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The missing DS members conundrum
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It's been pretty quiet on here lately. It seemed like less threads and less posts every time i come on here.
I went on Wayback machine and did a bit of a calculation. It's pretty accurate although I couldn't get the exact number of posts for all the months. I would say it's 95% accurate though.
So in 2012, there were an average of 513,318 posts per month
In 2013, there were an average of 561,478 posts per month (missing a big chunk of Jan here so this is a low estimate)
In 2014, up until end July, there have been 429,007 posts per month
Now you could say that there would be more posts in winter, however that is going to be a tough average to catch up.
Finally, I could only go up to July because they have removed the total posts box from the top of the forum!
Where has everyone gone?
I went on Wayback machine and did a bit of a calculation. It's pretty accurate although I couldn't get the exact number of posts for all the months. I would say it's 95% accurate though.
So in 2012, there were an average of 513,318 posts per month
In 2013, there were an average of 561,478 posts per month (missing a big chunk of Jan here so this is a low estimate)
In 2014, up until end July, there have been 429,007 posts per month
Now you could say that there would be more posts in winter, however that is going to be a tough average to catch up.
Finally, I could only go up to July because they have removed the total posts box from the top of the forum!
Where has everyone gone?
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Probably been banned, mostly.
Just one theory among many. In reality - who knows ?
terrible smilies
page one stand-ups
constant "troll accusation"
other better forums
Could this have put some ppl off this Discussion Forum?
Just an opinion.
You are correct. A lot who complained about it being too white and hurting their eyes are long gone.
Maybe the occasional users came back one day to see the new layout and like a disappointed lover went "I'm not sure who you are anymore"
It has to be more than that.
Too many being banned from rising to baiters/trolls as well I think. Often the baiters are free to do what they want as the mods don't seem to look at what has happened but just ban someone from one post in response to something worse.
And DS is much more strict these days about what "hot" topics they allow to be discussed. Their forum, their rules but when the same topics are freely discussed elsewhere it does have an impact here. Don't like when the baiters, etc get their wish of getting threads closed down because they don't like them. Disrupting a thread purely to get it shut down.
A lot of former good posters are gone from the football forum after losing their rags with some posters and now look at the state of it in there.
Could you provide links please?
The redesign has absolutely nothing to do with why some have stopped posting.
If by some you mean all those that stopped posting not long after the new forum layout was first seen, then some of those who left could very well have left because of it.
I'm guessing a combination of these factors, however a 20% drop in posts is seriously bad. That is 100,000 posts less a month! Is that why the total post count is gone from the top do you think?
I had wondered why that had disappeared for.
Missing rolleyes smiley. <rolleyes>
Looks like it got taken off sometime in August