So there’s some problems here: the FF.net data is severely censored by the takedown; the FF.net review data seems to be inconsistent with your estimated total readership (every single reader would have to leave 2 reviews to make 16k readers match 37k reviews!); and it was 1 of 3 sources of traffic.
A “review” on fanfiction.net is a comment. Many readers who leave comments, leave one on many chapters or even every chapter. A reader saying “MOAR PLZ” on chapter 1 and “OMG LOL” on chapter 2 counts as 2 reviews.
Oh, I see you know that. I’m interested in your data on average # of reviews per user. 2.7 seems low. I checked this number by downloading all the comments on HPMOR today for chapters 1-4 by hand, extracting the usernames into one username per line, and comparing line count of that file to line count of sort -u . The result is that, in chapters 1-4, the average user left 1.48 comments. It therefore seems unlikely to me that it could be 2.7 over the entire story.
But these distributions are non-intuitive. Extending this to chapters 1-8 I get no increase in average comments per user; it changes to an average of 1.45.
A command to do this with downloaded chapter comments pages from fanfiction.net is
for i in `ls hpmor*`; do
echo $i;
perl -pi -e "s#<a href='/u/\d+/.+?'>(.+?)</a>.+#\nQZW USER=\$1#" $i;
grep "^QZW USER" $i >> u;
done;
sort -u u > u.uniq; wc u*
A “review” on fanfiction.net is a comment. Many readers who leave comments, leave one on many chapters or even every chapter. A reader saying “MOAR PLZ” on chapter 1 and “OMG LOL” on chapter 2 counts as 2 reviews.
Um… I am well aware of that, and already dealt with that in my analysis. So, any response to any of my other points?
EDIT: when you edit a comment which has been replied to to substantially address that reply, please don’t do that.
Oh, I see you know that. I’m interested in your data on average # of reviews per user. 2.7 seems low. I checked this number by downloading all the comments on HPMOR today for chapters 1-4 by hand, extracting the usernames into one username per line, and comparing line count of that file to line count of sort -u . The result is that, in chapters 1-4, the average user left 1.48 comments. It therefore seems unlikely to me that it could be 2.7 over the entire story.
It may seem low; nevertheless, when I downloaded all of MoR up to ch82 or whatever it was up to when I did that analysis, that was the average count. You can reuse my provided scripts if you doubt it. I don’t find it too hard to believe: there’s high reviewer mortality, and I noted that people tended to leave reviews on either the first chapter or last chapter and avoid middle chapters, so ch1-4 would not be a representative random sample.
EDITEDIT:
But these distributions are non-intuitive. Extending this to chapters 1-8 I get no increase in average comments per user; it changes to an average of 1.45.
Yep, like I said. Reviews are very non-uniformly distributed; besides the start/end effect for completed fics, there’s also the accumulation of reviews on the latest chapter, where chapters posted right before long hiatuses accumulate more reviews than chapters which are part of regular update periods.
A “review” on fanfiction.net is a comment. Many readers who leave comments, leave one on many chapters or even every chapter. A reader saying “MOAR PLZ” on chapter 1 and “OMG LOL” on chapter 2 counts as 2 reviews.
Oh, I see you know that. I’m interested in your data on average # of reviews per user. 2.7 seems low. I checked this number by downloading all the comments on HPMOR today for chapters 1-4 by hand, extracting the usernames into one username per line, and comparing line count of that file to line count of sort -u . The result is that, in chapters 1-4, the average user left 1.48 comments. It therefore seems unlikely to me that it could be 2.7 over the entire story.
But these distributions are non-intuitive. Extending this to chapters 1-8 I get no increase in average comments per user; it changes to an average of 1.45.
A command to do this with downloaded chapter comments pages from fanfiction.net is
Um… I am well aware of that, and already dealt with that in my analysis. So, any response to any of my other points?
EDIT: when you edit a comment which has been replied to to substantially address that reply, please don’t do that.
It may seem low; nevertheless, when I downloaded all of MoR up to ch82 or whatever it was up to when I did that analysis, that was the average count. You can reuse my provided scripts if you doubt it. I don’t find it too hard to believe: there’s high reviewer mortality, and I noted that people tended to leave reviews on either the first chapter or last chapter and avoid middle chapters, so ch1-4 would not be a representative random sample.
EDITEDIT:
Yep, like I said. Reviews are very non-uniformly distributed; besides the start/end effect for completed fics, there’s also the accumulation of reviews on the latest chapter, where chapters posted right before long hiatuses accumulate more reviews than chapters which are part of regular update periods.