Blogology Quantum Mishap
Okay so I don't know how this happened but I had a weird posting mishap. These "Blogology" posts I've been posting in the morning, because, you know, it's a better time to post, but I don't have time to write them; but I don't have time to write an entry in the morning so I write them the night before and hit "post" the next morning. This partially relies on the lj "draft autosave" feature but I also save it as a notepad text file in case it fails to upload. Now of course the other problem is in the morning I'm in a hurry and might not have had all my coffee yet. So last week I definitely remember booting up the computer, loading up the draft, clicking "post" and then shutting down my computer and going about my morning. However, if I recall correctly, a few hours later I looked on my phone for the entry to see if there were any comments and couldn't find the entry at all. So I think I loaded the "post an entry" page from my phone and then posted it from there. By the end of the day there were no comments at all which was kind of unusual so I looked at the entry again and saw it was somehow dated to the previous week, so I changed the date to the current week, though it seemed to be too late, there were never any comments.
Just now I was looked for the second-to-last most recent entry in the series and couldn't find it, and I realized, what I somehow did last week was overwrite the previous entry! My guess is when I opened livejournal on my phone it auto loaded that actual entry for some reason instead of the post new entry... or something. Fortunately I still have the text of the overwritten entry in the comment notification email I got to its one comment so I can resurrect it from that. And in the mean time here's the entry from last week you probably didn't see:
So last week we looked at the effect of days since last entry on comments to entries on livejournal, this week we'll look at something slightly different, the effect of number of entries in the previous week (preceding six days) on comments on entries:
So what's interesting here is there's a much clearer burnout effect than in the "days since last entry" chart. The more entries you've posted in the previous week, the fewer comments you'll get on your subsequent entries.
BUT also, what's kind of interesting, where the "days since" chart seemed to indicate if you just wanted to maximize your comments it was still better to post every day, this way of looking at it seems to indicate you'll actually maximize the total number of comments by posting about 4 entries a week. How do you square that with the "days since" chart? Well I guess if you post every other day, that's 5.75 commments per entry on that chart, which is better than the 5.45 average, though still less than what this chart says it should get you so maybe the posts previous to last which the first chart doesn't account for actually builds up some kind of blogmomentum, reverse burnout. Clearly this all needs more studying.
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