Skipping Along: How Many is too Many?
After the last ERI article I decided to try to look deeper into the skip rates of various recruiters and try to set a benchmark for what exactly should be cause for alarm in the future and to perhaps set a more explicit policy on what to skip in the future. I looked at a total of 18 prominent recruiters and used the same method explained in the previous
article, using less than 5 seconds as a benchmark time for everyone rather than guessing their spam timer at the time.. These recruiters account for 302,312 of the 452,245 telegrams sent through the helper, which comes out to a little over 2/3rds of the telegrams sent overall.
As you can see above Bri undoubtedly stands out tremendously in comparison to the rest of the data set. Towering over the second place recruiter, which is unfortunately myself. That 20.2% skip rate is the result of not only the natural human error and skipping Nazi/otherwise deplorable nation names but a consistent aggressive skipping of puppets over the past four years. Examining the data closer, I skipped 323 Yuno puppets alone in addition to the regular doses of 5-10 puppets in a row from time to time. Further, 2017 I evidently had the habit of clicking through a few older nations (ones past the window of 20-30 minitues where a manual telegram could reach them) in effort to get a new nation quicker. The combination of those four factors leads to a fairly significant inflation in recruitment totals that is admittedly a bit embarrassing. Overall, I think for the reasons affecting my total at least, the suggestion of an intentional skip button from the previous thread would resolve the issues at hand.
After myself there are 3 other recruiters above the average skip rate of 6.7%, Snowball, Siol Alse and Whitmark. For Siol (The #1 ranked recruiter of all time) and Snowball the cause simply seems to be a higher rate of human error than their compatriots. The skips are fairly spaced out and not in any groups. It's especially understandable for Siol, as the likenesses you get a misclick while recruiting at such a breakneck pace is more common than if you are just recruiting in small batches. Whitmark on the other hand has most of his skips in groups of like 10-15 and are on nation names that do not suggest puppets at all. While it's possible that he was following a similar train of thought to mine in clicking through some old nations he would probably have been under similar pressure to Bri as either Deputy Minister or Minister at the time (March to late May 2019)
On the bottom end of the graph here Prim (1.5%) and Kari’s (0.5%) numbers can be takes as an approximation of what is an appropriate rate for skipping only racist/nazi nations as both profess that is explicitly what they do. Additionally, while CSP has the lowest rate only about 1,000 of his impressive totals were sent through the helper so Drexlore is perhaps our most careful recruiter with a skip rate of 0.2% and 11,000 telegrams sent.
The above graph shows the percent of total skips broken down by each recruiter. As you can see, both myself and Siol make up a tremendous amount of the pie as not only do we both have about average skip rates but together have sent roughly 100,000 telegrams. The next largest share is Calvin, who despite a much lower skip rate, when applied to a whopping 40,000 tgs produces a lot of skips. The same can be said for Malashaan, who has over 30,000 tgs.
In conclusion, for the average recruiter I think that skip rates of less that 5% are likely the best as the average of the sample of 6.7% is heavily lifted by myself and Siol for various reasons. Generally it’s important to be careful when recruiting as a misclick results in a nation not getting the option of receiving a much more effective manual telegram. Additionally, if you do mess up you can always go to the activity reports section of NS and show foundings, find the nation and get them their telegram, just like the good old days. Thanks for reading!
