Statistics

Ribbonfarm by the numbers: posts, words, authors, commenters, and charts across seventeen years.

1,117posts

2,117,466words

13,230comments

1,422,844comment words

1,822images

60authors

5,039commenters

1,896mean words/post

1,483median words/post

Posts by Year

Number of posts by length, in 500-word buckets. Posts above 8,000 words are grouped into the final bucket. Dashed line marks the median.

Number of posts by comment count, in 10-comment buckets. Posts with 100+ comments grouped into the final bucket. Dashed line marks the median.

#	Author	Posts	Words	Avg words/post
1	Venkat	875	1,539,790	1,760
2	Sarah Perry	49	156,291	3,190
3	Kevin Simler	9	33,392	3,710
4	David Manheim	5	25,012	5,002
5	Taylor Pearson	5	23,807	4,761
6	Tiago Forte	6	23,253	3,876
7	Carlos Bueno	9	16,737	1,860
8	Ryan Tanaka	5	16,098	3,220
9	Renee DiResta	4	14,410	3,602
10	Jacob Falkovich	28	14,329	512

#	Post	Author	Date	Words
1	King Ruinous and the City of Darkness	Venkat	2016-11-10	14,554
2	Notes: The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil	Venkat	2020-09-30	9,931
3	Markets Are Eating The World	Taylor Pearson	2019-02-28	8,699
4	Puzzle Theory	Sarah Perry	2015-06-04	8,374
5	Make Your Own Rules	Venkat	2018-02-15	8,361

Ranked by a composite score (Hacker News 45%, Reddit 25%, pingbacks 20%, Slashdot 10%). Reddit scores capped at 500 to reduce r/TIL inflation.

#	Post	Year	Score
1	The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office HN 1,272 pts Reddit 409 pts 92 pingbacks Slashdot	2009	89
2	The Daredevil Camera HN 1,302 pts Reddit 864 pts	2016	64
3	The Locust Economy HN 198 pts Reddit 1,646 pts 18 pingbacks	2013	35
4	A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 HN 243 pts Reddit 110 pts 64 pingbacks	2011	27
5	Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture Reddit 353 pts 13 pingbacks	2015	20
6	Artem vs. Predator HN 651 pts	2016	20
7	The Internet of Beefs HN 561 pts Reddit 49 pts	2020	19
8	The Essence of Peopling HN 106 pts Reddit 187 pts 10 pingbacks	2015	15
9	The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk HN 84 pts 10 pingbacks Slashdot	2009	15
10	A Big Little Idea Called Legibility HN 146 pts 35 pingbacks	2010	12

#	Post	Inbound links
1	A Big Little Idea Called Legibility	50
2	The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office"	34
3	Welcome to the Future Nauseous	25
4	The Gollum Effect	22
5	The Return of the Barbarian	21
6	The Economics of Pricelessness	19
7	On the Design of Escaped Realities	19
8	The Scientific Sensibility	16
9	The Essence of Peopling	15
10	The Organization Man by William Whyte: Introduction	15

#	Post	Date	Comments
1	The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office	2009-10-07	283
2	A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100	2011-06-08	227
3	The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk	2009-11-11	163
4	You Are Not an Artisan	2013-07-10	120
5	Cognitive Archeology of the West	2011-03-17	112
6	The Gollum Effect	2011-01-06	109
7	Welcome to the Future Nauseous	2012-05-09	108
8	The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial	2017-08-17	105
9	The Return of the Barbarian	2011-03-10	96
10	The Stream Map of the World	2011-10-04	89

Ranked by total words written. Names are as entered; some individuals may appear under multiple variants.

#	Name	Comments	Words
1	Venkat	1,459	145,329
2	Josh W	215	62,264
3	Kay	359	58,395
4	Venkatesh Rao	294	27,156
5	tubelite	81	25,393
6	Alexander Boland	110	18,261
7	Ravi Daithankar	53	15,102
8	Goblin	70	14,793
9	RG	98	13,724
10	G	29	12,275
11	Gregory Rader \| OnTheSpiral.com	58	11,829
12	Hal Morris	63	9,804
13	Ted	42	9,344
14	Maus	58	9,053
15	Ho-Sheng Hsiao	59	8,387
16	MFH	47	8,065
17	Benjamin David Steele	26	7,731
18	Marc Hamann	81	7,142
19	Brian	48	6,996
20	Xianhang Zhang	56	6,467