Comments on: Anime Blogs Ranked By Readability

By: DrmChsr0

DrmChsr0 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:20:40 +0000

If a five-year-old can’t understand what I’m writing, then all my efforts have gone to naught.

NOES

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:58:08 +0000

tj han: So you’re saying that writing to the lowest level readers gets you more hits? Isn’t that always the case? :P

By: jpmeyer

jpmeyer — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:28:22 +0000

Well, I mean words like “Zizek” or “jouissance” or “Foucault” or “Bourdieu” are only 2 syllable words after all.

By: 0rion

0rion — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:36:16 +0000

Haha, that’s a rather interesting benchmark. Just for kicks though, it would’ve been a lot funnier if you had Photoshopped those to all say “This Blog’s Intelligence Level”.

Of course, ANN coming up as Genius Level proves the system is broken, so w/e. :P

Also lol @ Hinano.

By: Adun

Adun — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:41:06 +0000

Weird how it says my blog is college post graduate because I know that my writing style is not even at a undergraduate level, lol.

By: Hinano

Hinano — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:20:47 +0000

Hahah I bet mine’s high school because of all the cursing. xD
And LOL @ that being elementary XD

What I don’t get is why JP’s blog (www.minaidehazukashii.com) is at JR High School Level. He writes posts using more vocab than I know. Maybe it’s all those Naruto porn posts that are bringing him down XD

By: DiGiKerot

DiGiKerot — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:37:17 +0000

Beta-Waffle? Genius level? Either that proves the test is extremely broken, or it’s the exception that proves the rule ^^;

By: tj han

tj han — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:46:46 +0000

Considering the pool of geniuses is much smaller than the pool of people with at least elementary school level, we can assume that the blogs ranking near the top of the page are higher in popularity, generally.

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:30:30 +0000

I wonder if my writing ranked College Level because was actually that rating, or because it’s hard to understand at first? :P

Either ways, this is a fun idea, though it seems a little inaccurate. :3

By: DKellis

DKellis — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:12:41 +0000

I’ve actually been trying (and failing, apparently) to keep to a junior high school reading level for my blog, since that’s the rough target audience for most of my subject matter. I suppose high school is close enough. (That, or I’m overestimating junior high school.)

From what I remember of various such tests, jargon (or what the test assumes to be jargon) tends to up the reading level of a block of text significantly, more so than length of words. I’m just guesstimating, though.