Re: Something odd about Woody

In article <9505310617.aa16498@dispatch.demon.co.uk>, <stark@prostar.com> wrote:

>I just noticed something extrememly odd about Woody of Borg.
just one thing? there's a number of things odd about the woodys.

>I observed that, while he posts 40 or so messages a day like our
>old friend Jack Farmer used to, they are not posted all in one
>bunch, but spread out somewhat evenly among the messages (in terms
>of when they were sent). I started looking through all his messages
>for last Friday and Saturday, and I discovered that Woody is spending
>tremendous amounts of time posting to ARS.
he has to word-clear everything before he can reply.

>For last Friday, his first message was posted at 11:16am (these
>times may be off by a few hours from when they were posted, as
>the system I was reading them on is in Chicago, and the Woodster
>is probably posting from the west coast). He posted steadily from
>then until 6:37pm, when he took a break for a few hours, finally
>coming back and posting again from about 9 to 9:30pm.
>There were at times breaks in the middle of his posting time of 45
>minutes or an hour on Fri and Sat, presumably for lunch, but other
>than that he posted steadily every few minutes. A short message
>would take him only a couple minutes, a longer one up to 15 or 20.
>On Saturday, he posted his first message at 10:35am, and didn't stop
>until 5:56pm. There was an hour break in the middle of this block
>of time.
>So... Woody spent 7 hours 45 minutes on Friday, and 7 1/2 hours on
>Saturday on ARS (probably an hour or so less, including breaks).
>Seven hours a day, 6 days a week (assuming he gets one day off
>>every< week, which he probably doesn't).
actually, he clearly takes sunday off, at least before 5pm. i have copies of everything woody's posted since 6 May. here's chart of posting times, adjusted to Pacific Daylight, by day of week and hour of day:

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 6 0 20 16 1 2 9 0 6 0 12 12 4 9 10 0 4 1 3 12 9 8 11 0 24 10 0 7 3 6 12 0 10 4 0 0 0 6 13 0 19 14 7 0 16 20 14 0 17 17 0 14 18 16 15 0 27 43 0 19 20 16 16 0 10 37 23 16 11 18 17 16 16 0 20 27 28 10 18 1 10 0 4 4 2 0 19 0 0 0 0 6 18 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

notice that he never posts before 8 AM, or after 8 PM. he rarely posts after 7 PM except on Thursday and Friday (maybe he's making sure he's on stat for the week?). Wednesday and Thursday mornings are more popular. Wednesday late morning and early afternoon are dead time (maybe they debrief then?) otherwise, he tends to hit his stride in the mid-afternoon. doesn't seem to take a consistent lunch. gets off early on Tuesdays. normally doesn't post on sunday, but has occasionaly posted a few articles after 5.

favorite time seems to be Tuesdays around 3 PM.

he's been pretty consistent at getting out close 50 messages per day, at least since the 15th. the 21st was the only Sunday he's posted at all. notably, he had 48+48+39+51+48+49=283 message coming into that Sunday. he posted 17, for a nice round 300. methinks he logged in Sunday to get his stats up--300 appears to have been his goal that week. let's see. the following week: 48,50,48,57,57,55: 315. 5% growth. can we expect 330 this week, woodster? or, rather, 330.75, but that's kinda hard, so maybe it should be 331 instead... my count shows you're behind: you've only got 78 thru Tuesday. 252 to go!

my archives get spotty before May 15, so someone else will need to check his counts to see if he was targeting specfic values before then.

there are additional factors involved here that some readers are already aware of, but that i would prefer not to discuss at this time.