I train our ethnographers to go where the community points us, so we almost always code higher comment posts first (exception – when they are planning posts authored by community managers and not ‘content’ posts).
This would be interesting, to see what our metric is beyond the question of number of comments (e.g. is there something common to what we consider ‘content-ful’)
I hypothesise that it’s not only/less about the social network metrics of its author and more about the diversity of the people commenting — I usually end up coding posts/finding them interesting when there are at least 3 people actively talking.
I’d definitely be up for comparison – I do think we should get slightly further along on POPREBEL, since it’s not a great example just yet. When we have greater parity between English, Czech, and Polish (which should happen in the next month) it’ll be worth doing.
They also give us 3 different looks in terms of ethnographers, which could be interesting (especially since I have intimate knowledge of all three contexts and could help contextualise any confounding variables). The first is a lone ethnographer (Open Care). The second (POPREBEL) is one lone ethnographer and two pairs of ethnographers working across 3 languages (maybe we should add another ethnographer to English just for the sake of having 2 2 and 2…). The final (NGI) is 3 ethnographers working on a single language.