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Help me understand why some people never recommend stories [1]
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Date: 2022-07-08
circa 1870: Workmen using a boring machine to cut tamp-holes in the rock face during the construction of the St Gothard tunnel under the Alps. Or maybe it's really us hand-crafting the trending list by cutting raw story recommends out of the earth's core. Who can know?
I have a particular puzzle, and I’d like some community help in solving it.
I collect two particular statistics for the site and have been for years. One is the distinct number of people who have recommended any story during the past month. Another is the distinct number of people who have written any comment in the last month. As a human, I expect that recommending stories is relatively easier than writing comments, and that more people would recommend stories than write comments. And yet: I’ve always been wrong. It’s always been that more people write a comment than recommend even one story in any given time period.
I don’t understand this.
Similarly, I also am interested in increasing a specific metric: the number of recommends that the top 10 recommended stories during a month receive. Most typically, the most recommended stories in a month might get ~1,000 recommend votes — even though those same stories might be viewed by hundreds of thousands of readers, a mix of anonymous and logged in.
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