Dec 5
We’re smart … kind of
I’m new here.
This being the case, I need to know all the facts about this site, especially its readability level so that I can perfectly compliment the other wonderful writers. Turns out, according to the aptly named Blog Readability Test, that you, fine readers, must have at least a high school education in order to understand the ratings of this extremely informative but, as it turns out, only decently intelligent page. Mental Floss believes that the site uses Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Formula to generate these answers, but I’m of the belief that it probably has to do with magic and kittens.
So where does this put us within the grand scheme of gaming blogs? Check it out:
Kotaku: Junior High
Destructoid: Junior High
PlayStation.blog: Junior High
GayGamer: Junior High
MTV Multiplayer: Junior High
Game|Life: High School
Slashdot: High School
Joystiq: College
MEGATONik: College
Level Up: Genius
Ars Technica: Genius
I won’t comment on any of these outcomes, as we all have our own opinions on each of these sites. I will, however, use some big words in hopes to raise the intelligence level of MEGATONik to uber-genius: gregarious, oxymoron, riboflavin, sticktoitiveness, pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. Got any other gaming blogs that make the cut?
[Via GameLife. We'll excuse them this time for not including us in their post...]
[Edit: After Razak's gratuitous use of sesquipedalia, we've jumped up to College level on the school-o-meter. Kudos, Razak, for making us all smarter. -backflip]
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Hahah, I had to update your post because after putting down those big words, we jumped up to college level.
Ironically, Joystiq is at the college level, despite only being read by dummies.
Nice.
Haha, I looked up Wikipedia, and it was “Genius.” Not surprising.
And when I put in megatonik.com/author/zizzy, I get college level. Bad-ass, but my new goal is bringing it down to kindergarten to appeal to a larger audience.
However, our forums are rated “elementary school.” That’s hilarious.
http://www.megatonik.com/author/backflip10019/ is only high school.
“However, our forums are rated “elementary school.” That’s hilarious.”
No surprise there.
I’d like to point out how Poopface is a very active member there.
After a cursory perlustration of multitudinous Internet-based knowledge repositories, I have begun to cognize, through my unparalleled perspicacity and interminable scrutinization of confabulation on the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Formula, that the Formula is predicated on syllabic grandiloquence and awards verbosity such that a palaverment of this character will assuredly ameliorate your prevailing distinction.
“I’d like to point out how Poopface is a very active member there.”
I’m mooning you right now, and I just took a sloppy poop and I forgot to wipe.
“After a cursory perlustration of multitudinous Internet-based knowledge repositories, I have begun to cognize, through my unparalleled perspicacity and interminable scrutinization of confabulation on the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Formula, that the Formula is predicated on syllabic grandiloquence and awards verbosity such that a palaverment of this character will assuredly ameliorate your prevailing distinction.”
I was going to say something to that effect.