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[learnedax]

It has been said several times that I seem to post quite rarely to LJ (for someone who actually uses his journal), and wondering if that's true I did a quick sanity check on the numbers. In five years I've averaged 2.5 days between posts. Amongst people I consider very active users, 1.5-2.5 days seems to be the typical range, with a small set way over (like jpicon with 2.6 posts per day), but not necessarily with a corresponding perception of increase in usage.

So, open-endedly, with perhaps some sort of poll to come once I've isolated the key factors, what do you think drives your perception of usage? Volume of posts? Length of posts? Consistency of posting (I for instance seem to have large variance between peaks of activity and valleys of not using LJ much at all)? Interestingness of posts? Comment volume of posts?

What makes you think someone is a significant user? Do you consider yourself a very active user, and what affects that perception?

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

1. You are bursty. For example you've posted more in the past two weeks, it feels like, than in the previous two months. (note: 'feels like')

2. Filters. I am 3x more verbose inside my filters. Others are worse or better.

3. 2.5/day vs 1/2.5 days is 6:1. That's a big difference...

4. Posting about self vs. posting about 'stuff' changes my perception. Not in an easily quantifiable way either.

5. Boring me vs. interesting me. If you interest me then I'll think you post less than you do. If you bore/annoy me I will think you post *more* than you do. This may be a superset of #4.

6. Frequent short posts seem more frequent than frequent long posts. This may fall under #5 above. (I don't care how many calories you had for lunch. Sorry.) lj-cuts matter here in a non-trivial interaction.

Re: Random reactions

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Interesting. The content impact is not wholly surprising, but I hadn't considered that #5 would be a sort of inverse correlation.

Re #3: it is a huge difference, but more than one per day, on average, seems to be out on the long tail.

Re: Random reactions

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I am at .85/day myself and consider myself to have slowed down a lot since joining 5 years ago.