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Ok, this is really rough because my comprehension of gnuplot is fairly low, but I thought y'all might be interested in looking anyway. <URL:(URL) is a graph of number of posts per week to rec.toys.lego for as long back as Deja News can remember. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) Mind?--certainly not! :-) (...) Trends noted in-head, yes; on paper/graph no... Would love to see anything you come up with. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) [snipped way-cool graph] Very interesting. I hadn't thought of "draining" in terms of number of messages, I was thinking in terms of signal-to-noise. Which is a bit harder to graph. But the anecdotal evidence seems to suggest LUGNET is having (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) Yeah, number-of-messages seemed like the easiest to graph. I'm also getting data on number of messages containing "auction|sale", "mindstorms", or "star wars", with that sort of in mind. Signal is hard to describe simply. (...) Hmmm, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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[ (X)FUT lugnet.off-topic.geek and lugnet.admin.general ] Steve: [...] (...) Few or many messages per thread? - few messages per thread could mean - quick correct answers - nobody cares to discuss anything - many messages per thread could mean - (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) Good points. It can be argued that massive flame-war threads *are* indicative of the level of community. If only because people care enough to get into long-winded pointless debates. (...) Not sure about this, except to look for posts with (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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More RTL stats at <URL:(URL). The different categories are counts of posts containing relevant keywords. (Sales & Auctions = "sale|auction", Mindstorms = "mindstorms", etc.) I plan do redo this with the addition of looking for "FS" and "FA" in the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) Interesting, Castle is the most stable. (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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(...) Yeah, I assumed that -- it's been around and popular for a long time. SW and Mindstorms, of course, started recently. ("Space" seems kind of hard to search for, and very likely to return false positives.) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Hmm, there is a spike right after the first of the year. I bet that is caused by new users fresh from their dark ages after buying holiday presents for younger relatives... KL (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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Matthew Miller: (...) Thanks. It looks like the ration of "commercial" posts is increasing steadily. Could you also plot the different categories as percentages of the total? (I can do it myself if you publish the raw numbers ;-) Play well, Jacob (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure. For both of those requests. :) Not sure if I'll get to it today though. Got suggestions for other interesting search terms? (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Cool! My guess is that plenty of sale/auction posts are still not being captured. FS/FA will help with that. Steve (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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[ (X)FUT lugnet.admin.general and lugnet.off-topic.geek ] Matthew Miller: (...) Now that you ask for it... I did consider if it would be practical to train an ANN to classify the posts[1]. Play well, Jacob 1) If you take this seriously, you might (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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