Absolutely, but you need to spend time reading to appreciate the depth of meaning in each individual message. I was hoping that sorting by the numerical persistence score would save me time over this labor-intensive approach that involves reading individual messages.

I can tell you what I am looking for, by way of an analogy.

So when I was in grad school, I was a TA (teaching assistant) for a number of classes.

When I was a TA for graduate probability and statistics, I spent sleepness nights reading and grading lengthy homework assignments, midterm, and final exams.

When I was a TA for undergraduate classes, I took the midterms and finals to the office on campus that had a scantron - I am not sure if this term still exists - and there, the computer graded them without my assistance.

The graduate classes were smaller, and yet I spent sleepness nights on them.

The undergraduate classes were huge, and yet I spent little time, being efficient, because of the structured approach to grading that completely eliminated the need for manual work.

OKC is like undergraduate classes in that the influx is huge, so I want to find a way to avoid reading unstructured text messages (which often consist of poorly phrased sentences with stylistic lapses anyway...) and find a scalable, automatable, efficient, hands-free approach similar to scantron grading of midterms and finals.