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Interesting TreoCentral/Visorcentral Numbers

I just noticed the total amount of posts on the TreoCentral discussion page and did some calculations. The top ten posters on the board account for roughly 12% of the total posts (203,440). The total amount of registered posters is 17,194 as of 10.40 am EST Jan. 25, 2003.

MarkEagle is tops at 1.6% of all posts
Toby is at 1.4%
Dick-Richardson is at 1.3%
Yardie and Septimus (aka DietrichBohn) is at 1.2%
Homer, Toolkit, Miradu, JHromadka (James) and Yorick is at roughly 1% respectively.

Compare these numbers to the rest of the registered posters:
(100% - 12%)/(17,194 - 10) = 0.005% on average (equivalent of 10 posts).

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yardie...you have waaaaaaay too much time on your hands.

(But I admire your math skills!)

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Re: Interesting TreoCentral/Visorcentral Numbers

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Originally posted by yardie
MarkEagle is tops at 1.6% of all posts
Toby is at 1.4%
Dick-Richardson is at 1.3%
Yardie and Septimus (aka DietrichBohn) is at 1.2%
Homer, Toolkit, Miradu, JHromadka (James) and Yorick is at roughly 1% respectively.

Compare these numbers to the rest of the registered posters:
(100% - 12%)/(17,194 - 10) = 0.005% on average (equivalent of 10 posts).

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but have you considered that these people have been on this board since it opened - and when it was really booming?

There are many loyal people on the board that have not been here since the start - (I did not get into Visors until 2002 when I recieved my Neo as a birthday gift) and they certainly account for a good chunk of the posts.

and the same - those are sharp math skills

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yardie, what made you start thinking about this?

Last edited by K. Cannon on 01-27-2003 at 06:44 PM

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I'm still in the top ten?

[Freakazoid voice]Good for me![/Freakazoid voice]

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Originally posted by Yorick
[Freakazoid voice]Good for me![/Freakazoid voice]

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Careful... you're beginning to sound like Mikey!

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oops

yardie--please see my edit above (in case you read my earlier message and thought i was being a butthead)

in case you didn't, I mistyped "thing" for "thinking" when posting before, which changes meaning of my post entirely...

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Re: Re: Interesting TreoCentral/Visorcentral Numbers

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Originally posted by cml
but have you considered that these people have been on this board since it opened - and when it was really booming?<snip>

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I guess the real question is what that means? I think that the top 10 accounting for 12% is pretty good, all things considered. It means that although there is quite a bit of "noise" on the boards (so much I gave up trying to follow or even open most threads a long time ago), there is still a "core group" of folk that provide continuity.

I am happy to note that I am no longer the "youngest" in the top ten in terms of how long I've been registered at VC/TC.

...of course, I just bought a gamecube and started a new semester, so I'll probably drop out of the top ten soon enough (through, frankly, I'm suprised I'm still in there, I have been nearly MIA for awhile now...)

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Word Count

I think this point was touched on under Inane Ramblings (although what point hasn't been touched over there?) (or is that tetched?) can we (we being Yardie) further develop this by word count per post? Are the frequent posters posting so much because they post mostly short posts?

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Re: Word Count

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Originally posted by Alli
Are the frequent posters posting so much because they post mostly short posts?

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Toby and dick-richardson don't know the definition of "short"!

While I'm guilty of an occasional "short" post, I've always maintained that it's "quality" over "quantity". Post count has no real bearing... (though it is nice to be King! ).

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Septimus - when do i get to kick your ass in Nintendo?

Well in being meaningful - all of us win ! We al contribute to being leaders on teh baord.. and that is a good thing!

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Re: Word Count

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Originally posted by Alli
Are the frequent posters posting so much because they post mostly short posts?

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Originally posted by MarkEagle
Careful... you're beginning to sound like Mikey!

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Mikey sounds like Paul Rugg?



footnote: Paul Rugg was the voice actor for the character Freakazoid.

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Yorick, i am absolutly shocked and scared, and emotionally scarred by the knowledge that you contain such random info...

and no, i am not sounding like paul rugg/freakazoid.

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Originally posted by miradu
Yorick, i am absolutly shocked and scared, and emotionally scarred by the knowledge that you contain such random info...

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Originally posted by Yorick



anyway, random useless info is my joie de vivre. or coup de tat. Voila? anyone know French? what the Hairy Hepzibah am I trying to say?

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Votre raison d'etre, n'est ce pas? (Don't know how to do the accent thingy, a circumflex? if i remember any HS/Undergrad French)

isn't it "coup d'etat?" Lord, NOW we're misspelling in a foreign language.

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Re: Word Count

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Originally posted by Alli
I think this point was touched on under Inane Ramblings (although what point hasn't been touched over there?) (or is that tetched?) can we (we being Yardie) further develop this by word count per post? Are the frequent posters posting so much because they post mostly short posts?

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You obviously haven't read many of my, or Josh's (d-r) posts. We're some of the most long-winded SOBs on the planet. On the bright side, in the olden days we might have been prolific writers to the editor in the dead-tree press to express all of those rambles (or perhaps committed to institutional factilities - BTW, isn't it strange how that phrase can be applied to asylums, schools, and government offices? hmm). Imagine all the trees saved by the simple existence of this web board.

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Originally posted by Yorick
anyway, random useless info is my joie de vivre. or coup de tat. Voila? anyone know French? what the Hairy Hepzibah am I trying to say?

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