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Unfortunately there have been so many spam registrations that there's no real way to determine this, sorry! Lukas
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Just keep adding more members to the shopping cart. When it won't let you add any more, that's the total number of members. That’s really funny.
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There are a total of 25317 registrations as of tonight. But as I explained, a ton of them are spam (or duplicates that were created somehow or another). Lukas
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I'm assuming that number is for all time, which could include duplicates, inactive profiles, spammers - a lot of variables that are difficult to account for. In the past week I've noticed a couple threads get bumped up by what seem like spammers - accounts with only 1-2 posts but have been active for over a year, and they only post for the same kind of topic... I've also noticed about 2 actual spam posts with suspicious links in the past 3 months. Looking at the number of backers for "Black Patch" should give you a decent idea of the portion of registered users that are active in the message boards. Couple that with the number of copies that the average CD release gets and I think you can deduce a reasonable estimation for the number of people that are active in these boards.
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Ok, I'm doing it. This is not about an accurate number, more about methodology. STARTING NUMBERS 25,300 total posts (rounded) / 30 years FSM has been around = 843 registrations per year ESTIMATED SPAMMERS / SHILLS (based on my one observation) (3 shill posts/wk * 52 weeks) + (1 spammer/month * 12 months) = 156 false registrations per year That would mean 18% of registrations could be spam / shills, leaving us at 20,756 registrations that may be actual NORMAL people. But that's spread out over the 30-year lifespan of this site. I'd guess this site, like most message boards, probably had peak registrations around 1998-2004, the maturation of the internet and pre-social media, so message boards were the place to be. Given the trend of quick and mobile communication, I'd expect registrations to drop. I'd also expect registrants to be relatively loyal as it takes effort to sign up and it's a specific niche hobby. So, if I take comparisons from Second Life registration statistics, where, from a pool of accounts for people dedicated to that game, the average person had 2 accounts, I'd therefore assume the same for this site that the number of unique people registered on this site is also halved, due to duplicate accounts, equalling 10,378 unique persons registered. Checking against sales volume for the largest soundtrack releases, which are 10,000 units, that would make sense. What's also missing is a further reduction of number of active registrations, which, if we take the average soundtrack release having 1,000 to 3,000 units as an indicator, puts the estimated number of active users on this site at 10-30%. That's all I've got. Here were some general statistics as a guide: Twitter: 9% - 15% bots Twitter: 40-60% real people Second Life: 2 accounts per person (average) https://gizmodo.com/how-many-social-media-users-are-real-people-1826447042
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We should have a "Shout BOTTLE CAPS if you're real" thread! And then just count.
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Aug 17, 2021 - 9:54 PM
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Ok, I'm doing it. This is not about an accurate number, more about methodology. STARTING NUMBERS 25,300 total posts (rounded) / 30 years FSM has been around = 843 registrations per year ESTIMATED SPAMMERS / SHILLS (based on my one observation) (3 shill posts/wk * 52 weeks) + (1 spammer/month * 12 months) = 156 false registrations per year That would mean 18% of registrations could be spam / shills, leaving us at 20,756 registrations that may be actual NORMAL people. But that's spread out over the 30-year lifespan of this site. I'd guess this site, like most message boards, probably had peak registrations around 1998-2004, the maturation of the internet and pre-social media, so message boards were the place to be. Given the trend of quick and mobile communication, I'd expect registrations to drop. I'd also expect registrants to be relatively loyal as it takes effort to sign up and it's a specific niche hobby. So, if I take comparisons from Second Life registration statistics, where, from a pool of accounts for people dedicated to that game, the average person had 2 accounts, I'd therefore assume the same for this site that the number of unique people registered on this site is also halved, due to duplicate accounts, equalling 10,378 unique persons registered. Checking against sales volume for the largest soundtrack releases, which are 10,000 units, that would make sense. What's also missing is a further reduction of number of active registrations, which, if we take the average soundtrack release having 1,000 to 3,000 units as an indicator, puts the estimated number of active users on this site at 10-30%. That's all I've got. Here were some general statistics as a guide: Twitter: 9% - 15% bots Twitter: 40-60% real people Second Life: 2 accounts per person (average) https://gizmodo.com/how-many-social-media-users-are-real-people-1826447042 Damn! The bots are getting more lifelike every day.
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Damn! The bots are getting more lifelike every day. Eh, I haven't seen that many here but they're pretty obvious in what is posted and our moderator is good at flagging them. The main thing are spammers who only create an account to bump a certain thread. There is stuff recently with no text styling, and unrelated comments just to keep the thread high in the list.
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