Comments on: Top of the Blogs: The Golden Ton (Nos. 11-20) http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Geoffrey Payne http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96272 Geoffrey Payne Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:18:05 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96272 Mark, haven't you got some constitutions you should be reading? OK don't tell me. You have read them all and know them all off by heart. Mark, haven’t you got some constitutions you should be reading? OK don’t tell me. You have read them all and know them all off by heart.

]]> By: Mark Valladares http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96257 Mark Valladares Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:19:26 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96257 The idea of weighting them by number of readers is a good one though. Can anyone let me have the figures? It will give me something to do when I'm not drafting the first ever Focus leaflet with a Valladares on it... The idea of weighting them by number of readers is a good one though. Can anyone let me have the figures? It will give me something to do when I’m not drafting the first ever Focus leaflet with a Valladares on it…

]]> By: James Graham http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96255 James Graham Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:11:26 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96255 I am a pluralist! That's why I want you to do MORE work, not less! :) I am a pluralist! That’s why I want you to do MORE work, not less! :)

]]> By: Mark Valladares http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96254 Mark Valladares Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:57:10 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96254 Martin, Had a headache and couldn't sleep. However, we can agree on one thing... Norfolk... James, It's all a bit of fun. Besides, a thought that you were a pluralist... :)) Martin,

Had a headache and couldn’t sleep. However, we can agree on one thing… Norfolk…

James,

It’s all a bit of fun. Besides, a thought that you were a pluralist… :) )

]]> By: Mark Pack http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96247 Mark Pack Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:39:20 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96247 Mind you, if you wanted to throw a bucket of cold water on the whole thing, you could point out that if a blog has built up a good audience of regular readers, it's much less likely to pick up traffic via Lib Dem Blogs as more people will be reading it directly rather than via LDB. So not appearing in the Golden Ton is a sign of success. (Or so says Pink Dog, who isn't biting my ankle at the moment, oh no, and doesn't have a bitter bone in her body.) Mind you, if you wanted to throw a bucket of cold water on the whole thing, you could point out that if a blog has built up a good audience of regular readers, it’s much less likely to pick up traffic via Lib Dem Blogs as more people will be reading it directly rather than via LDB. So not appearing in the Golden Ton is a sign of success. (Or so says Pink Dog, who isn’t biting my ankle at the moment, oh no, and doesn’t have a bitter bone in her body.)

]]> By: James Graham http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96246 James Graham Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:55:59 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96246 Mark, you make a good point in that first place probably shouldn't be counted as equal to 100th, but then that is precisely what the Golden Ton is listing. Should a poll of polls weight posts according to ranking? Ideally, yes but that weighting should depend on traffic, which we don't have here. I sincerely doubt that the 100th placed post had less than a tenth of the traffic of the first placed post, let alone a 100th, which is what your system presumes. Go away and recalculate it based on a log scale won't you? There's a good chap! :P Mark, you make a good point in that first place probably shouldn’t be counted as equal to 100th, but then that is precisely what the Golden Ton is listing.

Should a poll of polls weight posts according to ranking? Ideally, yes but that weighting should depend on traffic, which we don’t have here. I sincerely doubt that the 100th placed post had less than a tenth of the traffic of the first placed post, let alone a 100th, which is what your system presumes.

Go away and recalculate it based on a log scale won’t you? There’s a good chap! :P

]]> By: Martin Land http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96244 Martin Land Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:41:43 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96244 Mark, please arrange the following into a well known phrase or sentence: Life a get It must be something in the water in Suffolk... Mark, please arrange the following into a well known phrase or sentence:

Life a get

It must be something in the water in Suffolk…

]]> By: Mark Valladares http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96239 Mark Valladares Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:22:23 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96239 I thought that we should have a variation, so I've granted each entry points based on where it is on the list, i.e. 1 point for 100th, 2 points for 99th, etc. Interestingly, the top 10 reads: 399 Alex Wilcock 397 Peter Black 356 Lib Dem Voice 332 James Graham 300 Mark Valladares 197 Irfan Ahmed 193 Darrell Goodliffe 186 Anders Hansen 142 John Abrams 135 Sara Bedford which leaves the same top 5 (what on earth am I doing there?) with the only difference being that James is fourth, not first... I thought that we should have a variation, so I’ve granted each entry points based on where it is on the list, i.e. 1 point for 100th, 2 points for 99th, etc. Interestingly, the top 10 reads:

399 Alex Wilcock
397 Peter Black
356 Lib Dem Voice
332 James Graham
300 Mark Valladares
197 Irfan Ahmed
193 Darrell Goodliffe
186 Anders Hansen
142 John Abrams
135 Sara Bedford

which leaves the same top 5 (what on earth am I doing there?) with the only difference being that James is fourth, not first…

]]> By: James Graham http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-ton-nos-1120-2-15835.html#comment-96230 James Graham Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:58:12 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=15835#comment-96230 Good grief. I didn't realise you were going to spread this out so much. Will it be a top 5 tomorrow? :P Anyway, the scores on the doors stand at: James Graham: 9 Alex Wilcock: 8 Lib Dem Voice: 7 Peter Black: 7 Mark Valladares: 5 John Abrams: 4 Costigan Quist: 4 Sara Bedford: 3 Helen Duffett: 3 Jonathan Calder: 3 Irfan Ahmed: 3 Darrell Goodliffe: 3 Anders Hanson: 3 Jonathan Fryer: 2 Alex Folkes: 2 Martin Land: 2 Duncan Borrowman: 2 Paul Walter: 2 Steve Cooke: 1 Andrew Porrer: 1 Barrie Wood: 1 Jock Coats: 1 Andy Strange: 1 Antony Hook: 1 Huw Dawson: 1 Liberal Vision: 1 Jennie Rigg: 1 Julian Harris: 1 Bernard Salmon: 1 Alasdair Wood: 1 Ruaraidh Dobson: 1 Linda Jack: 1 Nich Starling: 1 Charlotte Gore: 1 David Walker: 1 Jonathan Wallace: 1 Good grief. I didn’t realise you were going to spread this out so much. Will it be a top 5 tomorrow? :P

Anyway, the scores on the doors stand at:

James Graham: 9
Alex Wilcock: 8
Lib Dem Voice: 7
Peter Black: 7
Mark Valladares: 5
John Abrams: 4
Costigan Quist: 4
Sara Bedford: 3
Helen Duffett: 3
Jonathan Calder: 3
Irfan Ahmed: 3
Darrell Goodliffe: 3
Anders Hanson: 3
Jonathan Fryer: 2
Alex Folkes: 2
Martin Land: 2
Duncan Borrowman: 2
Paul Walter: 2
Steve Cooke: 1
Andrew Porrer: 1
Barrie Wood: 1
Jock Coats: 1
Andy Strange: 1
Antony Hook: 1
Huw Dawson: 1
Liberal Vision: 1
Jennie Rigg: 1
Julian Harris: 1
Bernard Salmon: 1
Alasdair Wood: 1
Ruaraidh Dobson: 1
Linda Jack: 1
Nich Starling: 1
Charlotte Gore: 1
David Walker: 1
Jonathan Wallace: 1

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