{"id":29251,"date":"2019-01-23T17:53:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=29251"},"modified":"2019-01-23T17:54:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:54:45","slug":"most-of-what-you-read-on-the-internet-is-written-by-insane-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/23\/most-of-what-you-read-on-the-internet-is-written-by-insane-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

“Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People<\/a>” is a nice little roundup of statistics from a several large sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, Reddit, etc. These stats support the viewpoint that on these huge sites, most of the content is generated by a very small number of users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inequalities are also found on Wikipedia, where more than 99% of users are lurkers. According to Wikipedia’s “about” page, it has only 68,000 active contributors, which is 0.2% of the 32 million unique visitors it has in the U.S. alone.
Wikipedia’s most active 1,000 people \u2014 0.003% of its users<\/strong> \u2014 contribute about two-thirds of the site’s edits<\/strong>. Wikipedia is thus even more skewed than blogs, with a 99.8\u20130.2\u20130.003 rule.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Some of these numbers are staggering. And the people who do the work, are indeed – insane. Not medically, but by deviation of how much they do and for how long, as compared to the rest of the user base, or even population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, pretty much all posts in this very blog have been written by one person. Me. Almost 10,000 posts over 19 years<\/a>. So yes, I’m also probably a little bit insane.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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