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Welcome to the third annual theColi Analytics Awards! Following two successful years of highlighting the good (and bad) of posters by metrics we will hit up top posters, top impact posters, top posts, etc. This year we will also feature facts about the evolution of the Coli, top threads as well as awards for most impactful posters by forum. Once again, big ups to @cook and @brooklynson along with many mods have put that work into maintaining this site.
This is also dedicated to the breh @charmander who we lost this year.
Previous awards for 2018 and 2019
This was created by crawling the site using the Python script crawler Scrapy and then parsing the page XML using BeautifulSoup.
We are breaking this down into four main sections:
First, stats on the evolution of posting on the Coli and by forum. Which forums are hot, which not, and how is traffic trending?
Second, user awards for the entire site (this post and the next) giving the good, bad, and ugly on our top members.
Third, user awards by forum
Fourth smilie usage
In another thread I will highlight this year’s most popular posts and the most popular posts of all time
SO let’s get started:
Evolution of the Coli
The Coli was started in 2012 primarily by refugees from SOHH but also some others. The site has continuously grown in membership and posting though it has slowed recently as new registrations have been throttled. First, the traffic breakdown of the Coli. Below are charts of first, how many new posts there are per year on the Coli and second, which forum has what relative share of new posts. As probably expected, TLR, the Coliseum, and the Booth have the most activity with TLR growing its share over time at the expense of the others.
In addition, here is new posts by forum over time
Note the forums have changed such as the Root came out of Race Track that was once part of TLR and HL and TSC came out of the Film Room. So that is why they have big jumps in their first years
There have been about 6,000 active (not total, but people who post regularly) members, including those banned or who stopped posting. About 1/3 joined in 2012. The graph shows new active members by year. There have been no new users in 2020 as @CopiousX was the last person to get in the door in December 2019.
Relative Frequency of when people on the Coli post by time (US Eastern Standard Time)
Welcome to the third annual theColi Analytics Awards! Following two successful years of highlighting the good (and bad) of posters by metrics we will hit up top posters, top impact posters, top posts, etc. This year we will also feature facts about the evolution of the Coli, top threads as well as awards for most impactful posters by forum. Once again, big ups to @cook and @brooklynson along with many mods have put that work into maintaining this site.
This is also dedicated to the breh @charmander who we lost this year.
Previous awards for 2018 and 2019
This was created by crawling the site using the Python script crawler Scrapy and then parsing the page XML using BeautifulSoup.
We are breaking this down into four main sections:
First, stats on the evolution of posting on the Coli and by forum. Which forums are hot, which not, and how is traffic trending?
Second, user awards for the entire site (this post and the next) giving the good, bad, and ugly on our top members.
Third, user awards by forum
Fourth smilie usage
In another thread I will highlight this year’s most popular posts and the most popular posts of all time
SO let’s get started:
Evolution of the Coli
The Coli was started in 2012 primarily by refugees from SOHH but also some others. The site has continuously grown in membership and posting though it has slowed recently as new registrations have been throttled. First, the traffic breakdown of the Coli. Below are charts of first, how many new posts there are per year on the Coli and second, which forum has what relative share of new posts. As probably expected, TLR, the Coliseum, and the Booth have the most activity with TLR growing its share over time at the expense of the others.
In addition, here is new posts by forum over time
Note the forums have changed such as the Root came out of Race Track that was once part of TLR and HL and TSC came out of the Film Room. So that is why they have big jumps in their first years
There have been about 6,000 active (not total, but people who post regularly) members, including those banned or who stopped posting. About 1/3 joined in 2012. The graph shows new active members by year. There have been no new users in 2020 as @CopiousX was the last person to get in the door in December 2019.
Relative Frequency of when people on the Coli post by time (US Eastern Standard Time)
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11%
5.5%
4.9%
4.4%
4.0%
3.3%
2.4%
2.3%
2.1%
2.1%
