Interesting. I'd love to crawl through the data and make charts on this by
  1. Zaps
  2. Responses
  3. Link
  4. Link with content
  5. Share idea with content
  6. Original description with paragraphs, vocabulary, structure, grammar and word count.
  7. Responses with same metrics as 6
  8. How many thoughtful responses
  9. Divergent threads
  10. Paid responses
  11. Zapped responses
None of the above things seem random other than who is interested.
12 Bird dog metrics - Who actually shared posts outside and bright in New readers?
Yes, I'd love to dig into the data and anonymize the data in structures. Like painting a picture of the day's model discussion.
Whatever is going on here with Stacker I'm really liking it and I'd like to help it grow.
As far as what content works and what does not I learned from some very smart early media people that you never look behind for too long. You can get some data but it doesn't matter you keep working on the next thing and eventually you are recognized as the subject matter expert because you've done more work than anyone else.
This data would be interesting. Are you actually considering giving it a shot?
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I would love to but I don't have the access. I used to make data models for estimating in construction and other projects using open office, libre office connecting to a database using the base part of the SQL GUI and extracting different models.
Even when I used to do my taxes I would create a database and figure out where my money went. It made it fun to discover where I was buying crap.
My weakness is that I can make the queries but it would be much better to use SQL and then PHP to generate HTML presentations. This I am woefully under skilled.
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