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William Asher
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> I don't see any good reason for all the "biggest gainers and losers"
> stuff ... other than because it's possible to run a Perl script to
> produce those numbers. They don't seem to be particularly
> illuminating. Personally I'd rather read "is Basso taking a
> vacation?". I think it's telling that there are rarely any followups
> to those number-bot posts.
There was a discussion on those last year (I think). People were solidly
in favor of them. In contrast, pretty much nobody liked the "hotel-
dumpster-diving-looking-for-evidence-of-doping" series. I think it was
the pictures and odorama card that went with those posts.
--
Bill Asher
news:[email protected]:
> I don't see any good reason for all the "biggest gainers and losers"
> stuff ... other than because it's possible to run a Perl script to
> produce those numbers. They don't seem to be particularly
> illuminating. Personally I'd rather read "is Basso taking a
> vacation?". I think it's telling that there are rarely any followups
> to those number-bot posts.
There was a discussion on those last year (I think). People were solidly
in favor of them. In contrast, pretty much nobody liked the "hotel-
dumpster-diving-looking-for-evidence-of-doping" series. I think it was
the pictures and odorama card that went with those posts.
--
Bill Asher