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TSG Report 5

Posting Activity
for
Selected TSG Members

by 'oscar51'

Original release
September 2002

Modified and updated
October 2002
Added text is in italics

Introduction

This report is a follow-on to tsgrpt4, TSG Member Activity. In that report I tabulated all TSG members anonymously into groups according to how many posts they had made, whether or not they had an "Internet presence," and the year and month they had became a member. In this report I have tabulated the number of posts made by four selected TSG members -- oscar51, TechGuy, angelize56, and davey7549 -- to each of the TSG forums. These members were chosen by me because (1) they represent a diverse range of age, experience, interests, skills, and TSG involvement; and (2) in my judgment they are not likely to get wrapped around the axle about a public display of their posting choices.

The data for these four members were updated, and data for four additional members -- RandyG, Dreamboat, Bryan, and AcaCandy -- were added, in October 2002. Also added at that time for all eight members were three tables showing, respectively, number of posts per day-of-the-week, number of posts by time-of-day, and number of posts by month and year.

These data are shown for illustrative purposes only and are suggestive of what could be available to each TSG member privately or in their profile with some vB code modification.

Data Set

The data in this report were acquired via the "Tech Support Guy Forums Search Engine" using the "Search By User Name" and "Show results as posts" options on the dates indicated in the "To" column in Table I. The "From" column shows the earliest post date found in each search.

Be aware that the number of posts shown in Table I for each member is actually the total number of "Topics" displayed as "Post Results" in each search and does not necessarily equal the number of posts shown in each member's profile. See post #4 by RandyG in thread TSG Member Activity for a few of the reasons why the number of search "topics" and the number of profile "posts" may not agree.

Table I - Data Set Dates

Member From To Posts Join Date
oscar51 02-29-2000 10-11-2002 286 11-13-1999
TechGuy 07-18-1999 10-11-2002 1,483 02-12-1999
angelize56 04-18-2002 10-11-2002 4,223 04-17-2002
davey7549 02-28-2001 10-11-2002 5,325 02-28-2001
RandyG 06-26-2000 10-12-2002 3,677 06-26-2000
Dreamboat 07-21-1999 10-12-2002 5,046 02-14-1999
Bryan 07-24-1999 10-12-2002 10,141 07-03-1999
AcaCandy 01-28-2001 10-12-2002 11,549 01-28-2001

Distribution of Posts by Forum

Table II shows the number of posts made by each of the eight selected TSG members to the listed forums.

Percentages included in the original version of this report have been removed from this table.

Table II - Number of Posts per Forum
Column A: oscar51 Column E: RandyG
Column B: TechGuy Column F: Dreamboat
Column C: angelize56 Column G: Bryan
Column D: davey7549 Column H: AcaCandy

Forum A B C D E F G H
Business Applications 2 4 0 90 438 2,341 15 79
Games 0 1 0 4 2 0 0 0
All Other Software 15 45 15 628 306 1,364 810 124
Hardware 10 46 5 519 454 40 361 5,819
Development 0 6 22 20 34 12 9 1
Windows 95/98/Me 65 66 142 1,688 580 546 6,868 4,063
Windows NT/2000/XP 4 35 5 96 126 47 182 105
UNIX/Linux 0 20 0 0 1 4 0 3
DOS/Mac/PDA/Other 0 15 0 1 8 9 0 24
Web & Email 13 101 26 753 494 388 1,255 70
Networking 0 22 0 57 54 3 6 55
Security 5 1 71 219 72 4 91 100
Announcements (admins only) --- 56 --- --- --- --- --- ---
Random Discussion 64 191 3,850 935 644 72 236 1,012
Reviews 6 10 0 70 31 9 12 2
Site Comments & Suggestions 86 848 82 150 313 69 186 60
Tips & Tricks 16 14 5 93 111 24 60 31
Archive: Business Applications --- --- --- --- 7 108 1 1
Archive: Hardware --- --- --- --- --- --- 3 ---
Archive: Windows 95/98/Me --- 1 --- 2 2 1 37 ---
Archive: UNIX/Linux --- 1 --- --- --- --- --- ---
Archive: Web & Email --- --- --- --- --- 5 9 ---
Totals: 286 1,483 4,223 5,325 3,677 5,046 10,141 11,549

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The following text and tables have been added to the original version of this report.

Distribution of Posts by Day-of-the-Week

Table III shows the number of posts made by each of the eight selected TSG members on each day of the week.

Table III - Number of Posts per Day-of-the-Week
Column A: oscar51 Column E: RandyG
Column B: TechGuy Column F: Dreamboat
Column C: angelize56 Column G: Bryan
Column D: davey7549 Column H: AcaCandy

Day A B C D E F G H
Sun 49 242 551 1,028 198 555 2,122 1,225
Mon 46 212 495 749 640 631 1,159 1,886
Tue 32 214 528 664 677 842 1,070 1,815
Wed 38 241 660 706 606 750 1,146 1,817
Thu 37 206 784 646 734 773 1,372 1,842
Fri 41 196 604 691 586 876 1,488 1,831
Sat 43 172 601 841 236 619 1,784 1,133
Totals: 286 1,483 4,223 5,325 3,677 5,046 10,141 11,549

Distribution of Posts by Time-of-Day

Table IV shows the number of posts made by each of the eight selected TSG members during each hour of the day based on their local time and a 24-hour clock.

Note:
The numbers in this table are accurate only in so far as the members have declared the correct time-zone adjustment in their profile and have not changed that adjustment since they have been posting, and the TSG site time has been correct from July 1999 to the present. Also, I ignored the fact that time zones in the USA do not all adjust for DST at the same instant and that Dublin starts DST one week and five hours before Waynesboro does.

Table IV - Number of Posts per Time-of-Day
Column A: oscar51 Column E: RandyG
Column B: TechGuy Column F: Dreamboat
Column C: angelize56 Column G: Bryan
Column D: davey7549 Column H: AcaCandy

Local Time A B C D E F G H
0000 to 0100 0 57 313 7 77 152 74 9
0100 to 0200 0 20 276 4 31 104 18 10
0200 to 0300 0 10 293 1 14 39 1 8
0300 to 0400 2 6 194 9 1 15 10 1
0400 to 0500 12 3 89 54 2 0 114 0
0500 to 0600 21 0 31 202 1 11 538 0
0600 to 0700 42 37 27 353 3 100 790 9
0700 to 0800 54 94 20 351 8 221 426 110
0800 to 0900 33 109 13 258 25 265 637 845
0900 to 1000 20 100 105 190 248 232 628 1,209
1000 to 1100 19 127 107 158 609 234 580 1,212
1100 to 1200 6 92 93 168 486 263 513 1,119
1200 to 1300 7 94 72 227 318 269 437 956
1300 to 1400 11 67 131 258 242 261 182 932
1400 to 1500 8 51 166 274 222 283 271 906
1500 to 1600 9 39 221 246 244 295 298 920
1600 to 1700 8 57 262 307 274 251 369 848
1700 to 1800 4 63 340 426 207 156 166 751
1800 to 1900 3 69 298 522 104 356 721 486
1900 to 2000 7 78 284 486 72 363 948 372
2000 to 2100 16 73 191 422 92 258 892 326
2100 to 2200 3 71 217 243 149 313 816 264
2200 to 2300 1 82 215 132 144 377 497 174
2300 to 2400 0 84 265 27 104 228 215 82
Totals: 286 1,483 4,223 5,325 3,677 5,046 10,141 11,549

Distribution of Posts by Month and Year

Table V shows the number of posts made by each of the eight selected TSG members during each month of the year since June 1999 or since the month and year each member joined, whichever is later.

Table V - Number of Posts per Month and Year
Column A: oscar51 Column E: RandyG
Column B: TechGuy Column F: Dreamboat
Column C: angelize56 Column G: Bryan
Column D: davey7549 Column H: AcaCandy

* Data are lost or incomplete.
Month Year A B C D E F G H
Jun 1999 --- * --- --- --- * --- ---
Jul 1999 --- *9 --- --- --- 2 5 ---
Aug 1999 --- 15 --- --- --- 3 5 ---
Sep 1999 --- 30 --- --- --- 1 12 ---
Oct 1999 --- 38 --- --- --- 2 24 ---
Nov 1999 * 47 --- --- --- 3 13 ---
Dec 1999 * 32 --- --- --- 0 25 ---
Jan 2000 * 33 --- --- --- 5 104 ---
Feb 2000 *1 72 --- --- --- 54 409 ---
Mar 2000 9 23 --- --- --- 72 180 ---
Apr 2000 27 60 --- --- --- 164 363 ---
May 2000 19 47 --- --- --- 96 383 ---
Jun 2000 17 18 --- --- 19 110 284 ---
Jul 2000 9 41 --- --- 158 125 401 ---
Aug 2000 11 23 --- --- 72 109 494 ---
Sep 2000 2 10 --- --- 109 124 645 ---
Oct 2000 14 5 --- --- 104 189 645 ---
Nov 2000 12 11 --- --- 43 191 336 ---
Dec 2000 10 20 --- --- 36 217 361 ---
Jan 2001 5 11 --- --- 30 182 394 1
Feb 2001 11 16 --- 1 19 246 510 27
Mar 2001 6 40 --- 44 40 466 462 433
Apr 2001 5 22 --- 112 95 307 522 723
May 2001 6 51 --- 188 64 200 552 453
Jun 2001 9 23 --- 234 63 152 423 501
Jul 2001 4 13 --- 296 45 220 492 708
Aug 2001 0 90 --- 164 91 153 636 413
Sep 2001 0 36 --- 284 168 249 271 609
Oct 2001 0 23 --- 225 96 128 63 738
Nov 2001 0 91 --- 469 145 145 173 394
Dec 2001 1 32 --- 443 73 198 303 472
Jan 2002 13 82 --- 299 94 99 118 665
Feb 2002 13 43 --- 198 179 190 114 560
Mar 2002 16 52 --- 398 163 229 52 622
Apr 2002 23 119 34 229 324 171 38 514
May 2002 10 65 190 187 190 135 39 592
Jun 2002 4 101 158 297 111 14 51 494
Jul 2002 5 6 527 375 258 8 13 758
Aug 2002 6 5 1,345 437 264 0 37 870
Sep 2002 12 25 1,281 309 440 75 126 896
Oct** 2002 6 3 688 136 184 12 63 106
Totals: 286 1,483 4,223 5,325 3,677 5,046 10,141 11,549
** Data for October are for less than a complete month.

The End ... at last!
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