But then surely which members contribute the most posts has fluctuated throughout the years? As soon as I saw this... It had a spike as soon as @Julio C Castro joined Along with giraffe and rhinoceros, I'd also like to see how often platypuses were mentioned (looking at SDZSP for this one) and perhaps penguins?
Haha I’m glad I had a bit of a boost at my local zoo here in LA but I guess I’ll have to bump it up more I’m just glad to be part of the team
Yes, the measure I'm using is simply based on the number of posts they had made as of the 16th anniversary date. If I wanted to get a lot more sophisticated, I could do it as a running total based on the contribution-to-date on a daily basis - but that's an awful lot of calculation to do given we've been running for over 5,800 days!
48a. User status Valid: account is fully active and the user can post (this number is shown as the "total users" count you see in the sidebar) Invalid: account is suspended because the user either has not confirmed their email address; emails sent to them have bounced back as undeliverable; the user requested that their account be disabled; or they changed their email address but never verified it Banned: account has been disabled because the user was either banned for spamming, or banned for rule violations. Note the percentage doesn't show on the pie chart - it is 1.9% of total user registrations. Removed: accounts have been purged from the database because they were either invalid or banned and never posted. Purges happen only periodically, so over time more of the invalid and banned (because of spam) users will be removed. Our removed figure is currently quite high because of a cleanup / purge I did prior to the migration to the new software back in 2016. Those were old users who had either never activated their account, or were banned - and had never posted. I think I may have also deleted a few old accounts who had never posted and hadn't been online in more than a couple of years too - as a way of freeing up some usernames. The new system gives us a lot more flexibility in managing disabled/deactivated accounts, so I'm unlikely to perform a similar purge again. If we break down the valid users and compare users who have posted vs those who haven't, we get the following: 48b. Valid users Active: valid and has posted Never posted: can post, but hasn't The "Never posted" figure would be a lot higher if it weren't for all the "removed" users (users are only removed if they have never posted). Note that a lot of the "removed" users would not count as "Never posted" because a lot of them were not able to post because their account was not activated or had otherwise been disabled for various reasons. We can also break down the invalid users: 48c. Invalid users Email bounced: we received notification from our email service provider that mail was permanently undeliverable to this user (ie was never a valid email address; email address is no longer valid; user has blocked us; user made a spam complaint against us; our email service provider blocks us from sending to that address) Incomplete Registration: user never confirmed their email address after registering Account Disabled: user voluntarily requested us to disable their account Never logged in: user has never logged in again since registering and never completed registration Email Changed: user changed their email address but did not confirm the new address
49. Age distribution of members Median age of members: 33 Members with a date of birth entered in their user profile: 970
50. Email domains of registered users Stripped out the top level domain (TLD) so that yahoo.com and yahoo.com.au results (and all the other TLDs they use) are combined. Of course, this does not account for gmail vs googlemail and yahoo vs y7mail etc. Nearly 33% of our members use Gmail.
51. User profile locations Location users have entered into their user profile. Note that there is no grouping beyond alternatives names for the same location (eg "New York", "NY", "NYC", etc) - so Sydney AU is separate to both NSW AU and Australia.
52. Users with the most posts Info The top 50 posters made 237,761 posts This is 42.3% of the total 561,435 posts made since launch 50 posters represent 1.0% of the 5,216 users who have ever posted So the top 1.0% of posters have made 42.3% of all posts (22,324 posts) - @Chlidonias (17,760 posts) - @Pertinax (13,327 posts) - @vogelcommando (10,753 posts) - @TeaLovingDave (8,190 posts) - @Kifaru Bwana (7,918 posts) - @ThylacineAlive (7,006 posts) - @Arizona Docent (6,249 posts) - @zoogiraffe (6,221 posts) - @kiang (6,159 posts) - @Nisha (6,159 posts) - @snowleopard (5,893 posts) - @bongorob (5,471 posts) - @TZFan (4,810 posts) - @Simon Hampel (4,798 posts) - @zooboy28 (4,710 posts) - @nanoboy (4,588 posts) - @Zoofan15 (4,380 posts) - @Hix (4,378 posts) - @Maguari (4,345 posts) - @DavidBrown (4,226 posts) - @gentle lemur (4,003 posts) - @lintworm (3,920 posts) - @birdsandbats (3,746 posts) - @BeardsleyZooFan (3,688 posts) - @FunkyGibbon (3,486 posts) - @taun (3,382 posts) - @jbnbsn99 (3,206 posts) - @Zooplantman (2,904 posts) - @pipaluk (2,811 posts) - @Brum (2,783 posts) - @Moebelle (2,747 posts) - @Jabiru96 (2,685 posts) - @Milwaukee Man (2,595 posts) - @jayjds2 (2,516 posts) - @LaughingDove (2,496 posts) - @dragon(ele)nerd (2,449 posts) - @patrick (2,402 posts) - @Writhedhornbill (2,374 posts) - @CGSwans (2,370 posts) - @Ituri (2,271 posts) - @CZJimmy (2,242 posts) - @mstickmanp (2,239 posts) - @Gigit (2,137 posts) - @TheGerenuk (2,132 posts) - @Cat-Man (2,124 posts) - @Javan Rhino (2,124 posts) - @James27 (2,100 posts) - @ZooBinh (2,092 posts) - @OrangePerson (2,072 posts) - @FBBird
I think there might be an error somewhere, as there are some massive discrepancies between some of those figures and the totals visible on the "Members" page; just in terms of the top ten, that page has the "top posts" as follows:
...and my computer tells me I have 23,181 posts, which is different from both Sim's and TLD's figures! (And that's my total on the same Members page which TLD got his figure from too ... ).
There seems to be some curious anomalies in the data - I'm wondering whether it is a holdover from when we migrated to the new software back in Oct 2016. It's mostly only @snowleopard whose data seems to be significantly different to what's actually in the database. It's possible that somehow the data calculation made when we migrated from the old gallery software to the new gallery software was wrong. I actually only just realised that the cache rebuilding tools don't adjust post counts like I thought it did - so if an old forum is deleted and there are threads in it, the user post counts aren't updated and will show incorrect information. Snowleopard's post count is being shown nearly 10,000 posts higher than it actually is - so I'm speculating that this is related to the large number of photos and photo comments he has uploaded in the past and perhaps the post count calculations were affected by this during the migration. Anyway - I have run an updated cache rebuild routine which recalculates posts based on what is actually in the database and tweaked a couple of other settings and now the figures we can see in the Notable Members page do accurately reflect what I'm seeing in the database. I will update the top posters stats above - there are some minor updates based on the tweaks I made to the way posts are counted. I'll also put on my todo list to include comment counts in user profiles - I think the current forum software treats comments as second class citizens where on a site like ours they should be just as important.
Don't forget that the stats above are as of 19 Oct 2019. Also, I've just tweaked the way some of the post counts are calculated - there were several forums which weren't previously counted but now are, so it's more reflective of what users have actually posted. So while most people's post counts shown in TLD's post above should be higher than what they are in my stats - because TLD's post shows current post counts, while mine shows as of Oct last year - now that I've made those tweaks, there are some members (mostly moderators) whose post count has actually increased quite a bit in both cases. Comparing what the Notable Members page says with what I'm seeing in the database, I'm now confident that the data is accurate.
53. Users with the most media comments (33,926 comments) - @snowleopard (16,108 comments) - @Maguari (16,096 comments) - @vogelcommando (10,460 comments) - @Hix (10,036 comments) - @Chlidonias (9,586 comments) - @geomorph (8,296 comments) - @ThylacineAlive (7,914 comments) - @Arizona Docent (7,495 comments) - @Baldur (7,006 comments) - @devilfish (6,116 comments) - @Ituri (6,088 comments) - @Pertinax (5,875 comments) - @gentle lemur (5,748 comments) - @LaughingDove (5,667 comments) - @Moebelle (3,861 comments) - @DavidBrown (3,802 comments) - @Toddy (3,397 comments) - @Animal (3,285 comments) - @BeardsleyZooFan (3,211 comments) - @mstickmanp (3,180 comments) - @Blackduiker (2,771 comments) - @TeaLovingDave (2,597 comments) - @Kakapo (2,477 comments) - @zoogiraffe (2,398 comments) - @gulogulogulo (2,389 comments) - @lintworm (2,369 comments) - @Pleistohorse (2,357 comments) - @ro6ca66 (2,252 comments) - @Terry Thomas (2,245 comments) - @Gigit (2,174 comments) - @Zooish (2,170 comments) - @Parrotsandrew (2,128 comments) - @KCZooFan (2,073 comments) - @PAT (2,036 comments) - @Mr.Weasel (1,878 comments) - @James27 (1,827 comments) - @Javan Rhino (1,821 comments) - @zooboy28 (1,797 comments) - @bongorob (1,782 comments) - @Hvedekorn (1,778 comments) - @Giant Eland (1,752 comments) - @Macaw16 (1,736 comments) - @jbnbsn99 (1,631 comments) - @TZFan (1,618 comments) - @FBBird (1,614 comments) - @Zambar (1,590 comments) - @Jabiru96 (1,497 comments) - @kiang (1,463 comments) - @carlos55 (1,426 comments) - @JigerofLemuria I should clarify something about this data. With the old gallery software, the modifications I made saw the photo description set as the first post in the photo "thread" so that people could then reply to it. When I migrated to the current gallery software, I copied that first post to the photo description field in the gallery, but also copied it to the first comment made - since this is how it previously worked. These comments also counted towards a user's overall post count - since they were literally posts that started the comment thread. As a result, any photos uploaded before Oct 2016 will have both a description and a comment made which are identical. What's more - users who uploaded those older photos will have seen their comment counts rise in line with the number of photos they uploaded. So @snowleopard has a very high comment count mostly because he has a very high photo count and every one of his descriptions on photos he uploaded before Oct 2016 (and pretty much every photo had a description), will also count as a comment. It's not ideal - but it's also not wrong - it was done this way to maintain consistency with the way the old gallery worked. But either way, it is different to the way it works now. A user uploading a photo to the gallery and adding a description will not automatically have a comment added. Anyway - that's why those users who were members on the old site and uploaded a lot of photos there will have a much higher comment count overall. It makes me twitch a bit that we don't have nice consistent data - but I'm not sure there's a better way of managing it at this point. I guess I could go back and delete all those first comments that exactly match the photo descriptions to make things more consistent? I will see how things work once we get the upgrade done later this year and look at tidying things up a bit then.
54. Users with the most posts + comments (40,085 posts + comments) - @snowleopard (32,360 posts + comments) - @Chlidonias (29,423 posts + comments) - @vogelcommando (23,848 posts + comments) - @Pertinax (20,486 posts + comments) - @Maguari (16,214 posts + comments) - @ThylacineAlive (14,920 posts + comments) - @Arizona Docent (14,840 posts + comments) - @Hix (13,524 posts + comments) - @TeaLovingDave (10,771 posts + comments) - @geomorph (10,101 posts + comments) - @gentle lemur (9,177 posts + comments) - @Kifaru Bwana (8,932 posts + comments) - @devilfish (8,726 posts + comments) - @zoogiraffe (8,486 posts + comments) - @Ituri (8,450 posts + comments) - @Moebelle (8,308 posts + comments) - @Baldur (8,264 posts + comments) - @LaughingDove (8,206 posts + comments) - @DavidBrown (7,718 posts + comments) - @kiang (7,690 posts + comments) - @bongorob (7,102 posts + comments) - @TZFan (7,031 posts + comments) - @BeardsleyZooFan (6,930 posts + comments) - @Nisha (6,619 posts + comments) - @zooboy28 (6,392 posts + comments) - @lintworm (5,453 posts + comments) - @mstickmanp (5,118 posts + comments) - @jbnbsn99 (5,096 posts + comments) - @Simon Hampel (4,932 posts + comments) - @nanoboy (4,895 posts + comments) - @birdsandbats (4,866 posts + comments) - @Blackduiker (4,849 posts + comments) - @FunkyGibbon (4,663 posts + comments) - @Toddy (4,610 posts + comments) - @Zoofan15 (4,554 posts + comments) - @taun (4,484 posts + comments) - @Gigit (4,337 posts + comments) - @Jabiru96 (4,333 posts + comments) - @Zooplantman (4,002 posts + comments) - @James27 (3,954 posts + comments) - @Kakapo (3,951 posts + comments) - @Javan Rhino (3,903 posts + comments) - @jayjds2 (3,815 posts + comments) - @Brum (3,690 posts + comments) - @FBBird (3,680 posts + comments) - @Animal (3,641 posts + comments) - @Writhedhornbill (3,625 posts + comments) - @PAT (3,528 posts + comments) - @Cat-Man (3,392 posts + comments) - @okapikpr Notes from the previous stat showing top comments also apply here.
55. Users with the most media uploads (29,902 uploads) - @snowleopard (28,389 uploads) - @vogelcommando (13,831 uploads) - @Maguari (12,382 uploads) - @geomorph (9,142 uploads) - @Hix (8,838 uploads) - @KevinB (8,117 uploads) - @Moebelle (7,229 uploads) - @zoogiraffe (6,403 uploads) - @LaughingDove (6,235 uploads) - @Baldur (6,063 uploads) - @devilfish (5,968 uploads) - @ThylacineAlive (5,201 uploads) - @Chlidonias (5,183 uploads) - @KCZooFan (5,067 uploads) - @Parrotsandrew (4,997 uploads) - @Blackduiker (4,928 uploads) - @gulogulogulo (4,873 uploads) - @nikola (4,236 uploads) - @jbnbsn99 (3,962 uploads) - @Ituri (3,942 uploads) - @Arizona Docent (3,571 uploads) - @Giant Eland (2,905 uploads) - @mhale (2,774 uploads) - @gentle lemur (2,731 uploads) - @Toddy (2,705 uploads) - @lintworm (2,594 uploads) - @ro6ca66 (2,574 uploads) - @MagpieGoose (2,475 uploads) - @BeardsleyZooFan (2,451 uploads) - @Fishapod (2,433 uploads) - @Kakapo (2,409 uploads) - @Milwaukee Man (2,234 uploads) - @FunkyGibbon (2,223 uploads) - @Pleistohorse (2,148 uploads) - @carlos55 (2,069 uploads) - @Hvedekorn (1,975 uploads) - @Mr.Weasel (1,969 uploads) - @blospz (1,944 uploads) - @Tomek (1,776 uploads) - @Javan Rhino (1,677 uploads) - @Animal (1,617 uploads) - @Gigit (1,581 uploads) - @Goura (1,580 uploads) - @ralph (1,561 uploads) - @jayjds2 (1,558 uploads) - @Zooish (1,544 uploads) - @Sarus Crane (1,443 uploads) - @fkalltheway (1,390 uploads) - @Macaw16 (1,388 uploads) - @WhistlingKite24
56. Users with the highest post rate Only includes users who have been members for at least a year. Forum posts only. (5.3 posts per day; 13,327 posts in 2,503 days) - @vogelcommando (5.2 posts per day; 3,920 posts in 761 days) - @birdsandbats (4.9 posts per day; 22,324 posts in 4,510 days) - @Chlidonias (3.8 posts per day; 17,760 posts in 4,700 days) - @Pertinax (3.1 posts per day; 10,753 posts in 3,442 days) - @TeaLovingDave (3.1 posts per day; 7,918 posts in 2,554 days) - @ThylacineAlive (2.8 posts per day; 2,137 posts in 770 days) - @TheGerenuk (2.7 posts per day; 4,588 posts in 1,686 days) - @Zoofan15 (2.7 posts per day; 2,100 posts in 776 days) - @ZooBinh (2.5 posts per day; 1,109 posts in 445 days) - @Jambo (2.4 posts per day; 877 posts in 371 days) - @SharkFinatic (2.2 posts per day; 1,002 posts in 448 days) - @OstrichMania (2.1 posts per day; 3,688 posts in 1,741 days) - @FunkyGibbon (2.1 posts per day; 5,471 posts in 2,663 days) - @TZFan (1.8 posts per day; 2,595 posts in 1,438 days) - @jayjds2 (1.8 posts per day; 7,006 posts in 3,902 days) - @Arizona Docent (1.6 posts per day; 987 posts in 601 days) - @Yi Qi (1.6 posts per day; 6,159 posts in 3,768 days) - @Nisha (1.6 posts per day; 8,190 posts in 5,014 days) - @Kifaru Bwana (1.5 posts per day; 1,764 posts in 1,152 days) - @pachyderm pro (1.5 posts per day; 4,710 posts in 3,153 days) - @nanoboy (1.4 posts per day; 1,624 posts in 1,122 days) - @Ebirah766 (1.4 posts per day; 4,798 posts in 3,366 days) - @zooboy28 (1.4 posts per day; 6,159 posts in 4,339 days) - @snowleopard (1.4 posts per day; 6,249 posts in 4,419 days) - @zoogiraffe (1.4 posts per day; 6,221 posts in 4,450 days) - @kiang (1.4 posts per day; 782 posts in 567 days) - @Great Argus (1.3 posts per day; 5,893 posts in 4,536 days) - @bongorob (1.3 posts per day; 2,516 posts in 1,981 days) - @LaughingDove (1.2 posts per day; 3,746 posts in 3,009 days) - @BeardsleyZooFan (1.1 posts per day; 4,380 posts in 4,015 days) - @Hix (1.1 posts per day; 4,345 posts in 4,084 days) - @DavidBrown (1.0 posts per day; 2,904 posts in 2,807 days) - @pipaluk (1.0 posts per day; 4,003 posts in 4,008 days) - @lintworm (1.0 posts per day; 472 posts in 473 days) - @WhistlingKite24 (1.0 posts per day; 4,378 posts in 4,389 days) - @Maguari (1.0 posts per day; 689 posts in 700 days) - @TZDugong (1.0 posts per day; 4,226 posts in 4,423 days) - @gentle lemur (0.9 posts per day; 2,811 posts in 3,066 days) - @Brum (0.9 posts per day; 2,783 posts in 3,047 days) - @Moebelle (0.9 posts per day; 433 posts in 476 days) - @CloudPardus (0.9 posts per day; 875 posts in 964 days) - @drill (0.9 posts per day; 1,538 posts in 1,698 days) - @Coelacanth18 (0.9 posts per day; 2,685 posts in 3,000 days) - @Milwaukee Man (0.9 posts per day; 381 posts in 428 days) - @John Marchwick (0.9 posts per day; 1,805 posts in 2,040 days) - @ShonenJake13 (0.9 posts per day; 3,382 posts in 3,909 days) - @jbnbsn99 (0.8 posts per day; 353 posts in 418 days) - @Neil chace (0.8 posts per day; 907 posts in 1,076 days) - @Charlie Simmomds (0.8 posts per day; 4,810 posts in 5,844 days) - @Simon Hampel
56. Users with the highest media upload rate Only includes users who have been members for at least a year. (11.3 uploads per day; 28,389 uploads in 2,503 days) - @vogelcommando (6.9 uploads per day; 29,902 uploads in 4,339 days) - @snowleopard (5.4 uploads per day; 8,838 uploads in 1,651 days) - @KevinB (3.3 uploads per day; 12,382 uploads in 3,795 days) - @geomorph (3.2 uploads per day; 6,403 uploads in 1,981 days) - @LaughingDove (3.2 uploads per day; 13,831 uploads in 4,389 days) - @Maguari (2.9 uploads per day; 1,388 uploads in 473 days) - @WhistlingKite24 (2.7 uploads per day; 8,117 uploads in 3,047 days) - @Moebelle (2.3 uploads per day; 5,968 uploads in 2,554 days) - @ThylacineAlive (2.3 uploads per day; 9,142 uploads in 4,015 days) - @Hix (2.0 uploads per day; 1,170 uploads in 592 days) - @Terry Thomas (1.7 uploads per day; 1,241 uploads in 720 days) - @Patrick87 (1.7 uploads per day; 1,544 uploads in 908 days) - @Sarus Crane (1.6 uploads per day; 7,229 uploads in 4,419 days) - @zoogiraffe (1.6 uploads per day; 5,067 uploads in 3,157 days) - @Parrotsandrew (1.6 uploads per day; 1,372 uploads in 872 days) - @Najade (1.5 uploads per day; 4,873 uploads in 3,148 days) - @nikola (1.5 uploads per day; 2,574 uploads in 1,664 days) - @MagpieGoose (1.5 uploads per day; 5,183 uploads in 3,357 days) - @KCZooFan (1.5 uploads per day; 6,063 uploads in 4,122 days) - @devilfish (1.5 uploads per day; 6,235 uploads in 4,272 days) - @Baldur (1.4 uploads per day; 2,451 uploads in 1,767 days) - @Fishapod (1.3 uploads per day; 4,928 uploads in 3,720 days) - @gulogulogulo (1.3 uploads per day; 2,594 uploads in 1,979 days) - @ro6ca66 (1.3 uploads per day; 4,997 uploads in 3,880 days) - @Blackduiker (1.3 uploads per day; 2,234 uploads in 1,741 days) - @FunkyGibbon (1.2 uploads per day; 676 uploads in 567 days) - @Great Argus (1.2 uploads per day; 5,201 uploads in 4,510 days) - @Chlidonias (1.1 uploads per day; 1,561 uploads in 1,438 days) - @jayjds2 (1.1 uploads per day; 4,236 uploads in 3,909 days) - @jbnbsn99 (1.0 uploads per day; 2,148 uploads in 2,098 days) - @carlos55 (1.0 uploads per day; 3,942 uploads in 3,902 days) - @Arizona Docent (1.0 uploads per day; 3,571 uploads in 3,543 days) - @Giant Eland (1.0 uploads per day; 467 uploads in 469 days) - @Elephantlover (1.0 uploads per day; 1,163 uploads in 1,188 days) - @TinoPup (0.9 uploads per day; 3,962 uploads in 4,335 days) - @Ituri (0.9 uploads per day; 2,223 uploads in 2,452 days) - @Pleistohorse (0.9 uploads per day; 1,021 uploads in 1,152 days) - @pachyderm pro (0.8 uploads per day; 2,475 uploads in 3,009 days) - @BeardsleyZooFan (0.8 uploads per day; 1,390 uploads in 1,693 days) - @Macaw16 (0.8 uploads per day; 2,409 uploads in 3,000 days) - @Milwaukee Man (0.8 uploads per day; 610 uploads in 761 days) - @birdsandbats (0.8 uploads per day; 1,038 uploads in 1,383 days) - @aardvark250 (0.7 uploads per day; 2,905 uploads in 3,941 days) - @mhale (0.7 uploads per day; 1,294 uploads in 1,856 days) - @Deer Forest (0.7 uploads per day; 354 uploads in 510 days) - @YuanChang (0.7 uploads per day; 2,705 uploads in 4,008 days) - @lintworm (0.7 uploads per day; 1,160 uploads in 1,740 days) - @savethelephant (0.7 uploads per day; 504 uploads in 757 days) - @Himimomi (0.6 uploads per day; 846 uploads in 1,303 days) - @ronnienl
58. Users who started the most threads (2,321 threads) - @vogelcommando (1,397 threads) - @Chlidonias (995 threads) - @DavidBrown (632 threads) - @kiang (617 threads) - @Simon Hampel (545 threads) - @snowleopard (524 threads) - @Arizona Docent (440 threads) - @Nisha (323 threads) - @FunkyGibbon (298 threads) - @bongorob (263 threads) - @lintworm (257 threads) - @zooboy28 (250 threads) - @Zooplantman (248 threads) - @birdsandbats (241 threads) - @Baldur (235 threads) - @TeaLovingDave (233 threads) - @Hix (221 threads) - @okapikpr (210 threads) - @CGSwans (198 threads) - @Blackduiker (190 threads) - @jay (183 threads) - @zooman (181 threads) - @Crowthorne (172 threads) - @Pertinax (166 threads) - @BeardsleyZooFan (165 threads) - @devilfish (156 threads) - @Writhedhornbill (151 threads) - @Shirokuma (149 threads) - @jbnbsn99 (148 threads) - @Moebelle (147 threads) - @zoogiraffe (145 threads) - @ThylacineAlive (140 threads) - @Cat-Man (135 threads) - @nanoboy (125 threads) - @savethelephant (124 threads) - @pachyderm pro (123 threads) - @gentle lemur (122 threads) - @TZFan (116 threads) - @Daktari JG (114 threads) - @KCZooFan (112 threads) - @Peter Dickinson (111 threads) - @Tim May (107 threads) - @geomorph (103 threads) - @jusko88 (103 threads) - @DesertRhino150 (102 threads) - @Loxodonta Cobra (102 threads) - @mstickmanp (102 threads) - @Kifaru Bwana (101 threads) - @Ituri (99 threads) - @Coquinguy
Interesting. I'm not sure why but I identify much more with London than the UK, which actually, on second thoughts, isn't too surprising given the relative uniqueness of the capital within its country and certain political differences. I wonder how many of the people who said UK live in London and similarly for other countries vs. their capitals/biggest cities. If I haven't calculated wrongly I think I will be on an average of 5.6 a day when I pass a year in 4 days