The forum only has one passable poster
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If posting without reading the thread first is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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I don't disagree with that.
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Now, out of the 25+ that liked that post, who is still even on the forums?
@ cdosrun1
@ jbert
@ codinghorror -nope (gotta love the extra spacing i had to do so this one wouldn't blow up my whole list of names from the fakemention)@ subscript_error - nope
@ cvi
@ error
@ HardwareGeek
@ Keith
@ skotl - nope
@ flabdablet - notreally
@ PJH
@ antiquarian
@ ChaosTheEternal
@ abarker
@ powerlord
@ tin - posts on articles only pretty much
@ RobFreundlich -who the hell??? I assume another frontpage reader only, their 4 only posts were to the Lorne Kates ragequit topic
@ zylon
@ aquaduck -nope
@ cyxxon
@ Medinoc
@ shenghi -joined apparently just to like that post as his only action ever
@ nobulate -sort of but not really
@ parody
@ computerforumuser@ codinghorror -nope OH sweet. nice bug there you piece of god awful trash software......
@darkmatter this on for size....seriously, tell me what the hell is going on here?
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<a class=mention>@ codinghorror</a> -nope OH sweet. nice bug there you piece of god awful trash software......
@darkmatter this on for size....seriously, tell me what the hell is going on here?Oh that's stupid. Even in my quote it screws this up????
What is this I don't even..... lets put that in code blocks (note the distinct LACK OF DARKMATTER ON THE FIRST LINE OF THIS CODE BLOCK):[code]
<a class=mention>@ codinghorror</a> -nope OH sweet. nice bug there you piece of god awful trash software......
@darkmatter this on for size....seriously, tell me what the hell is going on here?
[/code]
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so @ what is happening
@darkmattasdflsadfjkasdjfjaskldfa
dfadsfOk this has to be a regression bug of some sort. I don't remember this kind of BS ever happening before....
check the raw on that....
http://what.thedailywtf.com/raw/3241/56
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I'm guessing that's what a terrible programmer using GREEDY REGEXES looks like.
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I forgot to like that post. I liked it now and I'm still around, for the record.
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ok seriously, i typed @pjh and hit enter before the popup returned and it gives me @Arantor
you are JUST GOD DAMN AWFUL DICSOURSEadf @ eatabigturd
@pjhOkay maybe it's not a regression, because it only happens if you use an @ with a space after it, then start the next line with a real mention. I just happened to do that while making the giant list of names above, triggering this bug.
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@Matches - bug and description is above.@
@Matches - bug and description is above. Oh that's even funnier.
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While I did like the overall opinion, I didn't perform the action of liking the post because I thought it got a bit whiny and detracted from the overall message.
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You're very much of the sledgehammer school of lateral thinking, aren't you?
Hey, I'm the one with the sledgehammer here!
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While I did like the overall opinion, I didn't perform the action of liking the post because I thought it got a bit whiny and detracted from the overall message.
I think I had similar reasons, too.
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I forgot to like that post. I liked it now and I'm still around, for the record.
I missed liking the post originally as well. Did so now, because, perhaps, @Lorne_Kates might also reach Reasonable Poster...
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We sure as hell don't have 25 active posters.
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We have 29 people with their 2^9 badges. That's decent activity.
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Hmm...some of those aren't active any more, though. :-(
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there has been a lot of attrition.
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curse you attrition! you always steel the best of us!
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Still pretty decent. There were 24 or 25 people there who are still active. Though some less than they used to be. The forums have always been relatively small, population wise. At least for heavy posters.
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Hmm...some of those aren't active any more, though. :-(
Yeah, with posters that are currently active, it would have to be a coordinated effort to get a passable poster badge.
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True, but that doesn't count lurkers.
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DING!
there's 30 of those badges now.
wow have i been active lately...
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Or bots.
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The forums have always been relatively small, population wise. At least for heavy posters.
I find this tends to be true on most forums, partly (I'm guessing) due to the fact that once a circle of insiders is established, it's hard for newcomers to crash the party (if only due to psychological inhibitions).
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you always steel the best of us
Is the typo a joke I don't get or joke I do get :squinty_eyes:
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(if only due to psychological inhibitions).
we had a beer topic, what more do people need?
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no joke, just bad speeling.
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hurrah, then it's a joke I do get.
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I find this tends to be true on most forums, partly (I'm guessing) due to the fact that once a circle of insiders is established, it's hard for newcomers to crash the party (if only due to psychological inhibitions).
I'm sure that's true. We've always (and continue to) gotten a trickle of new people. I know I lurked for some time before creating my account. It seems like Discourse forces more people to get an account, and we've sucked in a fair amount of people from the front page. Some are a lot more active than others, of course.
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my badf speeling is not a jkoe! </fakerage>
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we had a beer topic, what more do people need?
I found Discourse very helpful. In the beginning it was such a huge pile of , it was easy to throw a hissy fit about it and by doing so blend in.
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I found Discourse very helpful. In the beginning it was such a huge pile of , it was easy to throw a hissy fit about it and by doing so blend in
that is exactly how i ended up a
prominentdickweed poster here.
i had no material to post on CS because it was already known and expected to be garbage, there was no incentive to kill it further.
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there was no incentive to kill it further.
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
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It seems like Discourse forces more people to get an account, and we've sucked in a fair amount of people from the front page. Some are a lot more active than others, of course.
I would guess that the fallout from the move actually helped inject some fresh blood, since a lot of the CS insiders either quit outright (like @Lorne_Kates), dropped out for a while (@blakeyrat, @morbiuswilters) or stopped posting much (@flabdablet, @Nagesh - I see them on CS more often than I do here). That meant there was a window where you mostly had newcomers/people who weren't active on CS posting (around the time when I joined) and some of them became the core of the new insiders (like @Arantor or @faoileag). Whether that means we've already reached the closing-off stage remains to be seen.
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We've also started reaching out to other discourse
victimsinstances.
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Yeah, I noticed - by way of being a dedicated follower of that thread.
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We sure as hell don't have 25 active posters.
Not entirely sure what a "user visit" is, but:
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Yeah, but how many are authenticated, post, post more than once, would see a funny comment, etc....
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We've also started reaching out to other discourse victims instances.
LOL:
http://discourse.davidzych.com/groups/trust_level_1/members - 8 members. 6 from here judging from names+avatars.
http://discourse.davidzych.com/groups/trust_level_2/members - 1 member. @System. Not even the owner is there.
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Yeah, but how many are authenticated, post, post more than once, would see a funny comment, etc....
If I wasn't so busy at the moment I'd probably have a dig around a backup of the database to get metrics...
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hey, just because we don't spam every topic ever (I still avoid the likes-topic as much as possible) doesn't mean we aren't active!
I mean, I am almost at 29 but still.
Filed Under: I could have sworn to also have liked that post but I seem to remember there being multiple "I am (still) a grumpy cat"-posts. Probably liked another of them | I also remember calling codinghorror out on liking one of the topics
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Not entirely sure what a "user visit" is, but:
Based on other conversations at Meta.d, I would say it's logged in users plus unique IP addresses for non-logged in users.
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hey, just because we don't spam every topic ever (I still avoid the likes-topic as much as possible) doesn't mean we aren't active!
I totally agree. It's just difficult to get a feel for that stuff at a glance, and we were talking about a 25 user cutoff.
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13 likes on the OP
barely even halfway there
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LOL:
http://discourse.davidzych.com/groups/trust_level_1/members - 8 members. 6 from here judging from names+avatars.
You can also tell because we're suspended.
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passable is a level that seems unattainable to me.
It also depends very much on the size of the user base. If we had, say, 100 active users, it would be much more easily obtainable than with, say, 20. I don't know how many of us are really active — I've seen some links with a click count well over 100 — but there seems to be a pretty small core that actually bother to "like" posts.
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While I agree, this lacks sufficient effort or creativity to be like-worthy.
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TDWTF has had a small core for as long as I've been around. It's certainly more active now but I don't think we've grown very much as far as core users. Lost a few, gained a few, and some are on hiatus (I used to go into lurk mode for months at a time during slow spells too).
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Oh, irony!
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and how many are people that read the front page and clicked through to see... oh just subtract the weekday vs weekend numbers (minimum). so at least 100ish are just frontpagers. And judging by the lack of activity on here on the weekends, apparently 100 more are just lurkers?