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[Mr. Morden]

We've now had 3000+ posts for three days in a row.  This is much higher traffic than the forum had in the run up to election day 2008 or 2012.  Again, it looks like Trump is good for ratings.

[Mr. Morden]

I thought maybe activity would drop a little on Friday, but no, Friday was actually the busiest day here this week.  All five weekdays this week have had over 3000 posts.  Will it continue through the weekend?

[Mr. Morden]

Antonio passes Eraserhead for 7th place:

1) BRTD 78,284
2) Al 60,723
3) Lewis 58,620
4) Phil 52,849
5) opebo 47,129
6) Kal 44,482
7) Antonio 42,221
8 ) Eraserhead 42,190
9) Tender 40,729
10) Lief 40,396

[Mr. Morden]

Also, no, we didn't have over 3000 posts again on Saturday.  It was only 2743.

[Mr. Morden]

3456 posts on Sunday, which may be an all time record.  Imagine how big Monday and Tuesday will be if there's no crash.

[Mr. Morden]

Looks like Antonio hasn't posted since election day?  If he doesn't come back within the next month or so, then Eraserhead could retake the #7 spot from him.  Eraserhead isn't posting at a terribly high rate either, but it's only a 48 post deficit at the moment.

[Mr. Morden]

Btw, now that jfern is back, and posting at a high rate, he stands an excellent chance of making it into the top 10 (presumably knocking out Lief) at some point within the next six months.

[Mr. Morden]

Eraserhead reclaims 7th place from Antonio.  Not by making new posts, but by some old threads that Antonio posted in being deleted, so that he goes backwards.

1) BRTD 78,368
2) Al 60,786
3) Lewis 58,620
4) Phil 52,847
5) opebo 47,129
6) Kal 45,082
7) Eraserhead 42,232
8 ) Antonio 42,191
9) Tender 41,046
10) Lief 40,503

[Mr. Morden]

This month will go down as the third most active month in Atlas forum history, owing to the insanely high activity here in the week leading up to the election.

Top three most active months in forum history:

1) October 2016
2) February 2016
3) November 2016

[Mr. Morden]

It does my heart good to know I'm way behind the top 10 now.  I was a bit too close at one time.

You have over 200 posts in the past month.  If you manage to keep that up, and if Antonio never comes back, then you have a chance of making it into the top 10 one day...though probably not until 2018.

[Mr. Morden]

Yesterday was the most active day on the forum in over a month.  Probably due in large part to a 20 page thread about the electoral college voting.

[Mr. Morden]

Antonio's return means that the dream of Grumps someday joining the top 10 is pretty much dead.  Lief will probably lose his spot in the top 10 to Jfern some time later this year, but no one else is likely to lose their top 10 spot for at least ~18 months or so, and probably not for more than two years.

[Mr. Morden]

Antonio’s only been back for two days, and he’s already made well over 100 posts.  He’s now re-taken the #7 spot from Eraserhead:

1) BRTD 78,530
2) Al 60,853
3) Lewis 58,570
4) Phil 52,847
5) opebo 47,129
6) Kal 44,473
7) Antonio 42,246
8 ) Eraserhead 42,245
9) Tender 41,375
10) Lief 40,555

[Mr. Morden]

Is it possible to do "most posts this year" tracking or other similar things.

Actually I think that is a fine idea. Right now, this thread only serves to show a few minute changes here and there between the same 10 posters, some of whom have stopped posting long ago or are outright banished from Atlasland.

Curious if the stats for such a thing are even available to the right people.

No, there's no way for me to check such things that's any different from how everyone else can do it: Go through the list of "likely suspects" one by one, and view the "show the latest posts of this person" link on their profile page, then count the number from a certain date onwards.

[Mr. Morden]

Is it possible to do "most posts this year" tracking or other similar things.

Actually I think that is a fine idea. Right now, this thread only serves to show a few minute changes here and there between the same 10 posters, some of whom have stopped posting long ago or are outright banished from Atlasland.

Curious if the stats for such a thing are even available to the right people.

No, there's no way for me to check such things that's any different from how everyone else can do it: Go through the list of "likely suspects" one by one, and view the "show the latest posts of this person" link on their profile page, then count the number from a certain date onwards.

I'm pretty sure Wayback Machine has caches of the top posters page on early January of each year. With a couple of subtractions you could get a rough estimate.

You don't need the Wayback Machine.  Like I said, for a given poster, it's easy enough to figure out how many posts they made over a given time interval.  Just go to their profile page, click on the "latest posts" link, and then look at how many posts they made over the time interval in question.  Since the posts are numbered, it's simple.

The question being asked though was whether the forum software has a way of sorting who is posting at the greatest rate at any particular time.  And to that, the answer is (AFAIK) no.  All you can do is guess who the most likely suspects are, and then check their profiles accordingly.

[Mr. Morden]

You don't need the Wayback Machine.  Like I said, for a given poster, it's easy enough to figure out how many posts they made over a given time interval.  Just go to their profile page, click on the "latest posts" link, and then look at how many posts they made over the time interval in question.  Since the posts are numbered, it's simple.

The question being asked though was whether the forum software has a way of sorting who is posting at the greatest rate at any particular time.  And to that, the answer is (AFAIK) no.  All you can do is guess who the most likely suspects are, and then check their profiles accordingly.

A series of direct database queries could probably do this. Is that an option for you?

No, I don't have any access to the actual architecture of the forum.  I can see IP addresses and which posts were moderated and which accounts were banned, and so forth, but that's it.  On the stuff we're talking about, I don't have any super powers that aren't available to any other poster.

[Mr. Morden]

Jfern passes Xahar to take 11th place:

1) BRTD 78,755
2) Al 60,917
3) Lewis 58,570
4) Phil 52,847
5) opebo 47,129
6) Kal 44,670
7) Antonio 42,661
8 ) Eraserhead 42,248
9) Tender 41,489
10) Lief 40,573

11) Jfern 39,262
12) Xahar 39,259

Jfern’s still on track to catch up to Lief and break into the top 10 some time later this year.

[Mr. Morden]

Grumps making it into the top 10 some time early next year is starting to look plausible again, since he made ~360 posts in the last month.  Lief is going to get bumped out of the top ten by Jfern within the next ~3 months or so, and then Eraserhead is kind of a sitting duck, since he's all but stopped posting.  So Eraserhead will drop down to 10th place fairly quickly, and then could conceivably get bumped out by someone like Grumps next year.

[Mr. Morden]

January 2017 will be the busiest month we've ever had on the forum that was not in a presidential election year.  And it's in the top 10 even if you include presidential election years.

In fact, 7 of the top 10 busiest months we've ever had have come in the last 12 months.  Trump is going to make Dave Leip a rich man.

[Mr. Morden]

Yesterday was the least active day on the forum since before the inauguration.  I guess Trump is no longer shocking us so much.  Or at least, not so much that we feel like we need to talk about him as much anymore.

[Mr. Morden]

Yesterday was the least active day on the forum since before the inauguration.  I guess Trump is no longer shocking us so much.  Or at least, not so much that we feel like we need to talk about him as much anymore.

Not a surprise.

I don't really care about Trump and US politics right now and focus more on the European elections this year (Holland, France and Germany) as well as posting some interesting updates for Austria (which is otherwise election-less this year).

I would note that while things have slowed down a little since the inauguration and post-inauguration craziness, the forum is still markedly more active than is normal for March of an odd-numbered year.  Even yesterday, which as I said was the slowest day here since early January, still had ~50% more posts than the same day four years ago.

[Mr. Morden]

Where can I find said statistics page?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=stats

Interesting. I wonder why September 2010 had so many new posters, and also why # of posts doesn't seem to correlate with number of posters.

I'm fairly sure it was an Atheist2006 sock-spam

Atheist2006 didn't register until 2011.

[Mr. Morden]

Fun fact: Like any good WoSo fan, I know all about using archive.org to find lost stats that nobody cares about but me on the internet.  The Atlas forum stats page has been saved 86 times since 2006, so you can actually compare it all through the years if you really want to! 

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=stats

Yes, I mentioned that a few pages ago in this thread.  As I said then, you can use that to narrow down the timeframe for when BRTD took the #1 spot.  It was some time in either late 2007 or early 2008, when he surpassed Gabu to take the lead:

link

Funnily enough, Gabu left the forum forever shortly after that happened.

[Mr. Morden]

Even though the number of new posts per day is dropping off from the post-inauguration numbers, the number of new registrations on the forum remains strong.  Over 100 new registrations in March, which means we've now had three consecutive months with over 100 new registrations for the first time since 2013.  Somehow, new people are managing to find the forum.

[Mr. Morden]

127 posts for Non Swing Voter in the last 24 hours(!).  If he were to do that every day, he'd reach 100,000 posts in a little over two years.