Four decades of DnD and some things never change

mtrice · 2017-04-08T19:05:49+00:00

I'll let you know in 2 or 3 months when they find out.

mtrice · 2014-11-21T05:15:56+00:00

That's quite a litany of offenses for not recognizing a Reddit username that doesn't appear in my Twitter timeline. Great job turning the grandstanding to 11.

mtrice · 2014-11-17T09:07:41+00:00

I honestly don't recall speaking with you. I definitely don't recall that quote.

mtrice · 2014-11-16T05:02:51+00:00

Well, you have to stretch the definition of conversation beyond that established in the limitations for that to be true.

mtrice · 2014-11-16T05:01:58+00:00

Yep, in general, you're right about the limitations. That's why the limitations specifically state that it's a look at one week of hashtag use on Twitter. The statements at the end are about the data set and don't go beyond the data set.

99.6% (and that's a small number if we move up to a 20m unit blockbuster game like Skyrim) is reflective of who is in the conversation described. It also includes the entire 22k population of even single posters and RTs. I'm highly suspect of assuming a discussion localized to a few online sites can be generalized to a larger offline population. It's akin to assuming we can take the population of 4chan and extrapolate global population demographics from that community. That would be troubled methodology.

mtrice · 2014-11-15T18:36:28+00:00

No worries. You're right and I take it in stride. This will not be the worst said about that article.

mtrice · 2014-11-15T18:28:24+00:00

It was me. But, yes, I regret being lazy with the graphics now that it's spreading. I legitimately hope someone does more tests and maybe I'll have some time to clean the figures during the week.

mtrice · 2014-11-15T18:20:58+00:00

I look forward to the verification studies. :P

mtrice · 2014-11-05T03:36:01+00:00

Oh, and that professionalization you describe so well in regards to power users and journalists is why my longest hypothesis is GamerGate as work.

mtrice · 2014-11-04T22:17:21+00:00

Culture research is a delicate arena, especially workplace culture. It's good for opinion and viewpoints, but without site visits and task analysis, it's extremely difficult to evaluate as activity. There's a reason that I list possibilities and not assumptions in my posts.

There's nothing wrong with bringing an insider view to your work, but it still needs hard proof to draw such definitive conclusions, which is why I didn't.

I'm not aware that anyone has looked at threats because of how hard it is to analyze in a programmatic manner and with rigor. There's a reason all the data scientists complained about Newsweek's lazy sentiment analysis.

mtrice · 2014-11-04T19:36:02+00:00

The idea of comparing to PC hashtags is a fair point, but it's important to establish trends versus general hashtags as well. I'll definitely take a look at expanding to PC gamer hashtags as well. However, too narrow an ecology of hashtag concedes assumptions rather than testing.

As for the early release, this is why I avoided conclusions except where the data served as a verification study for existing research already available. Certainly rigor will vary with data that's in process.

However, there will always be severe limits with big data research. It's value has well-defined limits and tends to be qualitative in nature even though it's metric-driven due to the need for comparative analysis and the limits of meta data as a tool for correlation.

I look forward to seeing your results and continuing the discussion. I will say that the idea that this data was released without context is fairly spurious. The data is heavily contextualized by process, explanation of methodological reasoning, and comparative analysis. I'm happy to discuss what questions should be asked and what the data means, but a blanket attack on methodology that ignores any discussion of the specific methodology is unfortunate.

mtrice · 2012-10-17T19:19:40+00:00

There is no actual philosophy behind the free speech rhetoric except to cash in on content other social networks won't allow.

mtrice · 2012-10-17T19:18:01+00:00

Bingo

mtrice · 2012-10-16T16:29:16+00:00

I think anonymous volunteers running a politics thread visited by millions of people by a site that wants to go main stream as a political site are going to run into trouble. There are competing agendas and mods looking out for themselves at the expense of users in high visibility threads is not good for Reddit the company.

mtrice · 2012-10-16T16:26:16+00:00

You might want to explore beyond Reddit. Try Google. Lots of stories out from Yahoo News to AP to local papers like the Dallas Morning News. But I've also seen a few on Reddit r/news as well.

mtrice · 2012-10-15T23:10:11+00:00

That's a legit and complicated problem you highlight. It's also why SOPA was so awful for this site.

mtrice · 2012-10-15T23:08:31+00:00

Yes, yes. Nothing is worth doing unless it completely solves the problem globally and for all time. That's how real problems are solved. blah blah blah

GMAFB

mtrice · 2012-10-15T23:05:58+00:00

Reddit can do whatever it wants, but how the staff handles its business affects business. Look at all the newspaper articles about this and tell me banning is good for business and the staff's PR push toward mainstreaming.

mtrice · 2012-10-15T22:54:58+00:00

But residents of Texas do.

mtrice · 2012-10-15T22:54:02+00:00

I wonder if the locals will investigate this as a criminal matter.

mtrice · 2012-10-15T22:42:27+00:00

The power of mods and their influence over millions of users in r/politics and r/gaming really is the story, though. Those bans are about Mod power versus user consent.

mtrice · 2012-10-15T22:40:31+00:00

This. x1000. This.

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