Rating of Communities (original) (raw)

To get things started we are going to review several communities right now. This may not match the thoroughness or procedures that will be utilized once we get going. I suppose someone can remotion for a reconsideration of these communities at a later time. For now however:

Case # 1 - ehippy
Categories: rating, hippie, hippie rating, new
Age of community: one week
Members: 4
Entries: 1
Comments per entry: 4
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: insipid
Other: A rating community for hippies??!? Are you fucking kidding me?!
Verdict:

Totally lame

. Actually I suppose it might serve a purpose as a method to identify total hypocrit hippies. So far it gets my lowest rating, though I suppose its the best in the category of hippie related ratings communities?

Case # 2 - pro_frasky
Categories: anti-cool, Fittzian
Members: 16 (+.5 / month)
Entries per month: .78
Comments per entry: 1.64
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: Enlightened
Other: supports the use of interesting words
Verdict:

awesome

. Frasky even.

Case # 3 - _____elite
Categories: general personal rating, rating,
Age of community: Four months
Entries per month: 2
Comments per entry: 4.63
Members: 5 (+1.25 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: vapid
Other: "____"s in names are lame. half the posts are calls to everyone to promote.
Verdict:

lame

(

), dying.

Case # 4 - hot_or_die
Categories: general personal rating, rating
Entries / month: 21
Comments per entry: 16.25
Members: 178 (+8.48 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: banal
Other: "...because _hottasfuck_ already has enough sluts. THIS IS THE ONLY RATING COMMUNITY THAT MATTERS. You get in based on looks, your taste and intelligence." - the userinfo
Verdict:

lame

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)

Case # 5 - ucdavis
Categories: geographic, university, UC Davis
Entries per month: 210
Comments per entry: 15.5
Members: 932 (+27.7 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: a few nuggets of intellect imedded in a lot of flavourless fluff.
Other: 1trophi is the self declared king?
Verdict:

if you're into that kind of thing

(

). Personally I live in the requisite geographic area but find the community to be a waste of space on my friends page... and my friends page is looking pretty dreary these days! A better UC Davis community is:

Case # 6 - ucdavass
Categories: geographic, university, UC Davis
Entries per month: 1.77
Comments per entry: 3.00
Members: 44 (+1.69 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: Strangely excited by pictures of local rumps
Other: 1trophi is not the self declared king.
Verdict: The definitive UC Davis community, at least as long as Daviswiki doesn't count. (

Case # 7 - ratemypic

Categories: appearance rating, rating
Entries per month: 6.54
Comments per entry: 4.46
Members: 66 (+2.54 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: unusually friendly
Other: it appears that though people are rated based on their pictures, one doesn't need to be approved to become a member and rate people
Verdict: less petty than the other ratings communities, but in the end its still just a giant exercise in vanity.

lame

(

D+

Case # 8 - rate_my_face
Categories: appearance rating
Entries per month: 5.17
Comments per entry: 1.9
Members: 54 (+3.00 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: strangely uncommunicative. There's just the pictures and the numbers (ratings).
Other: Not even the user info says much. These people aren't into talking I guess
Verdict:

lame

Case # 9 - schoolofblog
Categories: blogology
Entries per month: 0.61
Comments per entry: 6.55
Members: 16 (+0.89 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: ingenius
Verdict:

awesome

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). Existant members should be given PhDs in blogology and the rest of you should study their writings.

Case # 10 - mymomreadsmylj
Categories: situational
Entries per month: 0.09
Comments per entry: 1.00
Members: 1 (+0.09 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: sheer unbelievable terror
Other: This community is for griping about the fact that your mother reads your lj, your suspicions that she does, or your incredible fear of the possibility. (or I suppose "mother" in the above can be substituted by "father," "parole officer," or "vampire overlord," etc.) -"About"
Verdict:

operating significantly below potential

. Its potential constituents either don't know about it or perhaps are too terrified to join and potentially alert their mothers that they know.

Case # 11 - we_miss_u_fittz
Categories: special interest, Fittzian
Entries per month: .33
Comments per entry: .25
Members: 5 (+0.42 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: Missing
Other: the undead souls of missfittz and apoplecticfittz continue to blog on!
Verdict:

awesome

Case # 12 - fitz_is_stupid
Categories: special interest, Fittzian
Entries per month: 5.3
Comments per entry: 11.9
Members: 190 (+6.13 / month)
Mentality exhibited by members in posts and comments: dislike for apoplecticfittz.
**Other:**seriously wtf
Verdict:

evil