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[palaste]

This chart shows how much the top 24 posters have posted on the NTFA Forums.
It is interesting to see that the top 22 posters amount to 75% of the posts, the top 9 posters amount to 50% of the posts, and the top 4 posters amount to 25% of the posts.

[predaking]

I was a little surprised to see that my name hasn't dropped on the list, since I haven't been very active lately (spending more time on wine forums nowadays) - which got me thinking: it would be interesting to have half-year or yearly reports of the active posters. It would be fun statistics to check in retrospect. But that would require a separate count for the current year in addition to posts since the restart of the forum, of course.

[palaste]

I was a little surprised to see that my name hasn't dropped on the list, since I haven't been very active lately (spending more time on wine forums nowadays) - which got me thinking: it would be interesting to have half-year or yearly reports of the active posters. It would be fun statistics to check in retrospect. But that would require a separate count for the current year in addition to posts since the restart of the forum, of course.

It should be very much possible to write a program that downloads all the posts of a specific member, strips out their datestamps, and generates a graph about how much this member has posted on each day. I could do it myself if I could find the time and the energy.

[Groundsplitter]

It should be very much possible to write a program that downloads all the posts of a specific member, strips out their datestamps, and generates a graph about how much this member has posted on each day. I could do it myself if I could find the time and the energy.

Apart from the graph you could do it with a simple (well, semi-complex) SQL query, but to use it on the board you'd have to write a query form and a presentation form, add member group permissions and links from the board view and all that. That's the difficult part.

[palaste]

It should be very much possible to write a program that downloads all the posts of a specific member, strips out their datestamps, and generates a graph about how much this member has posted on each day. I could do it myself if I could find the time and the energy.

Apart from the graph you could do it with a simple (well, semi-complex) SQL query, but to use it on the board you'd have to write a query form and a presentation form, add member group permissions and links from the board view and all that. That's the difficult part.

I don't have access to the SQL database, so that's not an option. However, I could do it with a mass of wget requests using the same cookies that I use when manually browsing the board.
However, this would be only able to be done manually on my own computer. It would not be available as an automatic feature to everyone who uses the board. For this, I would need two things: (1) access to the board source code, (2) knowledge about PHP programming. Only (1) is crucial, but at the moment I have neither, and will probably not have them either.

[Groundsplitter]

I don't have access to the SQL database, so that's not an option. However, I could do it with a mass of wget requests using the same cookies that I use when manually browsing the board.

That would use up more bandwidth than necessary though ...

However, this would be only able to be done manually on my own computer. It would not be available as an automatic feature to everyone who uses the board.

It wouldn't be a public feature even if I created it for the board. I would restrict it to admins, maybe even put it in the Admin Control Panel - it would cost too much processing power to make it available to everyone. We (you ) would then still have to compile the graph manually.

[palaste]

I don't have access to the SQL database, so that's not an option. However, I could do it with a mass of wget requests using the same cookies that I use when manually browsing the board.

That would use up more bandwidth than necessary though ...

Not if I programmed it to spend a delay between each wget request. If fully automated, I could leave it to run for several days, with delays of several minutes (if not even more) per request.

However, this would be only able to be done manually on my own computer. It would not be available as an automatic feature to everyone who uses the board.

It wouldn't be a public feature even if I created it for the board. I would restrict it to admins, maybe even put it in the Admin Control Panel - it would cost too much processing power to make it available to everyone. We (you ) would then still have to compile the graph manually.

That would be a good idea - if the raw data would be made accessible in a more machine-friendly format than the fully rendered HTML, it would be easier to make a program that drew charts out of it.