(I should have posted this right after I changed the title.
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The Statistics Center is a lie.At the very top, it claims that this forum has an impressive 3,441,288 posts on it, but when you look deeper into the evidence, a horrible truth is revealed.
There is a massive post coverup.Do you know how many total posts the top 1% of posters have?
3,804,342. Yeah, that's right.
The top 1% controls 110% of the Forum's posts.But, if you dig into the secrets
they don't want you to find (ie. the raw data), you'll find that the post count is actually a staggering
6,578,298 posts. Where did three million posts go?
I don't know.But I'm 110% sure the Illuminati is behind it.
Here's the raw proof.
Well, that's enough of that.
I'm almost waiting for someone to come in and turn this into a learning AI. Then we're boned. Hard.
Also: Updoot plox?
We won't die in a hail of nuclear fire, we'll die from heart attacks from too many cool graphs.
I don't update until the forum's internal date/time ticks over to February. We've still got about 11 hours left on the clock till then.
Yep, that's the normal trend. It really throws a wrench into the gears of my prediction algorithms. I should probably try and exclude them from the data set.
I'unno, once we've got enough points to reliably predict new versions it becomes less a problem and more a curious data feature. It wouldn't do to scrub data just because what we do see interferes with what we want to see.
It should be easier to just use the release log, instead of the post count to make predictions. I'll try and run up something to figure that out.
Especially because we can look at stuff beyond new users to get a good idea of how many of those new users stick around.
While I would love to figure out that, what should I use as a metric? The closest I can think is Users Online/Day. Maybe comparing the Posts/Day with the UO/D would give me a picture of that.
By the by, your spreadsheets are all down.
Really? Huh. Try this.