The colourfulness of the graphs makes me very happy!

u didnt include me?

Originally Posted by britb

mfattal's not on the user list...hehehe/wait for him to post here

loled

Originally Posted by Entropy

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Unless I forgot you, which is pretty likely. Between the time I started writing this post and now, I can already think of one person I forgot. Sorry, Tom. :(

its ok

You are in serious need of hobbies..

Greatest thread ever imo

how did u find the time to do this
hope u finished ur exams lol

Hooray! One of two 5th years!!

I didn't realize there were so many eng... but now that I think about it there totally are...


That was my initial reason for joining and posting a lot - lots of eng questions and no engineers to answer them, only other people speculating.

But now there's tons of engineers! My work here is done.... <3

Originally Posted by mfattal

how did u find the time to do this
hope u finished ur exams lol

I hope you won't be part of the statistics.

@Jackie:

But now there's tons of engineers! My work here is done.... <3

Saddest post ever :(

Creepy. asdhausjdhgasd

Originally Posted by VastHorizon

I hope you won't be part of the statistics.

and how would it affect u if i was?

also working on a new vid

If your feeling really ambitious, go to "My Settings" in the top left corner. Click "Find Classmates and Friends." You now have access to all of the 14532 members of Macinsiders. The search even allows you to narrow by Gender, faculty etc. and you can even sort the list by post-count to weed out non-active users form your data.

Originally Posted by J-Met

If your feeling really ambitious, go to "My Settings" in the top left corner. Click "Find Classmates and Friends." You now have access to all of the 14532 members of Macinsiders. The search even allows you to narrow by Gender, faculty etc. and you can even sort the list by post-count to weed out non-active users form your data.

lol u just saved entropy a lot of time

you forgot manap

Originally Posted by J-Met

If your feeling really ambitious, go to "My Settings" in the top left corner. Click "Find Classmates and Friends." You now have access to all of the 14532 members of Macinsiders. The search even allows you to narrow by Gender, faculty etc. and you can even sort the list by post-count to weed out non-active users form your data.

This would work, given that everybody gave accurate information on their sex, faculty, year, etc. The statistics Entropy currently has (although a narrow subset of members) accurately accounts for those who did not put "real" information.

Interesting findings Entropy! Thanks for taking the time, interesting to see the breakdown of the most active MI users you looked at.

For those generalizing the MI community based on Entropy's findings, keep in mind that Entropy only looked at 78 users. MacInsiders currently has over 14,500 registered users and there are thousands of users that visit on a 'regular' basis reading the forums but may not be posting as frequent and not be as 'well known' as the ones Entropy listed.

Just to give you some more accurate bigger picture data to think about, here are some stats from just this past month. 35,838 unique visitors (guests and registered users) visited our site over 130,000 times.

The Forum Posters
2172 were regular logged-in users that have posted at least once in the forums in the past few months (active forum users). Of these regularly active members, 49% were first years, 28% were second, 17% were third years, and 6% fourth. Faculty-wise, it appears that Science students are the most vocal in the forums with a whopping 42%, 19% were Engineers, 10% Art Sci, 9% Humanities, and the rest pretty evenly split.

The Readers
2710 users logged in (active users) and read the discussions in the forums and/or the news on the homepage but didn't post or participate. 63% of these were first-year or 'prospective' students, followed by 25% second year. So it would appear that there are a lot of prospective and first year students who are reading but not posting. We need to encourage those members to feel comfortable posting and asking questions, participating in the discussion.

Prospective Students
In just the past 3 months over 215 prospective students have signed up, these are students who have indicated they are not yet first years, so a big welcome to all of you and we hope you choose McMaster University!