Robots.txt

[gilesgoat]

What about this ?

[gravy]

It's as relevant as this

[gilesgoat]

They are both very similar to what happens when you apply a step function to a damped system.

Physics is always there, even in human behavior.

[Harlequin]

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...

There was a time when we were sensible?

[disciple]

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!

Eh? Entering 2009 at 2000 posts/week and exiting at 1300 is holding steady?

It's a pity we can't add post quality or fluffiness to that graph. Posting rates may not be dropping quite as fast but this probably because its the same die hard posters posting at end of 2009 that were at start (reckon you have the data to prove that). Which could be why recently a number of people are now piping up and commenting on how things are getting stale. Nowt's changed that's why! Fuck even GRR doesn't register which to me says it mostly the same old people posting the same old shit.

For what its worth here are the two graphs together:



They correlate closely, except for mid 2006 which is interesting, what happened there?

Then again there's a similar bulge first half of 2004, maybe ~36 new members per month is the sweet spot!

[gravy]

Eh? Entering 2009 at 2000 posts/week and exiting at 1300 is holding steady?

Yeah, comparing a local peak to a local dip is sterling quality analysis

[disciple]

Eh? Entering 2009 at 2000 posts/week and exiting at 1300 is holding steady?

Yeah, comparing a local peak to a local dip is sterling quality analysis

Yeah I'm shit at that "quality analysis" stuff.

This is "Holding steady"?


Localised peaks/troughs would have been 2250-1150. To put it in slightly looser terms :

It's a drop off, then a flat bit, then another drop off.

[piku]

I think we need to start with this graph...



And then progress to this one...



I can draw on them in crayon and overlap them if you like.

[Harlequin]

Yeah, comparing a local peak to a local dip is sterling quality analysis

Really, enough is enough. You shall be accusing disciple of believing in climate change next!

[gumboot]

It actually looks like this:

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

What would amuse me is if it turned out that the top posters are these notorious trolls everybody talks about, and when they leave everybody else goes quiet with nothing to shout about.

[Alarm]

What would amuse me is if it turned out that the top posters are these notorious trolls everybody talks about, and when they leave everybody else goes quiet with nothing to shout about.

Matrixxx posted over 8,000 posts over a two-and-a-half year period. I'd say he was the top poster for his period at the forum. Note: I've not checked PVB's stats, so I may be incorrect, but I can remember Matrixxx posting a lot.

Whatever happened to him, I wonder?

[RiK]

What would amuse me is if it turned out that the top posters are these notorious trolls everybody talks about, and when they leave everybody else goes quiet with nothing to shout about.

Matrixxx posted over 8,000 posts over a two-and-a-half year period. I'd say he was the top poster for his period at the forum. Note: I've not checked PVB's stats, so I may be incorrect, but I can remember Matrixxx posting a lot.

Whatever happened to him, I wonder?

He's on Facebook and twitter with everyone else that doesn't bother posting here any more.

[tufty]

What would amuse me is if it turned out that the top posters are these notorious trolls everybody talks about, and when they leave everybody else goes quiet with nothing to shout about.

Matrixxx posted over 8,000 posts over a two-and-a-half year period. I'd say he was the top poster for his period at the forum. Note: I've not checked PVB's stats, so I may be incorrect, but I can remember Matrixxx posting a lot. :)

Whatever happened to him, I wonder?

He's on Facebook and twitter with everyone else that doesn't bother posting here any more.

Remember, folks:

[piku]

I can remember Matrixxx posting a lot.

Whatever happened to him, I wonder?

He has an awesome website <removed by request> where he seems to like photographing half naked ladies.

[aureole]

I can remember Matrixxx posting a lot.

Whatever happened to him, I wonder?

He has an awesome website <removed by request> where he seems to like photographing half naked ladies.

...including your other half, it seems.