The social network of the #Dominions chat channel

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The #Dominions IRC channel on Gamesurge is quite popular among Dom3 newcomers and veterans alike. Just for fun, I've made a video that showcases the social component of it in form of a graph: The users are represented as nodes and edges are being formed when somebody addresses or mentions another user. The more this happens, the stronger the link grows. The links and the nodes vanish from the cache again after a while when they're not being reinforced. In that case, the graph may break up into multiple connected components, until all its members vanish or a new link happens to join them together again.

The video tracks the development over about two weeks of chat - look at the timestamp at the bottom racing forward. If you don't like the background music, try the other video instead.