How many active members do we have?

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Andy

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I got curious about how many active members we have. I decided to do a count.

I defined "active member" as someone who had more than 50 posts. That's an arbitrary cutoff, and it doesn't take into account whether the activity was recent or not. When I think of an "active member," I think of someone who has been active recently, not a year ago. However, there was no easy way of sorting by recent activity, so I had to just go with raw post count.

The total number of "active members" (by that definition) is 320.

Seems high to me. I would've guessed closer to 150. I think a lot of the ones being counted there are people who made 50 posts at one point, but who are no longer active.
 
Easiest way is to look at who's viewed the more popular threads over the past month. Active doesn't always equal posting.
 
Easiest way is to look at who's viewed the more popular threads over the past month. Active doesn't always equal posting.

Hm, that's a good idea, hadn't thought of that.

Here are the number of people viewing each of these threads, which are some of the most popular ones:

Graphics Comparisons: 56
Games Lineup: 71
Sales Comparisons: 71
General Xbox Discussion: 92
CoD Blops: 71


There's a lot of overlap there -- same people viewing different threads.

For an estimate of active members, maybe it's best to take the GXD thread as the starting point, in part because it's the central place where Xbox owners congregate and this is an Xbox-dominant site, and in part because it has the highest number of viewers (92). So, the number of "active members" would be 92 plus X, where X = the number of people who are active members yet never view the GXD thread (or at least haven't so far), which I'm guessing is a relatively small number.

One reservation I have is that, to me, an "active member" is someone who posts. If they're just lurking, that's not really "active," at least not how I see it.

Here's the list of people who've read that thread, btw.
  1. Plainview
  2. Sasquatch Montana
  3. Egg
  4. theBADguy
  5. Zcythe
  6. CX360
  7. Kvally
  8. metalfacedoom
  9. Viktor
  10. team56th
  11. Hammerclaw
  12. Tmecha
  13. YO_XB1
  14. BIGJOHN
  15. Almighty_bob
  16. Tommygun.
  17. Frozpot
  18. somebodyelse
  19. Entreri804
  20. Oblong
  21. Intellivision
  22. Mcmasters
  23. Dno69
  24. Hazard71
  25. Grimey123
  26. Spiritech
  27. menace-uk-
  28. VoltRay
  29. Edge BC
  30. aceattorney
  31. Troublegum
  32. justohammer
  33. Two Pennys Worth
  34. TheGeneral
  35. baron grod
  36. blofeld65
  37. BettaCall911
  38. hrudey
  39. KEM
  40. Tentonhammer
  41. griff_dai
  42. Hoptimus
  43. Blandina
  44. Nervusbreakdown
  45. SpartanDawgX1
  46. spid
  47. bullzeye
  48. TeGu
  49. brighterdeathnow
  50. puresoul002
  51. dbled34
  52. sykokila
  53. OneBadMutha
  54. WaRz0r
  55. de3d1
  56. old guy
  57. dmorans24
  58. Kerosene31
  59. VaLLiancE
  60. Kreten
  61. TDbank24
  62. MisterxboxNJ
  63. MasMeansMore
  64. Pandemonium
  65. crbenfield
  66. Pureshooter
  67. TOPDAWG
  68. Rollins
  69. Terror Tricks
  70. Thug541
  71. pravus
  72. Marcoos
  73. wshowers
  74. Rockatansky
  75. B S
  76. The Wolf King
  77. beerNpretzels
  78. sharkboy1200
  79. SubZero Scarran
  80. Dmega007
  81. Grassrabbit
  82. ZombiesRUCrazy
  83. Partyman
  84. GIGAFATTYMON
  85. Z A C K
  86. Andy
  87. OfficialSono
  88. Dibils
  89. tumorman
  90. coolstorybro
  91. David
  92. Nisemono
That thread was created about 3 weeks ago, btw.

So, maybe a rough estimate of active members is about 100, give or take.
 
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Btw, Plainview, when it says "Users Who Have Viewed this Thread," is that just for the past month?

I ask because I was looking at the number of people who'd viewed the PS Discussion Thread and Nintendo Discussion thread, as compared to the Xbox Discussion thread. The numbers were:

Xbox: 92
PS: 32
Nintendo: 16

The first two made sense to me -- and are a good indication of how Xbox-dominant the site is, btw; about 3 to 1 Xbox over PS interest level -- but the Nintendo number didn't make sense. Certainly, more than 16 people have viewed the Nintendo Super Thread of General Discussion -- I mean, it's been around for almost two years. I know I've read it several times, and I'm not even listed.

So I'm figuring that it is just listing the members who've viewed the thread within the last month or so, right?
 
The members who viewed a thread doesn't seem to be completely accurate as you noticed. It gives a ballpark. It's not supposed to be of only the last month. It's supposed to be complete views.
 
The members who viewed a thread doesn't seem to be completely accurate as you noticed. It gives a ballpark. It's not supposed to be of only the last month. It's supposed to be complete views.

damn straight. I never bothered one a single of those threads. I've interested in games, not versus discussions :-)
 
Oh well. Someday when I have the time, I'll compare lists from several different popular threads and come up with a full list. For now, I'll just estimate 100 to 120 or so.
 
I'm not an active member. :(

Sure you are. If you're referring to that list, there are a bunch of active members who didn't visit the GXD thread (or else didn't get listed there), that's all. That list really can't be trusted, except as a place to begin.

One day, I'll get around to compiling a more reliable list. edit: I can probably do that today. Might as well. Shouldn't be too hard.
 
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