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Stats of the Month, January 2014
Topic Started: Feb 12 2014, 08:36 PM (454 Views)
Ànraich
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi

Stats of the month is making its full return this year, starting with the site statistics from January! We're getting big and popular, so I think it would be worth it to start doing this regularly again to chart our progress! Let's get right down to it, shall we?

NEW MEMBERS
Daily Average: 2
Record High: 4 on 22 January 2014
Total: 32

*Chart not included due to poor quality
TOPICS CREATED
Daily Average: 2
Record High: 3 on 9 January 2014
Total: 43

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POSTS CREATED
Daily Average: 169
Record High: 314 on 9 January 2014
Total: 5235

Not too shabby overall, I suppose. Due to the recent influx of bots and "sock puppet" members attempting to get around permanent bans, changes in the creation and validation of accounts were made that have caused a drop off in the registration of new members (or rather, dozens have registered but not gone the further step to validate their humanity by sending a simple email; unfortunate, but I suppose that is digital natural selection). The topic creation is somewhat disappointing. There was such a lack of topics that the chart the site generates from the statistics wasn't even legible, which is why it wasn't included this month (the new member chart always looks that way, so it is never included). Stay tuned for February's stats on the first of March!
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Holben
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Nice to see these back. I have to say, this looks much more positive than the last postings graph we had so long ago.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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