• blitzen@lemmy.ca
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      23 days ago

      You know how averages work, right?

      Honestly, someone who posts everyday averaging 12 comments is probably crazier than the occasional poster who very occasionally hits 50 200 in a day.

      Edit: I misread the limits as being 50 comments, which I stand by as not too crazy now and again. 200 comments/replies even on the most newsworthy days is certainly getting to the ‘difficult to do’ level. I’ll grant you that I’d be hard pressed to get to 200 even if I tried. I consider myself on your side on this one. I’ll only say that citing any average usage per day is unimportant, because there are no limits on the average daily usage, only absolute upper limits.

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        23 days ago

        You’re free to think that way. It, however, is in no way in conflict with what I originally said, and thus isn’t the self-own you think it is.

        I said very clearly that I view 50 posts and/or 200 comments a day as insanity. To act as if 1200 comments in 100 days - which averages to 12 comments a day - is somehow equivalent is pretty disingenuous.

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          23 days ago

          I skimmed the article, and read 50 comments per day, not 200. Which certainly changes my thinking some. 50 posts are indisputably difficult (and this crazy) to get to.

          But someone who hit 200 comments twice over four years (during only the biggest newsworthy events) isn’t wildly crazy to me.

          You’re still phrasing it as 200 comments per day (implying average) which I agree is crazy; exceeding 200 comments a couple times isn’t. Think of it like driving. Driving 200 miles per day is insanity, but driving the family greater than 200 miles in a day to vacation every once in a while is most certainly not.