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Re: most popular newsgroups
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Sat, 5 Oct 2002 01:13:25 GMT
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:54:20 GMT, "Bruce Hietbrink" <bnh@chem.ucla.edu>
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> Hi all,
>
> I was just looking at the total volume of posts per group and was surprised
> at something:
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> As expected, themes like castle, space, star wars, and trains are among the
> highest volume with 16000, 18000, 14000, and 19000 posts. These really seem
> to be among the core of minifig-scale sets, each with their own particular
> following, but also with appeal to other builders.
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> I'm a little surprised that town is smaller, at 5000, given that "Town" was
> one of the three branches of minifig-scale sets from the start (with Space
> and Castle).
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> Themes like adventurers, and HP and bellville etc have much smaller volumes,
> which makes sense for themes that have a smaller number of sets and also
> some themes that are discontinued, like wild west (no new sets = very little
> life breathed into these forums).
>
> A bit surprising is the relatively high volume of Technic (10000), but that
> is maybe my own prejudice as I don't build in that line at all. I certainly
> see the appeal of Technic to the more engineering-minded builders.
>
> Okay, this brings me to my big surprise - robotics at 35000. (!) I'd
> thought of this as a relatively small niche of Lego builders. Twice as much
> volume as Trains? or Space? or Castle? Are there really twice as many
> people using Mindstorms than making spaceships (or castles, or whatever)?
> Or do robotics people post twice as much? Any thoughts?
>
> Bruce
I'd say that a portion of the reason why some areas have more post's
is definitely population, more people, more post's. That's not all of
it though, some of it is the length of time the theme has been around,
Harry Potter is a good example of this, as is Technic. HP is a recent
theme that is not to everyone's taste. Technic is a long established
line, so it has quite a few posters. Robotics bucks this trend being
a recent theme with many posts, but that's mostly because it's a very
technical in nature, (presumably) inspiring many question's and
answers.
Town is 'hurt' in this respect as some related themes that are very
town like split traffic away (trains).
Despite all this my main thought about posting volumes and such is
thus,
"Don't sweat the numbers" Read and post where YOU like and have
interest in. Let others do the same, posting is NOT a contest. Oh
and "Play Well" with others :^)
Mike
--
All other themes are just spare parts for Castle! :^)
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