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A strange mid-month result with the combined editorial team technically in the lead - I say technically because I'm not sure an amalgam entity of editors can be counted as contenders. If we discount the editors, then we're left with Titus in the lead, which is probably an even stranger mid-month result! Links to the successful subs can be found on the blog.
I would take the view that when there aren't enough usable subs being posted the editors have two choices. Write a sub under their own handle and get points on WOTM if that spins their wheel or write a sub and attribute it to a generic handle.
Typically at some times of the year subs dry out, the run up to Christmas is one of them. If you really want to thwart the editors from indulging themselves then submit usable material. If everyone did that then the editors would have the luxury of choosing somebody else's subs rather than writing stuff themselves and doing the editing.
Just saying.
Due to my father in law being in hospital since Christmas Eve I've been tied up visiting and travelling to and from the hospital for six hours a day since, consequently I have to present a cut down version of the WOTM for the moment, mainly because I haven't had time produce the ticker list.
However I can reveal not only the winner of this month, but something I've been working on for a little while, which is the Newsbiscuit New Years Honours list. I realised that I'm sitting on a lot of reasonably accurate data - I'm sure I miss the odd ticker and hat tip, but by and large the data is good. So I got to thinking - could I find out who is the ticker writer of the year? the NiB writer of the year? The Left Alert writer of the year? The Hat tipper of the year? And of course the FP writer of the year?
First, some stats. This year we've seen 162 individual writers posted to the front page. 74 scored three points over the year or less, so probably only had one item published. Possibly many of them didn't see their work published, probably had their sub ignored by most of us (or one starred) and never came back. I think we need to work on retention - I don't know if it's possible for the software that posts our work to be configured to email the name of the contributor using their registered email to say 'congratulations - your submission <hyperlink> has been published', and recognise that even if we could do that newbies have to wait until some kindly soul, usually Wren, updated the database, but it would be a start.
We've had, of course, 365 front pages 665 NiBs and 1041 tickers. Despite, or maybe because of, Titus' constant complaints there are an average of three tickers posted each day. Perhaps it should be higher, something to track and champion.
Anyway, here's the December WOTM results - will probably look badly presented because I need to convert onto a JPG, then publish on the web before I can post as an image on here. Will update later in the week. You'll notice that Chip has stormed it this month and is a worthy recipient of the virtual mug.
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Chipchase 34 4 6 1 2 1
Newsbiscuit Editorial Team 22 4 5 0 0 0
Throngsman 21 4 3 3 0 0
Wrenfoe 19 1 8 0 0 0
Titus 15 0 1 9 1 0
NickB 14 2 2 0 1 0
Cinquecento 12 1 0 9 0 0
Crayon 11 0 4 3 0 0
YaBasta 11 1 4 0 0 0
Mother 10 1 3 0 0 1
dominic_mcg 9 0 0 9 0 0
Gerontius 8 2 1 0 0 0
Al OPecia 7 0 0 7 0 0
apepper 7 0 3 1 0 0
Bobski 7 1 2 0 0 0
Midfield Diamond 6 2 0 0 0 0
Oxbridge 6 0 1 0 1 0
ron cawleyoni 6 0 0 6 0 0
Adrian Bamforth 5 1 0 2 0 0
chrisf 5 1 1 0 0 0
Bravenewmalden 4 1 0 1 0 0
Simon Paul Miller 4 1 0 1 0 0
acidcirus 3 1 0 0 0 0
harrypalmer 3 1 0 0 0 0
Newsdesk 3 0 0 3 0 0
Schoolboy 3 0 1 1 0 0
Scribbler 3 1 0 0 0 0
Sir Lupus 3 1 0 0 0 0
Matt Ward 2 0 1 0 0 0
MzWibble 2 0 0 1 0 1
Paul L 2 0 1 0 0 0
Rieslingnut 2 0 1 0 0 0
Steve_L 2 0 1 0 0 0
The Central Scrutinizer 2 0 1 0 0 0
Bonjonelson 1 0 0 1 0 0
Bronaghmorris 1 0 0 1 0 0
deskpilot3 1 0 0 1 0 0
Dumbnews 1 0 0 1 0 0
Farmer Giles 1 0 0 1 0 0
Guido Drapatolli 1 0 0 1 0 0
not amused 1 0 0 1 0 0
Sinnick 1 0 0 1 0 0
Smart Alex 1 0 0 1 0 0
Spa99ers 1 0 0 1 0 0
Wirralmatt 1 0 0 1 0 0
So what about the NB NY Honours list? I'll restrict the data to the top ten in each category but hopefully Techguy will be able to host the spreadsheet somewhere so contributors can look to see how they've done with respect to their peers.
Ticker Writer of the Year: Dom romps home with 184 tickers, followed by Titus with a not-too-shabby 102. Well done guys.
Name Score Ticker
dominic_mcg 230 4 12 184 2 2
Titus 171 102 3 2
ron cawleyoni 77 0 0 76 0 1
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
Myke 101 7 11 49 2 1
Cinquecento 61 2 2 47 0 4
sydalg 168 18 30 44 2 2
Al OPecia 42 0 1 29 2 3
Crayon 65 5 8 27 0 7
apepper 63 0 19 24 0 1
What about hat tipper of the year? I think we all should be helping each other more, so feel it right to give the hat tipped a mention: Crayon takes the virtual gong for being hat tipped most often, followed by Chippy
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Crayon 65 5 8 27 0 7
Chipchase 303 35 68 12 11 6
Sinnick 30 0 0 16 2 6
Beau-Jolly 8 0 0 3 0 5
Midfield Diamond 44 4 10 3 1 5
Cinquecento 61 2 2 47 0 4
Al OPecia 42 0 1 29 2 3
chrisf 114 21 10 16 3 3
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
riesler 5 0 0 2 0 3
Let's look at the Left Alert Writer of the year - this is often a collaborative effort with many contributors named. This time Chip is in the lead with 11 hat tips.
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Chipchase 303 35 68 12 11 6
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
NickB 93 12 16 4 5 1
Wrenfoe 308 36 89 5 4 1
chrisf 114 21 10 16 3 3
Newsbiscuit Editorial Team 102 19 15 3 3 0
Oxbridge 67 10 3 18 3 1
Titus 171 5 20 102 3 2
Al OPecia 42 0 1 29 2 3
dominic_mcg 230 4 12 184 2 2
Myke 101 7 11 49 2 1
NiB Writer of the year:
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Wrenfoe 308 36 89 5 4 1
Chipchase 303 35 68 12 11 6
YaBasta 149 14 51 1 1 0
sydalg 168 18 30 44 2 2
Throngsman 118 10 30 23 1 1
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
Daneade 87 13 22 0 1 0
Titus 171 5 20 102 3 2
apepper 63 0 19 24 0 1
Due to my father in law being in hospital since Christmas Eve I've been tied up visiting and travelling to and from the hospital for six hours a day since, consequently I have to present a cut down version of the WOTM for the moment, mainly because I haven't had time produce the ticker list.
However I can reveal not only the winner of this month, but something I've been working on for a little while, which is the Newsbiscuit New Years Honours list. I realised that I'm sitting on a lot of reasonably accurate data - I'm sure I miss the odd ticker and hat tip, but by and large the data is good. So I got to thinking - could I find out who is the ticker writer of the year? the NiB writer of the year? The Left Alert writer of the year? The Hat tipper of the year? And of course the FP writer of the year?
First, some stats. This year we've seen 162 individual writers posted to the front page. 74 scored three points over the year or less, so probably only had one item published. Possibly many of them didn't see their work published, probably had their sub ignored by most of us (or one starred) and never came back. I think we need to work on retention - I don't know if it's possible for the software that posts our work to be configured to email the name of the contributor using their registered email to say 'congratulations - your submission <hyperlink> has been published', and recognise that even if we could do that newbies have to wait until some kindly soul, usually Wren, updated the database, but it would be a start.
We've had, of course, 365 front pages 665 NiBs and 1041 tickers. Despite, or maybe because of, Titus' constant complaints there are an average of three tickers posted each day. Perhaps it should be higher, something to track and champion.
Anyway, here's the December WOTM results - will probably look badly presented because I need to convert onto a JPG, then publish on the web before I can post as an image on here. Will update later in the week. You'll notice that Chip has stormed it this month and is a worthy recipient of the virtual mug.
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Chipchase 34 4 6 1 2 1
Newsbiscuit Editorial Team 22 4 5 0 0 0
Throngsman 21 4 3 3 0 0
Wrenfoe 19 1 8 0 0 0
Titus 15 0 1 9 1 0
NickB 14 2 2 0 1 0
Cinquecento 12 1 0 9 0 0
Crayon 11 0 4 3 0 0
YaBasta 11 1 4 0 0 0
Mother 10 1 3 0 0 1
dominic_mcg 9 0 0 9 0 0
Gerontius 8 2 1 0 0 0
Al OPecia 7 0 0 7 0 0
apepper 7 0 3 1 0 0
Bobski 7 1 2 0 0 0
Midfield Diamond 6 2 0 0 0 0
Oxbridge 6 0 1 0 1 0
ron cawleyoni 6 0 0 6 0 0
Adrian Bamforth 5 1 0 2 0 0
chrisf 5 1 1 0 0 0
Bravenewmalden 4 1 0 1 0 0
Simon Paul Miller 4 1 0 1 0 0
acidcirus 3 1 0 0 0 0
harrypalmer 3 1 0 0 0 0
Newsdesk 3 0 0 3 0 0
Schoolboy 3 0 1 1 0 0
Scribbler 3 1 0 0 0 0
Sir Lupus 3 1 0 0 0 0
Matt Ward 2 0 1 0 0 0
MzWibble 2 0 0 1 0 1
Paul L 2 0 1 0 0 0
Rieslingnut 2 0 1 0 0 0
Steve_L 2 0 1 0 0 0
The Central Scrutinizer 2 0 1 0 0 0
Bonjonelson 1 0 0 1 0 0
Bronaghmorris 1 0 0 1 0 0
deskpilot3 1 0 0 1 0 0
Dumbnews 1 0 0 1 0 0
Farmer Giles 1 0 0 1 0 0
Guido Drapatolli 1 0 0 1 0 0
not amused 1 0 0 1 0 0
Sinnick 1 0 0 1 0 0
Smart Alex 1 0 0 1 0 0
Spa99ers 1 0 0 1 0 0
Wirralmatt 1 0 0 1 0 0
So what about the NB NY Honours list? I'll restrict the data to the top ten in each category but hopefully Techguy will be able to host the spreadsheet somewhere so contributors can look to see how they've done with respect to their peers.
Ticker Writer of the Year: Dom romps home with 184 tickers, followed by Titus with a not-too-shabby 102. Well done guys.
Name Score Ticker
dominic_mcg 230 4 12 184 2 2
Titus 171 102 3 2
ron cawleyoni 77 0 0 76 0 1
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
Myke 101 7 11 49 2 1
Cinquecento 61 2 2 47 0 4
sydalg 168 18 30 44 2 2
Al OPecia 42 0 1 29 2 3
Crayon 65 5 8 27 0 7
apepper 63 0 19 24 0 1
What about hat tipper of the year? I think we all should be helping each other more, so feel it right to give the hat tipped a mention: Crayon takes the virtual gong for being hat tipped most often, followed by Chippy
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Crayon 65 5 8 27 0 7
Chipchase 303 35 68 12 11 6
Sinnick 30 0 0 16 2 6
Beau-Jolly 8 0 0 3 0 5
Midfield Diamond 44 4 10 3 1 5
Cinquecento 61 2 2 47 0 4
Al OPecia 42 0 1 29 2 3
chrisf 114 21 10 16 3 3
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
riesler 5 0 0 2 0 3
Let's look at the Left Alert Writer of the year - this is often a collaborative effort with many contributors named. This time Chip is in the lead with 11 hat tips.
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Chipchase 303 35 68 12 11 6
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
NickB 93 12 16 4 5 1
Wrenfoe 308 36 89 5 4 1
chrisf 114 21 10 16 3 3
Newsbiscuit Editorial Team 102 19 15 3 3 0
Oxbridge 67 10 3 18 3 1
Titus 171 5 20 102 3 2
Al OPecia 42 0 1 29 2 3
dominic_mcg 230 4 12 184 2 2
Myke 101 7 11 49 2 1
NiB Writer of the year:
Name Score FP NiB Ticker L/A H/T
Wrenfoe 308 36 89 5 4 1
Chipchase 303 35 68 12 11 6
YaBasta 149 14 51 1 1 0
sydalg 168 18 30 44 2 2
Throngsman 118 10 30 23 1 1
DavidH 236 29 26 74 5 3
Daneade 87 13 22 0 1 0
Titus 171 5 20 102 3 2
apepper 63 0 19 24 0 1
Due to my father in law being in hospital since Christmas Eve I've been tied up visiting and travelling to and from the hospital for six hours a day since, consequently I have to present a cut down version of the WOTM for the moment, mainly because I haven't had time produce the ticker list.
However I can reveal not only the winner of this month, but something I've been working on for a little while, which is the Newsbiscuit New Years Honours list. I realised that I'm sitting on a lot of reasonably accurate data - I'm sure I miss the odd ticker and hat tip, but by and large the data is good. So I got to thinking - could I find out who is the ticker writer of the year? the NiB writer of the year? The Left Alert writer of the year? The Hat tipper of the year? And of course the FP writer of the year?
First, some stats. This year we've seen 162 individual writers posted to the front page. 74 scored three points or fewer over the year, so probably only had one item published. Possibly many of them didn't see their work published, probably had their sub ignored by most of us (or one starred) and never came back. I think we need to work on retention - I don't know if it's possible for the software that posts our work to be configured to email the name of the contributor using their registered email to say 'congratulations - your submission <hyperlink> has been published', and recognise that even if we could do that newbies have to wait until some kindly soul, usually Wren, updated the database, but it would be a start.
We've had, of course, 365 front pages 665 NiBs and 1041 tickers. Despite, or maybe because of, Titus' constant complaints there are an average of three tickers posted each day. Perhaps it should be higher, something to track and champion.
I've had to edit out the results as they weren't readable when I pushed post. I'll update in a few days along with the NB NY honours lists, but can reveal that this months winner is Chipchase. Well done Chippy
Yup - congrats and thanks to all involved.
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It is very rewarding to see that both our government and Donald Trump carefully read this site, take it seriously, and respond promptly and positively to all of our helpful comments, suggestions and advice.
Joke.
Top ten results for NB NY Honours:
First, Ticker writer of the year, with Dom taking the virtual honours. Titus has scored a credible not too shabby second place too :
Name Ticker
dominic_mcg 184
Titus 102
ron cawleyoni 76
DavidH 74
Myke 49
Cinquecento 47
sydalg 44
Al OPecia 29
Crayon 27
apepper 24
Hat tipped writer of the year top ten: Crayon takes the virtual honours here.
Name H/T
Crayon 7
Chipchase 6
Sinnick 6
Beau-Jolly 5
Midfield Diamond 5
Cinquecento 4
Al OPecia 3
chrisf 3
DavidH 3
riesler 3
Left Alert Writer of the year: Chop takes the lead this year in this category.
Name L/A
Chipchase 11
DavidH 5
NickB 5
Wrenfoe 4
chrisf 3
Newsbiscuit Editorial Team 3
Oxbridge 3
Titus 3
Al OPecia 2
dominic_mcg 2
NiB Writer of the year. Veteran writer Wren takes the lead here:
Name NiB
Wrenfoe 89
Chipchase 68
YaBasta 51
sydalg 30
Throngsman 30
DavidH 26
Daneade 22
Titus 20
apepper 19
Gerontius 16
FP Writer of the Year. Wren takes the lead, but very closely followed by Chip. DavidH has had a good year too:
Name FP
Wrenfoe 36
Chipchase 35
DavidH 29
chrisf 21
Newsbiscuit Editorial Team 19
sydalg 18
Gerontius 16
YaBasta 14
Daneade 13
Macattack1964 12
So, to the Writer of the Year award for the writer accruing the most points: It shouldn't be any surprise that Wren has led the pack this year - congrats Wren - but he's followed by Chip and David - well done guys. Special mention to Dom for fourth place overall given most of his output only attracts one point each.
Name Score
Wrenfoe 308
Chipchase 303
DavidH 236
dominic_mcg 230
Titus 171
sydalg 168
YaBasta 149
Throngsman 118
chrisf 114
Newsbiscuit Editorial Team 102
I'll try to present this better in a day or so - Happy New Year to all
Very interesting stats. Excellent work, Throngs, in keeping tabs on it all
I completely agree with the sentiment of doing everything to retain newbies - that's what I think JoF has in mind for this site
Inevitably, we have "heated debates" (as Mrs Merton used to say) on stuff. That's hardly going to stop. But PLEASE can we make a note to keep that stuff in the Chat Room? I'm sure several newbies have left because a decent thread has drifted off-topic. I've possibly been guilty of this too
Also, can we please consider a little harder whether something "crosses the line" of decency ? At least in the Writers' Room.
A serious bit of analysis there TM - don't know how you do it but many thanks for doing it so well and comprehensively.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to thank my parents, my uncle Tony and auntie Gladys and all those who have helped me along the way.
It's been a very enjoyable year on NB and all best wishes to everyone for an even better 2019.
OK, a better formatted end of month list. Links, as usual, can be found on the blog and the full list of tickers for December below the list.
Adrian Bamforth
Frozen ice sheet found on Mars ‘still better than Bolton Winter Wonderland’
Paris Agreement: Protesters to switch to unleaded petrol bombs
Al Opecia
European Research Group enters into vassalage to rest of Tory party.
Grayling finally admits to being Transport Minister. More soon.
HMV Records sctratched. More soon
May’s new Red Lines, are under her eyeballs. More soon.
Scottish Parliament First-Footing to be man holding small solar panel. More soon.
Some MPs to be reclassified as ‘vertebrates’. More soon.
Tory Brexit MPs dispute 2016 Leadership result, demand 2nd vote. More soon.
apepper
Trump urged to emulate George Bush. More soon
Bonjonelson
Santa abandons plans for drone present delivery after failed trial near Crawley. More soon.
Bravenewmalden
Majority of UK voters now prefer ‘Oh Fuck It’ option. More soon.
Bronaghmorris
Priti Patel leaves politics for career in diet coaching. More soon.
Chipchase
Out-of-control budget for new EastEnders set blamed on salaries of wooden cast
Cinquecento
Boris takes haircut back for a refund
Britain agrees to identify as having left EU next March regardless of reality. More soon.
Cygnets to be fitted with bulletproof gilets from Milan – Swan Vestas. More soon.
Pilot whale not commissioned for full season. More soon.
Starbucks porn viewer ‘just wanted a long black Americano and a pair of baps’. More soon
Stranded Russian cargo ship ‘contains 9 nested smaller Russian cargo ships’. More later.
Tommy Robinson campaigns to ban the flujab. More soon
Working class should be excluded from future referenda, all parties agree.
Surgery ‘an elitist profession, must be opened up to butchers’ says Sutton Trust. More soon.
Crayon
‘Poor students can go to Camford’ says Oxbridge
Question Time to feature more antiques on the panel. More soon.
Tate Britain’s CCTV wins Turner Prize. More soon.
Deskpilot3
ITV cancels Brexit TV debate after sponsor – Valium – pulls out. More soon.
Dominic_mcg
Action against Climate Change “slower than a glacier.” More soon.
Cheery ticket tout nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year. More soon.
Fiona Bruce’s sister to present Any Questions. More soon.
Hugh Jackman disappointed as Greatest Snowman gets frosty reception. More soon.
Man arrested after being caught with stollen cakes. More soon.
Minister concedes UK anti-drone system is a butterfly net with a long handle.
New version of Watership Down not a pot boiler, says producer. More soon.
Roger the kangaroo not a challenge in I’m a Celebrity, say producers. More soon.
Virgin goes all the way and has out of this world experience. More soon.
Dumnews
New app lets you punch a button to punch the engineer who designed the app. More soon.
Farmer Giles
Man who can’t stop coughing has coffin fit. More soon.
Guido Drapatolli
May: ‘Back me or Santa won’t come.’ More soon.
MzWibble
Second referendum to include cashback option
Newsdesk
Couple jailed for naming their child Theresa.
People traffickers win Brexit ferry contract. More soon.
White House child throws tantrum because Santa did not deliver wall
Not Amused
Southern rail trains suspended after 2 Hornby sets detected near the tracks
ron cawleyoni
‘FIFA 19′ sends National Grid into meltdown
“48 Crash…48 Crash”
Chester Zoo fire police suspect Gorilla Warfare.
Climate Change: Millenials ask whats Mulled Wine….for? More soon.
Thatcher spinning that much…fears grow for shale gas-induced earthquakes
The Clash ‘Should I Stay or Should I Stay Go’ adopted as new UK national anthem.
Tree Huggers denounce Ted Baker brand. More soon.
Ukrainians claim they were only policing the waters to keep Crimea down. More soon
Schoolboy
Year 10 students not taught about Arctic because it’s “Too cool for School”. More soon.
Simon Paul Miller
May told ‘no room for renegotiation’ but there is stable.
Sinnick
Nigel Farage to name his new party after his initials
Smart Alex
Chris Rea finds time to write a Christmas classic despite running late
Spa99ers
Kent gridlocked as queue forms to ‘slap a Brexiteer’. More soon.
Sydalg
Man arrested for selling flat batteries released without charge. More soon.
Wolf who bought new clothing now identifies as sheep. More later
Throngsman
Farage finds a principle down the back of the sofa. More soon.
Government finally admits it has no idea what taking back control looks like. More soon
May confident EU will help her take back control
Titus
Amazon Delivers To Stable After 3 Wise Men Buy Gold Frankincense & Myrrh On Line
Entire Brexit debate was invented to distract attention from Kate Vs. Meghan row. More soon
Hard Frexit as Nigel quits without even a transition period. More soon.
Macron wishes he had bought Boris’ second-hand water cannon. More soon.
New EU Army invades and knocks all this Brexit nonsense on the head
New secular seasonal greetings card to go on sale soon: ‘Merry Brexit!’. More soon.
Police suffer cuts as knife crime increases. More soon.
Universities ‘Don’t accept enough thick kids from crap schools’. More soon.
Voters Choice Of Name For 2nd Referendum / People’s Vote Is ‘Voty McVolte-Face’
Wirralmatt
Google searches for meaning of “Cast a Clout” up by 60,000,000.
Congrats ChipChase - The mug has been ripped off David's head and place on yours ! ..
Well done everyone for a good year and thanks to Throngsman for all the hard work.
Happy new year everyone !
"If I could blow my own trumpet I'd never leave the house" - Can't recall who said that but it feels apt.
Despite being a virtual non-contributor I am thrilled to be in a top 5. Just goes to show don't it?
New Year resolution is to get double figures for 2019.
In the words of old Mr. Grace: You've all done very well.
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