IRC Channel Social Network Diagram

[rdrake]

What is it? Well, it's a rough way of measuring the amount of time people spend talking to each other. The thickness of the lines and the length of them determine the strength of the bond. How does it work besides that? Well, I honestly don't know.



It just keeps getting larger and more complex as it runs for longer and longer. Before last night, it was only running for maybe a few hours at a time which means it was reset every time. Thanks to a crash (ask Dan ) and my tendency to move my laptop around, it wasn't up for very long at a time. Now it's running on a stable machine and should generate a fairly complex diagram in the next few days.

Oh, and the diagram updates often. In fact, it's uploaded every minute.

Also of interest might be the IRC Stats hosted by Cornflake (aka md).

I probably should mention that I did not write the bot that generates these images. You can find it here.

[md]

Nice! Maybe this'll encourage more people to join the channel

[Dan]

Oh i see how it is.....take 2 days off IRC and i get removed form the network pic......

*goses and crys in a corner*

[rdrake]

Hacker Dan wrote:

Oh i see how it is.....take 2 days off IRC and i get removed form the network pic......

*goses and crys in a corner*

Dan... you played with the bot just too much. Your nick would be on there... but you can't bother the bot anymore .

[TokenHerbz]

Im not on there, i feel ofended.

Everytime i go in irc, no one is there, so i log off

[[Gandalf]]

Me thinks this bot prunes too much weak connections... It'd get more interesting if you saw all (or more) the minor threads in there.

[Mazer]

I give up. I can't compete with rdrake's army of nicks.

[rdrake]

Mazer wrote:

I give up. I can't compete with rdrake's army of nicks.

Many of them seem to be either from other people pretending to me or timeouts. Unfortunately last night was stormy, and the bot does not yet support aliases.

Pops, you logged in around 1:30 AM... I saw you. I was trying to get to bed though. Just log in at a more 1/2 decent time and there should be people there.

[Clayton]

Mazer wrote:

I give up. I can't compete with rdrake's army of nicks.

hehe did you see what happened last night? we completely took over like four variations of rdrake after he got kicked/left

[rdrake]

SuperFreak82 wrote:

Mazer wrote:

I give up. I can't compete with rdrake's army of nicks.

hehe did you see what happened last night? we completely took over like four variations of rdrake after he got kicked/left

And I went on a kicking spree .

[[Gandalf]]

cartoon_shark wrote:

SuperFreak82 wrote:

Mazer wrote:

I give up. I can't compete with rdrake's army of nicks.

hehe did you see what happened last night? we completely took over like four variations of rdrake after he got kicked/left

And I went on a kicking spree .

And I... Timed out...

[apomb]

for a while i was in the center! ... that night i had a good number of nicks tho.