Safe Speed Forums

The first ever post on the Safe Speed Forums was made exactly one year ago at 9:46 on 6th March 2004. Here it is:

http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4

Since the start we have had 778 user registrations and 18,949 posts in 1,795 topics.

New posts are now typically running at over 100 per day - over the last week there have been 833 posts which is an average of 119 per day. That's a busy but not an exceptional week.

The forums first functioned at 5:41am on 6th March 2004, but were not linked for public access until about 8:30am. On the very first day we had 17 user registrations; in the first week we had 80 user registrations.

We have collected a considerable array of talent and the standards are far higher than most web based forums. Many important road safety topics have been exclusively discussed here - we're actually pushing back the frontiers of road safety.

By any standards it's been an amazing success. A huge thanks to everyone for making it such an interesting place to hang out.

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

I'll gather some stats from the forums today and post them here. This is the first, the 'top twenty' posters:



Apologies for formatting - does any one know how to make tabs work properly?

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

More stats:

Out of the 778 registerd forum users, 317 have never posted.

461 registered users have made at least 1 post.
342 registered users have made at least 2 posts.
290 registered users have made at least 3 posts.
244 registered users have made at least 4 posts.
218 registered users have made at least 5 posts.
205 registered users have made at least 6 posts.
187 registered users have made at least 7 posts.
169 registered users have made at least 8 posts.
157 registered users have made at least 9 posts.
154 registered users have made at least 10 posts.

105 registered users have made at least 20 posts.

65 registered users have made at least 50 posts.

36 registered users have made at least 100 posts.

21 registered users have made at least 200 posts.

9 registered users have made at least 500 posts.

3 registered users have made at least 1,000 posts.

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

I use proportional font - it helps but is not perfect. Not sure if a [font] code exists in this HTML-less world.

I played around a bit but didn't come up with anything useful.
You can get better results by using spaces instead of tabs, but it involves a lot of previewing, and the results aren't perfect.
Is there any way of turning BBCode off and HTML on for individual posts?

BTW Happy birthday.

Cheers
Peter

More stats:

The top poster (that's me!) has made 3,095 posts, 16% of the total.

Over one third of all the posts have been made by the top five posters.

Over half the posts have been made by the top 10 posters.

Over two thirds of all posts have been made by the top 21 posters.

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

Number 7 in the charts..eeek . Didn't realise I was that much of an old windbag

Happy Birthday LOL! Keep it up Paul! 778 user registrations...blimey

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Many happy returns.

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler - Einstein

well done Paul, thanks for all your efforts

Add my best wishes on the first anniversary.

Keep it up!

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Take with a chuckle or a grain of salt
Drive without COAST and it's all your own fault!

A SMILE is a curve that sets everything straight (P Diller).

A Smiley Per post
FINES USfor our COAST!

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon - but driving with a smile and a COAST calm mind.

More than 1/3 of the membership in fact. Wonder why

I think it's really the tip of the 'lurker' iceberg. Most visitors don't even register...

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

How does this look?



I just copied and pasted the table into Notepad, adjusted the spacings and then copied and pasted it back.

Cheers
Peter

All the best for the future Paul and everyone.

BTW...



...a decrease in the number of registered users results in an increase in posts...where have I heard something similar before???


Regards


Andrew

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