Steps to cure aggressive content

Gazcw

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Again all interesting comments and for me having found the forum by accident on a weekend after buying what was the cheapest 4200 at the time 12 years ago on a August bank holiday I've been here ever since and love the variety and nice banter too.
Problem with bad behaviour is a certain individual will say it to your face as I've seen it in person.
As a group of people from many backgrounds and professions between us we have a lot of knowledge and life experiences I feel this makes the forum very valuable.
It's so easy when walking in the street to say hello to people as you pass and smile.
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Gazcw

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Oooh, good question! I need some new wellies and wonder whether any members have any particular expertise in this area? @Andyk obviously I don't need your opinion as my personal tastes do not extend to whether I can fit a sheep's back legs down the front of my wellies.
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Harry

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I wondered “why this thread was still going - surely there can’t be any more new suggestions for aggressive content”. Having now checked, it appears to all be about shiny boots! And it made me laugh, too. Well done cheps!
 
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I joined this forum around six years ago. The input I received to my question around do I buy a 3200, a 4200 or a Gransport was helpful. A trip to Richard Grace and Marios at Autoshield made up my mind, that it had to be a Gransport for me.

After that, my frequency of site visits dropped off driven by off-topic posts ( self proclaimed wealth and investment managers, advice seeking help on legal matters etc) which I always seek and pay a professional advisor because each case has its peculiarities. Then swearing and profanity. And finally, the observation that 20 or so people post around 90% of all content out of a membership of almost 9000.

I joined that exclusive club of 8980 and today dip occasionally into the forum but rarely post in case it attracts a Highlander duel to the death ("There can be only one!")

The same for 911UK also - but there are around 35,000 members on that forum and around 100 members post 90% of all content, and many of those are simply not the experts they proclaim to be.
 

Zep

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I’ve read a few times that there is a view that 90% of content is generated by say 12 individual members. So just for clarity:

For the last week, there were 157 different members posted at least once
(this is about average, this generally moves between 140 and 180 per week depending on time of year) with a total of 1131 posts in total (this excludes PMs, which don’t count toward this total).

The top 12 posters between them posted 503 of these posts, this is an average of 42 posts per member in the top 12 and represents 44% of the total posts in this period. Actually, 90% of the content is produced by the top 81 posters

Another useful measure is the number of members logged in over the previous hour. This shows we have between 40 and 60 members (not guests) logged in at most points during the day. Not all of them post, but they are going to the trouble of logging in to view the content.

I thought this might provide some useful perspective.
 
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I’ve read a few times that there is a view that 90% of content is generated by say 12 individual members. So just for clarity:

For the last week, there were 157 different members posted at least once
(this is about average, this generally moves between 140 and 180 per week depending on time of year) with a total of 1131 posts in total (this excludes PMs, which don’t count toward this total).

The top 12 posters between them posted 503 of these posts, this is an average of 42 posts per member in the top 12 and represents 44% of the total posts in this period. Actually, 90% of the content is produced by the top 81 posters

Another useful measure is the number of members logged in over the previous hour. This shows we have between 40 and 60 members (not guests) logged in at most points during the day. Not all of them post, but they are going to the trouble of logging in to view the content.

I thought this might provide some useful perspective.
You should consider becoming an actuary.
They love this forensic approach dissecting data to correct a quote of 90% is actually 44%.

Me, I can't be bothered. My perception is still 90% by very few members. They must be on the smartphone or PC all day long logged on to this forum studying how many members are logged on at a moment in time.

There can be more than one.......
 

Tallman

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You should consider becoming an actuary.
They love this forensic approach dissecting data to correct a quote of 90% is actually 44%.

Me, I can't be bothered. My perception is still 90% by very few members. They must be on the smartphone or PC all day long logged on to this forum studying how many members are logged on at a moment in time.

There can be more than one.......
There is something called analytics that does all that for you ;)

Im sure we’re not going to question stats and go into alternative facts here….
 

midlifecrisis

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Maybe people post here about non-motoring issues because they know that they'll get good advice from decent people? It's up to the requester, whether to take that advice or not.

My only gripe, is the pulling of certain quite innocent subject threads (Rant thread, Ukraine Border and a few others) because two people couldn't behave. Just delete the offending posts, and let normal conversation prevail...

2p