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Soundoffs 4
Album Ratings 142
Objectivity 62%
Last Active 09-25-20 9:08 pm
Joined 11-12-11
Review Comments 2,122
| Sputnik Peaked in 2012
More data, this time with a clickbait headline. Sputnik peaked in October 2012, in terms of counts of ratings by users of albums that had at least one review by a staff/contrib/emeritus. Data was scraped from the sputnik pages around March 20th. | | 1 |  | DJ Shadow
Endtroducing...
Before I present what I have, some interesting things that I’ve learned of Sputnik’s rating system. 1) There are a subset of ratings listed on the soundoff pages that have no dates. The earliest labeled ratings are from January of 2005, but from there up until about July of 2007 users averaged 138 total ratings per month (that’s 138 ratings total combined for every user,) the following two months averaged more than 5 thousand ratings and never again falls below 4000. These blank-date-ratings also happen for albums after this July 2007 date, so you cannot assign them all to this pre-July 2007 sputnik time, but if you did these blank-ratings average a plausible 1638 ratings per month | | 2 |  | Green Day
iDOS!
2) When you make a rating, if you update it by selecting a new rating, that new time stamp is not saved. In order for the date to change you would have to have deleted the rating first. I can’t imagine someone deletes then rates rather than overwrite an old rating very often. One unfortunate thing this rule presents is that you cannot trust that a given rating is the same rating it was given the date listed. | | 3 |  | Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind
3) Those blank-date-ratings sometimes shuffle in position if you refresh the screen which fucked up my data and it took me a week to figure out how to fix it. Also, and it would take some knowledge of my code to explain why, Cygnatti’s blank name on the soundoff pages is worse than Donald Trump. | | 4 |  | At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
Now for the subject of the list name. I can’t post images (unless I convinced the mods that an album with a cover depicting my figures was totally real and I posted said album) but the 3 point rolling average of October 2012 was 25108 Ratings and in January of 2016 it was 19068. Unique user ratings in a month peaked in May, 2013 with 3 month rolling mean of 2991 unique users, and January of 2016 it was 2250 unique users. But even that probably miscalculates the effect. The number of available albums to rate, in my dataset, grows over time – i.e. someone couldn’t have rated Kendrick Lamar’s TPAB in 2008 – and, those past ratings had to have survived the fact that users can be banned and/or have their ratings wiped. ... | | 5 | | Sputnikmusic
The Musical!
A rating that was made in 2006, for instance, has to have survived 10 years of shitheadedness to have made it into my dataset which is much easier than one that was made only a year ago (although -- and this is something which would be interesting to estimate-- it appears, based on comments, that it is easier to be banned/rating-wiped now than in early sputnik which would affect the ratings counts of each moderators’ “reign” differently). As for Sputnik’s future, I fit an ARIMA model with automatically selected parameters to the ratings’ counts data and it predicts that it will hold steady (not increase or decrease). In short, what I’ve found suggests that sputnik is not growing. The next albums are the most rated albums of each year counting only ratings done in that year. | | 6 |  | Blink-182
Blink-182
2005
4 Ratings (again, there are a lot of undated ratings, for this album its 356 Ratings, but it’s impossible to tell when they happened) | | 7 |  | Green Day
American Idiot
2006
25 Ratings (710 undated ratings) | | 8 |  | Radiohead
In Rainbows
2007
276 Ratings | | 9 |  | Protest the Hero
Fortress
2008
619 Ratings | | 10 |  | Mastodon
Crack the Skye
2009
797 Ratings | | 11 |  | Deftones
Diamond Eyes
2010
1084 Ratings | | 12 |  | Radiohead
The King of Limbs
2011
1235 Ratings | | 13 |  | Deftones
Koi No Yokan
2012
931 Ratings | | 14 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork
2013
1048 Ratings | | 15 |  | Mastodon
Once More 'Round the Sun
2014
933 Ratings | | 16 |  | Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
2015
1804 Ratings | | 17 |  | David Bowie
Blackstar
2016
731 Ratings (as of March 21st) | |
macman76
04.05.16 | bump | torts
04.05.16 | I'm | macman76
04.05.16 | his ratings would have been deleted, no? | tempest--
04.05.16 | shitheadedness over time does make a difficult equation | MyNameIsPencil
04.05.16 | how does one even have 200 accounts.
Why would anyone make 200 emails.
oh wait it's skele questions are unnecessary | Calc
04.05.16 | dammit, when did I join? wait yay I joined during the peak of this site! | hal1ax
04.05.16 | i wish i had a time machine to take me back to this time it sounds like paradise i want it so bad | wham49
04.05.16 | Dude I am thinking you can direct this talent into something more productive, LOL
anyway very interesting, I always find things as they are dying out. | guitarded_chuck
04.05.16 | the 2010s also peaked music wise in 2012 | wham49
04.05.16 | there was a peak for the 2010's ???? | anarchistfish
04.05.16 | ^2011 | zakalwe
04.05.16 | This actually makes Rainman look thick as shit. | chemicalmarriage
04.05.16 | hal1ax, that is the most depressing thing I have ever read | Tunaboy45
04.05.16 | Nah
17 is stil best so far this year | ChoccyPhilly
04.05.16 | Confirmed, 2012 had the most alts | JWT155
04.05.16 | 2012 was a good year. | BigHans
04.05.16 | This is cool shit, well done. | lyzakthellama
04.05.16 | 2013 was my favorite year for sput, I miss plugging and actually talking to people on here | Tunaboy45
04.05.16 | people still talk on here man, hit some people up on their shoutbox I'm sure they'll be up for a conversation | ChoccyPhilly
04.05.16 | Plugging used to be a lot of fun, agreed | SharkTooth
04.05.16 | plugging is what I miss most about Sput. I miss The Basic Techno Channel hard | hal1ax
04.05.16 | 'hal1ax, that is the most depressing thing I have ever read'
sarcasm | Relinquished
04.05.16 | peaked in 2010-11 tbh | JWT155
04.05.16 | The Golden Age of Sputnik. | macman76
04.05.16 | Sputnik Sold Out In 2012 | magicuba
04.08.16 | what's plugging? | smaugman
04.08.16 | make sputnik great again | Nocturnalize
04.08.16 | the last of the tween years
r.i.p |
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