Shoutbox

The suggestion goes first (I already suggested it in some spammy thread in T&T):

What about adding a [show T&T] and [hide T&T] button on the stats page e.g. in the (Today's) Top Posters section ?

Then we could see if the member was in a spammy mood today and helpful members who don't post much but useful posts could get a chance to be in the Top Poster's page instead of some semi-helpful spammers
And people who just want to up their postcount can reconsider their (spammy) behaviour when they see that most of their posts are spam. (e.g. John )


And now the question:

As some people mentioned, the registrations go up but it seems that posts get rarer. I myself think that, when I joined, there were a lot more posts (partly because of Sean ). Maybe WDZ could make some stats like the total monthly postcount for the last half year.
Now, this isn't so serious even IF the total postcount got lesser, the forums won't die

Neways, hope you all are having a happy pre-christmas time (btw, it's snowy in Berlin )

Edit: Just spotted a typo in the title took me 18 hours to notice...

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Originally posted by AndreY
What about adding a [show T&T] and [hide T&T] button on the stats page e.g. in the (Today's) Top Posters section ?

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I think it would be possible, but I'm feeling too lazy to add it right now.

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Originally posted by AndreY
As some people mentioned, the registrations go up but it seems that posts get rarer.

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Keep in mind that thousands of old posts get pruned every month. That's necessary to keep the database small and fast.

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Originally posted by WDZ
I think it would be possible, but I'm feeling too lazy to add it right now.

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pffff lazy WDZ

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Originally posted by WDZ
Keep in mind that thousands of old posts get pruned every month. That's necessary to keep the database small and fast.

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Sorry, I actually meant that it seems to me like there are less new posts made than some months ago. Maybe we could include a new stats page, showing the total number of new Posts per month and a bar chart like in the "Member registration" one ? (not regarding the pruning)

i agree.... ive been coming here regularly, and every time i come, there are less and less questions n posts.... :/

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Originally posted by kangie
i agree.... ive been coming here regularly, and every time i come, there are less and less questions n posts.... :/

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you're forgetting one thing... the old forums were full of spam. now, the forum evolves, the rules get enforced, thus, some posts are deleted.

old forums? what old forums im talking about over the last month or so

Here's today's top posters without T&T posts counted...

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/statistics.php?page=t...today=1&hidespam=1

TBH it doesn't differ much from the regular list.

I just placed a separate link on the stats index instead of doing a dynamic show/hide link to save myself some work.

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Originally posted by WDZ
I just placed a separate link on the stats index instead of doing a dynamic show/hide link to save myself some work.

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surely this would be like a few lines of code

* Eljay slaps lazy WDZZZzzzzzzzzzzz around a bit with a large trout.

EDIT: wrote it for you
<?
if($HTTP_GET_VARS['hidespam'] == 1) {
        echo "<a href='http://shoutbox.menthix.net/statistics.php?page=topposters&today=1'>Include T&T</a>";
}
else
{
echo "<a href='http://shoutbox.menthix.net/statistics.php?page=topposters&today=1&hidespam=1'>Hide T&T</a>";
}
?>

yea but dynamic hiding and un hiding would require way more code

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Originally posted by -dt-
yea but dynamic hiding and un hiding would require way more code

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but it already has the "hidespam=1" in the url, doesnt that hide it?