Last month, we noted that teh Johnson decided that the figures in the long-standing LGF “statistics” sidebar widget were apparently becoming too embarrassing to continue featuring, so he decided to quietly make it disappear (then make it reappear once we noted it, only to make it disappear again after a few days, we assume for good).

R.I.P.

Luckily, it’s not hard for our BRC engineers to track those missing comments/day numbers ourselves. In fact, we’ve been able to do one better, and break down who’s leaving the comments, and how many are being left on front-page articles vs. in those sleepy user-authored “LGF Pages”. And as DoD regulars can recall, we can track those meaningless “karma” scores, too.

Before we present last week’s results, we’d like to present a flashback to a related LGF thread, wherein Charles took serious issue when NY Times columnist Jonathan Dee wrote the following:

L.G.F. still has more than 34,000 registered users, but the comment threads are dominated by the same two dozen or so names.

Enter the main underlying reason for CJ’s disappearance of the “statistics”, as Engineer No. 5 finds that Mr. Dee’s assessment is actually true as ever:

Some old fashioned weekly LGF commenter stats:

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For the week Sat-Fri, 5/12-18/2012

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Front Page comments: 7822

LGF Pages comments:   761

Total comments:      8583

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75% of comments were made by 32 individuals

50% of comments were made by 13 individuals

25% of comments were made by  4 individuals

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Most Active Commenters
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1. Gus 802          789    10.1%

2. ggt              477     6.1%

3. b_sharp          411     5.3%

4. sattv4u2         288     3.7%

5. HappyWarrior     287     3.7%

6. Kragar           274     3.5%

7. Decatur Deb      258     3.3%

8. Dark_Falcon      243     3.1%

9. Sergey Romanov   188     2.4%

10.darthstar        186     2.4%

11.Obdicut          174     2.2%

12.freetoken        168     2.1%

13.Targetpractice   164     2.1%

14.Killgore Trout   156     2.0%

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Most Net ‘Karma’ (at least 70 posts)

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1. Charles         +6.1/comment

2. Lidane          +5.1

3. Obdicut         +4.4

4. jaunte          +4.3

5. WindUpBird      +3.8

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Least Net ‘Karma’ (at least 70 posts)

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1. Dark_Falcon     +0.4/comment

2. Killgore Trout  +0.5

3. sattv4u2        +0.9

4. NJDhockeyfan    +0.9

5. ProLifeLiberal  +0.9

Look at Gus! Ten percent! Where would LGF be today if Gus had actually made good on last October’s mini-flounce?

Update (from panoftheforest)
I don’t want to bury Chen’s thread but just add the Monday Evening Mocking ‘toon (because I’m proud of myself this time!) May I present to you “Chuck’s Play”.