Every Single Last Article
Of the thousands and thousands of Bitmob articles submitted by staff and the community, how many have made it to the front page? How many remain unpublished?
-- Did you know that 208 News Blips articles have been published? I bet half have featured Activision in some way.
-- Quirky punctuation facts: 682 articles have a question mark in the title. Only 387 have an exclamation point. Ellipses...187.
-- We have a staff member who can travel through time: 48 articles have been back-dated to 2008. Jay Henningsen wrote 98% of them.
-- Currently, the staff and community have written 285 posts that used the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 tag. Compare to only 36 for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and 68 for God of War 3.
Giving You Something to Talk About
-- Do You Want to Play Halo: Reach Early? Like, Now? has the most comments of any Bitmob article. As you would expect, as Dan Hsu was handing out early invites to the Halo: Reach beta.
-- Professionalism in the Gaming Press by Eric Kozlowsky garnered the most comments of any community article.
-- Bitmob's most frequent commenters: Lance Darnell has made 3944 comments, and Toby Davis has left 2536. Now do you know why they are moderators?
-- The first community comment was posted by Jaryd Buzzell, followed by former EGM-er Greg Sewart. How quick was Jaryd? Here's how Shoe responded: "Thanks Jaryd! How did you find out, anyways? We haven't told anyone yet! ;)" That's pretty quick.
Radio Free Bitmob
-- This site has featured 165 podcast episodes. These include Mobcast, Pixel Revolt, Co-op, The Geek Box, and Rebel FM.
-- The total time for all Mobcasts clocks in at 60 hours, 13 minutes, and 52 seconds.
-- Bitmob likes guests: 78 different people have appeared on the Mobcast.
-- Fans have downloaded the Mobcast 520,000 times. Episode 08, featuring Shawn Elliott, Joe Fielder, and Greg Sewart, is the most popular episode of all time, closely followed by Episode 41, which featured Garnett Lee and Justin Fassino.
The Beginning and the End
-- If you listed all the Bitmob members who have contributed a post alphabetically, A.J. Minotti would be first and Zebulon Winzenried would be last. I think A.J. is cheating with the period in his name, and after a bit of research I have to conclude that Zebulon's name could be real. If so, it's the most awesome name of all time.
-- Aaron owns two pairs of video-game-themed pajama pants. He already unveiled his "Xbox 360 men's sleep pant." We've hidden the other pair. Until now!
Thanks for posting these numbers. I wish the game industry would do the same.
Looking at that picture of Aaron, I think we need to beat him up.
Go #3! Great number-crunching, Andrew.
Wait, why do I need to get beaten up? Is it for being too awesome? Guilty.
If all the shit you give to people on the Mobcast (Shanker, Brett, Shoe) didn't already seal it, that picture has officially made you the most awesome staff member of them all, Aaron.
Oh, and Andrew? Nerd! Why don't you use your calculator to calculate a comeback to that, dorkus maximus!
You tell'em, Alex!
"I think A.J. is cheating with the period in his name"
You're goddamn right he is!
:P
I always knew I was awesome.
So, if you post an article, you have a 50/50 chance of it making it to the front page?
Looks more like 40/60 to me, and the odds are probably getting worse as the number of articles submitted continues to grow. Of course, they don't choose pieces at random, so it should be taken as a very weak indicator.
I'm curious about stats for the most prolific editor (ie. who has promoted the most articles to the front page), although I'm guessing that's a little harder to track.
Awesome feature, but I would love to know more about the community writers.
@Richard One way of tracking it is seeing which editor has written the fewest posts. That could indicate who's posting the most community articles.
I really enjoyed this, and no one is ever going to catch Aaron!
@ Juan, I'll see what I can do for Part 2
I remember Aaron's God of War article. It was Bitmob Game Night with Uncharted 2, the article went up and Dan was informed the site was down. It was Aaron's high-res screenshots that did the trick.
@Richard I would bet it's James. His name is on everything! He's like my biggest fan.
Oh cool! I was hoping data like this might come out sometime. I had some ideas for other stats I'd like to see if you had the data for them:
1. What is the best time to post an article (maybe you could cross-reference posting times with highest-viewed articles.)
2. What percentage of community stories are promoted (you included ones that are promoted by default in your graph. The ones submitted by editors.)
3. What is the mean, median and mode for views of articles? And for comments?
4. Which top 100 article has the most words? The least words?
Just some things I'd be interested to see. Some are probably impossible from the data to which you have access.
I love these type of articles. Numbers are fun!
I always wondered how Bitmob got along and here it is! The site is doing well!
Facts and figures update: Matthew Orona's "My Four-Year-Old Son Plays Grand Theft Auto" just surpassed Rob's article as the most-viewed community submission. Congrats to Matthew!
Sounds like its time for an all new all-time top ten list.
I'm speechless. I still can't believe all the attention my article has been receiving. And I was just wondering how it was doing compared to others.