P3D Re: Numerical Frippery

[Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

My old friend Tom Deering takes me too literally.  Tom, remember our
relationship - I come up with half-baked, ill-explained ideas, and you
fill in the blanks and do the hard part!  It's been too long, I know.

When I say I saw a correlation between P3D tenure and "Top Poster" status,
I just meant that those gross totals for individuals would seem to favor
active posters who have been around the longest, and that based on what I
know of who's been around (Themelis and Talbot and Wier for example) the
roster is rigged in their favor.  Somebody like me who has only been
posting for a little over a year might get a crack at a placing if we
worked out an average of some kind.

Tom is correct that with Non-Posting subscribers the average reader has no
idea when they subscribed, but Non-Posters don't count in this tally, so
that's an irrelevant fact.  Among Posters, I guess we'd have to use the
date they first appear as a "sender" in the archive, and average them
forward from there to date - shouldn't that be possible?  Work with me,
babe!  (How do you gather all this data anyway?  It's kind of spooky.)

BTW, I think the "lob a big one over the wall and run" posters may be like
me - only able to get online in short, infrequent episodes - so we appear
abrupt, long-winded and then unresponsive, not due to character or
inclination, but due to circumstance.  As George once learned to say "I'm
sorry this is so long, but I didn't have time to make it shorter." 

Bruce

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