So, Pareto's law or Pareto's principle is that, in marketing terms, 80% of your sales will come from just 20% of your customers; those coveted addicts or 'frequent purchasers'. It tends to hold true most of the time.
As it stands right now, OTF has 892 registered members and 36,906 total postings.
Were Pareto's law to hold true, that would mean 29,524 of those postings would be made by just 178 of those users.
In fact, using the Top 30 Posters stat function, I've deduced that this group of 30 alone is responsible for 18,745 posts.
So, to find out whether the next 148 posters are responsible for the balance of the 10,779 required posts would require someone much smarter than me doing a sort of half-life posting drop-off calculation and extrapolating that number. If, as in the past, we discount ursus arctos as some sort of computer bot or conglomerate of individuals working round the clock, we can see a steady and predictable drop off which likely continues in some sort of calculable fashion.
Additionally, there's clearly a whack load of people at the low end that aren't pulling their weight. I refer you to recent member Sullivan, Jamie who's decided to join and say nothing.
This post has no point nor agenda. I was just bored whilst eating my leftover tuna pesto pasta from Wednesday's dinner.
As you were.
As it stands right now, OTF has 892 registered members and 36,906 total postings.
Were Pareto's law to hold true, that would mean 29,524 of those postings would be made by just 178 of those users.
In fact, using the Top 30 Posters stat function, I've deduced that this group of 30 alone is responsible for 18,745 posts.
So, to find out whether the next 148 posters are responsible for the balance of the 10,779 required posts would require someone much smarter than me doing a sort of half-life posting drop-off calculation and extrapolating that number. If, as in the past, we discount ursus arctos as some sort of computer bot or conglomerate of individuals working round the clock, we can see a steady and predictable drop off which likely continues in some sort of calculable fashion.
Additionally, there's clearly a whack load of people at the low end that aren't pulling their weight. I refer you to recent member Sullivan, Jamie who's decided to join and say nothing.
This post has no point nor agenda. I was just bored whilst eating my leftover tuna pesto pasta from Wednesday's dinner.
As you were.
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