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Subscribe to forums RSS#1 Tue 05 Feb 13 8:36am
Jaap10
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Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
Hi, the forum statistics as shown on the forum home page seem to be wrong. The following is displayed for the 4 forum categories:
1. Introductions and FAQs
current activity: topics 3746, posts 16777215
2. Food, Wine and Gardening
current activity: topics 10372, posts 16777215
3. Foundation
current activity: topics 1905, posts 16777215
4. Leftovers
current activity: topics 6047, posts 16777215
So each category has the same number of posts (16777215)? This number also seems to be static. It was the same the previous day I checked (16777215), even though the topic counts changed.
And these numbers also don't add up to the topic/post totals as shown at the bottom of that page:
No of topics: 57321
No of posts: 67305149
Also, according to these stats, the posts/topics ratio is 67305149/57321 = 1174/1 - how can that be? Most forums have a posts/topics ratio of less than 100/1.
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#2 Tue 05 Feb 13 3:40pm
Merlin
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Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
Noted Jaap10, thank you.
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#3 Tue 05 Feb 13 3:49pm
wine~o
Occupation Handyman
- From Dorset u.k
- Member since Tue 21 Oct 08
Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
Jaap10 wrote:
Also, according to these stats, the posts/topics ratio is 67305149/57321 = 1174/1 - how can that be? Most forums have a posts/topics ratio of less than 100/1.
ahhh...but you are not taking into account the "Risotto" thread....or the "Paella" thread.. 
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#4 Tue 05 Feb 13 4:22pm
mummza
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- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
Japp10 welcome to the forum 
there are a few very long threads on the forum just today on the main page there are 12 threads and out of those threads there are ..
whats for supper has had 21,539 posts
what are you ding right now has 16,783 posts
alphabet food game has 4788 posts
ask me a cooking question has 825
whilst a lot of threads oonly have a few replies or a decent amount there are many threads that have had a great many replies on them.
Interesting way of loking at the forum though , by statistics.
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#5 Tue 05 Feb 13 11:51pm
Grandmadamada
- Member since Fri 19 Nov 10
Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
I was lost reading those numbers but risotto and paella made me laugh, feeling at home again welcome jaap10, viva Merlin, ciaooo mummza
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#6 Wed 06 Feb 13 11:50am
Jaap10
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Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
Thanks for the welcome
mummza wrote:
whats for supper has had 21,539 posts
Wow, that must be the biggest forum topic I have ever seen! But still, the posts/topics ratio should not average out at over 1000/1, even with those big topics.
mummza wrote:
Interesting way of loking at the forum though , by statistics.
It's this forum's stats that brought me here in the first place! If the forum really has 67,305,155 posts, that makes it one of the biggest forums on the internet!
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#7 Thu 07 Feb 13 8:18pm
Jaap10
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Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
I determined this forum's true number of topic and posts using a little script I wrote. The number of posts I calculated is not even close to the 67,305,168 posts as shown on the forum's main page.
Here are the true totals (as of 2013-02-07 17h00 GMT):
Total number of topics: 21,967
Total number of posts: 386,920
This gives a posts/topics ratio of about 17.6/1 - which makes more sense.
So these are the stats for the portions of the forum that's visible to normal users. There are also 26 "broken" topics which show a reply count of about 16 million replies each. E.g. topics with ids:
25564, 25566, 25567, 25568, 25569, 25570, 25571, 25573, 25576, ...
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#8 Thu 07 Feb 13 8:24pm
wine~o
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Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
and the reason you joined the forum...is that you want to make a burger??
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#9 Thu 07 Feb 13 8:46pm
Kye
- Member since Fri 04 Apr 08
Re: Forum post statistics seem to be wrong
Burger King
7300 restaurants in the US
3600 in the rest of the world
Effectif 41.000 whats ???
11 550 places of sale in 71 countries
Numerical digit 
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