This is MegaMegaMegaMonitor. It just seemed to make sense that if you get gilded in /r/MegaMegaMonitor, you’d go somewhere. Here is that
somewhere.
Being here’s quite cool: it gives you an extra special “gilded” icon and tooltip instead of your regular “Uses MegaMegaMonitor” icon (if
you have one), when other people look at you. Note that like all MMM data changes, it can take a few hours, even up to a day, before people start seeing it!
And that’s all you get. Here’s a list of the ultra-elite who found their way here.
If you get gilded here… nothing happens. Honestly.
tl;dr: First time here, clicked Wishlist Search, and it suggested the person whose song I was listening to at the time. Spooky as hell.
So here’s what happened to me today. Feeling unwell – bit of a cold and grumpy about it – and sipping a Lemsip to try to stave off the worst of the sore throat, I found myself
stalking a few people on Reddit, discovering new subreddits based on what they’ve commented in etc., and I discover /r/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon.
I put on some music while I surf – just a selection of MP3s that I’ve bought recently. The song that’s just come on is Peter Hollens’ and Malukah’s awesome cover of Christopher Tin’s
Baba Yetu (better known as the “Civ IV theme”). If you haven’t heard their cover of it yet, here it is on YouTube.
“Random Acts of Amazon?” I think to myself, “What’s that all about then?” I read a little bit of the newbie guide, then try clicking on the “Random Wishlist” button, just to see who
it picks out for me and what kinds of things they want. It picks out a random user… /u/peterhollens.
Wait, what? That’s got to just be a naming coincidence, right? That can’t be the same Peter Hollens whose song literally just started coming out of my MP3 player right
now, can it? I hop across to his intro thread and read some of his other
posts. “What the fuck,” I say out loud, “Is this random wishlist tool psychic or something?”
But no, it just turns out that on the one and only time I’ve ever been to this sub, and the one and only time I’ve ever clicked Random Wishlist, it happened to choose the
person whose song I was literally just listening to at that time. That’s insane.
So here’s a gift, Peter. Clearly the Universe wants me to send this to you. I don’t believe in destiny, but clearly it believes in you and
I.
Thanks to the data that /r/MegaMegaMonitor collates, I’ve been able to throw together some fun statistics about the MegaLounge chain. Let me share
some graphs with you:
Gildings per MegaLounge
As you’d probably expect, the lower (and more-populous) MegaLounges see more gilding than the higher ones. But…
MegaLounge generosity ratio
…if we take the ratio of the number of gildings per MegaLounge to the number of accounts in that MegaLounge, we get a ‘generosity score’, and that’s not so
clear-cut. The most generous MegaLounges are /r/MegaLoungeSol and the secret MegaLounge, followed by /r/MegaLoungeDiamond, /r/MegaLoungeRussia, /r/MegaLoungeVII, and /r/MegaLoungeVI. I wonder if these are also the lounges with the least content? Perhaps they’re places that people stop off at only as a steping stone on their
journey?
The least-generous MegaLounge is the latest one, probably because there’s nowhere to go yet as a result of being gilded there, but the second least-generous… is /r/MegaLounge itself! I feel like I should go there and gild some people, just to buck the trend!
This is all just something fun I threw together while I’ve been off work sick today. If there’s anything else that anybody would like to see extracted from MMM’s data, let me know:
it’s all interesting stuff!
Thanks to the data that MegaMegaMonitor collates, I’ve been able to throw together some fun statistics about the MegaLounge chain. Let me share some graphs with you:
Gildings per MegaLounge
As you’d probably expect, the lower (and more-populous) MegaLounges see more gilding than the higher ones. But…
MegaLounge generosity ratio
…if we take the ratio of the number of gildings per MegaLounge to the number of accounts in that MegaLounge, we get a ‘generosity score’, and that’s not so
clear-cut. The most generous MegaLounges are /r/MegaLoungeSol and the secret MegaLounge, followed by /r/MegaLoungeDiamond, /r/MegaLoungeRussia, /r/MegaLoungeVII, and /r/MegaLoungeVI. I wonder if these are also the lounges with the least content? Perhaps they’re places that people stop off at only as a steping stone on their
journey?
The least-generous MegaLounge is the latest one, probably because there’s nowhere to go yet as a result of being gilded there, but the second least-generous… is /r/MegaLounge itself! I feel like I should go there and gild some people, just to buck the trend!
Most-gilded Redditors in the MegaLounges
It’s possible to get from /r/MegaLounge up to the x35 MegaLounge with just 33 gildings, but nine Redditors have impressed others with their
MegaContent so much that they’ve attracted significantly more. /u/love_the_heat leads the way with a massive 76 MegaGildings, followed by /u/Gold_4_No_Reason and /u/madazzahatter (there’s quite a gap, then, before I come in at fourth place).
This is all just something fun I threw together while I’ve been off work sick today. If there’s anything else that anybody would like to see extracted from MMM’s data, let me know:
it’s all interesting stuff!
Please forgive the non-magic talk, but I wanted to share with you something I made recently. It’s a plugin you can install into your web browser that does this (pic).
What’s that? It’s a top hat and wand alongside the name of /r/MagicSecrets folks. It’s only visible to other/r/MagicSecrets folks, of course, but it’s visible from anywhere on Reddit. So you can instantly spot fellow magicians whether they’re hanging out on /r/AskReddit or just commenting on kitten pics on /r/aww.
What it’s especially useful for is spotting folks in e.g. /r/magic when the discussion gets close to something that should only be talked about in
here. You instantly know whether you should say “let’s go talk about this in /r/MagicSecrets” or whether you should simply say “this isn’t the place to
talk about this.” But honestly, these last few weeks I’ve mostly just been using it to give me a smile when I spot magicians elsewhere: like when I noticed /u/Jokers247 in /r/ImGoingToHellForThis earlier this week!
Want to try it? Instructions are over on /r/MegaMegaMonitor. Apologies again for the off-topic post.
I expect that there are many of you who would appreciate it (especially in its latest version), but haven’t heard about it yet. Basically, what it does is tells you:
What Mega*Lounge level people have reached (if they’re in the same or lower level than you), or that they’re higher if they’ve gotten higher
than you. That’s really useful when you’re gilding people!
If you’re in one of a set of special secret subreddits (including the MegaLounge chain), it’ll help you to identify your (Mega!)-friends elsewhere on Reddit. It’s a great way to
help build communities, because you’ll start “recognising” people that you’ve seen in the Megas (or… “elsewhere”) in the normal subs.
It’s a browser plugin that works on most desktop and some mobile platforms, and you can install it here. If you give it a go, let me
know how you get on and come chat with the rest of us about it, over in /r/megamegamonitor.