Paging cab: UKRM newsgroup statistics

Is there a PWAR [1] by poster rating?

A couple of things I was thinking: it must make you feel very lonely if
you post something and then *nobody* replies (cue no responses to this
post!). The other thing is (and I know there is no way to measure this)
I wonder how many people subscribe to ukrm ng but have never posted.

[1] post-without-a-reply

 

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:54:51 -0000, Jeremy
<> bored us all completely to death with
wittery prose along the lines of:

I suppose it could be done, but I've never thought about doing it.
It'd be easy enough as all I'd have to do, is count the number of
references.

e.g. Your original message has no references, as it's unique. My
message would have one, as I've replied to yours, etc, etc.

I suppose for each message, I could check all posts and count the
references and show which posts have no references at all... But is it
worth it?

As for lurkers, I don't think there's any way at all in working that
out. There are too many news servers in the world and you'd have to
check with all of them, to see what people have subscribed to what.

You wanna see if Bear's around?

 

Is it much effort?

Not particularly

I suppose one could post a message with a subject e.g "Attention UKRM
Lurkers" with body e.g. "In an attempt to see how many people are
actually reading UKRM, please post a follow-up"

Should then become the longest thread in ukrm history. In theory.

 

Why haven't you?

 

I've always wanted to do that. I understand that there are a huge number of
lurkers and I'd love an idea of how many.

 

When I posted a link to a page on my site a while back I got 250 hits in an
hour which is a lot more than post here.

 

There are some figures and it's higher than you think.

 

Aye. Cab will tell you how many posters there wewre last year. He
told me the other night, but I forgot.

 

Rephrase that as back I got 250 hits in an hour which is a lot more than
were posting that day.

 

About 1000 I think he said. But then again I've posted using more than one
name in the last year.

 

bollocks - I'd say there's loads more than 250 people posting here.

Hang on:

http://netscan.research.microsoft.c...rchfor=uk.rec.motorcycles&searchdate=1/1/2003

Last year, 4746 people posted to uk.rec.motorcyles, including 1405
single-post posters (quite possibly cross-posters, IMO). 892
"returnees" would give a clue to the number of "regulars".

Also, to answer someone else's question, there were 1359 posts made
that didn't get any replies.

 

That was my question. Thank you. Although what I was really interested
in was a ranking - e.g. who's made the most posts that haven't elicited
any replies.

 

you mean, "who's the most boring **** posting to ukrm"?

Regardless of the statistics, my money would be on Steve Auvache.

 

Not mine - the man frequently hits the nail squarely on the head. And
doesn't ramble.

 

Hey, Cab. Why aren't your newsgroup statistics nicely packaged
up like that, eh?

 

Of course he doesn't - the man could pop his clogs at any moment. He
hasn't got time to ramble; he needs to get his point across, and get it
across *now*.

 

Schrodinger's Lurkers, innit.

 

Mostly cross posting spamtwats I'd guess

 

heh

 

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:55:39 -0000, Jeremy
<> bored us all completely to death with
wittery prose along the lines of:

Not really, but to add the field into exhibiting database and populate
all the existing 223628 messages with references would be a pain. I
don't think my server keeps stuff for more than 90 days. I'd ignore
those and start for new messages.

I'll see what can be done, but don't expect results straightaway, as
I've already got a couple of other things in the pipeline

Mined Ewe, stuff like deepest thread could be calculated, I suppose,
number of threads with X replies too. Top number of replies too.