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Hey folks!
Here’s something fun to balance out the contentious forum planning discussions. Have you ever wondered what your posting history on the PA forums would look like in infographic form? Well, here’s a forumer review based on the summary of your posts and reactions, brought to you by @Infidel (who will comment shortly with more details)
Here's mine:
Here’s something fun to balance out the contentious forum planning discussions. Have you ever wondered what your posting history on the PA forums would look like in infographic form? Well, here’s a forumer review based on the summary of your posts and reactions, brought to you by @Infidel (who will comment shortly with more details)
Here's mine:
Hell, New Jersey, it said on the letter. Delivered without comment. So be it!
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I had the idea when the forum end was announced and people were asking me about our forum history and posts and many discussions where we were reminiscing. I built this just high-level year by year view and an overall subforum/reaction perspective because we found it very interesting and bringing some good memories up. Lots of "you can see when I was playing a lot of WoW" or "that's when I took a new job" and such.
How do I get mine?
Send a PM to @SYSOP with a message containing !summary
You should expect a reply within a minute or so. Let me know if anything goes wonky.
Please be patient as multiple requests will eat up space in the queue. If you typo and don't get anything after several minutes then send a new PM, make sure it has the exclamation point like this: !summary
Where's the data from?
This is based on forums and posts and reactions viewable by all users, so non-accessible forums like previous holiday forums were not available for the dataset nor are many posts before 2007 as the migration of posts seems sparse. Many olds have a partial looking 2006 and then 2007+ is pretty complete.
For the reactions I am just looking at reactions of all types and counted by user. Your top five in and out.
Thank you to @Phyphor for providing his raw data.
Can we share this?
Please do! You can save the image or copy the link, it's cached so I don't mind. If you link then if I run into any fixes that need to be made then you'll get updated as well.
I expect others that want to share this publicly may do so right in this thread! Feel free to discuss them and ask any questions, this is meant to bring the community together to remember old times and new alike.
What about the global stats?
See this post where I share some graphs about the whole of the forums.
I've got questions!
That's not a question but I got answers!
It's more of a cron job than a robot, but the answer is probably that I'm Canadian.
If you don't get a reply in a couple minutes, just try again with a new PM a bit later.
For the record, being polite and messaging !summary please doesn't work
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I assume a significant portion of those 2007-2011 G&T posts is from the TF2 threads, but I'm not going to put any effort into checking.
If it starts spamming you again I apologize in advance, but you should be able to wait on it without having to try again with more messages now.
Truly a creature of the bog
who likes to doodle
I do like to just go on walkabout for a couple years at a time.
I joined to play Phalla.
all the other stuff came.... later
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The bad news is that it is catching up at a rate of two PMs per minute, which is slower than you guys are sending in.
But it will get to older PMs before checking again now and it will eventually get you so please be patient, further PMs will just eat up someone elses spot in the queue.
Thanks and gl hf!
As I've said, the first couple of years I pretty much lived in the Steam thread.
<When you realize the Y axis is not consistent across everyone’s charts and one user’s crazy year is just a light year for yourself>
Hah hah, yes friend, what a weirdo you were that year…
[looks at the color scheme]
Congrats Peewi you are the most Eva Unit-01 forumer
I'm infinitely curious who @Elvenshae gave the most reactions to. Or if that's just going to be the top 5 forumers who made the most posts.
I did some social network graph analysis as well, but that's harder to share (and harder to interpret, and more likely to cause awkward feelings) so I stuck to the infographic for self-serve.
But here's a snap of the dataset of just people who have had strong reaction connections (100 or more to someone or from someone), as I had to be pretty strict on culling the data just to make the graph manageable and worth visualizing.
@Elvenshae has an out-degree of 1053, which means they gave out 100+ reactions to that many individuals over the years. And why they are the biggest dot on the graph.
Second place is over 300 shy of that.
That’s a lot of posts
Is it Fencingsax?
This is why I've been having fun with this, because yeah you get some new insights but also it confirms some fairly obvious things.
I am also a "what was going on in 2011" poster