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rainbowsrus
at Sat Apr 14 00:13:28 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rainbowsrus ]
Ok, as I look over the other "popular" forums, I see some with the same limitations as this one (3 pages) and similar posting levels. BUT, I also see some "stacked decks" (your words  ) in there as well. Examples listed are typically not including the last Page as that would roll off at next archival:
Box Turtles 4 pages going back to Dec 2006
Chameleons 6 pages going back to Oct 2006
Mexicana milksnakes going 4 pages back to Jan 2007
Venemous 4 pages going back to Jan 2007
and IMO the "unfairest" example of all:
BP business trends, only three pages but goes all the way back to Nov 2005. Yes, the "5th most popular" forum is comparing almost 2 1/2 years worth of threads to other forums 1 1/2 months worth.
Maybe the page thing is not the fairest example of the "most popular" forum. A better definition, IMO, would be number of posts over a given recent amount of time. For example a rolling 7 days. To me that would be a truer example of where people were hanging out and posting.
I know, not really important and who really cares. I would just prefer to see a true representation of what really is a popular forum.
>>Which is a good thing. The activity level of this forum is such that you have to be limited to 3 pages otherwise it would throw off the fairness factor with other forums that have a lot of threads but not a great a number of responses to those threads. It would be like stacking the deck in your favor over all the other forums. Additionally, the more active a forum is the more posts and threads are generated. The more posts and threads sitting there on the Active Pages, the more bogged down the servers get when people access the forums. The slower the forums moved, the more upset people become. Limits have to be set. Speed posting forums get 3 pages. Medium to slow forums get 4 or 5 or 6 pages. Forums are re-evaluated on a regular basis to decide if the number of active pages needs to be altered or not.
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>>Actually you should know that 1.5 months worth of posts on 3 pages is about average for active forums, but some forums far outstrip even that. For example, ball pythons or boas can typically go through 4 pages covering a 14-day period. The main boa forum has 4 pages going back to April 1st and BPs has 4 pages going back to March 30. Sometimes I've seen bp's generate 7 pages in less than a week.
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>>Most new comers are not going to sit and read 1.5 months worth of posts. They are gonna skim a few topics on page 1 and not even bother going to page 2 or 3 or what have ya.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
20.28 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats
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RE: Okay, So how about..... - rainbowsrus, Sat Apr 14 00:13:28 2007