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U-Man, please see this post for the definition of NVC (swampa had the same question). Eventually that’ll make it to a tool tip and FAQ page. Earlier in that same thread I also discussed possible reasons for what should be only slightly different vote totals.

Clicking to popup an original size version and linking to the entry in the Fark thread are both on the agenda.

And thank you! I’ll try to put up a PP donation button eventually, perhaps when I’ve got the navigation all tied together.

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Scarlet R: jtips’ entry was previously used in Artistic Bent

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A couple of minor updates:

• User stats are now updated in “real time” (i.e., every 15 minutes). All the stats on your Statistics tab will reflect the status of your current entries.
• Viewing user entries by contest is now sorted in date descending order. (I got tired of having to page to the end to view the active contest.)

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Turns out you’re actually really close, U-Man. I just looked it up on dictionary.com to checks its etymology and:

Origin:
1630?40; < Latin prūrient– (stem of prūriēns), present participle of prūrīre to itch

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Some bees here.

Now that I’ve posted them, I’m wondering whether my pirate B&D shot would’ve appealed more to Fark’s prurient nature…

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It’s on the first post, but we’re several pages in now, so here ’tis again:

NVC, which stands for Normalized Vote Count, is the number of votes that an entry would’ve received if the total votes cast in the contest was 1000. Due to the wide disparity of voter turnouts, it’s a more apples-to-apples method of comparing vote counts across contests. For example, someone getting 40 votes in a contest with 3000 votes cast (13.33 NVC) is actually less significant than someone getting 20 votes in a contest with 1200 votes cast (16.67 NVC).

You can also look at it as the percentage of total votes cast in tenths of a percent; e.g., 98.50 NVC = 9.85% of total votes.

The relationship between votes and NVC is most easily seen in the Color Popping Naturally contest which had an even 2000 total votes cast. In that contest, NVC is exactly half of votes.

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Well, ya learn something new every day, I guess. I never noticed the start/end filters before.

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Nope. It keeps track of the number of posts you’ve submitted there (it’ll say something like “Displayed 0 of 70 comments”), but once the posts roll off, they’re gone.

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I use it to test my auto-posts each week and posts there don’t hang around very long at all, a few hours at most.

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Very nice indeed! The focus on Sunrise Watcher is perfect.

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I don’t think anybody expects you to spend that much time on it!

Too late for that! I can’t count the time I’ve put into this between the scrapers and uploaders and the website itself. And I say that not to garner sympathy or attaboys, because I’m doing it (mostly) for my own entertainment. Y’all just get to benefit from it. 😉

I wasn’t upset by any means, I just felt like poking at you.

Oh, I know. Besides, we’ve already had conversations about your screwed-up priorities, putting health issues ahead of farktography stats. 😛

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Minor Updates Announcement

Just published some minor updates:

• Removed the participation grade entirely
• Shifted the participation rate to the period stats
• Added average entries/contest stat
• Made all contest themes and usernames links to their respective pages

The last one’s the biggie of these. Any place you see a contest theme or username, it should now be a link to take you to that contest’s or user’s page on BiblioStats. There’s still no dedicated nav panel, but this should allow us to browse amongst the usable pages a little easier.

Kes, traffic-wise, BiblioStats is as ready for primetime as it’s gonna get. I’m fine with you posting a link to it, although I’d probably note that it’s a work in progress and also post a link to this thread for clarification.

If you do post a link, you have a couple of choices:

1. Use http://www.bibliostats.com/farktography/contest so that it always points to the latest contest; or
2. Use http://www.bibliostats.com/farktography/contest/324 so that it always points to the contest in the thread. If you go with this option, you’ll want to update the contest ID each week. Also note that this option will go to an error page during the TF-only period until the contest is created at midnight.

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You guys did notice that there were other features there aside from the participation grade, right? 😕

It’s a pretty straightforward calculation. For example, SilverStag, your first contest was #15. There have been 309 contests since then and you’ve entered 184 of them. 184/309 = 59.5% (the participation rate), which on a standard American school grading scale is an F (A=90-100, B=80-89, C=70-79, D=60-69, F=0-59). For orionid, your first contest was #119, giving 205 total contests of which you’ve entered 146 or 71.2%.

It certainly wasn’t meant to offend, it just seemed like an easy way to assign a “label” to the rate. I didn’t go through and check a lot of users, so I didn’t see that many would have low grades.

Given that, I’ll probably either move the participation rate & grade to the period stats (SQ, SY, & Overall), eliminate the grade altogether. or move to a grading curve (as much as I hated those in school). I’m certainly open to suggestions.

Or, you could all write a 1500-word essay on the history of photography for extra credit. 😆

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New Feature Announcement

You asked for it, so here it is… Individual stats.

You can view your stats (or those of anyone else) on the same user page as before:

http://www.bibliostats.com/farktography/user/UserName

where UserName is the Fark username you’re interested in. Note that capitalization isn’t important in the URL.

The user pages now include a tab full of stats and multiple ways to view entries: by contest (in ascending date order), Place, Votes, or NVC. Remember that NVC represents a percentage of total votes, so that’s a good way to see which entries got the highest percentage of all votes cast.

Some definitions/explanations:

1. Sliding Quarter is the last 12 contests (approx 3 months)
2. Sliding Year is the last 52 contests
3. Participation rate is calculated from the total number of contests since your first contest divided by the number of contests you’ve entered.

Two caveats:

1. Most of the stats are static for now. It shouldn’t take much to add real time updates, so hopefully that’ll happen by the end of the upcoming contest.
2. The charts tab is disabled for now. At some point there’ll be charts for user stats, but they’re not there yet.

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See Canon users aren’t just the debbil, they’re also hipsters.

Sorry, I can’t be bothered with the opinions of you non-photographers. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to tighten my suspenders, clean my thick-rimmed glasses, pop open a PBR, and go shoot some sidewalk cracks…

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