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cda
Jan 2, 2010

by Hand Knit

FactsAreUseless posted:

"permabanned insane"

Prodigy - Firestarter

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Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

BurgerQuest posted:

here's the raw prawn on that table. seems to match up when i check NVJ's 5 page long rap sheet.



tfw not even top 10

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

ArfJason posted:



for comparisons sake i once spent an afternoon spamming gbs with news threads and have only 125

Thank you. I also remember just putting in numbers for the gas reasons in order to try to count how many were posted each day.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
Finally, SA is Big Data

Top Hats Monthly
Jun 22, 2011


People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully blink blink recall STOP IT YOU POSH LITTLE SHIT
Is there a way to access what subforums? I have to imagine with IKs and stuff that C-Spam would be far and away the most common, probably followed by D&D or another forum prone to debating.

mycophobia
May 7, 2008

pog boyfriend posted:

in it voted 5

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

BurgerQuest posted:

a very good request


BurgerQuest posted:

here is another version in 3000x2000 for printing and framing



thanks FactsAreUseless for these kind words

this is art

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

cda posted:

Prodigy - Firestarter

Nurge
Feb 4, 2009

by Reene
Fun Shoe

BurgerQuest posted:

erm I think I did this sort of right. I took the top 20 users by probe count first, then turned it into hours. assumed '1 month' probes are 30 days so yeah. could be tweaked.



I'm super mad about this graph because I have way more than 3 months of probes. Your methodology is flawed and sharkface is a loser.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

FreshCutFries posted:

Ages ago, there was a thread talking about what browsers goons use or something, and radium came into the thread with stats, noting that there was one special user browsing the forums from a web tv, in like, 2008-ish, and he banned them for it.

lol that's insane!






-message sent from Citibank ATM

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Top Hats Monthly posted:

Is there a way to access what subforums? I have to imagine with IKs and stuff that C-Spam would be far and away the most common, probably followed by D&D or another forum prone to debating.

Not really, I'm limited to what I can squeeze out of the Lepers Colony pages. I'll have a look around to see if there much else that would yield some amusing stats.

Glad y'all enjoying it, it's been good scratching my frequent itch to do stupid things in excel.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]

BurgerQuest posted:

Not really, I'm limited to what I can squeeze out of the Lepers Colony pages. I'll have a look around to see if there much else that would yield some amusing stats.

Glad y'all enjoying it, it's been good scratching my frequent itch to do stupid things in excel.

How are you scraping this data?

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I did a one time scrape via a chrome plugin that made a csv of the table data which I then cleaned up. It took about 2 hours to scrape.

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal

FreshCutFries posted:

Ages ago, there was a thread talking about what browsers goons use or something, and radium came into the thread with stats, noting that there was one special user browsing the forums from a web tv, in like, 2008-ish, and he banned them for it.

quote:

Radium:
I’ve been running stats on the forum cluster for about a week now. Here’s some neat facts that stood out.
On average, we serve over 2.5 million PHP pages per day, which is about 29 PHP pages per second.
The forums serve out well over 200GB of just HTML every day. This makes me want to cry.
The forums are busiest between 8PM-12AM CST. 5AM is the lowest traffic time.
Over 60% of forum requests are served to a Firefox browser. IE gets 29%, Opera 3.5%, Safari 3.5%, Mozilla 1.5%, with the rest going to total crap like Netscape and Konqueror.
The most addicted person on the forums views over 10,000 PHP pages per day. I won’t tell you who this is, don’t ask. If this is you, god drat, get a job.
The most cocked up piece of poo poo search engine spider is Inktomi Slurp, which decided it needed to make over 40,000 requests one day. I changed robots.txt to stop that.
Over 75% of forum sessions last more than 15 minutes.
About 91% of visitors are on Windows. Mac users make up 5% and Linux is 2%. The other 2% are permabanned IRC trolls browsing the forums with a text-based browser written in Ruby on OpenBSD. Oh yeah, we have one guy using WebTV but I banned him because WTF.
The top search phrases that lead to the forums so far this month are:
gloryhole
gay porn
big bang
goonwap
bangbrothers
saclopedia
dead jews
salastread
mario level
learn how to be anorexic
And, yes, those are all real.
I found this, from early 2005 :v:

Also I found this the other day when somebody was asking how to find old Lowtax threads.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1640854
Sorry, Lowtax.

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Nurge posted:

I'm super mad about this graph because I have way more than 3 months of probes. Your methodology is flawed and sharkface is a loser.

Sorry Nurge you're totally right, you have 3510 hours / 146.24 days / 4.875 months on probation. I hope we can make peace after this.

One of the problems alluded to before is all the work required to generate many many more columns of useful data, like one that turns the probe reasons into raw hours of probation time. I haven't scripted this yet so it's all manual in excel and filtering by top x users on what's easily available.

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
i'm enjoying the hell out of Awful Analytics

Docahedron
May 11, 2008

Im a special snowflake
Thank you for a readable thread in qcs, BurgerQuest.

To that end, is it possible that we could get stats of bans and probes approved compared to how long each mod/admin served?

Unfortunately I don't know how you can get a concrete start and end date for each. Maybe just admins?

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Yeah that's on my list, I figured first and last probe/ban would be good enough to define their term of service.

I was going to do some tables with a metric like SPD (shits per day) to rank mods by activity for various time periods.

fauna
Dec 6, 2018


Caught between two worlds...
we all belong in a zoo

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
I feel like my vulnerable underbelly has been exposed!

No, really good thread and effort op.

A given mods probes bans over time might be interesting. Like slow start, peak, then drop off Id guess.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Also, lol at omitting my mod twin buddy Grindcore as statistically insignificant.

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Or peak at the end in their inevitable syphilitic death spiral as they become more and more unhinged by the community backslash due to their increasing totalitarian ways.

Or maybe not, I'm just a numbers guy.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Inktomi Slurp ftw

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

BurgerQuest posted:

Or peak at the end in their inevitable syphilitic death spiral as they become more and more unhinged by the community backslash due to their increasing totalitarian ways.

Or maybe not, I'm just a numbers guy.

Do me, I’ll be a control.

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Will be in about 10 hours. Have money generating work to do today.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

BurgerQuest posted:

Will be in about 10 hours. Have money generating work to do today.

Take your time dude no rush. Feel,free,to ignore requests as well. It’s your thread.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

BurgerQuest posted:



A shift from 24 hour to 6 hour bans is pretty obvious around 2013/14. Also notable is the massive increase in probes handed out overall starting around the same time.

Also to note there is not much 04 data and 19 isn't finished yet, hence the pinching at each end.

wow thats fuckin crazy. i think the proliferation of IKs did a lot of this too

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

BurgerQuest posted:

erm I think I did this sort of right. I took the top 20 users by probe count first, then turned it into hours. assumed '1 month' probes are 30 days so yeah. could be tweaked.



rip tori

Spins
Feb 26, 2016

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Smythe posted:

wow thats fuckin crazy. i think the proliferation of IKs did a lot of this too

Very interesting
Hmmmmm

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
Go back to whatever insane retard offsite you post in instead of ruining the funny excel thread

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
whats an IK

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
Idiot king. Temporary mods without access to the mod forum.

Saladin Rising
Nov 12, 2016

When there is no real hope we must
mint our own. If the coin be
counterfeit it may still be passed.

I just realized, 12 hour probations have become the 2 Dollar Bill of the forums. Yeah technically they exist, but in practice it's more practical to use either a sixer (especially since IKs can only give sixers) or just go with a whole day.

I didn't expect this thread to be as interesting and insightful as it has been, kudos to you OP.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Smythe posted:

wow thats fuckin crazy. i think the proliferation of IKs did a lot of this too

That and joke 6’ers becoming normal

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Saladin Rising posted:

I just realized, 12 hour probations have become the 2 Dollar Bill of the forums. Yeah technically they exist, but in practice it's more practical to use either a sixer (especially since IKs can only give sixers) or just go with a whole day.

I didn't expect this thread to be as interesting and insightful as it has been, kudos to you OP.

Yea nobody gives out the noble twelver.

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
Iks can give any punishment including permas but like every mod require admin approval. I think the only difference is we cant see the mod forum )very confidential; Big secrets!!)

Goons Are Gifts
Jan 1, 1970

It's pretty much full of threads that make fun of IKs and how we can't see the mod forum, as far as I heard. :smith:

BurgerQuest
Mar 17, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Is there a list of current and/or former IKs I could add as another data point?

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
Your username cloud had them (otherwise it wouldnt have been as large/included me) but itd be hard to classify them since theres been so many and there is no distinction in the lepers colony for it. Theres also the thing that many forums have them so its an even bigger clusterfuck, and i suspect the forums that crashed when changing the copyright date dont have something keeping track of them internally, nor any kind of archival of usergroup changes

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FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

ArfJason posted:

Iks can give any punishment including permas but like every mod require admin approval. I think the only difference is we cant see the mod forum )very confidential; Big secrets!!)
Originally the idea was that admins wouldn't approve any IK probations over a 6 but that turned out to be inconvenient and not that helpful.

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