Okay, after looking at your profile, I think I can explain your confusion. LJ Mindmap not only considers if they're on your friends list, but it also considers if you're on their friends list (wow, I just thought too much about the they're/their thing).
Let's go back to the Scat Hed Obsidian, Blerg Eat Kitty, and Yuki Onna combining with rollick, moocowrich, correspondguy, cornelldancer, and scarletdemon to form a network of LJ people who mostly read each other. The reason they're so close to me is because not only do they read me, and I read them, but we all read each other (well, not everyone of us but most of us).
Let's make it a simpler number game, assigning the letters A-F to a group of six people. A reads B, B reads A, A reads C, C reads A, B reads C, C reads B. So, 3 people all read each other, making it 3! or 3*2*1=6 separate friending decisions. Now let's say the rest of the friending tree is A reads D, D reads A, A reads E, A reads F, F reads B.
If we were to look at A's LJ Mindmap, we would see B in the most prominent position. Why? Well, while A, B, and C all read each other, F also reads B, therefore forging another connection. E would be the outlier with only one connection.
So, let's take it back to my own LJ mindmap. People who are mutual friends with you that are in common with my own are blergeatkitty, fitfool, yndy, and zoethe. Of those, only blergeatkitty and zoethe are "power" friends in my LJ mindmap. I don't have the time to show it in spreadsheet form, but if you looked at my big names you would see that most of them read each other.
For LJ Mind Map purposes, think of friending as a huge decision tree. The more connections there are, the bigger the name. The fact that I'm on Ferrett-sensei's friendslist has brought me a lot of random connections, probably more than I am aware of.
Heh, I didn't know your math skills were that leet. I had another girl on my flist not understand what factorial or even binary meant when I tried to explain this.
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Date: 2007-04-29 03:38 am (UTC)Okay... but a number of the people you mentioned are on my FL as well... and yet, I lie in a relatively innocuous position on your map
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Date: 2007-04-29 04:41 am (UTC)Let's go back to the Scat Hed Obsidian, Blerg Eat Kitty, and Yuki Onna combining with rollick, moocowrich, correspondguy, cornelldancer, and scarletdemon to form a network of LJ people who mostly read each other. The reason they're so close to me is because not only do they read me, and I read them, but we all read each other (well, not everyone of us but most of us).
Let's make it a simpler number game, assigning the letters A-F to a group of six people. A reads B, B reads A, A reads C, C reads A, B reads C, C reads B. So, 3 people all read each other, making it 3! or 3*2*1=6 separate friending decisions. Now let's say the rest of the friending tree is A reads D, D reads A, A reads E, A reads F, F reads B.
If we were to look at A's LJ Mindmap, we would see B in the most prominent position. Why? Well, while A, B, and C all read each other, F also reads B, therefore forging another connection. E would be the outlier with only one connection.
So, let's take it back to my own LJ mindmap. People who are mutual friends with you that are in common with my own are blergeatkitty, fitfool, yndy, and zoethe. Of those, only blergeatkitty and zoethe are "power" friends in my LJ mindmap. I don't have the time to show it in spreadsheet form, but if you looked at my big names you would see that most of them read each other.
For LJ Mind Map purposes, think of friending as a huge decision tree. The more connections there are, the bigger the name. The fact that I'm on Ferrett-sensei's friendslist has brought me a lot of random connections, probably more than I am aware of.
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Date: 2007-04-30 04:42 am (UTC)sadly, I would've understood much faster if you'd said "they have the n-1 factorial relationship" :P
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Date: 2007-04-30 05:44 am (UTC)