Are there software tools for analysing forum threads?

Andycyca · Post Post #16 (isolation #0) » Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:29 pm

In post 0, Samson23 wrote:it would be useful to have some sort of software tools that could read forum threads, and produce output such as posting rates and "who voted for who" networks.

Off the top of my head, this could be achieved with (pseudo-)parsers like

BeautifulSoup

and regular expressions.

You could scan for regular expressions of votes and dump them to form a

dot

file and then create a graph in

Graphviz

.

If you ask me, it's easier and faster to keep a small "summary" log in a physical notebook (I used to write: "post # -- Event" to analyze)

Andycyca · Post Post #21 (isolation #1) » Tue Oct 06, 2020 4:06 am

I'm the oldest account in this thread yet. Does that make me the spirit of Mafia Past?

Andycyca · Post Post #83 (isolation #2) » Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:27 am

In post 61, yessiree wrote:
In post 20, the worst wrote:
i am the spirit of mafia
O great spirit of mafia, what is your wisdom?

I vote to refer to these posts and define them to be «The Spirit of Mafia» for all future discussions on this forum