The Agrinautica

   So one of the primary reasons I wanted to start crunching numbers again was to determine to what degree there is a TL;DR effect on livejournal and/or what the optimum entry length is. I found the results surprising.



   Obviously the data set is quite small for the higher numbers, but altogether there are 122 entries considered here. These numbers are a bit all over the place (suggesting perhaps that length may not matter?), but it looks like to a certain degree longer entries get more comments (for the 13 entries over 1750 words, the average is 6.31 which is well over the average of 5.65), and few likes.
Shorter entries definitely get more likes, which I think makes sense, if there's not enough material for people to have something to comment on but they still liked it, well, they'll "like" it. In fact the combined likes+comments is remarkably even across the range.

   Obviously the comments per word are higher for shorter entries so if you do have ideas that can be separated from eachother its best to post them as separate entries.

   So yeah, at least if the readers of this livejournal are indicative of all readers on livejournal, there seems to be an insignificant TL;DR effect, people will be equally likely to engage in a long entry compared to a short entry. I'm afraid to push my luck with trying entries longer than 3000 words, but I'll probably see how more 2100 word entries do ;)


Unrelated Picture of the Day

(photo of the mess to be uprigged on "Schooner Pegasus" (actually Schooner Unicorn), photo that didn't quite make the cut for last entry