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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 linuxrocks123 on Wednesday April 02 2014, @10:40AM
I guess you would call me "not a lurker". I post on the other site when I feel I have something to say. Typically, I'm replying to a post near the top, so my comment won't be buried right away. It's rare I have something to say that's not in response to something else.
I think this is my first post here. Hooray :) So, how can I help, well:
1. I love the red theme.
2. I think Slashdot's commenting system is pretty good and probably shouldn't be messed with too much.
3. I don't think the "lurker percentage" is really that much of a problem: like many others have said, most people lurk just because they have nothing to say.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 02 2014, @12:42PM
linuxrocks123? Crap, now I have to change my password