Is Eplaya just an insiders club for 5 people?

III · Post by **III** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 5:36 pm

i'm happy to say that i'm down to #8, and dropping.

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 5:42 pm

Anonymous wrote:
princess strych-9 wrote:even tho we're neck and neck, i'm sure you'll concede, kinetic, that our experiences in the top ten have been very different.

for me the quantifying factors are as follows:

a) coming home to find that my pm folder was %100 full.
b) number of marriage proposals.
c) number of ongoing cyber sex negotiations.
d) number of pm messages that read: "hey, nice ass!"

have you gotten any of those, kinetic?
wow, who pissed in your cheerios this morning? feel better now?

i think it was god.

yes, after getting some sleep i do feel better. considering the fact that my marriage almost ended last night.

any more questions, smart ass?

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 6:35 pm

Lydia Love wrote:
HOWEVER: if the answer to the question "Is Eplaya just an insiders club for 5 people?" turns out to be "Princess Strych-9 plus four highly-skilled lovers," that changes everything.
I demand double billing... where's my agent? I'm a dirty-girl too damnit!

I can't work like this. I'll be in my trailer.

don't be cranky, lydia. come on over to my trailer and we'll give all those motherfuckers something to talk about.

PJ · Post by PJ » Sat Sep 27, 2003 6:45 pm

Romance? Romance is good.

DogBoy · Post by **DogBoy** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 6:53 pm

What the...OMYGOD!!! MY EYES!!!

Crack Kills.

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 2:50 pm

Bob wrote:Barely warm.

My ass?

<img src="http://aufinetin.weblogger.com.br/img/G ... %20ass.jpg">

Could Someone Hit The Light For Me!

"I look inside myself, and all I see is you."
remarkably,
mr smith

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 4:00 pm

In one way I like that pic, in another way I hate it.

It reminds me of some corporate management types.

Angry Butterfly · Post by **Angry Butterfly** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:21 pm

Give me a job and i will stop HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:25 pm

term / no. of Google hits
------------------------------------

job / 86,900,000

rangers / 4,230,000

dpw / 282,000

insider's club / 4290

axis of fuckwits / 8

ramen · Post by **ramen** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 12:58 am

Moof, moof!

Clarus, the dogcow, that is!

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:19 am

ITYM "Dogelope".

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:22 am

BTW... the soundbite is "barf! barf!" not "moof! moof!"

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:01 am

hey ag - what kind of job?

antron · Post by **antron** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:12 pm

i just had a look at the posters, and here are some interesting statistics:

100% of all the posts are posted by 1411 posters in all. that's more than half of the 2270 registered users posting. participation by more than half of the registered posters is not bad, in my experience with online communities.

there also is a regular pattern of posts and posting behavior that is consistent across the population. it's actually following a pretty simple formula: if you take the maximum posts by any user, you can predict next poster's total. the formula is roughly predictednumberofpostsfornext user=0.7*userprevious+0.3*nextposterrank
a nice curve of posts is produced that matches the behavior of the eplaya population.

eplaya posting behavior is pretty consistent. i guess it's up to you to choose whether to participate or not.

III · Post by **III** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:27 pm

>eplaya posting behavior is pretty consistent.

i just fought with excell for a bit, to try to get a profile of how different topics within the eplaya do.

i basically divided the number of total posts within a topic by the number of threads. numbers close to one meant that few people read, or participated in the threads.

most threads had interest quotients below 5, while a couple (including "2003 theme, beyond belief", "experiences", and "general discussion") had interest quotients above 25.

dunno what that says about the posters, except that some categories are (a lot) more important to them than others.

madmatt · Post by **madmatt** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:35 pm

Hey III,

First let me say that, that's fascinating! Second, let me respond to your comment "don't know what that says about..."

It means that you, for one thing, are obsessed with the eplaya. You tell me, is that good or bad?

antron · Post by **antron** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:40 pm

madmatt wrote:It means that you, for one thing, are obsessed with the eplaya. You tell me, is that good or bad?

hey, um, matt?
take a look in the mirror, bud.
you seem to be obsessed with diagnosing the obsessions of others.
is that healthy?

III · Post by **III** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:45 pm

>you, for one thing, are obsessed with the eplaya.

i'll admit to it being a subset of a larger obsession: communities, and how to nurture them.

i've got engineering geekery in me, and part of that means that if i want to improve something, or even just be able to tell if changes are improvements, is that i need metrics for being able to evaluate those things. there are no perfect metrics, but "it feels this way to *me*" is not much to base an argument on. so, i'm looking, and thinking, and maybe at some point i'll hit on something that makes sense.

madmatt · Post by **madmatt** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:47 pm

Antron, III -

I knew that would come out wrong. I did actually find that fascinating. And it's clear that we're all obsessed with the eplaya. So, yeah.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:10 pm

Yep. It's also a saddening to know that the 'Sexual Harassment' thread seemed to be leading all others in terms of the number of viewers for a bit.

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:16 pm

you're late, ya fuckin noobs.

510-233-2914
6608 cutting blvd
el cerrito

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:21 pm

I can't make it as I'm still 1800 miles East of ya. But I did look at a map and realized I passed right by there when I left BM and went on to SF.

That whole East Bay area got me confused...which city is which, etc. If I ever get to move out there it's going to be fun figuring it all out. Hell I didn't even know where the Caldecott tunnel was located until today when I saw it on the map. I've got a lot to learn about the BA.

Angry Butterfly · Post by **Angry Butterfly** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:05 pm

alice wrote:hey ag - what kind of job?

I am a graphic designer / fine artist trained as an industrial designer, I know injection molding, asssembly , a little metalworking, I am really good in retail, A friend described me as a "Jane of all trades" I have this anxiety disorder so I need to work in a low stress kind of place, or dope myself up to the gills, which I don't like to do. I prefer to treat it holisticly, and that includes working fewer hours. that is what makes it hard for me to find a job, I am a freelancer, and I would really like to have a steady income instead but I'm having a hard time finding a steady job, I'm looking for 20 hours a week max, partialy because my freelance is going pretty well. I always seem to have problems if I work more than that. It's too bad really, I used to be able to work 90 hour weeks and be fine. I tried getting into this program for people with hidden disabilities, but you have to be in treatment to qualify, and my insurance ran out because my husband and I lost our jobs.

nymphgonebad · Post by **nymphgonebad** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:48 pm

Angry Butterfly wrote:
alice wrote:hey ag - what kind of job?
I am a graphic designer / fine artist trained as an industrial designer, I know injection molding, asssembly , a little metalworking, I am really good in retail, A friend described me as a "Jane of all trades" I have this anxiety disorder so I need to work in a low stress kind of place, or dope myself up to the gills, which I don't like to do. I prefer to treat it holisticly, and that includes working fewer hours. that is what makes it hard for me to find a job, I am a freelancer, and I would really like to have a steady income instead but I'm having a hard time finding a steady job, I'm looking for 20 hours a week max, partialy because my freelance is going pretty well. I always seem to have problems if I work more than that. It's too bad really, I used to be able to work 90 hour weeks and be fine. I tried getting into this program for people with hidden disabilities, but you have to be in treatment to qualify, and my insurance ran out because my husband and I lost our jobs.

i have a few art-type business: www.hellopussy.org and www.nymphgonebad.net

i could use a partner - interested?

antron · Post by **antron** » Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:45 pm

alice wrote:www.nymphgonebad.net

one way to clean up a nymph gone bad

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:40 am

I just want that nymph's wings for a costume idea I have for next year.

michael · Post by **michael** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:08 am

At least 62% of the registered eplaya users have made at least one post, as of some time during the day of 10/01/03.

If anyone replies to these posts... hmm?

Kinetic · Post by **Kinetic** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:14 pm

spanky! wrote:At least 62% of the registered eplaya users have made at least one post, as of some time during the day of 10/01/03.

If anyone replies to these posts... hmm?

After your first comment on this I pulled up some of those single posts and responded to a few.

I hate any kind of number crunching or metrics so I'm glad there are people out there willing to analyze this stuff.

DE FACTO · Post by **DE FACTO** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:07 pm

Is Eplaya just an insiders club for 5 people?

I wonder if anything has really changed?

IMHO I think it's gotten better.

rodent · Post by **rodent** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:44 pm

nope, all of the eplaya content is created by 5 socks. I've got photographic evidence and scanned mayo, er... memo's that PROVE it,

---
rodent (putting the eek in geek)

Is Eplaya just an insiders club for 5 people?

Don't Press That Button!....

jog offer

party at alice's love shack

Re: jog offer

Re: jog offer

Re: jog offer

Nope

Re: Nope