I clicked on over to the “Users” menu and pulled the data to have some fun with. This isn’t quite as cool as the Forum Stats Roundup thread, but entertained me while watching lolMNF.
There were 320 posters in this dataset, which I assume encompasses everyone with an account who has done something on the site and gave me enough to mess around with. The stats I had at my fingertips were:
Likes Received
Likes Given
Topics Started
Total Replies
Threads Viewed
Posts Viewed
Total Calendar Days Visited
Total Time Spent on Site
The Forum Addict award:
This one goes to @Smacc_25, who is far and away the highest combo of Time Spent on Site and Total Replies (and who also crushes the Brexit thread)
Worth noting that the President of the United States is tied for 7th in posting frequency. Maybe chill out a bit with the twitters, guy.
The Most Liked poster:
This one goes to @Riverman, who is a bit of an outlier and has bucked the trend of Likes per Post deteriorating with posting frequency. (To keep the Likes/Post metric reasonable I limited this to posters with >100 posts.)
As the color in that chart shows, Fabian is also a prolific reader of the site, reading nearly 35,000 posts in 4 total days spent on the site, but only posting 9 times themselves.
Honorable mention to @SwankyWilder, who has viewed over 30,000 posts but hasn’t yet posted themselves. Maybe someday.
The Stingiest Poster
This award goes to @StrontiumDog who has read over 30,000 posts… and has yet to like one. Hopefully he’ll like Swanky’s first post and we can go from there.
Thought it’d be fun to update these charts a few months later. Let me know if you can think of other cool ways to slice up the posting data, especially if it can result in something other than a scatterplot.
I never show up on these things because I’m such a de novo snowflake that computers belch smoke and break down when they try to analyse me, like someone typed “Why?” and pressed Return.
Question for @anon46587892 or @zikzak: do you know how accessible other behind-the-scenes data is / how it’s stored? Like whether it’d be possible to download descriptive data on every post on this site (the time it was made, who made it, the length, etc). It’d be fun to play around with more than just the Users table.
