Took a while to get this. Your question was BWOMA, which seems like ages ago, doesn't it?
· Size · ·
Board · Uncompressed · Compressed · Compression · Compressibility
Community · 4.8 · 1.4 · 0.30 · 0.70 · CurrentEvents · 83.3 · 27.5 · 0.33 · 0.67 · Flame · 7.3 · 2.0 · 0.27 · 0.73 · Geek · 1.8 · 0.5 · 0.26 · 0.74 · OffTopic · 22.8 · 8.2 · 0.36 · 0.64 · Space · 48.1 · 15.2 · 0.32 · 0.68
The object of the exercize was to use compressibility as a measure of redundancy, so the results are kind of amusing...our most compressible messages are on GeekSpeak, where a higher percentage of the messages are me rendering people unconscious with impenetrable technobabble. Next-most-redundant is the Flame board, where I guess we repeatedly do tend to repeat ourselves while flaming repeatedly. No surprise that the most substantive boards have the least redundancy: Space, CurrentEvents, and OT.
So there you go, a statistical slice of the HabitableZone.
For Nick: Compressibility stats by board