The new 'Forums Stats' thread

I keep wondering were those succahs keep coming from 😉

wow SW EP 1&2 outpacing EP3...thats odd lol

I am starting to think I should be more careful about some stats...for example when I make the post distribution (in %) without the OTF, I should exclude the "Annual party" thing in the LOTR forum (which really looks like a pointless thread to me - no offence - and that really fools the stats, just like the OTF) and threads like that...

well, almost every section has a social thread these days, would take you too much effort to take them all into account 😖

I really don't see the point of having a social thread in other forums beside the OTF. Fans socialise without going off topic in their forums. There is always the OTF if they want to discuss other topics.

tell it to the other mods 😛

I don't want to be a rebel mod. 😛

GP, you may be a mod now but that's no excuse to forget about your weekly stats 😛

Originally posted by WindDancer
I really don't see the point of having a social thread in other forums beside the OTF. Fans socialise without going off topic in their forums. There is always the OTF if they want to discuss other topics.

Trying to have any type of decent convo in the OTF in crazy....That's just a madhouse. Besides there are some of us who don't hang out in the OTF 24-7.

well, those social threads are still not closed, so I take it is no problem 😐

Originally posted by dave123
GP, you may be a mod now but that's no excuse to forget about your weekly stats 😛

Hey everyone ! The Mad Statistician is back !

I'll start with the classics.

1) New members every month (past 18 months to give a general idea of the trends). The figures shows a regular rise since February, apart from July which was excellent (4400 new members, when the highest ever was 5000). I assume some big hits have been released (but I can't tell : we're always late here). It's a good pace IMHO

2) Total "Membercount". Same Period. Basically it shows exactly the same, ie that the Forums are growing on a regular rythm, except 2 big "leaps" : November, 2003 and July 2004. This relative stability has nonetheless nothing to do with the situation 18 months ago (2000-2500 new members against 80 !)

3) Forum growth rates over the last 10 weeks.

my X-Men forum cry

excellent the comic section is doing well

Originally posted by WindDancer
I really don't see the point of having a social thread in other forums beside the OTF. Fans socialise without going off topic in their forums. There is always the OTF if they want to discuss other topics.

There are several reasons:

-To prevent people going offtopic in Forum threads ((they go to the social thread and chat))

-some forums ((eg LOTR, POTC, HP)) ave very close-knit communities - they don't like chatting in OTF with people they don't know

-Some people ((like moi 😉 )) hate and despise the OTF craziness - we'd much rather have a quiet chat in our forum, with people we 'see' everyday.

Originally posted by Phoenix
There are several reasons:

-To prevent people going offtopic in Forum threads ((they go to the social thread and chat))

-some forums ((eg LOTR, POTC, HP)) ave very close-knit communities - they don't like chatting in OTF with people they don't know

-Some people ((like moi 😉 )) hate and despise the OTF craziness - we'd much rather have a quiet chat in our forum, with people we 'see' everyday.

At least, these are the only reasons I can think of - there may be more

Originally posted by G.P
3) Forum growth rates over the last 10 weeks.

Originally posted by Paola
my X-Men forum cry

4)post repartition with OTF

y'know, you're putting perhaps too much effort in all this 😬