GP Readers Ain't Dumb

No explanation of criteria whatsoever. Could be a punctuation and dictionary check, for all we know.

Just tried it, Joystiq is actually Genuis level, as I wanted to see what College level it was (postgrad or undergrad) so GP got it wrong.

At least we are still smart.

@Scotland, I think it checks the front page, so it depends on the headline story, Kotaku is Elementary School today....

Careful with this... the Blog Readability thing may well be little more than advertising cash scam thingy.

get_a_cash_advance_for_my_blogs_reading_level_im_not_sure_i_understand

I'll let you decide.

I imagine it scans the content of the blog and runs a word by word comparison with a dictionary. Every word is given a value. Big words would be a higher value than say slang. The higher the total value, the higher the level of reading required.

For the record, I just checked Kotaku.com, it's "Elementary School"

We are so smart! We are so smart! S-M-R-T!

[...] The Blog Readability Test via Mental Floss via Game | Life via GamePolitics.com Read More: Meta, Miscellaneous [...]

GP got the boost because Jack Thompson hasn't been posting for a little while now. He was easily one of the more unintelligent posters this site has ever seen and it only drug the site down with his participation.

That page rates itself at a genius level. I doubt the whole thing now.

Penny Arcade is mostly about Child's Play and Merch today but it deserves a PG-13 Warning

Slashdot got high school level... except for content I would rate them junior high man the comments made me stop reading slashdot.

Our former troll proven wrong, AGAIN!!!


No wonder the sun shines today.

Ha, for those of you interested, this comment page has scored an "Elementary School" level. So, I am pretty positive that this is nothing more then a spelling and grammar check.

'Course, since lots of us are posting jokes in the form of "i r stoopid" that probably doesn't help too much. =D

i checked gametwat.com against this and it said they were at elementary level. maybe there is a little order in the universe afterall. :P

Makes you wonder then, if JT readings Game Politics religiously because of his unhealthy obsession with Dennis, then why is he so bloody stupid sometimes?

Why am I not surprised about Destructoid and Kotaku's rating......

@EZK
... that didnt last long, guess i shouldnt be surprised though considering the kind of site it was.

@jon kanders

Nice find.

@Simon Roberts
Neil Gaiman had something similar to this on his blog a while ago, and he was proud to get something around a Grade 5 reading level. (That one had individual year levels.) The reading level test used here doesn't seem to be quite as deep as that one though.

It's not a matter of content. It's the writing itself. Have you ever read a piece where there's a sentence that just goes on and on for line after line of text, using conjunctions where full stops would do nicely, adding prepositional phrases, and throwing in foreign or obscure words like "masticate" when simple ones like "eat" would do perfectly fine?

It's sentences like this:
"The hubbub began yesterday when public relations firm Hill & Knowlton released the results of a survey which indicated that 60% of U.S. consumers favored government regulation of violent and/or M-rated games."

Which is fine for a news article, but it's still no badge of pride -- like it's somehow better if some people find it hard to read.

Destructoid scored lower (grade-wise) than I thought. Maybe it's an attraction to young-uns that many of their stories sound like the funny ramblings of a drunken uncle (in a good way).

stopkill.com got 'genius'

... I think its beyond broken. FAIL.

Probably just uses average word length or something.