I agree with you. It looks like a dirty exponenetial growth curve.
But when I was typing the post it was really bulky to keep saying “time period with extremely high comment count”, or “high comment volume time period”, so I decided to call it an anomaly, just so I could go back and replace all those 7-word phrases with a single word. It made it MUCH easier to read, at the trade-off of labeling a not-very-anomalous thing as an anomaly.
If you have a better work-around, I’d love to hear it (but I’m not going back to “time period with extremely high comment count”, because it makes it too hard to read)
I agree with you. It looks like a dirty exponenetial growth curve.
But when I was typing the post it was really bulky to keep saying “time period with extremely high comment count”, or “high comment volume time period”, so I decided to call it an anomaly, just so I could go back and replace all those 7-word phrases with a single word. It made it MUCH easier to read, at the trade-off of labeling a not-very-anomalous thing as an anomaly.
If you have a better work-around, I’d love to hear it (but I’m not going back to “time period with extremely high comment count”, because it makes it too hard to read)