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75,000 of ye talking - question

BossArky · 2006-08-27 19:29:12

What exacty does that 75,000 include? Is it a count of all accounts ever created on boards? i.e. even ones which have been inactive for years and those that are banned / deleted? If so, how many users have been active in the recent past, i.e. 6 to 12 months? At a rough estimation 75,000 users for a population of roughly 4…

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27-08-2006 8:29pm

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BossArky

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What exacty does that 75,000 include?

Is it a count of all accounts ever created on boards? i.e. even ones which have been inactive for years and those that are banned / deleted?

If so, how many users have been active in the recent past, i.e. 6 to 12 months?

At a rough estimation 75,000 users for a population of roughly 4 million (give or take those overseas) means that approx 1% of the Irish population uses this site. Subtract the babies and grannies and non internet ready and that means that almost everyone online is using this site.

So, what exactly makes up that 75,000?

Post edited by Shield on December 2021

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#2 27-08-2006 8:31pm
monkeyfudge

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BossArky wrote:

So, what exactly makes up that 75,000?

Bubbles!

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#3 27-08-2006 8:32pm
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See the bottom of this page, it has the number of users (which I assume is number of accounts ever created).

[edit] Hmm, it's amp's birthday today.

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#4 27-08-2006 8:32pm
Ruu_Old

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Well theres currently 75,639 members going by here, I'm not sure if there have been accounts deleted or how that works or how many are actually active.

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#5 27-08-2006 8:34pm
Karoma

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Happy Birthday amp, et. al. \o/

Very few accounts have been deleted. It includes locked/banned accounts, etc. as well.

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#6 27-08-2006 8:35pm
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Too slow Ruu.

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#7 27-08-2006 8:38pm
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Myth wrote:

Too slow Ruu.

He is getting old.

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#8 27-08-2006 8:38pm
BossArky

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This afternoon as I pondered the number I did a profile search on the user ids of people from I knew from years ago (back in the last century and early this century), to see when they last logged on.

Often it was over 4 or 5 years ago - so it started me thinking how many are actually active in recent history which, would be more interesting that all accounts ever created i.e. 75k.

How about "75,000 of ye talking - 65,000 from beyond the cyber grave"?

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#9 27-08-2006 8:49pm
Karoma

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CuLT wrote:

He is getting old.

Lay off him, man! There's bound to be a little bit of a delay as one spams 15 fora silmutaneously.

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#10 27-08-2006 8:50pm
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Myth wrote:

Too slow Ruu.

Ah back in my day [rant about walking to school barefoot and young people] etc, etc.

Karoma: How, how, how dare you!

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#11 27-08-2006 8:55pm
CuLT

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BossArky wrote:

This afternoon as I pondered the number I did a profile search on the user ids of people from I knew from years ago (back in the last century and early this century), to see when they last logged on.

Often it was over 4 or 5 years ago - so it started me thinking how many are actually active in recent history which, would be more interesting that all accounts ever created i.e. 75k.

How about "75,000 of ye talking - 65,000 from beyond the cyber grave"?

or "2,000 of ye talkin', 20,000 of ye lurkin' and 53,000 of ye unused, spambot or dual accounts"

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#12 27-08-2006 9:00pm
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For whats its worth

The 75,000 are the registered users, no accounts are deleted.

Last week there were average of 24,279 unique visitors a day.

V.

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#13 27-08-2006 9:03pm
CuLT

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I found a deleted account not three weeks ago

(how, you ask? scanning an old thread in the CS board, there was a post with no username associated and it wasn't an anonymous post)

Edit: here's the post.

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#14 27-08-2006 9:13pm
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So are the 20,000-odd users without any posts to their name also considered to be 'talkin'?
Unless there are a few thousand users who post exclusively on TCN.

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#15 27-08-2006 9:19pm
Steveire

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This was true when 70000 was hit in May. 21000 unique visitors makes a lot of lurkers.

16632 users have made zero posts.

8236 users have made one post.

4226 users have made two posts.

932 users joined before 20th Feb 2000 (Roughly when boards.ie went live)

4932 users joined in 2002.

18447 users joined in 2005.

8614 new users in 2006 so far.

10448 users posted in 2005, and haven't posted since.

20356 users posted in 2005

15465 users have posted this year so far.

5081 users have at least 100 posts.

I think it tells a fuller story.

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#16 27-08-2006 9:31pm
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Vexorg wrote:

For whats its worth

The 75,000 are the registered users, no accounts are deleted.

Last week there were average of 24,279 unique visitors a day.

V.

Wow, impressive.

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#17 27-08-2006 9:58pm
BossArky

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Thanks - those stats are what I was looking for.

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#18 27-08-2006 10:03pm
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BossArky wrote:

If so, how many users have been active in the recent past, i.e. 6 to 12 months?

24 Hours: 3104
7 days: 8424
30 days: 14195
6 Months: 31752
12 Months: 44149

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#19 27-08-2006 11:11pm
Sparky

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Suppose in terms of vB accounts created over the years, it amounts to
80,541

An impressive number all the same.

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#20 27-08-2006 11:50pm
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Vexorg wrote:

For whats its worth

The 75,000 are the registered users, no accounts are deleted.

Out of curiosity, when you click on the Members List it reports on records 1 to 61,613. Are there thousands of "ex-directory" members on boards?

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#21 28-08-2006 9:57am
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Sparky-s wrote:

Suppose in terms of vB accounts created over the years, it amounts to 80,541 An impressive number all the same.

There are some blank numbers near the start where various DBs were merged.

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#22 28-08-2006 10:44am
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Steveire wrote:

18447 users joined in 2005.

8614 new users in 2006 so far

Curious that registrations seems to have slacked off a little this year.
Is this the registered people levelling off?
Ie- almost everyone in Ireland who is actively online (and who signs up on forums, not lurks) already has a boards account?

hmmm

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#23 28-08-2006 2:06pm
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FuzzyLogic wrote:

Curious that registrations seems to have slacked off a little this year.
Is this the registered people levelling off?
Ie- almost everyone in Ireland who is actively online (and who signs up on forums, not lurks) already has a boards account?

hmmm

Or maybe Bubbles got knocked down and spent 6 months in traction, that or he's in Mountjoy.

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#24 28-08-2006 8:46pm
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Curious that registrations seems to have slacked off a little this year.

True.

Also curious the way registrations in feb'98 has picked up this year...

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#25 29-08-2006 12:33am
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Steveire wrote:

True.

Also curious the way registrations in feb'98 has picked up this year...

Yeh I was kinda wondering how Fuzzy managed that...

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#26 29-08-2006 12:49am
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Steveire wrote:

True.

Also curious the way registrations in feb'98 has picked up this year...

Shhhhh.....

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#27 29-08-2006 12:51am
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Interesting stats.

Steveire wrote:

5081 users have at least 100 posts.

I would have thought there would be alot more on that one.

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#28 29-08-2006 12:58am
ecksor

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The actual number recorded in our database is 5867. I don't know where Steveire is getting his numbers ...

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#29 29-08-2006 8:27pm
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ecksor wrote:

The actual number recorded in our database is 5867. I don't know where Steveire is getting his numbers ...

Thats an interesting question, wouldn't you need access to the DB to get those numbers? (which I presume you have and Steveire doesnt)

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#30 30-08-2006 3:55pm
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You'd be amazed at how many people have never heard of boards.ie

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#31 30-08-2006 4:58pm
Steveire

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/memberlist.php You used to be able to do searches on that page, so I got the numbers from there.

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