just neat to know

[Turtlesandwich]

If anyone want to give me more data i don't mind crunching the stuff.
I used to do risk assessment in Morgan Stanley for 10 years before i had a career change. Still get a strange joy of pulling something meaningful out of a load of numbers.

[Golden Ace]

thought it was to easy.
Try Google photos

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4drMAGJ08dE9EK9N2

That works I can see it.

[Golden Ace]

Turtlesandwich you got me to thinking. (I do numbers for a living)

I went ahead and extrapolated Eulb's numbers to show how many people were added each day. I averaged the missing days based on the next day's number, and I went back and counted the missing days for all of December so I would have a full month.



February has a couple of big days but that was when we were having issues with people joining because of the captcha if you average the first 7 days it falls within the average for the month.

based on the above numbers I put this together.



Turtle, I would not have even began to think of doing this without your input. You get full credit for this. it was a wonderful Idea. and I apologize if I stepped on your toes, and thank you again for the idea.

now if someone could post the dates of press or video releases we might be able to see a trend or something

[Turtlesandwich]

What i want to know is how you got the graphs in the post as pictures? That's what foxed me.

Getting meaning out of a load of numbers is fun, making sense out of chaos.

[Golden Ace]

Getting meaning out of a load of numbers is fun, making sense out of chaos.

I concur. I had a blast playing with the numbers.


I threw them over to paint, gave them the nice blue border for easier viewing and saved them to my desktop as a picture.

then I uploaded them to my imgbb account and posted the pictures here.


imgbb is a free web host for pictures. you can even post stuff without making an account.

[Turtlesandwich]

GladDog
Do you have any info regarding spam? numbers of deletions per day etc
This could be added into the mix with release dates

[Turtlesandwich]

then I uploaded them to my imgbb account and posted the pictures here.


imgbb is a free web host for pictures. you can even post stuff without making an account.

So you got a link, and then used insert image rather than insert url?

[Golden Ace]

GladDog
Do you have any info regarding spam? numbers of deletions per day etc
This could be added into the mix with release dates

I concur. when I was counting the December accounts I noticed the missing - deleted accounts. every account has a number that is given in sequential order. the missing numbers I have to surmise were spammers that GladDog bit.

*** EDIT *** I must have been looking at the numbers cross eyed. it appears as if the account stays even if banned

So you got a link, and then used insert image?

Yes

[GladDog]

I don't have any precise data, but before they put in Captcha I was deleting between 8 and 20 accounts a DAY. Now the average is about 5 accounts a week. I was ridding the site of most of them, but I was not the only one swinging a ban-hammer...

***EDIT*** for example, on Feb 8 I banned 12 spammers. Between Feb 19 and today, we have banned a total of 11 spammers. Captcha has made a HUGE difference. Whatever the problems, it has certainly helped control the bad guys. An exception was early this morning. A guy put in about 12 posts about cosmetics overnight. He was probably posting one every 5 minutes until the never-sleeping CEO of HGC put him in his place.

[Eulb]

woooh what have you guys done ...

looks like you took my "neet to know" to a different lvl that i could not have even imagined TY and kept up the good work

WOW

[lunawisp]

Google doesn't make linking to photo's easy either. Just grab a free imgur account and use that.

[Turtlesandwich]

Ok here goes

[Turtlesandwich]

As i mentioned we need more data to start to see trends, events etc.

[Turtlesandwich]

I seem to accessing long dormant parts of my brain, its all starting to come back now.

[Golden Ace]

Now that’s a beautiful chart