Originally Posted by Arrogant-One
For instance, on 30 June 2008 Kevin stated that total new posts in the quarter for CC were 22744 giving them a post per day (ppd) rate of 98.1. However, 22744 divided by 91 days would be considerably more than 98, so as I said, there seem to be some voodoo mathematics going on with Kevin's figures.
The period Kevin was quoting the numbers for was not a 3 month period but a 6 month period.
Also the 22744 figure includes correspondence game posts, while the 98.1 ppd does not include the correspondence games.
Originally Posted by Arrogant-One
The stats above do not include correspondence games, and were compiled from the Admin Panel > Statistics > Posting Statistics function.
Although the correspondence games are not adding to the posters individual post counts they are added to the total post counts which the main page of your forum shows as currently being 8789. These 8789 posts include 629 correspondence game posts.
The Posting Statistics function of the admin panel includes all posts (including those that are in forums that do not add to the posters post count) and will include the posts in the correspondence game forum.
To get your posts in a month excluding the correspondence games, you need to visually check the total posts and the end of one period and also note the number of posts in the correspondence forum at that time. Then at the end of the following month note the same figures again.
e.g. Around 9pm on the 31st August Ozchess had 8051 posts including 561 correspondence posts. As of 6pm last night you had 8776 posts including 628 correspondence posts. Your posts for August excluding correspondence posts was 7490 and as of yesterday was 8148. This gives 658 (8148-7490) as the posts for September excluding correspondence posts and therefore a ppd rate of 21.9