Year and a half in review

[Sephiroth]

@Superfluous why don't you put @Sephiroth878 on the CDT team?

@Sephiroth878


[Accepting Applications!] Community Development Team

To be honest I would LOVE to be a part of the CDT. I sent @Superfluous and @Time To Buy the app if needed. Thanks for the referral @Sythe.

 

@Superfluous why don't you put @Sephiroth878 on the CDT team?

Voting thread has been made by Superfluous

 

[Shall Skill]

are you fucking me backwards

 

[SuF]

A good thing to do is maybe get in on this lotto thing with skins and get one set up that could work for the site done your way. The only reason some of these youtubers got into trouble was because they lied about being owners of the company. Also, valve really didnt like them using their login API on their sites.

Secondly, going back to my post on having live streams embedded, a LOT of people go and watch people play CS:GO, hell even I do. There is a HUGE community here, untapped by Sythe that you could capitalize on.

I think if you were to do more events pertinent to that specific game, whether its CSGO, LoL, WOW etc then you could get more activity there. To be honest, I am quite confused as to WHY these sections are not very active, but my guess is because of how its shown by search engines. keywords, page ranking etc.

Ill be thinking of other things too. But what I do know is Skins are where its at so that should be a starting point

There needs to be a catalyst for growth that is more than just events. There have been half-hearted attempts to make our various gaming sections active and they have all failed pretty badly. People keep making the same mistakes over and over again like making subsections for things that are not active enough to merit a subsection (newest prime example is the overwatch section). Anyone can do events that people will find enjoyable and people like streamers will attract way more attention for their events than Sythe ever will. In Sythe's case events only act as a community bonding experience that helps people feel like they are a part of something larger and that the site and the community is worth sticking around for.

What events don't do is actually make the forum any more active which is why the CDT hasn't actually accomplished anything but that's something I've just given up on since no one actually listens and they just keep doing the same things because that's easy or something. Just look at the few posts about the CDT in this thread. They are just cognitive dissonance saying these hard facts are wrong or they are just silent because I can only assume they don't want to admit what they've done hasn't worked?

But let's look at something that is positive because my negative rants are rather annoying and stupid:

Movies and TV section. Activity has actually increased and by a pretty good margin and what I think the most likely reason is people like @SellerMan and @n4n0 have been basically curating the forum by posting interesting threads and having interesting discussion. Activity breeds more activity people.

 

[S]

Thanks @SuF.

I generally try to actively create new discussion threads, aswell as maintain current ones. Sometimes it may just be posting daily/weekly, but as long as it is proving fruitful, i'm okay with it.

 

[Sephiroth]

There needs to be a catalyst for growth that is more than just events. There have been half-hearted attempts to make our various gaming sections active and they have all failed pretty badly. People keep making the same mistakes over and over again like making subsections for things that are not active enough to merit a subsection (newest prime example is the overwatch section). Anyone can do events that people will find enjoyable and people like streamers will attract way more attention for their events than Sythe ever will. In Sythe's case events only act as a community bonding experience that helps people feel like they are a part of something larger and that the site and the community is worth sticking around for.

What events don't do is actually make the forum any more active which is why the CDT hasn't actually accomplished anything but that's something I've just given up on since no one actually listens and they just keep doing the same things because that's easy or something. Just look at the few posts about the CDT in this thread. They are just cognitive dissonance saying these hard facts are wrong or they are just silent because I can only assume they don't want to admit what they've done hasn't worked?

But let's look at something that is positive because my negative rants are rather annoying and stupid:

Movies and TV section. Activity has actually increased and by a pretty good margin and what I think the most likely reason is people like @SellerMan and @n4n0 have been basically curating the forum by posting interesting threads and having interesting discussion. Activity breeds more activity people.

I definitely understand how you feel. What do you think would be some good ways to garner more activity on the site then? If not for CDT activities and the like that is. I'm just curious because I see potential for massive growth but I'm not too sure either what the best approach would be

 

[SuF]

I've downloaded all 350,000ish posts in the:

• General Discussion
• Sports
• SFA
• Media (Including subcategories)
• Technology (not including programming since it used to be separate)

I current can parse out from every post:

• The username that posted it
• The userId of the user that posted it
• The time it was posted

Currently I can just open one thread at a time so I need to write some more tooling to open all threads and categorize them into their individual forums. After that I'm going to throw together a very basic Postgres database and toss everything in there.

If anyone has a desire for any specific stats or graphs just let me know and I should be able to get them within the next week or so.

 

[Sephiroth]

Can you do the Scammer/Spammer/Scam Archive VS the rest of the forum? @SuF

 

[SuF]

Can you do the Scammer/Spammer/Scam Archive VS the rest of the forum? @SuF

I can't mine the entire site because I would:

A) Have Richard murder me in my sleep
B) Run my friends VM out of disk space or bandwidth

I don't have access to the Spam Report Archive so I can't do that unless I get access. There is the added issue with forum pages get slower and slower the higher the page count. So Report a Scammer only has like 130k posts but nearly all of them are in very small threads so there is like 2000 pages of threads. Once you get about like page 30 it becomes pretty slow and I'm assuming it does quite a number of the Sythe database and I'm not sure Richard would be happy if I DDOS'd the site by mining them.

 

[Sephiroth]

I can't mine the entire site because I would:

A) Have Richard murder me in my sleep
B) Run my friends VM out of disk space or bandwidth

I don't have access to the Spam Report Archive so I can't do that unless I get access. There is the added issue with forum pages get slower and slower the higher the page count. So Report a Scammer only has like 130k posts but nearly all of them are in very small threads so there is like 2000 pages of threads. Once you get about like page 30 it becomes pretty slow and I'm assuming it does quite a number of the Sythe database and I'm not sure Richard would be happy if I DDOS'd the site by mining them.

Oh I see. LOL im sure he be cheerio with that idea . Im just glad youre doing this for the community. Great work SuF

 

[SuF]

I'm basically done with the first round:

sythe-mining=# select count(*) from posts;
 count
--------
 494445
(1 row)

sythe-mining=# select count(*) from threads;
 count
-------
 55255
(1 row)

sythe-mining=# select count(*) from users;
 count
-------
 22943
(1 row)

sythe-mining=# select count(*) from forums;
 count
-------
    10
(1 row)

If anyone has questions about post / thread / user numbers for the:

Dispute Forum Archive
General Discussion
Sports, Health & Fitness
Something For All
Music
Movies/Television
Video Clips
Technology
Feedback
Suggestions

forums, ask away.

 

[S]

Post the highest posts as you did before @SuF

 

[SuF]

Post the highest posts as you did before @SuF

Sure. I'll do it when I get home.

 

[SuF]

@SellerMan

I've left out Sythe because I think all guest / deleted persons posts got defaulted to Sythe. I'm leaving out Music because it seems very light on posts and I think I'm missing a bunch.

SFA
       name       |  c
------------------+------
Shredderbeam     | 2792
malakadang       | 1050
SuF              |  823
TJ               |  792
Schnell          |  786
DropKick Murphys |  715
Swan             |  649
The Riddler_     |  649
FreedomFight     |  536
Xier0            |  504

Movies / TV

       name        |  c
-------------------+-----
SellerMan         | 628
I Bleed Duke Blue | 304
JohnK             | 264
Spear             | 185
Dimethyl          | 184
Roary             | 169
Wulfspade1        | 163
Quatakai          | 153
Apith             | 144
Necromancer24     | 140

Tech

     name      |  c
---------------+-----
kill dank     | 605
n4n0          | 579
Laptop65      | 552
Noodles :)    | 546
SuF           | 499
risk it nerd  | 420
Darkest Dream | 413
justinkiller  | 401
SASRT8        | 400
Blupig        | 359

Video Clips

   name    |  c
-----------+-----
nitroy2k  | 374
Sanctuary | 309
Meeder1   | 233
JohnK     | 211
kill dank | 206
d 7 x     | 171
Ricky     | 166
mike_w_99 | 147
WeRnIS    | 135
Shoop     | 131

Gen discussion

       name        |  c
-------------------+------
kill dank         | 2211
333               | 1625
Gohan             | 1364
Loyal To The Game | 1271
SuF               | 1143
Roary             | 1113
MegaMatt          | 1086
Amethyst          | 1067
Jack              | 1034
Pokerking88       |  989

Sports / Health

       name        |  c
-------------------+-----
I Bleed Duke Blue | 810
Jack              | 484
Kiro              | 445
BartonsVodka      | 331
Dunworry          | 328
Pokerking88       | 305
Loyal To The Game | 266
JohnK             | 241
333               | 232
uJesternWind      | 229