How Many Pages is YOUR Forum?

Jon Shafer · February 10, 2003, 22:29

Just another fun thread... how many pages does everyone's forum have, just to see who's the most active, etc.

Lux right now has a total of 9 pages of threads. So who can beat that?

Hot Mustard · February 10, 2003, 22:42

RP Forum has 11 pages - and some of the roleplay threads are 10-20 pages long.

Arnelos · February 10, 2003, 23:25

I'll bet that RP has Lux even more beat when it comes to the sheer LENGTH of those posts... I'm sure History Guy alone has posted enough role-play to perhaps be worth the posting length of several of the other TEAMS each...

Jon Shafer · February 10, 2003, 23:27

At least ours have more useful information.

Oh, and it's not like you don't have 5 times as many active members either.

DeepO · February 11, 2003, 14:55

GS has 8 pages in total, and we tend to stop threads when they reach 500 posts...

DeepO

Panzer32 · February 11, 2003, 16:33

umm, 4 pages...

Kloreep · February 11, 2003, 17:51

4 pages here, too.

Hot Mustard · February 11, 2003, 18:54

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Originally posted by Panzer32
umm, 4 pages...

Quote:

Originally posted by Kloreep
4 pages here, too.

Something tells me you are not Showing thread from "the beginning". If you are - those are two seriously inactive teams, trusting their leaders to do everything.

Apocalypse · February 11, 2003, 19:09

Quote:

Originally posted by Trip
Just another fun thread... how many pages does everyone's forum have, just to see who's the most active, etc.

No clue, haven't been there in about 45 days or so.

GhengisFarb™ · February 11, 2003, 20:38

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Originally posted by DeepO
GS has 8 pages in total, and we tend to stop threads when they reach 500 posts...

DeepO

500 posts?!

I don't think we have that many posts in our whole forum..........

What the heck are you talking about?

(Sample excerpt from one of their threads)

Member1- Yes, I think that Jerry is an appropriate name for our first Warrior.

Member2- But should it be spelled "Jerry", "Jeri", or "Gerry"?

Member3- "Jerry" is awfully close to "Jerry Seinfeld", might that not be copyrighted?

Member1- Here is a copy of the name use request I sent to the owners of the Seinfeld sitcom.

Member2 - Have you heard any news yet?

Member1 - The Seinfeld sitcom said they would grant us permission to use the name "Jerry" if we traded them our extra Iron.

Member3 - I say go for it.

Member1 - Okay, I finished the deal for the use of the name "Jerry". Is this the name we are using for our first Warrior.

Member4 - Instead of "Jerry" can we use the name "Tim"

Member1 - I'll check with the legal departments of Home Improvement and Monty Python to see if we can acquire the rights to use the name "Tim.................

Arnelos · February 11, 2003, 20:48

You forgot the part where the Seinfeld sitcom threatened to file suit against GS just for asking for the rights because the guys at Home Improvement had told them that GS had originally named the warrior Tim but changed it to Jerry specifically to piss off Seinfeld and in turn violated their publicity agreement with Home Improvement and thus should not be trusted...

MarkG · February 11, 2003, 21:05



Forum                Posts Threads

C3PtWDG Lux Invicta     2554  247

C3PtWDG Gathering Storm 7947  215

C3PtWDG Glory of War    1687  117

C3PtWDG Legoland        2596  120

C3PtWDG Roleplay        6514  315 

C3PtWDG Vox Controli    2096   68

mrmitchell · February 11, 2003, 21:11

Oh, well thanks for putting everything in the open Markos

j/k. Ty for the info on everyone else

As for Vox, I know they only have 5 or so active members IIRC, but what happened guys? Do you do everything at turnchats?

We've the most threads but GS probably has reached 500 in threads, considering they have somewhat average threadcount but no.1 postcount.

Jon Shafer · February 11, 2003, 21:21

Average posts-per-thread:

Forum                Posts/Thread

C3PtWDG Lux Invicta     10.34

C3PtWDG Gathering Storm 36.96

C3PtWDG Glory of War    14.41

C3PtWDG Legoland        21.63

C3PtWDG Roleplay        20.68

C3PtWDG Vox Controli    30.82

E_T · February 11, 2003, 21:28

I can see why GoW has a low post count, I mean, How many times can you say Ugh & Grunt....

E_T

GhengisFarb™ · February 11, 2003, 21:33

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Originally posted by E_T
I can see why GoW has a low post count, I mean, How many times can you say Ugh & Grunt....

E_T

Ugh, Grunt.

Ugh count +1

Arnelos · February 11, 2003, 21:34

I find it ironic that the Roleplay team, which has an actual despotism for a government, is probably more "democratic" in terms of the amount of discussion... with a LOT more posting going on. Granted that most of that is RP, but I'd argue that Togas hasn't really been all that despotic of a despot. It's been a very benevolent despotism with lots of freedom of expression (well, with some particular exceptions...

).

Dis · February 11, 2003, 22:53

well we find it useful to have less threads to discuss stuff. sorting through thread after thread for information that all relates to each other anyways is tedious. It is nice to have a few main threads, and some miscellaneous ones.

Hot Mustard · February 11, 2003, 23:04

I wonder how much these numbers are affected by teams editing previous threads/posts with new information instead of creating new ones. In the RP Forum, we do not really make use of the "edit anyone's" feature.

Jon Shafer · February 11, 2003, 23:09

Lux uses it quite often, especially for game reports and that sort of thing.

alva · February 12, 2003, 07:57

We do have a couple of PBEM games going inside the GS forum...

Still,...

mrmitchell · February 12, 2003, 09:21

Grunt oah Wa-ugh

mrmitchell · February 12, 2003, 09:24

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"edit anyone's" feature

Heh....just like Microsoft, Apolyton "Bugs" are becoming Apolyton "Features".

DeepO · February 12, 2003, 13:22

Alva, if you check, it's not the PBEMs that have the most posts, and in there, not all posts are related to the PBEM either... in total, we have less then 1000 posts in our PBEM threads, so without them we still would have most posts.

Well, what can I say, we tend to discuss things thouroughly in GS, and nearly all decisions are democratic, in that we try to get opinions of most members. It takes great effort to be able to be one team on the outside, when so many people have wildly varying opinions on how to proceed, debates can get longish

DeepO

FrustratedPoet · February 12, 2003, 14:50

Holy cow we've got a lot of posts .... not that many of them are mine of course ... but still

FrustratedPoet · February 12, 2003, 14:54

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Originally posted by dejon
I wonder how much these numbers are affected by teams editing previous threads/posts with new information instead of creating new ones. In the RP Forum, we do not really make use of the "edit anyone's" feature.

We use that feature for the turnthreads because it makes things much easier when compiling a list of orders from 3 or 4 different peope, but it doesn't seem useful anywhere else.

Arnelos · February 12, 2003, 15:00

RP Team has 3 ongoing internal PBEM games... they take up almost NO posts on our forums because we handle the saves mostly by holding turnchats in our IRC chatroom on Apolyton.

Game #2 is even up to 1550 B.C. as of last night's chat, further along than the inter-team game.

I've also played an internet game with E_T and other activities.

The bottom line is that we only have 1 thread dedicated to each internal pbem game and those threads are mostly just posts when the games were being set up a few weeks ago.

Doing a post in the private forum every time you send on the save file like the inter-team game isn't necessary when you're playing the game in chats

DeepO · February 12, 2003, 18:05

Arnelos, that's true, but don't forget that GS is worldwide... we can't use chats, as by the time one part of our team can join, the other longs for sleep.

Oh, and one PBEM is now to 1050 BC, with 4 players. A lot of "save sent" posts (in one thread, of course), that's true, but even without them we have most posts. Some days, the forum can get pretty hectic, but we love it that way, it reminds us of home

DeepO

Jon Shafer · February 12, 2003, 18:06

Why do you guys have seperate PBEM games going on inside your forums?

FrustratedPoet · February 12, 2003, 18:13

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Originally posted by Trip
Why do you guys have seperate PBEM games going on inside your forums?

Is there any reason why we shouldn't?