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[ruud]

Teaching two lessons on momentum tomorrow.

Will ask the kids if they think it can be applied to an Internet forum :p

[tikay]

Teaching two lessons on momentum tomorrow.

Will ask the kids if they think it can be applied to an Internet forum :p

It's a metaphor. Tal said. He knows everything.

[tikay]

As at midnight last night (the halfway point for September) the numbers looked like this;

5,750 Posts = 383 posts per day. 113 new threads = 7.53 per day.

Some context to those numbers follows.

[tikay]

Stats for September at the halfway point..

To give context, I've taken the stats as at midnight on the 15th, & then doubled them to extrapolate how they would look when the month completes if they continued at the current rate. They may not, of course. The rate of daily posts & threads is erratic, so it could go either way.

I've also shown the stats for the previous 4 months, I've also included the March stats, as March was our busiest month in 2015.

March 2015, 9,747 posts, = 314 posts per day. 207 new threads = 6.68 per day.

May 2015, 9380 posts, = 303 posts per day. 129 new threads, = 4.16 per day.

June 2015, 9146 posts, = 305 posts per day. 115 new threads, = 3.83 per day.

July 2015, 8281 posts = 267 posts per day. 131 new threads, = 4.23 per day.

August 2015, 7,340 posts = 237 posts per day. 119 new threads, = 3.84 per day.

September 2015, 11500 = 383 posts per day. 226 new threads = 7.53 per day.


It should be remembered, if comparing with August, that August was our worse month for over 10 years.

So, Posts per day v last month are up 62%. Threads per day v last month are up 96%.

For better context, against March, our busiest month in 2015, Posts per day are up 22%. Threads per day are up 16%.

These numbers assume we'd continue until the end of September at the current rate. If they do so, or even at a slightly more sedate rate, it will be the busiest month on blonde since June of last year, & by some way.

[tikay]

Where has the uptick come from?

The regular busy threads have remained, largely, constant. Fred was a bit quieter, & with a greater post total overall, it contributed some 12% of all posts, down from 17.3%.

There have been a few busy threads - Syria, HUD's, Politics, but nothing exceptional.

The increase seems mostly to be from The Lounge, where 68 new threads (over 60% of the new threads) were started, & 95 threads were active.  One new thread - Top 3 TV Series - was started at Noon yesterday, & ran up 50 posts (12% of the days total) in just 5 hours.

Some members have really tried hard with new threads - in some cases, perhaps, too hard (one over optimistic fool even started a thread about creosote of all things) but it matters not, the new threads are the seedcorn.   

On one thread (NFL Fantasy League), the subject of alternative ways of financing websites arose, as one NFL Fantasy League site uses "pop up ads" which open every time you go to the site, or move to a new thread. It's horrendous, & I can't see many finding that tolerable.

Plenty of ideas in the pipeline as to new threads to keep the pot boiling, many will fail, but we'll try.

[tikay]

Daily Best & worst, September (up to 15th)....

Most Posts - 574, 8th September

Least Posts - 214, 6rth September

Most new threads - 20, 8th September

Least new threads - 2, 5th September.


You'll see that the day we had the least new threads was followed by the day with least posts, & the day with the most new threads was the busiest day for Posts.

[TightEnd]

the 5th-6th and 12th-13th were weekends

by far our slowest days are sundays (6th september a case in point)..presumably sleep, family, doing things and in soem cases the sunday grind mean less time for posting

saturdays, unless the sporting world delivers a lot of interest..can also be slow...people out doing things, sport, poker etc etc

this can, as tikay says, follow on to sluggishness on a monday..midweeks wednesdays, thursdays tend tio have the highest post count

[BorntoBubble]

Plus Monday -Friday o have more time to post in work when I'm on the loo

[tikay]

Quick update, as at close of play on SUNDAY, as that was a nice cut off point - exactly two thirds of the way through the month.

Posts at 7,380 (369 per day) have already exceeded all of August, although August was really bad. If - if - we continued at this rate, it'll be blonde's busiest month since June of last year, some 15 months ago. 

New threads at 150 (7.5 per day) are already 25% higher than the whole of August, & already exceed the full month total of all but two of the last 18 months.

Momentum (sorry Keith....) is dropping slightly, & is probably unsustainable, but if we can keep up at this rate, or something near it, it'll be a great recovery.

Many thanks to everyone who have put their shoulder to the wheel.

To my mind, the key is a constant flow of new, (interesting) threads.

So that's all pretty good.

Except.......

[tikay]

There are bound to be ups & downs, but if we take our eye off the ball, it'll soon fall flat again.

Yesterday was a great example, this was the day after the numbers I referred to above.

Just 200 posts, & 1 new thread, all day.

Both those numbers are the worst of the month.

[The Wycher]

To be fair it was Monday yesterday and that has a tendency to be a busy day back in the office, and also the day when I for one seem to have the least inspiration not sure why.

[tikay]

To be fair it was Monday yesterday and that has a tendency to be a busy day back in the office, and also the day when I for one seem to have the least inspiration not sure why.

Yes, & it's wrong to take one day out of 21 as typical, but as I had just said how well we are doing, I thought I had better balance my range a bit. It's what poker pros like Pleno & me do.

[The Wycher]

Ah is that where I am going wrong then, I thought if I had an Ace I couldn't lose and therefore should never fold.

[TightEnd]

its tricky

i was unavoidably busy elsewhere much of yesterday, and much of today is similar. when neither you (tikay) or i are there to prod and poke it feels quieter than it should be but unfortunately at the moment i cannot chain myself to the laptop 16 hours a day. At other times i have done.

[tikay]

its tricky

i was unavoidably busy elsewhere much of yesterday, and much of today is similar. when neither you (tikay) or i are there to prod and poke it feels quieter than it should be but unfortunately at the moment i cannot chain myself to the laptop 16 hours a day. At other times i have done.

Well it should not totally rely on you or I to seed the forum, & it does not, lots of regulars are working hard, but it's true I was unavailable yesterday, & may continue to be due to my day job.

I suppose it could be said that the shareholders & Mods are entitled to be at the front of the queue in revving the place up, but it just needs everyone to help, really.