NTPS

Node Title Psych Study

Introduction

In an effort to understand the voting habits of average Everythingians, we carefully selected a group of noders of varying experience. In the course of the experiment, we exposed the noders to a variety of nodes, and watched their reaction.

Study Group

23 participants were selected, 2 each from levels 2 through 12, and one from level 13. All participants' identities were kept anonymous via double-blind. All participants were paid a nominal fuzzle.

Node Title Selection

A set of node titles were selected, to get maximum distribution across the following variables:

• Node title length
• Proper capitalization
• Acronyms
• Use of keywords and phrases

Results

The results are easily summarized: Noders are fickle. That aside, several trends arose:

• Short node titles (especially 4 word node titles) very rarely generated enough interest to get any votes.
• Nodes that begin with two ALLCAPS words, followed by normally capitalized words, garnered a lot of upvotes.
• StudlyCaps node titles drew a lot of votes, split 60/40 betwwen up and down.
• Acronyms, as with short node titles, gathered few votes.
• Use of any of the following keywords: Soy, lesbians, monkeys, nuke, or religious guaranteed every noder voted on them. 80% of the noders wanted to write up something in these nodes.