Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments from 2006

January 9th, 2007

UPDATE: Top 1001 Duplicate Digg Comments

With all of the “But will it blend” and “Pic it or it didnt happen” comments on digg.com I though it would be interesting to tally up the duplicate comments from the last year. My script ran through 1,255,627 comments from the ~30,000 most popular stories of last year. I also put together a Digg Cliche Comment Generator from this data.

# of Duplicates Comment
1 812 http://duggmirror.com
2 289 …
3 227 lol
4 220 bury
5 154 no.
6 128 yes.
7 107 cool
8 105 yes
9 101 digg down
10 101 oops
11 90 nice
12 87 lame
13 78 what?
14 71 deleted
15 66 agreed
16 66 awesome
17 66 agreed.
18 63 rtfa
19 62 o rly?
20 58 why?
21 57 delete
22 56 edit
23 55 rofl
24 53 dupe
25 52 huh?
26 52 lmao
27 50 who cares?
28 50 www.duggmirror.com
29 50 amen
30 50 wtf?
31 49 amen.
32 48 nice!
33 47 awesome!
34 43 wow
35 43 well said.
36 41 amen!
37 41 ditto
38 40 nevermind
39 40 but will it blend?
40 39 digg me down
41 39 exactly.
42 38 bury me
43 38 who?
44 38 ….
45 37 very cool
46 36 cool!
47 35 thanks
48 35 nice.
49 34 nvm
50 34 awesome.
51 34 i agree.
52 34 i agree
53 33 sweet
54 32 thanks!
55 32 brilliant!
56 32 i’d hit it.
57 31 bury this
58 30 sweet!
59 30 lol!
60 29 thank you.
61 29 old
62 29 wow.
63 29 haha
64 29 [deleted]
65 28 lame.
66 28 test
67 28 yawn
68 28 cool.
69 27 fake
70 27 rip
71 27 —
72 27 digg effect
73 26 meh
74 26 *yawn*
75 26 exactly
76 26 me too
77 25 yes!
78 24 double post
79 24 n/m
80 24 zing!
81 24 wtf
82 24 thank you!
83 23 interesting
84 23 good
85 23 good.
86 23 dugg
87 22 ignore
88 22 yup
89 22 word.
90 22 you’re an idiot.
91 22 nevermind.
92 22 i second that.
93 21 bury.
94 21 mirror?
95 21 exactly!
96 21 it’s a trap!
97 21 duh
98 21 old news.
99 21 very cool.
100 21 yay!

posted by kbrower at 3:59 pm & filed under digg |


28 Comments to “Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments from 2006”

  1. January 9th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
    Owlow Rheley said:

    lol, orly. wow.

  2. January 9th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
    Wash Jones said:

    This is a very well written article… but will it blend?

  3. January 10th, 2007 at 12:46 am
    alert said:

    Surprised that “I, for one, welcome our new ________ overlords!” didn’t make the list. Obviously, you have a bug in your scripts.

  4. January 10th, 2007 at 12:58 am
    falconX said:

    That’d be slashdot alert, don’t see that much on digg…

  5. January 10th, 2007 at 1:32 am
    krokodil said:

    Very nice idea!

    If you have saved extracted comments data in some machine readable format,
    could you please publish it. I would love to do run few more stats on it. Thanks!

  6. January 10th, 2007 at 1:45 am
    Cracka-Slam said:

    orly? NETDM zing!

  7. January 10th, 2007 at 1:51 am
    Penguin Pete said:

    Yeah, count me in for the data-mining party, if you have the comment file you scraped off Digg available for public scrutiny. I’d at least write my script to not count “i agree” and “i agree.” as two separate comments. I’d also not be so interested in “yes” and “no” as in more specific words and phrases, such as “asshat”, “fanboi”, and “teh intarwebs”, which are more specific to Digg (and may even have been coined there!).

  8. January 10th, 2007 at 1:55 am
    illegalcortex said:

    Would love to see you redo this taking all non alpha characters out to do the count. You’d collapse things like “yes.”/”yes” and “agreed.”/”agreed” together like they should be.

  9. January 10th, 2007 at 2:01 am
    kbrower said:

    I will be posting an a database in the next few day(s). It will include username, comment, and +/- #. I did not have the forsight to save the comments, but I will simply run the script again and hope digg doesn’t mind too much.

  10. January 10th, 2007 at 2:02 am
    Les said:

    http://duggmirror.com

    Come on, I’m surprised no one beat me to it.

  11. January 10th, 2007 at 3:36 am
    MG said:

    cliche generated: “rip james kim.” gj!!!!!!!!!!

  12. January 10th, 2007 at 3:49 am
    goober said:

    I think “your an idiot” is missing. I guess digg users really are the mouth-breathers that slashdot says we are! Go ahead and digg me down.

  13. January 10th, 2007 at 4:27 am
    Joris said:

    What a thought to actually make such a script. But it’s funny though :)

  14. January 10th, 2007 at 8:44 am
    lasermic said:

    I, for one, welcome our statistics gathering overlords.

  15. January 10th, 2007 at 9:34 am
    brad said:

    Interesting that “yes” and “yes.” are both in the top 10, but while “no.” is in the top 10, “no” isnt even on the list. Even “nice” “nice!” and “nice.” as well as “wow” “wow.”, “amen” “amen.”, “i agree.” “i agree”, “good” “good.”, and others all made the list, yet “no” is nowhere to be found.

    What is it about the word “no” that apparently requires people to always put a period after it when they are close to 50/50 with periods after other one word sentences?

  16. January 10th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
    Phil said:

    Can we get an XML API for the comment generator? That would really help to make it a cron job. ;-)

  17. January 10th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
    bargle said:

    Penguin Pete said:

    “I’d also not be so interested in “yes” and “no” as in more specific words and phrases, such as “asshat”, “fanboi”, and “teh intarwebs”, which are more specific to Digg (and may even have been coined there!).”

    None of these were coined on digg. They’ve been around longer than Digg on places like IRC (try bash.org) and b0g and fark, etc etc.

  18. January 10th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
    Michiel said:

    It’s as if a million teenagers cried out, and OMGWTFBBQ they just won’t stop!!!11!!1!

  19. January 10th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
    Nonchalant Savant said:

    I too am surprised that “your an idiot” (with the obligatory missing apostrophe) didn’t score higher.

    You’re friend,

    NCS

  20. January 10th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
    Philipp Lenssen said:

    Heh. We compiled our list manually for http://www.diggsoundboard.com

  21. January 11th, 2007 at 5:48 am
    Aaron Bassett said:

    @Penguin Pete: you mustn’t get out on teh intrawebs much if you think those phrases were coined on Digg.

  22. January 13th, 2007 at 5:27 am
    Brandon Walters said:

    Man for a second there I thought you screen scraped all those and I was about to call you insane.. haha. nice!

  23. January 17th, 2007 at 5:33 am
    chaoskaizer said:

    great works xd

  24. January 17th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
    Aaron M. said:

    Thats Awesome…… But will it Blend

  25. January 28th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
    nex said:

    great work. now that you’re already at it … could you make the script display the mean rating, with standard deviation, next to each comment respectively?

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