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: 2) by VLM on Wednesday April 02 2014, @10:41AM
As a meta commentary it says a lot about sensationalism in the community. If I wrote "They charge advertisers based on their numbers and they're fundamentally in charge of their numbers so if the numbers make no sense they're probably fraudulent numbers, based on my past business experiences" I'd probably have hit +5 in a minute, but not going all Fark-Headline or Fox News Breaking Headline gets me a 0 off topic. And making that point was about 50% of the reason behind my peculiarly worded post. I'd actually have been pissed if I hadn't been downvoted because I wanted to make that point.
For the legal record I'm not claiming as fact anything other than the motive and opportunity for fraud exist, which is not controversial in the entire industry and does not prove or explain anything WRT one individual situation.