Food for thought - Offshore Forum on August 7th five years apart.

[wilheim]

Please note number of replies and views from the principle pages of August 7th 2003.

http://www.therxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=100&order=desc&page=2113

http://www.therxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=100&order=desc&page=2112

Please do the same for today August 7th 2008.

http://www.therxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=100&order=desc&page=2

http://forum.therx.com/forumdisplay.php?f=100&order=desc

The only reason I actully thought of this was the recent trend of bumping old threads.

Clearly the threads this year are getting more replies and views now than they were back in 2003 (none topped 100 views) here at TheRx.com. I am not trying to say that what was posted back then was any more or less interesting than todays threads, just that we have more posters involved now than we did back then, which IMHO has to be considered a good thing..


wil.

 

[Buster]

now do the RR head mountie

 

[wilheim]

buster

August 7th 2003 link - about ten threads.

http://www.therxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=101&order=desc&daysprune=-1&page=293

Aug 7th 2008.

http://www.therxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=101

Around 30 threads with a few hours left.



wil.

 

[Dante]

crap I have been posting to long:shocked:

 

[Romanowski]

Dante, most posts in forum history?

 

[Dante]

Dante, most posts in forum history?

no sir.... Mr fisherhead has that honor and always will

 

[Willie99]

you're welcome

 

[GREENHEAD]

Its kind of obvious that there's a flaw in the system.
On page 2115 we have a thread with 148 replies and only 149 views.
Many others similar to this one.

 

[wilheim]

Greenhead

Its kind of obvious that there's a flaw in the system.
On page 2115 we have a thread with 148 replies and only 149 views.
Many others similar to this one.

I cannot find that thread but it does not matter, moving up an entire year to Aug 7th 2004, forget entirely about the views because they may not be reliable if on some threads they equal the replies and just look at the replies only which have to be correct because it is an actual countable post. Threads get an appreciable difference in the number of replies now than they did 4 years ago..


August 7th 2004 (this is a link to 45 threads on one page with 29 being from Aug 7th and 16 from August 6th 2004) This is a link to the page containing 45.

http://www.therxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=100&order=desc&page=1667


August 7th 2008 (there were actually 89 active threads or two pages of threads on Aug 7th 2008). This is a link to one of the pages with all August 7th 2008 threads.

http://www.therxforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=100&order=desc&page=2

The problem is these threads gets pushed by one spot everytime there is a new thread posted, so in a few days these links will have threads from different dates on them.

wil.

 

[wilheim]

Another indicator

Active threads perday is something we have been counting everday for the last 4 years plus some months. I used to do it in the beginning now moderator RobFunk does the job which is time consuming and never ending because it has to be done everyday 365 days a year.

An active thread is a thread that has at least one post in it for that calendar day. If no one posts in this thread on August 9th. - August 8th is taken now, the thread will not be counted that day. Bumped threads get counted on the day they are bumped and any days thereafter they have an active post on that calendar date.

Below are the last four Julys average active threads forum wide per day. We do not count any contest, Site Promotions, comment on the Prescription or Classic threads forums ever:

July 2005 - 184 - average of active threads on the entire forum per day.

July 2006 - 334 "

July 2007 - 346 "

July 2008 - 375 "

You can see we had a huge bump in 2006 and small increases the last two years since then.

Here is the count from August 7th 2008.

mod - thread count for 8-07-2008
<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Offshore 89
Politics 40
Bookie Talk 5
Newbies 1
NFL 1
College Football 19
College Hoops 3
NBA 2
Hockey 1
Soccer 12
Baseball 107
International 5
Horse racing 11
Poker Room 7
Rubber Room 39
Tracker Room 11
Financial Room 1
Health and Fitness 2
Computer & Tech Help Room 1
Entertainment 0
Boxing / UFC 6
Nascar 0
Betting Exchanges 3
Other Football 20


Total - 366
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Obviously baseball being in season had the most with 107 active threads. When football arrives some college football Saturdays the college football forum will break 250 active threads. Here is the count for Saturday October 20th 2007, a date I randomly selected as an example..

mod - thread count for 10-20-2007
<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Offshore 80
Politics 12
Bookie Talk 17
Newbies 3
NFL 54
College Football 283
College Hoops 3
NBA 8
Hockey 38
Soccer 10
Baseball 20
International 1
Horse racing 7
Poker Room 4
Rubber Room 18
Tracker Room 33
Financial Room 2
Health and Fitness 2
Computer & Tech Help Room 2
Entertainment 5
Boxing / UFC 7
Nascar 1
Betting Exhange 1
Other Football 10

Total - 621
<!-- / message -->

The Offshore forum stays pretty much steady between 70 and 100 active threads a day year round with some exceptions like a major event in sports such as Super Bowl Sunday. Notice college football with a whopping 283 active threads that day. Recently politics has picked up and there are some good days like Thursday with 44 active threads, obviously because of the upcoming presedential election.

The Rubber Room is also much busier than it was even a year ago, as it has seen a resurgance this year. Unfortunately some of these minor sport and specialised topic forums that have been added are not doing well.

wil.<!-- / message -->

 

[5teamparlay]

Good stuff WIL,

It's kind of a shame we lost all the threads from before 2003, some great stuff there.


Hope we never have to start over again.

 

[GREENHEAD]

PAGE 2115-title of thread
"sign up here to fight the ban on internet gambling"
replies 148
views 149-----date 7/31/2003

Not saying theres not more threads or posters now.
Simply showing you something is wrong.You just dont get a thread with
148 replies and only 149 views.Have a wonderfull day.

 

[wilheim]

Greenhead

Link to that thread. Very unusual thread over 100 replies made by one poster out of 148 total replies. There is a chance the software only counted his IP as only one view, not sure. If you count the posts by Intuition Bet he has around 102 or so.


http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=205952&page=6




wil.