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Do you want me to post the graph when I'm done?
Poll ended at 03 Sep 2011, 4:11 pm
Yes 85%  85%  [ 17 ]
No 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I don't care 15%  15%  [ 3 ]
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03 Sep 2010, 4:11 pm

I'm trying to create a line graph with the time of day in the x-axis and the number of people online as the y-axis. Please post the number of people who are online (members or non-members) along with the date, time of day, and the timezone you live in. I'll try to have the graph done on September 3, 2011.

I'll start:
Date: 9/3/2010 (GMT -8 hours)
Time: 2:07 PM
Online: 874



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03 Sep 2010, 5:29 pm

OK
Date: 9/3/2010
Time:6:28 PM
Online:864



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03 Sep 2010, 6:39 pm

Just curious - what's your purpose for making the graph? How are you going to remember to keep it up for a year?

Date = 9.3.10
Time = 4:38 p.m.
Online = 841


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03 Sep 2010, 7:00 pm

Would it not be better to ask people to post only the number of members online, and get the date and time from the post itself? Members are from all around the world, so dates and times will vary according to where they are.

In Scotland:
Date: 4/9/10
Time: 12.59am
Online: 848



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03 Sep 2010, 7:15 pm

Yes. Your graph is going to be messed up if you're going by the poster's clocks.



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03 Sep 2010, 7:53 pm

buryuntime wrote:
Yes. Your graph is going to be messed up if you're going by the poster's clocks.
Just what I was thinking. :?



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03 Sep 2010, 8:09 pm

Marcia wrote:
Would it not be better to ask people to post only the number of members online, and get the date and time from the post itself? Members are from all around the world, so dates and times will vary according to where they are.


I know. I'm going to compensate for it.



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03 Sep 2010, 8:11 pm

LadybugQ wrote:
Just curious - what's your purpose for making the graph? How are you going to remember to keep it up for a year?


I have good memory. As for the purpose, I just like stats.



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03 Sep 2010, 8:20 pm

I just realized you also asked for the timezone but most people didn't post it.

Time Zone: Eastern Time (9:19 PM)
Members: 820
Date: Sept 3



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17 Sep 2010, 7:29 pm

buryuntime wrote:
I just realized you also asked for the timezone but most people didn't post it.

Time Zone: Eastern Time (9:19 PM)
Members: 820
Date: Sept 3


I added that after several people posted.

Time Zone: Pacific Time
Members: 832
Date: 9/17/2010



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18 Sep 2010, 3:58 am

Time zone : UTC+1 (France, Belgium, Germany, Algeria, etc)
Members : 508
Date : 9/18/2010

Stonecold wrote:
Time Zone: Pacific Time
Members: 832
Date: 9/7/2010


Did you mean "9/17/2010" ? ;)


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18 Sep 2010, 9:16 am

There is utterly no point in posting your time zone - although you could always post your whole address, if you wanted people to know where you lived.

The post time is perfectly adequate - and no way could you "compensate" to obtain any useful data from any time and/or time zone embedded in the post.

Also... to gather a year's graph, you could just visit this site four times:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wrongplanet.net



NB. You do need to "compensate" for the many web crawlers that are present among the "Online Now: 652". In fact, only the "Members: 125" is vaguely reliable.


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25 Sep 2010, 12:06 pm

lau wrote:
There is utterly no point in posting your time zone - although you could always post your whole address, if you wanted people to know where you lived.

The post time is perfectly adequate - and no way could you "compensate" to obtain any useful data from any time and/or time zone embedded in the post.

Also... to gather a year's graph, you could just visit this site four times:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wrongplanet.net



NB. You do need to "compensate" for the many web crawlers that are present among the "Online Now: 652". In fact, only the "Members: 125" is vaguely reliable.


Again, I have methods to compensate for all of that.

Date: 9/25/2010
Time zone: GMT -8
Online: 731



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25 Sep 2010, 5:15 pm

Stonecold wrote:
lau wrote:
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Again, I have methods to compensate for all of that.

You have no idea what percentage of the "Online now" count are web crawlers.


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25 Sep 2010, 11:39 pm

lau wrote:
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Again, I have methods to compensate for all of that.

You have no idea what percentage of the "Online now" count are web crawlers.


Again, you are assuming the only variable I have is the "Online now" that people submit. I have many other sources for required variables. One of them is Wrong Planet's robots.txt policy. If you want to know more details about this "graph" I'm making, PM me. If not, please stop assuming that my test is flawed just because you don't know all the details of it.



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25 Sep 2010, 11:53 pm

Date: sep 26
Time: 12:53 a.m. Eastern
Online: 740