I'd love to see the stats on the "quality" of comments over time.
Quality is subjective, but I'd put some qualifiers such as:
1. Grammar and spelling
2. Length of comment
3. Relevance to previous comment and subject matter
4. Lifetime of account
5. Posts per account
Obviously these can all be gamed, but might be interesting to see potential trends, because while it's a real trope to mention it, the quality of discourse seems to be falling off a cliff.
Quality is subjective, but I'd put some qualifiers such as:
1. Grammar and spelling 2. Length of comment 3. Relevance to previous comment and subject matter 4. Lifetime of account 5. Posts per account
Obviously these can all be gamed, but might be interesting to see potential trends, because while it's a real trope to mention it, the quality of discourse seems to be falling off a cliff.