{"id":5805,"date":"2013-05-20T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2013-05-20T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:13:29","slug":"the-comment-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5805","title":{"rendered":"The comment formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For posts where you bitch about something that annoys you.<br \/>\nWhere N is the number of comments a given post receives:<\/p>\n<p>S is the number of people who are sympathetic to your situation<br \/>\nW is the number of people who  claim you are doing it wrong<br \/>\nA is the number of people who have had it far, far worse than you.<br \/>\nU is the number of people who want to talk about a completely unrelated issue. <\/p>\n<p>So S+W+A+U= N.<\/p>\n<p>For values of S\/(W+A+U) greater than 1, your readers are mostly like you, I.E, whiny bitches.<br \/>\nFor values of W\/(S+A+U) greater than 1, your readers are mostly assholes.<br \/>\nFor values of A\/(W+S+U) greater than 1, your readers are prepubescent teenagers.<br \/>\nFor values of U\/(W+S+A) greater than 1, your readers are democrats. <\/p>\n<p>I can stretch this on forever. The math alone could take years and require Ramanujan to resolve.  But it seems to fit pretty well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For posts where you bitch about something that annoys you. Where N is the number of comments a given post receives: S is the number of people who are sympathetic to your situation W is the number of people who claim you are doing it wrong A is the number of people who have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}