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I think it's because he loves us. Or hates us. It's too close to call. It may also have been because I asked for them.

And as Top Ten's are just too lame for Herd of Cats here is:

Herd of Cats' Top Twenty Five Lists celebrating our Two Year Anniversary!

Notes:

1. I didn't check any of the links but they should all work
2. This would look better if OL still indented text. Q-Bert says it still does (flying in the face of the evidence) but as you can see it doesn't. Maybe someday he'll fix it
3. this list wasn't remotely formatted when I received it. Just saying.

And now, with out further ado! On to the lists!



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Herd of Cats' Top Twenty Five most read stories:

1. 7226 reads – Shaundi: more than just a voice - Yes, it's as close to porn as we get with the Virtual Vixen Shaundi from Saints Row 2 making it into Playboy.Woohoo! I win!
2. 2964 reads – A Masterpiece from HoC Productions
3. 2679 reads – HoC Periodic Table of Xbox Games - Elements/Games list
4. 2437 reads – Games
5. 1744 reads – Saint's Row 2 was a lot of fun
6. 1560 reads – Battlefield: Bad Company and weapon unlocks
7. 1499 reads – Live Status Page 3.0
8. 1190 reads – Live Status Page 2.2
9. 906 reads – Zombie Swamp!!!!
10. 894 reads – New Zombie Map – overhead view
11. 890 reads – The Saints Row 2 Tornado ruined my weekend
12. 857 reads – BREAKING NEWS: Swag has a date tomorrow, needs advice, viagra.
13. 850 reads – Left 4 Dead co-op LAN party – Nov. 21st
14. 789 reads – Barnstorming: Saints Row 2 flying 101
15. 774 reads – "He is his father's son!"
16. 711 reads – Call of Duty WaW — Shi No Numa
17. 707 reads – Herd of Cats Lexicon of Death
18. 699 reads – New Nazi Zombie map in CoD: WaW downloadable content
19. 672 reads – Zoey: the truth is out there.
20. 465 reads – Plans for the Zombie Apocalypse
21. 463 reads – Fine! Draw your own damn logo then!
22. 452 reads – Caprica Review...
23. 449 reads – Never go one-on-one with a Smoker zombie by yourself
24. 381 reads – Zombie Factory – Der Riese
25. 381 reads – First RROD?

Perhaps not so strangely, our Top Twenty Five most read is dominated by scantily clad women and video games. The top story had both! Saints Row 2 and Call of Duty: World at War Zombies were the most popular topics. Blackwalt (duh) posted the most articles but Coxxorz, Swag and Disasterpiece were all represented.

The Number One most read story had 7226 reads. Number Two had 2964. That's quite a drop off. The last two stories in the list tied with 381 reads.

Herd of Cats' Top Twenty Five most commented stories:

1. 70 comments – BREAKING NEWS: Swag has a date tomorrow, needs advice, viagra.HoC wants me!
2. 52 comments – Q-Bert has pneumonia
3. 52 comments – Now I really want that iPod touch
4. 43 comments – Games
5. 39 comments – Swag's Classic Clip: J.C.V.D. Trailer!
6. 39 comments – Fine! Draw your own damn logo then!
7. 38 comments – All things happen in 3s
8. 37 comments – HOC Night!
9. 36 comments – October's Top Picks
10. 34 comments – The Herd of Cats 2008 Pintsie Awards!
11. 32 comments – Plans for the Zombie Apocalypse
12. 32 comments – This is so bad...
13. 28 comments – Saturday Night's alright for...
14. 27 comments – The new Mac hotness
15. 27 comments – First RROD?
16. 26 comments – Better than Vista
17. 26 comments – Saints Row 2: A review
18. 26 comments – Darwinism in action
19. 26 comments – I blame Coxxorz for making me a winner.
20. 25 comments – Request: Burnout Paradise
21. 25 comments – Far... far... far... far... far... away...
22. 25 comments – Revek could have saved himself some pain
23. 24 comments – Jumping the gun
24. 24 comments – A Masterpiece from HoC Productions
25. 23 comments – Xbox Live 12+1 months for $30!!!

Good to see that there wasn't a lot of duplication from the most read list, some but not a lot. Its also good to see that these stories were not only posted by multiple contributers but commented by multiple contributors as well. A good representation of Herd of Cats across the board.

Herd of Cats' Top Twenty Five stories by size (I am assuming the numbers are bytes or characters):

1. 25381 – Saint's Row 2 was a lot of funStreaker: A Megan Fox look-a-like and a Lobo look-a-like pose with a random streaker
2. 22622 – HoC Periodic Table of Xbox Games - Elements/Games list
3. 17708 – Army of Two really quite good.
4. 10375 – Co-op Day #5 — Resident Evil 5
5. 9131 – Stupid Zombies!
6. 8146 – The Saints Row 2 Tornado ruined my weekend
7. 6640 – Review: Atlantic Inc.'s JamStand
8. 6598 – The Herd of Cats 2008 Pintsie Awards!
9. 6459 – The Watchmen - A Review
10. 6185 – Only Me....
11. 5924 – Herd of Cats Lexicon of Death
12. 5861 – Call of Duty WaW — Shi No Numa
13. 5832 – "He is his father's son!"
14. 5814 – The Evolution of a Christmas present
15. 5670 – Anyone own a shovel? The continuing saga...
16. 5588 – The Herd of Cats 2008 Pintsie Awards!
17. 5576 – Sex Legends
18. 5570 – ICFC Lan: the Aftermath
19. 5492 – The Herd of Cats 2008 Pintsie Awards!
20. 5377 – Morice Revek’s Book Review – HOC Style
21. 5182 – Card game rules: Frustration
22. 5091 – Marvel Ultimate Alliance: The New Hotness
23. 5080 – EVE-Online: How I am back on the crack-cocaine...
24. 5020 – The Rules of the Card Game “Frustration"
25. 4898 – From the Annals of the Waltville Inquireror - Part 2

I think that Q-Bert's script needs to build in some filters. The Pintsie Awards (which was built across 6 pages) took three spots. And an unpublished Card Game rules page took two spots. It is in the system twice which is a mistake but both of the pages were unpublished and, as such, unseen. I still left them in here. Also a bunch of the stories (but not all) had a substantial amount of cut and paste from other sources.

On the plus side the majority of the top ten stories are all reviews, or what passes for reviews on our site. Also while there was some duplication from the first two lists, there was also some new entries again posted by a varied number of Herd of Cats' members.

It's not an RSS feed: It's a copy and paste of an RSS feed. That's different.Herd of Cats' Top Twenty Five comments by size (again I am assuming the numbers are bytes or characters):

1. 52003 – It's no RSS feed...
2. 4579 – My advice/analysis (takes you to the main story as the comment is on the second page)
3. 4249 – Debriefing Report #1
4. 4035 – I am just a male wh*re...
5. 3939 – You know what that is?
6. 3327 – Maybe it was
7. 3151 – Sarcastic...
8. 3113 – wrong place for Hero comments
9. 3040 – Huzzah!
10. 2965 – You should be
11. 2699 – Noir's Hero review
12. 2689 – Bleh
13. 2569 – I think it is time.
14. 2408 – Zune HD 3, iPod Touch 35,000
15. 2362 – Expert advice:
16. 2288 – Last time....
17. 2282 – Got it.
18. 2245 – Saw the proper episode
19. 2245 – NARF!
20. 2245 – One step further
21. 2202 – Re: asshole
22. 2193 – Nope, episode 9
23. 2100 – There are many things that need to be pointed out here.
24. 1997 – Not as bad as I thought it would be
25. 1997 – Response

Coxxorz's copy and paste Number One entry is over ten times the length of Number Two. Ten times!!! Wow. Copy and pasting is almost like cheating. Not in this case though, it was just Coxxorz being lazy!

Hey! I'm not on this list anywhere? What's up with that?

Most verbose commenters (other than Coxxorz blow out Number One) are Moricerevek and Disasterpiece although Coxxorz does pop up a few times after Number One. Moricerevek got top billing as most of Disasterpiece's entries are for the same story.

And Noir! You remember Noir? Noir appeared a few time.