DU stats?

[newtothegame]

Can any Admins provide some stats on DU? Is there a way to bring this post to their attention? I'm writing a short essay on our community here and I'm lacking some vital statistics. Mainly, how many active users there are? I see that at this moment, there have been 152,744 registrations; I'd be interested in knowing the average # of posters a day, how many of those registered posters have posted in the last 12 months, 60 months, etc. Is this information available?

Thanks in advance :)

[dionysus]

1. PM a mods or admins, otherwise they probably won't see this post...

[SteppingRazor]

2. Or e-mail them:

[e-mail]

[CreekDog]

3. 9 posters per day, 152,735 sockpuppets

:sarcasm:

:rofl:

oops. :hide:

[Patsy Stone]

4. 9?

What makes you think there are even 9? :)

[CreekDog]

5. It was John Lennon's lucky number?

:shrug:

[Patsy Stone]

14. Good enough!

Love your avatar.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. "Love your avatar"? Looks like proof you and Creek Dog must be the same person

Of the 9, none of us would ever praise anyone else, obviously. :evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

26. Are you ever going to dust the TV?

I'll get right on it, thanks. :evilgrin:

[CreekDog]

29. I love my Patsy Stone avatar

I should use that on my main account. :sarcasm:

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

6. I keep losing sockpuppets and I can only manage three PC's at a time. nt

[Patsy Stone]

12. Did you

check the washing machine? That's where I lose mine. :hi:

[blondeatlast]

15. I never find them there, either, but my kitteh keeps disappearing... nt

[dionysus]

8. you know what i'd like to see? pretty sure the people who use sockpuppets use them to agree with

themselves...

i'd like to see someone argue with their own sockpuppet. that'd be fun to watch.

[CreekDog]

16. I agree with me

:evilgrin:

[Dead_Parrot]

17. I've nailed it again! nt

[Junkdrawer]

22. And they say there's no jobs for recent college grads...

Pish...

[Quantess]

7. Do banned members count?

Because there are A LOT of those.

[blondeatlast]

9. I think today alone could severely weigh those stats.

:rofl:

[dionysus]

10. pretty sure the registration number is everyone who ever signed up for DU, TS'ed included.

[Phentex]

11. That's an interesting question...

does the number get lower when people are banned?

[HopeHoops]

13. If a DUer posts in a chatroom and nobody is there to read it....

...

[Caliman73]

20. eventually the DUer will begin to rebut their own posts...

start a flamewar, call them self a racist, or corporatist, and then be banned from said chatroom :hi:

[Bucky]

27. ... then it's the Wyoming state forum

[cbayer]

18. There are some sites that may give you some of the information you want:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/democraticunderground.com?p=tgraph&r=home_home

is a good one. If you google for website stats, you will find many more.

[newtothegame]

24. Thanks cbayer!! n/t

[tekisui]

19. There is a very helpful site that tracks the stats of websites, including

DU. I will try to find it. It shows which poster have posted the most, who has gotten the mot response, etc.

While it is not exactly what you've looking for, it could be useful.

One thing I have long been curious about is the 'regular user' number. Although 152k+ have registered, I wonder how many have since been banned, or no longer post. The most unique responses as measured through a one-time only vote poll suggested the number of 'regular DUers' was over 1,000. That doesn't include lurkers and people who stop in for a bit and don't post or vote in a poll for months or more at a time.

[newtothegame]

23. Thanks Tekisui!! n/t

[damntexdem]

25. And can they provide the stats STAT?

Or will we have to wait a bit for the data bits?

;-)

[HarveyDarkey]

28. How many of those 152,000 + registrations are tombstoned members?

are those deleted, or do they remain and inflate the numbers?