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It is just over 4 months since TPF came into existence and I thought it would be interesting to dig around the site to see how we are developing. These stats may or may not be interesting. As of today:

• there have been 5684 posts
• 3814 posts are attributable to 5 members
• 1870 posts are attributable to 24 members
• 5 members have never posted
• 57% of all posts are in the "Port" sections of the site
• 21% of the posts are Meaingless Drivel
• if you google Port Forum this site comes at the top of the list

Derek

I am particularly pleased about Meaningless Drivel.

No, this is genuine. The fact that we have an actively stupid category in a forum that could be extremely dry makes me, personally, very happy. It shows that we have a balance of irreverance and solid knowledge which can only be healthy.

Thank you everyone for being utterly silly...

...and being knowledgeable

Let me help him out with the fine print...

...and being knowledgeable

Admin,

Could you please send me a spreadsheet like the one you do for Jdaws TN stuff but with all 6000+ posts in it so that I can generate some utterly meaningless statistics?

I am not too fussed about Unix dates.

Thanks

Derek

Derek might be helped if the spreadsheet had both post and thread numbers. That would allow him to calculate things like average thread length; who kills the most threads (by being the last to post in them); and who knows what else. And include UNIX time in case he suddenly wants to calculate average-time-for-a-reply, or something. Thanks.

He has all that apart from the UNIX time.

Thanks Admin1 - I can now keep myself busy with this wonderful spreadsheet.

On reflection, perhaps Unix times would be good as it would allow me to analyse who goes to bed earliest on an average Wednesday. If it's not too much trouble an update with timestamps would be great.

Also, on opening Excel I got an error message about cell contents being too long. These may have been truncated which would put some of my utterly useless statistics into question. Does it come out as a .csv or similar? if so, please send that as well as the spreadsheet version.

Ta

Derek

Has Derek truly run out of port or wine? Is he trying to make the contents of his only remaining bottle last longer by distracting himself with statistics. On average, how much longer does a bottle in Derek's hotel room last when he has his TPF spreadsheet compared to when he does not?

I think that if I was being forced to live in central London for 4 nights a week (I wish!) that I would by now have my own tankard at the Crusting Pipe.

Alex

AHB wrote:I would by now have my own tankard at the Crusting Pipe.

A tankard isn't much use in a bar that doesn't serve beer

Derek

PS: Haven't been bored enough to produce any stats yet but should happen in the not too distant future

Derek T. wrote:

AHB wrote:I would by now have my own tankard at the Crusting Pipe.

A tankard isn't much use in a bar that doesn't serve beer

I beg to differ - a tankard is the traditional measure for an individual helping of port while a jug is the measure for two or more people.

Namby, pamby bottles only really came into play around the middle of the 19th century when posh people started buying vintage port instead of the mead of the masses available from the barrel in the local pub.

Alex

Can we have some more statistics please?

8 out of 10 people say that you can never have enough statistics.

Total posts 49982: presumably 49983 after this one.

jdaw1 wrote:Total posts 49982: presumably 49983 after this one.

Honours, i think, went to Tom...

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6002#p50595]here[/url], uncle tom wrote:I'm in..

That then gives us port from 1960s (Ck67), 1970s (T70), 1980s (T85) and 1990s (Cr91)

S'pose i'll have to bring something from the 50's then...

Shortlist:

Warre '58
Sandeman '57
Noval '55