Update: Discussion has moved on to a new thread.
The load more comments links are getting annoying (at least if you're not logged in), so it's time for a new Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread. We're also approaching the traditional 500-comment mark, but I think that hidden comments provide more appropriate joints to carve these threads at. So as of chapter 67, this is the place to share your thoughts about Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic.
The first 5 discussion threads are on the main page under the harry_potter tag. Threads 6 and on (including this one) are in the discussion section using its separate tag system. Also: one, two, three, four, five, six. The fanfiction.net author page is the central author-controlled HPMOR clearinghouse with links to the RSS feed, pdf version, TV Tropes pages, fan art, and more, and AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author's Notes.
As a reminder, it's often useful to start your comment by indicating which chapter you are commenting on.
Spoiler Warning: this thread is full of spoilers. With few exceptions, spoilers for MOR and canon are fair game to post, without warning or rot13. More specifically:
You do not need to rot13 anything about HP:MoR or the original Harry Potter series unless you are posting insider information from Eliezer Yudkowsky which is not supposed to be publicly available (which includes public statements by Eliezer that have been retracted).
If there is evidence for X in MOR and/or canon then it's fine to post about X without rot13, even if you also have heard privately from Eliezer that X is true. But you should not post that "Eliezer said X is true" unless you use rot13.
So, I was curious to see how each chapter was getting reviewed. Here are some numbers as of a few minutes ago:
The reviews cover a total of 856,252 words, more than double the size of the fic itself.
Some charts: reviews per chapter total review words per chapter avg. words per review per chapter
The 10 most reviewed chapters are:
In terms of average words per review, the top 10 are:
Top 10 for total review wordage produced per chapter:
So overall, the first chapters are the best reviewed, and while the latter ones tend to attract longer reviews, the earlier ones still attract higher word volume overall.
The data is updated on a daily basis and you can explore it yourself here.
If you want to see the scraper's code, have a look here.
Consider this (and this) as fancode.