Congressional Activity Statistics
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by Adasko
First of all, may I note that because of the amount of bans and similar occurences, the stats might be a little inaccurate. However, mostly they show the reality.
Throughout the day, I've been preparing a treat for all voters. The activity rates from the 26th (start of congress term) right until the 22nd, that is today, based on the current congressmen registered on the forums. I have a little spreadsheet for you.
So, what do We learn from this?
First of all, the most active congressman, is obviously Gofarman. His Speaker Duties probably helped him post 264 times this term. The runner-up is Nosyt, who's been everywhere, one might say, 135 posts proves it. The topic creator this term, was Duke Leto, who created 6 topics, with Auditor General petz, just on his back with 5.
Unfortunately, many congressman were inactive. 5 congressman never even said a thing this term, including PNQ leader Miloslav and former President Zanalan. Another 8, didn't post more than 10 times, most notably Joey Phillips, the PPC President, who posted only three times, and Andrew Mendelson of the newly created Green Party, who posted only twice.
Party-wise, the least active parties were the Green Party, the PPC and the PNQ, as visible in the second sheet, whereas Gofarman's Speaker position brought the CEP a nice average. However, in my opinion, if Gofarman wasn't speaker the rates would've changed a little. Second in the mix is the CSD who have an average of 49 posts per member, which given they are the biggest party in parliament is quite impressive.
So, here's a list of Congressman who in my opinion definetely do not deserve another term:
admis-5 posts 0 topics
Alias Vision-5 posts 0 topics
Eric Boucher, Frank Duper, Inochimizu- 0 posts 0 topics
Jilkor-2 posts 0 topics
Joey Phillips- 3 posts 0 topics
Miloslav-0 posts 0 topics
Ralph de Ver-2 posts 1 topic (However, he's been a good Deputy, so it's just about the numbers 😁
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RoyMunson-0 posts 0 topics
Samuel de Champlain-6 posts 0 topics
Trenton Rendell-4 posts 0 topics
Zanalan-0 posts 0 topics
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The Jokes on you I'm not coming back for another term aha!
No but seriously I've been letting this term slide due to my vacation soon, once I'm back I can get alot more active.
oohhh burn them 😛
Second place!! 😃 I'm gonna have to mention that in my platform which I'll be writing today 😛
Buuuuuuuurn!
But seriously, the same thing happens in real life as well. The Parliament is a nice place to take a nap.
Great article!
Nice article Adasko, voted!
Nice smear Adasko. Next time you may want to ask a few questions and see what the story behind the numbers is. That is rather disappointing politiks coming from the DAL.
Yes! Most Topics started!
Very good work.
Alias, you are actually a big surprise for me, inactivity wise. I'm just judging the stats, which are saying, that you basically wasted a seat. You're a good guy, though, and I hope that you will get in to congress, and fix that mistake, by being active.
Nothing personal 🙂
Then again you don't take into account the IRC chats and the In game and Forum Votes. aha!
I do not. I just take in account the participation of a Congressman, as this is very important, that he represents his voters, also by debates. I think that just pressing the button is purely absurd. Trent, you were in Cabinet for some time too, that's why I think you have done your share for the country. I counted all that was countable, if only I had access to voting logs, it would've looked different.
Yes, and that last puts its finger on a key point. TALKING is all very well, but how are voters to know what their candidates actually stand for if we can't tell if (or how) they voted on the matters that actually went before Congress to be decided?
Yes, that's why I think it's important every congressman says something in a debate, that's why We have open door congress, to see what congressmen are doing, and they're debates. Correct them, if you think they're opinion is wrong (you voted for him after all). This gives a little bit of accountability, and also let's Us see, that our congressman are really engaged in their work.
lol alias id like to mention that
1) one of our current congressmen (1/2 of our representation) was until recently a member of YOUR party 😛
2) we are still the most active in canada
I like the concept of the chart as a tool to be used by the voting public. I'm sure you'll find ways to improve the reliability of the results and expand the fields to include other aspects of activity and ideology.
Thank you adasko, I was actually planning to do an article on this, but I thought it would be pretty much impossible for me to get the statistics. Thanks so much for doing it, it really outlines who did their part.
Woohoo! I'm Third among Congressmen! If I hadn't gone on vacation, and my activity been constrained thereby, I would have been higher!
If you want active representation, vote for active Congressmen!
Goran Thrax
Nothing wrong with taking your laptop on your vacation!
Ohh, and about Zanalan, methinks he quit, cuz he didn't give me admin powers on the forums, and no new comers have been able to get access, so unfortunately we've had to move forums 🙁
I'd like to vouch for Admis, who may not have much to say, but he obviously does pay attention, and his comments are always well thought out and contribute much to our discussions
as a congressman, i am probably middle of the pack in posts, i read most of it but on some issues i dont have the level of expertise of others so i dont necessarily say anything, just read what the issue is and vote according to that. That said, so of the above have been here much longer and would certainly be able to match and probably exceed my post count if they were active. the PNQ btw just doesnt want anything to do with being productive, except for galen alda, who has contributed now and again.
ohhh, I think I see a cobra
@ Erik Christensen
I don't own a laptop, and I did check in with Congress almost daily, at least for a few minutes, I made all the votes. But I didn't have time to do more than post occasionally, and catch up on what we were voting on. If it's any consolation, I won't be going on vacation again, for quite some time to come.
Goran Thrax
Very cool, this is informative, and deserves my vote.
Very cool!!!
I don't know how long it took to have all those stats but thanks for the job you did. Unfortunatly, the file have some mistakes (at least one unless my topic for Q1 house acquisition program doesn't count as a topic).
As many congressman, I spend most of my time to read the different topics and reply only to some of them.
*Phew* I'm safe🙂
Good article.
Even when the CEP does something right, someone still has to knock us down.
So the CSD has 49 posts per member. Big deal. We all know the CSD are a bunch of whiners. 🙂
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I would rather see records of Voting habits of congresspeople rather than if they posted and how much they posts. As it was said, the Speaker role demands a ton of posts just in archiving, creating votes, getting people back on topic, etc. I'd say that to be reasonably accurate, you need to toss out all those administrative posts by the Speaker, Plus all the non-contributory posts by congresspeople (e.g. "Voted", "Yeah!") to get a real idea of what the average posts per congressperson is.
I mean, not every MP speaks at every sitting of parliament; some people are better informed than others, and some people have nothing to say but "YEAH!" or "Oh no he didn't!" How would we benefit from having more congresspeople post for no reason other than to satisfy the stats-gatherers?
While I applaud the initiative, I reject your conclusions, and suggest you carefully think out all the variables when next attempting this.