Totally revised version (original quoted at the end of this post)!This makes adding new data less work
Theymos announced the "Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements" in post
45810047. This was on Sep 17 06:27 (Dutch time).
Post
44746501 was made 3 weeks (plus 60 minutes) earlier. In 3 weeks (+60 minutes) before the announcement, 1063546 posts were made. On average, in 3 weeks before the announcement, the forum saw
353813 new posts per week. This is the number I'll use to compare results with.
Post
46096455 was made 1 week later.
Post
46376958 was made 2 weeks later.
Post
46636652 was made 3 weeks later.
Post
46900337 was made 4 weeks later.
Post
47140676 was made 5 weeks later.
Post
47380721 was made 6 weeks later.
Post
47600410 was made 7 weeks later.
Post
47818184 was made 8 weeks later.
Post
48033319 was made 9 weeks later.
Post
48232805 was made 10 weeks later.
Post
48410472 was made 11 weeks later.
Post
48569803 was made 12 weeks later.
Post
48714784 was made 13 weeks later.
Post
48854475 was made 14 weeks later.
Post
48978781 was made 15 weeks later.
That means:
- In the first week after the announcement, 286408 posts were made (-19.05%).
- In the second week after the announcement, 280503 posts were made (-20.72%).
- In the third week after the announcement, 259694 posts were made (-26.60%).
- In the fourth week after the announcement, 263685 posts were made (-25.47%).
- In the fifth week after the announcement, 240339 posts were made (-32.07%).
- In the sixth week after the announcement, 240045 posts were made (-32.15%).
- In the seventh week after the announcement, 219689 posts were made (-37.91%).
- In the eighth week after the announcement, 217774 posts were made (-38.45%).
- In the nineth week after the announcement, 215135 posts were made (-39.20%).
- In the tenth week after the announcement, 199486 posts were made (-43.62%).
- In the eleventh week after the announcement, 177677 posts were made (-49.78%).
- In the twelfth week after the announcement, 159331 posts were made (-54.97%).
- In the thirteenth week after the announcement, 144981 posts were made (-59.02%).
- In the fourteenth week after the announcement, 139691 posts were made (-60,52%).
- In the fifteenth week after the announcement, 124306 posts were made (-64,87%).
My old OP:I was curious:
Theymos announced the "Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements" in post
45810047. This was on Sep 17 06:27 (Dutch time).
Post
45752895 was made 24 hours earlier, and post
45853867 was made 24 hours later.
Post
45705944 was made 48 hours earlier, post
45894771 was made 48 hours later.
Post
45469471 was made 1 week (plus 7 minutes) earlier, post
46096594 was made 1 week (plus 7 minutes) later.
Post
45113538 was made 2 weeks (plus 19 minutes) earlier, post
46377227 was made 2 weeks (plus 19 minutes) later.
Post
44746501 was made 3 weeks (plus 60 minutes) earlier, post
46637557 was made 3 weeks (plus 60 minutes) later.
That means:
- In 24 hours before the announcement, 57152 posts were made.
- In 24 hours after the announcement, 43820 posts were made.
- In 48 hours before the announcement, 104103 posts were made.
- In 48 hours after the announcement, 84724 posts were made.
- In 1 week (+7 minutes) before the announcement, 340576 posts were made.
- In 1 week (+7 minutes) after the announcement, 286547 posts were made.
- In 2 weeks (+19 minutes) before the announcement, 696509 posts were made.
- In 2 weeks (+19 minutes) after the announcement, 567180 posts were made.
- In 3 weeks (+60 minutes) before the announcement, 1063546 posts were made.
- In 3 weeks (+60 minutes) after the announcement, 827510 posts were made.
In 24 hours, that's 23.3% less posts.
In 48 hours, that's 18.6% less posts.
In 1 week, that's 15.9% less posts.
In 2 weeks, that's 18.6% less posts.
In 3 weeks, that's 22.2% less posts.
When I click
Show unread posts since last visit., I can now see
some actual real threads again! There is still ANN and BOUNTY pollution, but in between are real topics (I have no boards on ignore on this account).
Update: theymos
posted data on the number of posts per day in the past 30 days.
Update: My list of new Merit receivers (including both abusers as well as innocent users):
List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again.