Originally Posted by Arrogant-One
This likely means that Kevin's calculations in the past short changed OzChess because the correspondence chess forum posts were being subtracted from the real post count.
There has been no short changing of anyone. My post counts include real undeleted posts but not CC game posts, deleted posts or undeleted spam on both forums.
But regardless, as we can all see OzChess did well in terms of post per day activity this past quarter - perhaps better than any previous quarter.
This is in large part because you have had me to argue with; you were in rock-bottom doldrums (below 10 ppd) before I showed up and started posting regularly and with it being open knowledge that it was me. In July 2008 the threads not involving squabbling with chesschatters contributed less than 10 ppd between them. In August you did have a purple patch in terms of regulars here posting on other threads, which combined with my presence boosted you to a record total. Looks like the purple patch fell over in September though I haven't yet checked in detail.
Now, the approximately
correct figures for the last three months here (bearing in mind that I tend to check them at not exactly the same time on the final night) are:
July 25.5 ppd
Aug 33.4 ppd
Sep 21.9 ppd
These figures are obtained simply by adding up the number of posts on public display that are not CC game posts or undeleted spam posts at the end of each month.
The figures here for the months before that were
Jan 25.0 ppd approx (this one is a bit out of whack as I started checking on a monthly basis on 2 Feb)
Feb 20.4 ppd
Mar 14.8 ppd
Apr 9.8 ppd
May 9.0 ppd
Jun 8.6 ppd
Concerning quarters vs half-yearly, the lengthy half-yearly stats report I do for Chesschat is done half-yearly because the amount of effort involved in checking and updating it does not warrant doing it quarterly (and the changes over three months are often relatively minor anyway).