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30 Mar 2009, 4:50 pm

Did somebody finally put another quarter into the slot?

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03 Apr 2009, 10:55 pm

m<ybe it's just a dream

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06 Apr 2009, 12:16 am

No, it most certainly does seem faster.

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07 Apr 2009, 6:35 pm

i think they just upgraded a few things or not a lot of people are online.

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07 Apr 2009, 6:59 pm

Spring Break is over in the Northern Hemisphere

thank gawd!

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07 Apr 2009, 11:03 pm

Viva aspie springbreakers! :lol:

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07 Apr 2009, 11:15 pm

Were they causing that much of a difference?

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07 Apr 2009, 11:44 pm

Posts per... user day user.day

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08 Apr 2009, 12:13 am

First chart looks pretty much like what you'd expect.

The second and third charts got more unexplained fluctuations than the price of oil.

Was that supposed to clarify something?

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08 Apr 2009, 8:00 am

CanyonWind wrote:

First chart looks pretty much like what you'd expect.

The second and third charts got more unexplained fluctuations than the price of oil.

Was that supposed to clarify something?

yeah, the 01/06 is the European date thingie. In the States we would write it June 1, XXXX

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08 Apr 2009, 1:26 pm

Okay, but I'm still baffled by the data.

Each of the vertical lines is June at one year intervals, so each little blue box is two months.

Posts per user per day reached an all time high around the beginning of 2006. During the following four months, it plunged to an all time low, falling to about a third of it's previous level.

Then it immediately shot back up again and 14 months later it almost matched the previous high, reaching a peak in the early summer of 2007.

Then it fell like a rock for two months, then switched to a slow steady decline. The most recent data point is just above the all time low.

Posts per day shot up 450 percent from the middle of 2006 to the middle of 2007. In the next two months, it fell by a third, then bounced back up again to match the previous high eight months later.

In the next two months, it fell by about a quarter.

I'm not a statistician, but the sample set is well up in the thousands, so it's not like asking three people who they're planning to vote for, then drawing a conclusion.

And there's six data point per year, so each plotted data point covers a two month period. I would expect spring break to get swamped out, and if there's an annual pattern of spring peaks, I can't see it.

The only consistent pattern I can see is posts per user, which would be expected to increase with time.

Other than that, I can't see no sense.

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08 Apr 2009, 1:47 pm

The lower posts per user per day could be described by the increased number of dead accounts, correct?

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18 Apr 2009, 12:52 pm

I am actually finding the site to be slow...

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18 Apr 2009, 11:55 pm

Actually, it has slowed down a good bit for me as well.

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