12-07-2005 20:50									#31
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65,000 members! (of which less than 1,000 are active!)

Sucking up to Markos! (which owns the site and can have any number of posts he decides)

	12-07-2005 21:32									#32
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He did seem to jump up very quick in the post count numbers... :hmm:

// suspicious.

	12-07-2005 21:44									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Shogun Gunner How many total posts have been made at Poly since inception?

Does "infinite" has a meaning to you?

	12-07-2005 22:11									#34
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quote: Registered Members: 65045 105835 threads and 3423997 posts in total

This could be of help

(and add +1 there.. )

	12-07-2005 22:28									#35
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double that

	12-07-2005 22:46									#36
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6.8 mil? Wow.

And I'm sure the distribution is like >90% of all posts created by <10% of the total user population -- some more guilty than others

Does the difference of 3.4 to 6.8 mil represent the "lost posts of the first OT?"

	12-07-2005 23:10									#37
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG double that

Yeah, Paddy's aren't counted in the 3.4 Million.

	12-07-2005 23:48									#38
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quote: Does the difference of 3.4 to 6.8 mil represent the "lost posts of the first OT?"

Database Purges...

Including the accidental deletion of the entire Scenario League

	13-07-2005 00:57									#39
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AND the lost threads...

	13-07-2005 01:27									#40
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It were a goode thraed.

	13-07-2005 01:53									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Shogun Gunner 6.8 mil? Wow. And I'm sure the distribution is like >90% of all posts created by <10% of the total user population -- some more guilty than others

Considering that the ~1.5% of active posters contribute practically all new posts, I think you're being conservative.

	13-07-2005 03:01									#42
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I still remember when we passed 20,000 members. over half of them DL's.

	13-07-2005 03:58									#43
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We had a big celebration with new features then, correct? I remember 20K was a really big deal...

(DC- member #6319)

	13-07-2005 06:26									#44
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Congrats.

	13-07-2005 14:22									#45
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I wonder what % of total hits a prolific thread starter such as myself were responsible for, before I stopped making threads at Poly that is...

1%? Maybe that's too high.

	13-07-2005 17:41									#46
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I still remember when we passed 20,000 members. over half of them DL's.

How do you establish that?

	13-07-2005 17:59									#47
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He wasn't being serious.

	13-07-2005 20:36									#48
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike He wasn't being serious.

Oh, yeah?

	13-07-2005 21:18									#49
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Are you admitting to 10,000 DLs?

	13-07-2005 21:23									#50
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Nah, I'm not even a doctor...

	13-07-2005 22:20									#51
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike He wasn't being serious.

You're thinking I was being serious?

	13-07-2005 22:34									#52
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Since what you said wasn't funny and seemingly serves no other purpose I can only presume you were asking a serious question.

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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Since what you said wasn't funny and seemingly serves no other purpose I can only presume you were asking a serious question.

There would only seem to be two possible explanations for this:

i) you're stupid, or
ii) you're spamming.

	14-07-2005 01:41									#54
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it was a wild guess on my part.

back in my day, everyone who was anyone had DL's. I had around 10 DL's myself. If every poster had that many, yes half of those 20,000 could have been DL's.

	14-07-2005 02:34									#55
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I've had DLs many places... but not here... ... I wouldn't dare.

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quote: And I'm sure the distribution is like >90% of all posts created by <10% of the total user population

Considering that with 65K posters, one percent is the top 650. If you look at the count, that means everyone with over 800 ontopic posts is in the top one percent.

So 800*650 is 520k ontopic posts alone, not even counting the offtopic.

If you look at the top 20, each of them has 10K posts, so they have 200k in just the top 20 for the ontopic. Adding the two together, gives you a rough estimate of 720K ontopic posts, and that doesn't even count those properly with over 800, and under 10k posts.

At 10%, and 6500 users, we have 7 ontopic posts, so that only gets us 6500*7 = 45K posts.

I would say one percent would be about right, that half of the posts are made by one percent of the posters, given how quickly the counts drop.

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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist There would only seem to be two possible explanations for this: i) you're stupid, or ii) you're spamming.

Or both.

Explain then, what was the purpose of your post "How do you establish that"?

	14-07-2005 03:25									#58
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I did a little bit of random sampling, and here's what I came up with.

Average number of posts per poster is 73 posts, for a total of around 2.2 million posts total. That's complicated by the fact that many posters got their counts from before off topic posts stopped counting, so that will be more than the total number of ontopic posts today.

	14-07-2005 03:29									#59
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With 200k for the top 20 and 600k for the top 200, that's 800k, not including the posts for those who are between 10k and 30k. So I think it's safe to say that the top 200 have over 50 percent of the posts, and that's less than 1/3rd of 1 percent.

	14-07-2005 03:49									#60
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280k posts in top 20
900k posts in top 20-200, 1180k posts in top 200
440k posts in top 200-400, total of 1620k
240k posts in top 400-600, total of 1860k

add another 36k for the last 45 posters, and you get 1.9 million of 2.2 million total posts in the top 1 percent.

So at least in the ontopic, 90 percent of the posts are made by 1 percent of polytubbies.