NMSNM Fírst Õffícial Census

[Virgil Showlion]

Not MSN Money (NMSNM) First Official Census (145 Days Since Board Creation)

Total posters: 1,635

General Statistics on Active* Posters:

Total active posters: 1,260
Total female posters: 868 (68.9%)
Total male posters: 392 (31.1%)
Mean poster age**: 41.67 yr.
Median poster age**: 40 yr.
Youngest poster**: 14 yr.
Oldest poster**: 90 yr.

Posting Statistics:

Total posts: 301,196 (Est. 174 MB stored data)
Mean number of posts: 239.0 posts/poster
Median number of posts: 27 posts/poster
Greatest number of posts:
     6,457 (debmd)
     5,971 (maddawgwiccan)
     5,452 (insurancegal)
     5,277 (scottishlassie) [Est. 4,800 non-moderation-related]
     4,986 (chocolatelover)

Board activity: 2,763 posts/day
Mean posting rate: 1.88 posts/poster/day
Median posting rate: 0.2491 posts/day
Highest posting rates:
     50.18 posts/day [18.32 kiloposts/year] (maddawgwiccan)
     46.79 posts/day [17.09 kiloposts/year] (debmd)
     38.39 posts/day [14.02 kiloposts/year] (insurancegal)
     36.39 posts/day [13.29 kiloposts/year] (scottishlassie)
     34.38 posts/day [12.56 kiloposts/year] (chocolatelover)

Greatest number of posts in one day (local time): 151 (debmd)

Karma¹ Statistics:

Total karma: 19,932
Mean karma: 15.82 (Sparrow)
Median karma: 3 (Grasshopper)
Highest karma:
     439 (archiethedragon) [Titan]
     355 (peaceofmind) [Leviathan]
     352 (franktheimpaler) [Leviathan]
     T-334 (chocolatelover) [Leviathan]
     T-334 (mollymouser) [Leviathan]

Board baseline karma density: 6.62% karma/post
Mean karma density: 7.86% karma/post
Median karma density: 5.47% karma/post
Highest karma density²:
     100.2% karma/post (nicomachus) [Content Master Level 6]
     31.7% karma/post (sunrnr) [Ridiculous Karma Density]
     28.27% karma/post (thecropchick) [Ridiculous Karma Density]
     27.88% karma/post (mtshastawriter) [Ridiculous Karma Density]
     25.29% karma/post (burnsattornincan) [Ridiculous Karma Density]

Greatest number of karma hits in one day (local time): 96 (peaceofmind)
Lowest karma for Full Contributor (2000+ posts): 29
Board baseline karma rate: 182.86 karma/day
Mean karma accumulation rate: 3.93 karma/month
Median karma accumulation rate: 0.89 karma/month
Highest karma accumulation rates:
     113.87 karma/month (marshabar1) [Supreme Accumulator Level 2]
     94.29 karma/month (archiethedragon) [Master Accumulator]
     75.61 karma/month (franktheimpaler) [Expert Accumulator]
     74.67 karma/month (peaceofmind) [Expert Accumulator]
     70.74 karma/month (mollymouser) [Expert Accumulator]

Greatest karma rate (over one month EST): 759 karma/month (peaceofmind)

Fun Facts:

Top "thread killer"³: Tie @ 65 threads killed (ZaireInHD,chocolatelover)
Total male karma: 8,520 (mean 21.73 karma/male)
Total female karma: 11,412 (mean 13.15 karma/female)
Total male posts: 123,987 (mean 316.29 posts/male)
Total female posts: 177,209 (mean 204.16 posts/female)
Aggregate male karma density: 6.87% karma/post
Aggregate female karma density: 6.44% karma/post
Mean time since joining: 121.7 days
Median time since joining: 134 days
First members joined: 145 days ago (19 posters)
Members permabanned: 25 accounts (Est. 13 unique posters) [1.61% of all member accounts, 0.84% of all members]
Longest Username: countingpenniesnyc

Comments:

Statistics were collected in bulk by a robot dispatched at 9:00 PM EST on May 6, 2001. With the exception of age (which is only shown in aggregate), all data was collected from fully public sources.

As can be readily seen, women outnumber men on the board by more than 2:1 (2.21:1, to be precise). This discrepancy is largely offset by men's tendency to post more (males post an average of 54.92% more than females).

Karma per post (a.k.a. "karma density"), which is a rough measure of "content concentration", differs only slightly between the two sexes. It is worth noting that the highest post count, highest karma, and highest karma density all belong to male posters (maddawgwiccan, archiethedragon, and nicomachus, respectively).

The mean accumulation rate (karma per month), greatest karma received in one day, and greatest karma recieved in one month are held by female posters (marshabar1, peaceofmind, and peaceofmind, respectively). It should be noted, however, that peaceofmind's records reflect the 'I Hit POM' campaign that spanned part of January and nearly all of February.

Thread will be posted as an announcement for one day (May 18, 2011).

As always, questions and comments are very welcome.

- Virgil

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Notes:

*An 'active poster' is defined as a poster with at least one post within 3 calender months of the time of census.
**Fake ages, such as that listed by Dr. Pig (presumably to foul up data collection. ), are omitted from these datasets.
¹Karma statistics for active posters only. Posters with negative karma not included.
²Density statistics for Full Members (100+ posts) and above. Below 100 posts, karma density is considered too variable to be reliable.
³A "thread killer", as originally defined by Dr. Pig, is the poster whose post features last in a defunct thread. It is worth noting that this metric is highly correlated with post count (r = 0.84).

[Virgil Showlion]

Charts:
(All figures reflect data for active posters only. See notes in OP.)








(Apologies for the log/log plot on this one, but it's really the only suitable way to visualize the data.)

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

In defense of my high post count, I'm really not a chatterbox - I exercise my brain on the word games threads.

[mtntigger]

Mean number of posts: 239.0 posts/poster
Median number of posts: 27 posts/poster....
²Density statistics for Full Members (100+ posts) and above. Below 100 posts, karma density is considered too variable to be reliable.

So... posters who are less than full members are counted per the posting statistics, but are not reliable enough for the karma statistics? Do you work for the government Virgil?

ETA: But then you included them in the graph?

[mtntigger]

I question the data! I question the data!
* You throw out Doc's age, but yet you include a 14-year old?
* According to your statistics, you have that the sex of all the posters are accounted for. False! I can think of at least one poster (D.I.) who hasn't declared it.

Dang it. Where is lifewasgood when I need him?

[Virgil Showlion]

Largest number of excuses for high post count:
     16 (scottishlassie)
     ...

[deziloooooo]

May 17, 2011 17:30:14 GMT -5 ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ said:

In defense of my high post count, I'm really not a chatterbox - I exercise my brain on the word games threads.

Aha, to bad that can't be taken into account, not fair to have that included in my opinion.

[Virgil Showlion]

SBS: I had to make a cutoff somewhere for density. Quite a few posters have < 5 posts and 1 karma. In fact, there are almost no active members with 0 karma, and literally hundreds with 1 karma. The first karma is a "gimme" it would seem. People see somebody with 0 karma and they give one as a random act of kindness. But even 1 karma with < 5 posts gives > 25% karma density, which blows virtually everybody above "Full Member" out of the water. 100 is the point where 1 karma <= 1% change in density; it seemed like a logical cutoff.

As for age, age and gender are shown to all mods. Very few posters (<1.5% don't display their gender). Age is about 10/90. Doc's listed age was 115 or something. I considered any age between 10 and 95 to be "reasonable", and only 3 data fell outside this range.

[Deleted]

Hey! Where are the posts deleted, threads locked, posters banned...you left out the most interesting stuff!

[Deleted]

Virgil, the age data is really useless. Most of the Slacker Females put 21 and we know that's not true.

[JustLurkin]

Interesting!

Or...maybe I just have 65 posts before becoming a real live member.

Now 64!

[Happy prose]

Good stats! I'm confused though...when I first signed up, did I put female, age, etc? I don't really remember doing that, and some people's user names are hard to tell if they're male or female? I could just be forgetting....

[JustLurkin]

May 17, 2011 17:48:08 GMT -5 @insurancegal said:

Heh-heh.... Virg said Full Member... Heh-heh...

63 to go

Dr. Pig is a mere 111--he was born in 1900...which def explains some of his views on women! Dang, shoulda split this into 2 posts.

[Virgil Showlion]

Where are the posts deleted, threads locked, posters banned...

Number of posters banned is in there. Giving out specific names seems inappropriate.

Based on the 'backups' I've seen on the admin and graveyard boards, there are between 300-400 deleted posts. Maybe the same number of locked threads. I don't have access to the data, and I doubt the results would be of much significance. (400 deleted posts out of ~300,000 is a statistical "fart in the wind".)

[Peace Of Mind]

May 17, 2011 17:51:17 GMT -5 @justaposter said:

Virgil, the age data is really useless. Most of the Slacker Females put 21 and we know that's not true.

Hey!! Speak for yourself.





Virgil - Those stats are hilarious. We could have saved you all the trouble and told you who the blabber mouths are. ;D

CL <----------

[Virgil Showlion]

I could just be forgetting....

If you're a lady born on September 18, I imagine you put the data in at some point.

[ihearyou2]

So based on this data this is a good place to meet chicks but men ruin it by talking too much.

[dancinmama]

I don't know if the 14 year old is male or female, but if the YMers get their hands on them, they're gonna be RICH some day!! ;D

[Peace Of Mind]

May 17, 2011 18:02:59 GMT -5 ihearyou2 said:

So based on this data this is a good place to meet chicks but men ruin it by talking too much.

Just like in RL. ;D

[Happy prose]

Thank you Virgil. Did I put down I have Alzhiemers?

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Virgil - Those stats are hilarious. We could have saved you all the trouble and told you who the blabber mouths are.

Well, we knew who one of them was. But that was mostly just dead air surrounded by dots.

[Peace Of Mind]

LMAO, SL!! And font-farting. Virgil has such a way with words.

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

May 17, 2011 17:37:43 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

May 17, 2011 17:30:14 GMT -5 ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ said:

In defense of my high post count, I'm really not a chatterbox - I exercise my brain on the word games threads.

Aha, to bad that can't be taken into account, not fair to have that included in my opinion.

Desi, you can play there too.

[Virgil Showlion]

Thank you Virgil. Did I put down I have Alzhiemers?

Nothing like that.

Mods have access to e-mail address, date of birth, gender, facebook/webpage info (if it's available), location (if listed), registration date, and a few other minor details. I didn't look at the individual data. My bot collected everything and gave me the aggregate statistics.

Many will probably notice that most of the 'records' are held by EE regulars. In terms of moving massive amounts of raw content, EE'ers certainly put the other boards to shame.

[ihearyou2]

I have my new marching orders I need to break the 151 posts in one day record. I got good at that at the last boards bulking up my count. I'll have to designate a day for that activity.

[ihearyou2]

May 17, 2011 18:14:10 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Thank you Virgil. Did I put down I have Alzhiemers?

Nothing like that.

Mods have access to e-mail address, date of birth, gender, facebook/webpage info (if it's available), location (if listed), registration date, and a few other minor details. I didn't look at the individual data. My bot collected everything and gave me the aggregate statistics.

Many will probably notice that most of the 'records' are held by EE regulars. In terms of moving massive amounts of raw content, EE'ers certainly put the other boards to shame.

I thought you were going to say raw sewage...

[ihearyou2]

May 17, 2011 18:14:10 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Thank you Virgil. Did I put down I have Alzhiemers?

Nothing like that.

Mods have access to e-mail address, date of birth, gender, facebook/webpage info (if it's available), location (if listed), registration date, and a few other minor details. I didn't look at the individual data. My bot collected everything and gave me the aggregate statistics.

Many will probably notice that most of the 'records' are held by EE regulars. In terms of moving massive amounts of raw content, EE'ers certainly put the other boards to shame.

I thought you were going to say raw sewage...

[Virgil Showlion]

151 posts in a 16 hour period is one post every 6 min. 21 sec.

Good luck.

[ihearyou2]

May 17, 2011 18:23:58 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

151 posts in a 16 hour period is one post every 6 min. 21 sec.

Good luck.

Or if I do one every 15 seconds it'll only be 38 minutes.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I clearly need more Karma.