Comments on: 2009 Niblets Results — Analysis

By: Tracy M

Tracy M — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:35:21 +0000

Ziff, I’m late weighing in with my thanks, but really, Thank You. Stellar job, and great statistics.

By: Velska

Velska — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:08:53 +0000

I wonder if I could have qualified as a candidate for the best Mormon themed solo blog by a Finn?

Yah, sure… too square.

But really, I think this is building up the community where things can be discussed — we don’t have to agree about every detail to be on friendly terms. I don’t much care what others decide to do as long as they don’t try to force it on me. Why, I’ve had people scold me for drinking diet cola, and I’m totally square! But as my son said, when he spoke at Sacrament Meeting yesterday, that “we must learn to love our brothers like Jesus loves us.”

Good luck for all of you. At least nobody has pulled a plug on me yet.

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What is Interfaith Dialogue? « Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:48:51 +0000

[...] This is really bad for me, since according to both Mormon Matters’s Niblets categorization (Best contribution to interfaith dialogue) and Main Street Plaza’s Brodies categorization (“best bridge-building with the [...]

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:21:51 +0000

Thanks, Ziff. The surplus of female greatness is impressive.

I’m looking forward to seeing this at BCC next year.

By: fMhLisa

fMhLisa — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:03:34 +0000

Thanks for the Niblet everyone! And thanks to MM for hosting, you guys rock (but seriously I do kinda miss the drama.)

By: CarlosJC

CarlosJC — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:03:51 +0000

Impressive work! Interesting. Congrats.

(counting a ballot as an IP address from which .. one vote was received) , note that this can work within the US but in some countries privacy laws stop all tracing at the ISP server so then many voters will end up with the same IP address on your side.

By: danithew

danithew — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:55:41 +0000

Excellent work on this analysis. Wow.

By: Ziff

Ziff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:58:38 +0000

Thanks, Hawkgrrrl, Lynnette, and John.

chanson, unfortunately I think the limitation is that I can’t link an answer a person gives to one question with answers the same person gives to other questions. But I could be wrong. Is there more data stored than what’s displayed in the polls?

By: chanson

chanson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:04:28 +0000

Can you do this sort of analysis for the Brodies? Or does Poll Daddy not allow for this kind of detail?

By: John Hamer

John Hamer — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:54:55 +0000

Wow, Ziff — love the graphs, especially the race to best group blog nibblet (I was checking in during voting and caught an inkling of this pattern, but it’s cool to see the replay). Great job MM for hosting again this year — you guys have set a high bar for these. And thanks much to everyone for the votes.

By: Lynnette

Lynnette — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:51:40 +0000

As always, it’s fun to see your graphs, Ziff! Though it’s too bad you’re too honest to sneak in some kind of bonus Niblet for ZD.

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:16:34 +0000

Mwahahaha — it looks like even Ziff didn’t detect my nefarious ballot stuffing scheme.

By: hawkgrrrl

hawkgrrrl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:09:13 +0000

Ziff – great job!

By: Enna

Enna — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:44:13 +0000

Thanks BiV!

By: Ziff

Ziff — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:41:33 +0000

Thanks, BiV, mh, Kevin, FaithfulDissident, and Enna.

Rico, the one small bit of ballot stuffing I saw was for one of Brad’s posts, but it was less than 5 ballots and wouldn’t have changed the outcome.

By: Bored in Vernal

Bored in Vernal — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:25:48 +0000

Enna, right here for links to all nominations, as well as winners. Separate winner post with links is here.

By: Enna

Enna — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:03:25 +0000

Ziff, wonderful stats and commentary!

Is this too much to ask? Can we get links to the nominated comments/posts? Or at least the top three? At the very least the winners?

By: TheFaithfulDissident

TheFaithfulDissident — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:23:19 +0000

I never thought I’d be nominated for anything this year, let alone come in second place. Thanks, everyone, for all your votes. I’m in some great company and I’d just like to congratulate everyone for a job well done. Great posting and great commenting. And great job, Ziff!

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:34:19 +0000

Thanks Ziff. I agree with BiV that you deserve an honorary lifetime achievemet Niblet for your continuing work analyzing the Bloggernacle.

I didn’t even notice that the three folks who came in ahead of me for best overall blogger were all female until I read it in your analysis. I agree we have a surfeit of amazing women bloggers. You just have a knack of noticing small things like that.

By: mh

mh — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:17:57 +0000

I agree. a niblet should go to biv and ziff for putting together the past 2 year’s niblets.

By: Rico

Rico — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:12:08 +0000

Zff, just curious: is the JA Benson post the one that looks like Ballot-Stuffing?

Thanks to you BiV as well, and I am sure that many otehrs will shower laurels upon you for your work with this.

By: Bored in Vernal

Bored in Vernal — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:38:14 +0000

Ziff, a fantastic summary, as we have come to expect from you!!
Deserves a Niblet award in itself.

By: Ms. Jack Meyers

Ms. Jack Meyers — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:35:20 +0000

I just wanted to say, thank you everyone who voted for me in any of the categories where I was nominated. I was truly stunned by all the support.

Best commenter was close, but it looks to me like the best person won. Congratulations MikeInWeHo!