Mark B. Cohen’s Research Methods Leave Much To Be Desired

As you may know from reading this site, Pennsylvania State Rep. Mark B. Cohen just loves the Internet messageboard Phillyblog. He adores it. He thinks it’s the bee’s knees. He thinks it will replace the Inquirer and Daily News as the news source for all Philadelphians. If Phillyblog were a sandwich, he’d eat it. If Phillyblog were a woman, he’d have sex with her. If Phillyblog were a blog, he’d post blog entries on there, I guess.

Last week, I noted Cohen’s attempt to become the Bill James of Phillyblog when he listed the Phillyblog members who had 1,000 posts or more. As the thread progressed, a few members posted about their omission. They had 1,000 posts, too, why weren’t they on the list of the Golden Few?

Turns out, Cohen didn’t know about the feature of sorting members by posts, which would have made his quest rather simple, of course. Instead, he apparently compiled the top Phillyblog posters all by hand before being notified about the automated way to do it. Later, he promised to do more research into Phillyblog members not from Philadelphia.

It’s difficult to say how unique Phillyaggie is. Chief Salsa, banned from this board for rules violations, accumulated over 3700 postsl many or all of them (I don’t know all the facts) were done while he was in Utah. Then there are two members of this list–I forget their names–from Richmond, Viriginia; one identifies himself as an ex-Philadelphian, and the other does not. Then there is a member of this list from St. Louis.

I’ll try to do more research on this question; anyone else is welcome to answer Phillyaggie’s question as well. He certainly will be a great addition to Philadelphia when he arrives here.

It is only a matter of time before Mark B. Cohen begins the Society for American Phillyblog Research, or SAPR. One day, his revolutionary messageboard counting statistics will be used o’er the land, coining the new term “sapermetrics.” Or perhaps: Cohenomics.

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