{"id":1699,"date":"2009-02-13T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/02\/13\/the_nature_of_network_comments\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:56:36","slug":"the_nature_of_network_comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/02\/13\/the_nature_of_network_comments\/","title":{"rendered":"The nature of network comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy period of <del>faffing about on the internet<\/del> intensive study, I have <del>invented<\/del> devised a statistical <del>thingy<\/del> <del>what the hell is it called<\/del> matrix to help my fellow NN bloggers predict the kind of comments they are likely to receive on a given post.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3357\/3276793206_c8d41cc5df_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3357\/3276793206_c8d41cc5df_b.jpg\">Clearer version on Flickr<\/a><br \/>\nThe most interesting predictions inferred from this <del>matrix<\/del> <del>whatsit<\/del> model are that pedants haunt the internet, ready to pounce on any new post within secunds of publication; and that the first instance of the &#8220;cat&#8221; or &#8220;pun&#8221; comment class on a given thread is likely to spawn a sudden avalanche of similar comments.<br \/>\nAlso, queries about the destination of a given public transportation device are likely to kill the thread.<br \/>\nPlease help me to test the Ennis Comments Hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lengthy period of faffing about on the internet intensive study, I have invented devised a statistical thingy what the hell is it called matrix to help my fellow NN bloggers predict the kind of comments they are likely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/02\/13\/the_nature_of_network_comments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}