trends

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:54 pm

In about ten months, there will be no more posts on Mohtalim if the linear trend continues.

Now, you could argue what we're experiencing is greater than normal seasonal decline. But I doubt it.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:35 pm

do you have a graph?

Also I blame it on Joe and Dave

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:10 pm

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:21 pm

This could've been a good use of google spreadsheets if they had graphing...

I think that this trend will flatten out at some point just because of the Links Forum.

I blame Peijen for leaving AK and not having any more boredom to regale us with.

skanks · Post by **skanks** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:37 am

Wow. That's really surprising. Bush's approval rating isn't even extrapolated to hit zero for some 28 months.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:51 am

By the way, your fit value for the linear trend is roughly 0.5, and is roughly the same for a 2nd order polynomial and logarithmic. If you use exponential, then you can get a fit of roughly 0.63 which is also not great, but definately better. Anyways, we'll be at about 140 posts/month by December and only 90 a year after that...

Oh, what happened from March to September 2004 that caused that rising trend. That couldn't have been all election related especially since October and November dropped off again.

Not that I want to bring up FF again, but I think that skewed the count we have near the end of 2003 to be as high as it is. Also, the drop in September 2003 was likely from a partial forum crash.

Anyways, if we're gonna place blame, I think it's Vinny's fault. Post if you agree!

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:44 pm

quantus wrote:Anyways, if we're gonna place blame, I think it's Vinny's fault. Post if you agree!

Agree

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:40 am

I think peijen and I pissed vinny off enough that he doesn't want to talk to any of us anymore. Well more me than peijen, but that doesn't matter much.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:19 am

How'd you do that? And why'd you ruin it for the rest of us?

Dude, he's only posted 4 times in the last month!

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:35 pm

quantus wrote:Dude, he's only posted 4 times in the last month!

That's more FFXI related than anything else.

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:13 pm

If I can play eve and still post, Vinny can play ffxi and still post.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:27 pm

quantus wrote:How'd you do that? And why'd you ruin it for the rest of us?

Dude, he's only posted 4 times in the last month!

Seeing as he's worse now than he was in college kind of made me unable to hold back voicing my disapproval on many of the things he does.

and to tell the truth, I don't have internet at work and try to stay as far away from my computer once I get home as I can. I barely read everything that's posted here as it is.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:17 pm

What'd you say to him?

Details! We want to live vicariously through you!

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:01 am

Jason wrote:I think peijen and I pissed vinny off enough that he doesn't want to talk to any of us anymore. Well more me than peijen, but that doesn't matter much.

What? If you've managed to piss me off without myself knowing, that's quite a feat.

I just drove back from a week-long family vacation in the Smokey Mountains; ~1400 miles added to my car FTW.

As for general events, they've simply popped up faster than I've expected. Sorry for being busy?

Finally, aren't you being just a tad presumptuous.

George · Post by **George** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:53 pm

Hooray! Vinny has returned to save us all! I expect the trendline to reverse itself shortly.

Hmm, but that would produce a "V"-like pattern. And as we all know from the Da Vinci Code, that must mean that Vinny actually is God. Or a woman.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:05 pm

George wrote:Hooray! Vinny has returned to save us all! I expect the trendline to reverse itself shortly.

Perhaps; keeping Mohtalim running is a joint effort of mutual benefits (ie. amusement). Unfortunately, that also takes effort.

I'll see what I can do, but my visiting parents are also bound to keep me busy.

Some random snippets:

hiking on trails boring
hiking off the trails and across waterfalls is cool
(watch out for naked bathers though >_>)
the DS Lite rocks
(not sure about Polar aka crack cocaine white though)
I missed CelebrateFairfax (boo!)
I'm thinking about buying HD-595s (link2); might make a RFC thread

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:06 pm

Becasue my life sucks too much to post. True story.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:05 pm

Goddamn naked people, always ruining my fun!