MeFiWhack!

May 7, 2007 3:33 PM

Since apparently MeFi users want a way to rank each other, here's an easy way to do it. You take one of your posts, and a tag from that post. Then, you find out how many google hits the tag generates vs. the number of times it is used as a tag in MetaFilter. The winner is the person who has the highest google-hit to MeFi tag ratio.
posted by Deathalicious to MetaFilter-Related at 3:33 PM (18 comments total)

PS: I win.
posted by Deathalicious at 3:33 PM on May 7, 2007

Deathalicious writes "PS: I win."

21,900 to 1.
Score: 21,900

Try this

27,800,000 to 5
Score: 5,560,000
posted by Bugbread at 3:46 PM on May 7, 2007

Now we need an award ceremony, and we need to hold it on Mondays, so that I can say I can't miss my band rehearsal to pick up my Thowie.
posted by micayetoca at 3:49 PM on May 7, 2007

Did this really need another post? You should have posted this in the already existing thread, that is still on the front page of metatalk.
posted by bigmusic at 3:50 PM on May 7, 2007

Two posts tagged with 'score'.
347,000,000 Google results for 'score'.
Score: 173,500,000.
posted by chrismear at 3:57 PM on May 7, 2007

Great scoring system, it's hilarious.
posted by dabitch at 3:58 PM on May 7, 2007

Rocking the arbuckle at 1,170,000 : 2. 'kushari' is starting to look like a real loser, Deathalicious; in fact, any genuinely unusual word or phrase is likely to perform poorly as compared with a common word. Even "iran", for example, clocks in at 153,000,000:137. "iraq" at 154,000,000:651 performs less well but still trounces kushari by an order of magnitude.
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:05 PM on May 7, 2007

Consider also the noble the: ~5 BILLION ghits vs 28 tags.
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:07 PM on May 7, 2007

Hey, what about the rewards of giving? Being favorited way out of proportion to bestowing favorites just you look like a stingy attention whore.
posted by tula at 4:12 PM on May 7, 2007

I propose a system where we can 'digg' or 'bury' each other's posts.
posted by miniape at 4:16 PM on May 7, 2007

cortex writes "Consider also the noble the: ~5 BILLION ghits vs 28 tags."

Awesome.
posted by Bugbread at 4:17 PM on May 7, 2007

miniape writes "I propose a system where we can 'digg' or 'bury' each other's posts."

I propose a system where you get a point every time you propose a system.

Note that, with that system, the above statement recurses, giving me infinite points. I win!
posted by Bugbread at 4:18 PM on May 7, 2007 [2 favorites]

Ow, I lost a game where I made up the rules.

Okay, how about

(googlehits/(tags ^ 100))

That works.
posted by Deathalicious at 4:21 PM on May 7, 2007 [1 favorite]

Did this really need another post? You should have posted this in the already existing thread, that is still on the front page of metatalk.

Jeez, people act like MetaTalk is such precious real estate. Worst case I am pushing a snark further down the page.

Anyway, yay! MefiWhack!!
posted by Deathalicious at 4:22 PM on May 7, 2007

stop hurting metafilter.
posted by boo_radley at 4:36 PM on May 7, 2007

Think it's infected now.
posted by Dizzy at 4:37 PM on May 7, 2007

Wait a minute, The Onion is the #1 google hit for "the"? Who are they blowing?
posted by synaesthetichaze at 4:54 PM on May 7, 2007

I'm going to close this and you can discuss your various wackin' ideas in the already open thread.

p.s. don't hurt metafilter
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:47 PM on May 7, 2007