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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2021
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Finally got a chance to look through this, interesting as always. Always surprises me to see someone shoot up out of seemingly nowhere into this list. Does make sense thinking back on the last 6 months of the forum, but it's not always a realization that dawns on me as someone begins to post more. Certainly sometimes I can tell there are people attempting to inflate their post counts.
Some very interesting bar charts could've been visualized using categorical features and it would've been cool to see some time series forecasts for 2021. Some of the most interesting stats such as registration length min/max plus top posts counts by region etc would've been really interesting too. Showing just line charts by week etc is sorta meh.
It would be interesting to see such but, putting the current stats together already takes a lot of time. If the process was made automated where we could see the current stats at any time we wanted, seeing extra stats may be more feasible to put together.
I'm very dissapointed that her lines aren't in blue and velvet, respectively
I'll look into it.I'm very dissapointed that her lines aren't in blue and velvet, respectively
I'm very dissapointed that her lines aren't in blue and velvet, respectively
The person responsible for that egregious mistake should be banned.
I can upload some raw data if you want to make such a forecast. I have weekly cumulative post counts & likes counts, i.e. the post count and likes count every Sunday (well, almost all Sundays). Also semi-annual on 03 Jan & 03 July.
The registration date is available in the data. I'll see if I can put something together. It won't be immediate, as I have other projects active.
There isn't any data on region. I looked into it, along with other things, in the early days when I took over the stats from @Doctor Q. At the time, I didn't see anything reliable.
The raw data is collected by scraping HTML, and I have to maintain the scrapers because things change over time. The scraped HTML is unprivileged data accessible to any member. The main problems I've seen with trying to get anything about location are its low usage rate and its unreliability. For example, I change my "Location:" on a whim, and it's currently the whimsical: "vertical". And now that I've posted that, I'll probably change it.
Also, looking back at this I got a laugh to see iGary's like stat go up by 2... He left before that feature was even added, IIRC.
As more times go by, some of the older names fall off these lists. It's a shame that so many of these great and vibrant people have left us, and many will never return in any capacity. I used to be buddies with some of them, when I was on this site originally in the mid 2000s. Then the iPhone came out and a shift began to occur. Whole time since I rejoined I keep chasing after that old "sense" but things are quite different. Granted, it has been about 15 years since the times I am recalling, so a new generation has taken their place. I expounded upon this before
As more times go by, some of the older names fall off these lists. It's a shame that so many of these great and vibrant people have left us, and many will never return in any capacity. I used to be buddies with some of them, when I was on this site originally in the mid 2000s. Then the iPhone came out and a shift began to occur. Whole time since I rejoined I keep chasing after that old "sense" but things are quite different. Granted, it has been about 15 years since the times I am recalling, so a new generation has taken their place. I expounded upon this before
There's another forum that I was part of from 2001 to about 2011 or so. I understand where you're coming from because all those people are long gone from there (and I can't even get back in myself anymore). Fortunately, enough of them I developed ties with through phone numbers and emails.
And I've met great people here as well.
There's already a Most Messages display, but doing more than that would require forum code that I don't think exists. Such code could be written, of course, but it's not the type of development that MacRumors typically sponsors.
I brought something similar up about 5 years ago here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/member-list.1966759/Thanks for the link. That is better than nothing.
The response as to why it didn't exist was basically forum resources and spam.