That's just an activity chart though.Kobold84 wrote:
What this system does achieve better is recording and preserving a historical landscape of OT, you get a better grasp of people who were posting in the past, you can see people fading away or suddenly popping and disappearing. The overlap of users is especially good, because once you get the denizenship, that's it, you get tied to a specific generation even if you were active for entire generations.
I'm sure if you mention this to abraker and lock him inside his lab for a couple hours he'll write some script to scour OT for each poster's posts per month and then come up with some ultrawack visualization until someone bugs him enough to make the data public read-only and presents it better.
Although perhaps interesting to see, that kind of distinction lacks a human component and it lacks what makes this subforum OT - subjectivity, chaos, drama.
And finally I think everyone here is still being molded by their "generation". Simply due to the fact that OT becomes stale over time and the same random shit isn't always funny for no reason again with new people.
