Context/statistics for Pie and Meta Watchers Anonymous
(Following up from February's stats)
It was a crazy month. There were 108 meta diaries, the highest number in the last 15 months (runner-ups were January 2013 and August 2013, both with major guideline revisions).
It snuck in on the trailing end of a Debate Challenge and the beginning of the current Crimean troubles.
On March 3, at 2:26 am CST we hit UID 1,000,000. On the runup to that, an enterprising user (999964) took the name Millionth. Now BOJO.
A week went by. Nothing much happened, except Brainwrap got more famous. Then, on 3/10, things went seriously meta.
One epic rant, which stayed "live" through at least 3/19. twelve followups the same day, two more on 3/11, thirteen more on 3/12, one more on 3/13 (ah, tailing off finally...) and then this. And this. And eight followups on 3/15.
Around 3/25 President Obama announced his intention to scale back NSA data collection slightly. There was a minor attack of Snowdenitis.
Follow me below the orange thingie for March's stats.
For the period of 3/1/14 through 3/31/14
Quantcast unique users:5,779,213 (2/28-3/29)
Number of signups: 8,121
An odd note: 46% of the first 2350 signups (I got tired of counting) were by usernames of the form "name/4digits/3letters/1 or 2 digits". None of these users have posted anything, all are still live accounts, and the signups continued through all of March, so figure approximately 3,700 signups of this type. What dastardly plan are they the harbingers of?
386 of these new users are already bojo (hand count - I may have missed a few) Primarily from initial spambot (pre-comment) action or 2 or more live HRs on the first comment.
Diaries (does not count FP diaries lacking Tip Jars, renamed Tip Jars, and spam deletes)
Diaries by tip jar count: 4,471
Avg diaries per day: 144; 1 diary every 10 minutes
Diarists: 1,501
Diaries with one or more HRs in the Tip Jar: 56 3.7%
Diaries with 5 or more HRs in the Tip Jar: 15
Diaries with 5 or more of both Tips and HRs: 3
Users who published diaries during that period and are now bojo: 104
Comments (includes tip jars, spam, etc., but not necessarily tip jars from deleted diaries) 260,802
Commenters: 9,058
Number of those those commenters now bojo:189
Comments with HRs: 538 .21%
1 HR: 176 .067%
2-4 HRs: 225.086%
5 or more HRs: 137 .053%
5 or more of both HRs and Recs: 18 .0069%
Very roughly, half of all commenters had TU status, which gives an upper HR limit for the month of approximately 700,000 HRs, or enough to hide every comment made and have a few left over. Consider that 99.8% of all comments, and 96.3% of all diaries made it through the process unscathed. Community moderation is doing something right.