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The launch of the second edition of House of Commons Procedure and Practice was…

by Mitchel Raphael on Monday, November 30, 2009 12:06pm - 34 Comments

The launch of the second edition of House of Commons Procedure and Practice was held in the Speaker’s dining room. Speaker Peter Milliken (left) with the book’s co-editors Audrey O’Brien, Clerk of the House of Commons and Marc Bosc, Deputy Clerk.

NDP MP Peter Stoffer gets his copy autographed by O’Brien.

O’Brien with Liberal whip Rodger Cuzner.

Milliken (left) with Liberal MP Paul Szabo.

Deputy Speaker Andrew Scheer and Milliken.

Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge.

Tags: Andrew Scheer, Audrey O’Brien, Marc Bosc, paul szabo, peter milliken, Peter Stoffer, Rod Bruinooge, Rodger Cuzner

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Dot

Btw, at the time of this writing, you having recently hit 100 points had 2,092 comments, whereas Jack, the other centaurian, having previously beat you by a few days has 2,134 commenats.

Hmmm, now if I was the marketing manager for IntenseDebate, what would I rather care about? You/Jack getting favourable comments, or you/Jack using the software and making lots and lots of comments?

Think about it….
http://intensedebate.com/people/Jack_Mitchell Jack Mitchell

Yes, it does indeed appear to be pro/junkie central; what I especially is the fact that it's not an echo chamber, as many blog comment sections seem to be, and presumably the readership, like the commenters, are attracted to that. It's a credit to Whyte and Maclean's that they're not defining success only by the number of clicks, as those other media outlets seem to be doing with such appalling results. "Jittery and scabious" are the mots justes.

I agree the loss of the nested comments from before ID was installed is grievous. If I recall correctly, Jonathan mentioned that the data had not been lost but that it wasn't displaying correctly after the migration. Maybe someday he'll be able to restore those.

Congrats again on the 100p!
http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

Why don't you sign up for IntenseDebate, Dot? Join the Borg. You're far too stubborn.
http://intensedebate.com/people/madeyoulook madeyoulook

IntenseDebate Reputation Meter: "The reputation meter is a measure of strength of all previous comments made on our system by a certain commenter as judged by his or her peers. It is one way to tell whether the comment you are reading is written by someone well-regarded."
Dot

I tried, but it doesn't work on Windows 3.1
Dot

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It appears to me that IntenseDebate needs to do more work on their algorithm. There appears to be a very strong correlation between number of comments and score.

This could be the result of a bias built into the system – for example, everytime you (a fully registered commenter) posts a comment it gets a +1 score. If that number is then still included in your average score, then you are in effect being rewarded equally just for commenting, however inoccuous or profound it may be.

This bias, if it exists (I think it does) would be most apparent if you have a relatively low number of scorers/scores (again, only those registered can score another group member). So, if you ended up with a score of +2, 50% is a freebie, a score of +3, 33% etc.

Just in this thread – you have a score of 90 with 1,233 comments, while Sir_Frances has 67 p from 297 comments.

They need to improve the score function/algorithm in the next software release before it has any realerer meaning.
guest

Read the acknowledgements page, it lists a dozen or so drafters and editors.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

We all started at zero, Dot. The commenting system uses a non-linear scale. One ascends to 46 (or whatever) relatively quickly. It takes more incremental comments to move from 99 to 100 then it takes to move from zero to fifty.