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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2008

I recognise the font!

Anyway Doctor Q, come June time, would you happen to be free to sit a Statistics A-Level for a certain MacRumours member?..
 
Blue Velvet said:
Who said anything about being helpful? :D
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Indeed. :D

Cassie said:
If you're one of the few in the club, it gives some the notion of "I'm better then you".
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I'd say that for those in "the club" that think that, the post count has nothing to do with their attitude. And I can't think of any examples.

Me? I just think I have too much to say and enough time to say it.
 
dynamicv said:
Both mad jew and psychofreak for instance build up high post rates by answering questions in the Mac Basics and Help forums. Obviously that's far preferable to someone like me who just arses about in Community Discussion.
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On the other hand though, one of the things I like about MacRumors (and something I've heard many, many other posters comment on favourably) is the sense of community that exists here – and members who contribute meaningful stuff to forums like Community Discussion are helping to foster this. Not those who just arse around in there though, mind. ;)

Ultimately though, the one flawless recognition system each of us has is personal experience. Each of us will recognise certain posters who we always read, be it because we find those people helpful, entertaining, thought-provoking or whatever – how many posts they have or what title they display under their username doesn't come into it at all.
 
bartelby said:
Does MR see an increase in spamming levels when you post these extrapolation threads?
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A little bit, mostly in the Top 50 thread itself. Sometimes we have to clean up these threads to keep the conversation on topic.

Overall, however, I don't think spamming goes up, or I'd be more hesitant about doing these threads at all.

Some people count posts, but I think they'd do so whether or not we're noting the results a couple of times a year.
 
I think it would be more of an issue if posts counts were visible like they were a few years ago.
 
Can you tell what time of year users are most active? I would think most people would be posting more often in the summer and around this time.
 
Summer and Xmas is the slow time I always thought. Most people travel those times.

I slow down a lot in the summer, usually outside more.
 
It would be interesting to be able to see your own posting trends. Say post rates for each member over the last month, 6 months, year and all time

Would that be difficult to incorporate in our user cp? Seems like just some simple algorithms would be needed
 
This place gets quite right around xmas. And Im sure the US members slow down in July.
 
iMacZealot said:
Can you tell what time of year users are most active? I would think most people would be posting more often in the summer and around this time.
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That's not the easiest thing to track. The most obvious trend is the the flurry of posting that occurs around major Apple events. So January (MWSF) and June (WWDC) are big times for us, in addition to some of the special events we've seen in the past.

Things are generally quietest in December around the holidays, and there seems to be a lull in the spring.

It's tough to figure out exactly what's going on because you have the influence of Apple events overlaid on seasonal trends, which are then overlaid on a general upward trend in posting rates as we add users. But in general, fall seems to be busier than spring.

Looking at 2007, we had a peak around MWSF, then things dropped off considerably to levels even below those of the previous fall. We peaked again in June around WWDC and then tailed off a bit but remained high as we then built to another peak for the Leopard release in late October, followed by another decrease.
 
WildCowboy said:
That's not the easiest thing to track. The most obvious trend is the the flurry of posting that occurs around major Apple events. So January (MWSF) and June (WWDC) are big times for us, in addition to some of the special events we've seen in the past.

Things are generally quietest in December around the holidays, and there seems to be a lull in the spring.

It's tough to figure out exactly what's going on because you have the influence of Apple events overlaid on seasonal trends, which are then overlaid on a general upward trend in posting rates as we add users. But in general, fall seems to be busier than spring.

Looking at 2007, we had a peak around MWSF, then things dropped off considerably to levels even below those of the previous fall. We peaked again in June around WWDC and then tailed off a bit but remained high as we then built to another peak for the Leopard release in late October, followed by another decrease.
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It seems like I've seen more members who've joined in the months of January or June 2007 than any other month. Those two periods also seemed to be the busiest times I've ever seen on the forums, too.

A loose way you can judge the site's popularity is here. From the looks of that graph, this site peaked in January 2007.
 
iMacZealot said:
A loose way you can judge the site's popularity is here. From the looks of that graph, this site peaked in January 2007.
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By most measures (new members, number of posts, number of new threads), our all-time high activity occurred this past October around the Leopard launch.
 
The first big influx of members was January 2002, then the next was around 2004.
 
WildCowboy said:
By most measures (new members, number of posts, number of new threads), our all-time high activity occurred this past October around the Leopard launch.
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Hmm...to me it feels like it was the iPhone announcement and launch, but then again, I wasn't around here much in October.
 
adrake86 said:
The stats that are kept on this site are amazing. I just want to know really how they work. :rolleyes:
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some of them are made up. the top posters are merely bots and not real people.

i mean its just like the lotto. no one really wins. the announced winners are named so people/society thinks someone won but no one actually knows the people..

so kidding. i agree it is interesting!
 
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