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 mcgrew on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:06AM
Also, I forgot my other-site-password and lost the email account I registered it with along the way, so no hope of ever retrieving that again.
Don't be so sure. I registered there in the '90s with a 5 digit UID, and got preoccupied with my own web sites and didn't log in for quite a while. Then I found K5, then still a thriving community (Soylent kind of reminds me of the old K5). K5 started filling with trolls and I went back to slashdot. I'd changed ISPs three or four times, and my email address with them, forgot tyhe password and thought that UID was gone forever and re-registered with a six digit UID.
I mentioned it in a journal and someone suggested I write their help desk. I supplied all the email addresses I'd had, and got the old account back.
I haven't been there much since soylent started. Like someone mentioned earlier there are too many non-nerds there these days. I mean really, complaining about NASA getting tax money ON A NERD SITE is simply trolling, yet many of these anti-science comments get modded up. It's gotten ridiculous.
I like it here.
Free Nobots! [mcgrewbooks.com]
(Score: 1) by irfan on Thursday April 03 2014, @09:46AM
Thank you for the information, but I doubt Dice will drop the beta, and since we have SN now, there probably isn't much chance of me going back to the other site (unless it too starts filling up with trolls, which I don't hope).