Post #289753 by ikitnrev on Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:32 AM

My analysis did not take much work. All I had to do was go to the member list, click on each user name, see if the # of messages posted per day was over .14 (approx. one day a week) If it was over .14, I clicked on 'view posts by users' to see if their most recent post happened 3 months ago.

For each username, it thus took me 4 mouse clicks to get this data - and two of those clicks were to backtrack to the original member list. The majority of the users I didn't even have to check, as they had a low number of posts. It really didn't take much time at all to do this - I spend more time and energy composing my various messages than on the work I did.

The saddest part was clicking on a user name, someone whose posts you enjoyed reading, and realizing that they hadn't posted anything in a year or two. This was balanced by the later emergence of some active participant. That is how life goes, some friends disappear, new friends are made, and the cycle goes on and on and on.

Vern

[ Edited by: ikitnrev 2007-03-05 07:33 ]