Robots.txt

[Harlequin]

lol
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&so ... =&gs_rfai=

Feel like I'm being stalked. How did that get in there then, manually submitted?

And someone's just manually removed this search result from google!
There's a lot of silliness going one here

The result still appears to be there, just lower down as one can see if one adds 'YakYak' to the search.

[disciple]

And someone's just manually removed this search result from google!

There's a lot of silliness going one here

Not me btw.

[gravy]

Just did some SQL malarkey and at the end of this post there's some stats about active posters on the board in the randomly picked month of Feb for the last 8 years.

The decline in active users started 5 years ago


Feb 10
Different People posting: 307
People posting > 20 post in the month: 80
Top poster: 180 posts

Feb 09
Different People posting: 374
People posting > 20 post in the month: 115
Top poster: 183 posts

Feb 08
Different People posting: 471
People posting > 20 post in the month: 146
Top poster: 306 posts

Feb 07
Different People posting: 525
People posting > 20 post in the month: 178
Top poster: 397 posts

Feb 06
Different People posting: 549
People posting > 20 post in the month:221
Top poster: 620 posts

Feb 05
Different People posting: 565
People posting > 20 post in the month:240
Top poster:844 posts

Feb 04
Different People posting:426
People posting > 20 post in the month:183
Top poster:592 posts

Feb 03
Different People posting:257
People posting > 20 post in the month:95
Top poster:830 posts

[RiK]

The decline in active users started 5 years ago

See, it's not like the good old days!

[disciple]

Just did some SQL malarkey and at the end of this post there's some stats about active posters on the board in the randomly picked month of Feb for the last 8 years.

The decline in active users started 5 years ago


Feb 10
Different People posting: 307
People posting > 20 post in the month: 80
Top poster: 180 posts

Feb 09
Different People posting: 374
People posting > 20 post in the month: 115
Top poster: 183 posts

Feb 08
Different People posting: 471
People posting > 20 post in the month: 146
Top poster: 306 posts

Feb 07
Different People posting: 525
People posting > 20 post in the month: 178
Top poster: 397 posts

Feb 06
Different People posting: 549
People posting > 20 post in the month:221
Top poster: 620 posts

Feb 05
Different People posting: 565
People posting > 20 post in the month:240
Top poster:844 posts

Feb 04
Different People posting:426
People posting > 20 post in the month:183
Top poster:592 posts

Feb 03
Different People posting:257
People posting > 20 post in the month:95
Top poster:830 posts

Those figures align with the graph previously posted. 05/06 had an artificially high join up rate thanks (we think) to the WotR association.

[gilesgoat]

This data is a bit complex to interpret without some explanations about what it describes.

If we look at "top poster" ( what does it mean ? ) only then from 2005 we have
844, 620, 397,306, 183,180 .. nearly going 1/2 every 2 years .. one then could expect
a behaviour like , 90,90, 45, 45, 22,22, 11,11, 5,5, 2,2 1,1 .. at 2023 or so then the forum should be dead.

If we look at "people posting > 20 posts in the month" the number seems "fluctuating around a line" ( yes
is a bit down now but we don't know what's going to be next ) which probably means that "those people
are always the same number/kind regardless".

If you look at "different people posting" again it does not seem 'too bad', yes there's a decline but it's
much slower.

Probably seeing only one month is not telling "a good picture" yet could be an indication.

What is that "top poster" ? The total number of posts in the month ? Or the max number of posts ever had
all in once in that month ?

Anyway I don't know I mean all this could be "just the nature of the things" I am sure we'll have probably "a bit of spike"
there and there the next time something new is coming out .. but as you know "day by day common life" sometime is not
really "that exciting" so I am simply saying "one can't expect something always busting with astonishing news".

"We made a generation of people craving for data", I think I read something somewhere around this kind of thing.

[gravy]

Those figures align with the graph previously posted. 05/06 had an artificially high join up rate thanks (we think) to the WotR association.

There's a decline in active users and post in the period 05 - 06

Is that the opposite of what you're saying?

@Giles: top poster is the most posts any one individual made. It's the least relevant of the statistics

[zip accident]

What is that "top poster" ?

It means PVB's been slacking.

Though moobaa and piku have also posted less than they once did, but their peaks were probably before the peak peak.

[RiK]

If we look at "people posting > 20 posts in the month" the number seems "fluctuating around a line" ( yes
is a bit down now but we don't know what's going to be next ) which probably means that "those people
are always the same number/kind regardless".

It actually looks like this:



That's not flucuation, it's a distinct peak and then a steady decline.

[Dio]

There's a decline in active users and post in the period 05 - 06

Is that the opposite of what you're saying?

He was saying that, approximately, 05-06 (i.e. 2005, given the way you presented the data) was YY's peak, which seems confirmed by your data; although there is a decline from 05 through 06, 06 is still (by some way) the second top month.

edit: excellent graph RiK.

[gravy]

There's a decline in active users and post in the period 05 - 06

Is that the opposite of what you're saying?

He was saying that, approximately, 05-06 (i.e. 2005, given the way you presented the data) was YY's peak, which seems confirmed by your data; although there is a decline from 05 through 06, 06 is still (by some way) the second top month.

edit: excellent graph RiK.

But this data samples at the start of the year. To be fair we don't know where the peak is. If it's Feb 05 it is the opposite of what disciple is saying.

I'll do one for the whole of 05 - 06

[PVB]

What is that "top poster" ?

It means PVB's been slacking.

I'm posting more on other forums now, which is partly what this thread's about I suppose?

[Dio]

I'll do one for the whole of 05 - 06

You need to do 04 as well .

I suspect it will roughly agree with disciple's data from earlier, which shows the peak as being mid 04 to mid 05.

[gravy]

Well my instincts were right The peak is at the start of 05 and is the start of the first year of decline.

2007 is the big drop off but more interestingly is after the decline we've held steady throughout 2009, the year of no robots.txt! Heavens!

[piku]

What is that "top poster" ?

It means PVB's been slacking.

I'm posting more on other forums now, which is partly what this thread's about I suppose?

Facebook for me.

Personally I think we've run out of sensible stuff to say, with quite a lot of the posts consisting of "Look at this funny thing I found on the Internet". Like most of the Internet really...