Slashdot, a user-generated news, analysis, peer question and professional insight community. Tech professionals moderate the site which averages more than 5,300 comments daily and 3.7 million unique visitors each month.
As I said before, we don't have a really good idea on the number of unique IPIDs visiting the site, but we do have solid numbers for our daily comment counts. Here's the graph as generated by slashcode for a biweekly period:
(due to a quirk in slashcode, the graphs don't update until 48 hours later; our comment count for 04/01 was 712 comments total).
Taking in account averages, we're roughly getting a little less than 10% of Slashdot's comment counts, with a considerably smaller user base. As I said, the OkCupid story made me take notice. Here's the comment counts at various scores between the two sites
| SoylentNews | Slashdot.org | --------------------------------------- Score -1 | 130 | 1017 | Score 0 | 130 | 1005 | Score 1 | 109 | 696 | Score 2 | 74 | 586 | Score 3 | 12 | 96 | Score 4 | 4 | 64 | Score 5 | 1 | 46 | ---------------------------------------Furthermore, I took a look at UIDs on the other site, the vast majority of comments came from 6/7 digit UID posters. Looking at CmdrTaco's Retirement Post as well as posts detailing the history of the other site most of the low UIDs are still around, and are simply in perma-lurk mode.
(Score: 1) by e_armadillo on Wednesday April 02 2014, @05:14PM
I was a reader on ./ from almost the beginning, same username there with a UID of 14,304. There were a couple factors that caused me to quit posting, and I would often stop reading for long periods of time.
I like the community here, and I think that in the last month I have posted about as much as I ever did on ./
But, I fell back to lurking on ./ because it just wasn't any fun to post to what essentially constituted "/dev/null" not because it was moderated down, but because anything that started at a score of "1" would be buried in the noise, or to be told that you were an idiot because you happened to disagree with someone. It just wasn't worth the effort to post. So, I would lurk
(Score: 1) by e_armadillo on Wednesday April 02 2014, @05:16PM
Ugh, I even previewed, and i see that I typoed every instance of /. :/