June 26th, 2009

The Favored Ones »

thememegeneration:

lefauxfrog:

Favrd is a popularity contest, as we all know. I don’t begrudge any of the wonderful people on Favrd their status but I’d love to see a list of users ranked by the ratio of how many stars they accumulate divided by the number of followers they have. That would redefine the concept of a leaderboard and bring it closer to reality.

I have actually thought about doing that at one point or another.  I don’t know how much closer to reality it would bring it.  Maybe it would even out the middle of the curve, but @sween would suddenly seem infinitesimally funny, and someone with very few followers and 3 stars on a tweet would be king.

Though that would likely help people “discover” other people who’re funny in a way that the always scaling Favrd cannot right now.

it would have to be based on count of favrd-registered followers. also it would have to take into account the favoriting frequency of those followers. Also it would have to take into account how often the person tweets, at least if you want an accurate assessment of their batting average. Also we could work out a way to assign a weighted value to figure out the kind of sense of humor each favoriter has, to properly weight their stars for a sense of humor mismatch. Also it would have to be information that people actually use for some other purpose than to congratulate themselves, and I’m not so sure that it is, at least not on a broad scale. Stuff like this is fun but getting too concerned over how it is generated is only going to snowball us into tumblarity. I think being able to see the favorites of people we think we share interests with is sufficient.

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    1. designgeekery answered: Maybe someday I’ll be funny enough to make the leaderboard… until then I’ll settle for 5th page.
    2. jessabelle2o7 answered: This is really neat. Thanks, badgopher!
    3. thedayhascome reblogged this from badgopher and added:
      A sortable display of the funniest people on twitter, as determined by the Favrd leaderboard by badgopher. First, I...
    4. remiel answered: Sublime.
    5. monimus answered: How do I join the favrd?
    6. joeschmitt reblogged this from badgopher and added:
      most? How cool is this! @badgopher,...are my hero. Am I
    7. biorhythmist reblogged this from shanecyr and added:
      How about, as a crude heuristic, a leaderboard with...most starred tweets as selected...
    8. sistacrumpet answered: Yes. That. Thanks for saying what I’m thinking again, Michele.
    9. doublejack answered: What inthefade said. (Mostly — I still strive, but I think only like 4 of my followers are signed up with favrd, or are star-phobic…)
    10. everythinginthesky answered: You make _me_ laugh, Tony. So there’s that.
    11. shanecyr reblogged this from thememegeneration and added:
      it would have to be based on count of favrd-registered followers. also it would have to take into account the favoriting...
    12. east3rd answered: Answer? What was the question again? And what does this have to do with Brett Favre?
    13. angelablack answered: Yay! I’m on it now. I don’t say anything because, well, for the hundred millionth time - I’M CANADIAN but I knew I had been on it. Cartwheel.
    14. thefount answered: Forget the leaderboard, I’ve only gotten the requisite 3 stars twice. My followers need to step up their game. (Yes, it’s their fault.)
    15. ivegotzooms answered: I’ll put you and everyone else I adore on my leaderboard. I just don’t get around to publishing.
    16. stacey727 answered: That is really neat. That @sween though, wow.
    17. monkeyfrog answered: Or just be yourself and who cares. That’s a pretty good formula for some of us.
    18. thememegeneration reblogged this from tj and added:
      As long as Average is the default sorting order, I hereby call for this URL to be passed along ad infinitum. It makes it...
    19. redjeep answered: there’s a Favrd leaderboard…why don’t I get these freakin memos!
    20. bailey answered: BIORHYTHMIST IS PLAYING TOO! GReat job on the list! I’m proud of all of my imaginary friends :)
    21. myrm answered: I don’t get it: I’m not funny. Hm.