it’s pretty hard to discuss them (or wargames even) without using the word “war”.

Troy

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I’m calling shennanigans.

There is no way you could accurately measure this across all posts over the last year+ without having an automated system or access to the database. If you did this manually is guaranteed to be totally rife with errors.

This is nonsense Koontz.

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Warcraft.

Damnit.

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Brian, how many replies containing the word ‘war’ would I have to make to this thread to get me off the list?

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oh, wait. do these all need to be in different messages to count?

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One thing screwy with these lists is that Koontz doesn’t take into account whether the words are quoted from someone else’s post or actually written by the person posting the message. So if you’re a diligent quoter, a lot of other people’s flotsam is going to count against you in the Koontz tallies.

And, no, Koontz certainly doesn’t have access to any special privileges on this forum. He’s just using the search function.

-Tom
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Oooh, Tom gets all touchy about collective guilt! Hitler-lover!

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I’m so proud, I finally made it onto a Koontzian analysis list! :D

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All Tom needs is to have Bioware release a game called “WAR: Hitler in the Bushes” and he’s all set.

Troy

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I hardly ever make these lists. This shows a great diversity in my posting procedures. By varying word use and argumentation, I have managed to avoid most Koontz lists. However, as Brian rightly noted, he and I share certain affinities and have, on occasion, been neighbors on the lists in which I do appear. Coincidentally, we are not neighbors in RL.

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He actually just posted a thread in Games. Said he’s stopped posting because he’s concerned about his name coming up in corporate background checks. I don’t know whether that means he’s posting under a pseudonym or not at all.

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Tee-hee.