Forum Stats : Othor Games

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:22 pm

Do we have these accessible anywhere in our profiles? Such as being able to see the boards/times you're most active in or posts per day and things like this? If not can this be a suggestion?

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:46 pm

I think we can probably fold this into our http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1530894-bethesdanet-new-forum-thread-2/

We actually had the "most active in..." stat in older versions of the forum. I'd like to see it return as well. It was nice to figure out where the random people that stray over here typically spend most of their time.

» Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:31 am

If you go to main Bethesda forums page (the one that lists all the games forums) you will find buttons that take you to listings of "Today's Top Posters" and "Overall Top Posters."

Also, if you click on the "Members" button at the top right of your screen and then click on "More Search Options" button you can filter a search for members using parameters such as "Post Count," "Join Date" and "Profile Views."

These are about the only publicly available statistics that I know of. Maybe someone else knows how to access more.

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:05 pm

The statistics are broken because various stats fields got reset a few months back. If not for that, I'd be archpatriarch by now

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:08 pm

Why did they do that?

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:17 pm

Nobody knows. Some of us assume that something went terribly wrong when they added the Fallout 4 forum.

» Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:03 am

I never knew about such things and out of curiosity I checked, Rohugh has the most posts (naturally) and the oldest member is **DONOTDELETE**...I can only wonder what the purpose is.

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:30 pm

Tell me about it :dry:

At first I thought that a mod went through my post history like hey let's delete the last 12 thousand posts exorince made (which, let's face it, isn't an entirely preposterous scenario)

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:35 pm

Wow, 12 thousand is obscene. Hope you all get your lost posts back somehow, if even possible.

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:56 pm

Yeah, 20k+ posts lost myself...

» Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:09 am

It won't matter in a few days anyway, since we're all being reset to zero once the new forum comes online.

Looking back that's probably why the admin's were curiously silent on the matter of the lost posts. They knew everyone would have to remake their accounts anyway.

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:06 pm

Seriously? I'll probably just leave then, to be honest. Weird I guess, not like it's a currency or anything and my post count is paltry, but if it's just going to get reset arbitrarily that's pretty irritating.

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:25 pm

Well its not exactly arbitrary, they're shutting this forum down and moving to a new one.

But apparently they're not migrating accounts, so we all have to make new ones. :shrug:

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 7:02 pm

There's no question there's money involved in this decision to move out from here. I'm pretty sure there's enough tech to be able to maintain a forum change of address without losing the database unless there's a terrible glitch or hacker infiltration that destroys or alters the database. Of course, having a transition without losing the old database could mean spending more money or simply not practical for the "control" they're planning to have over their members. As it often happens in the corporate world, the interests of the company is first.

If we find out later that indeed there were hidden agendas for the move(for the elimination of member accounts), I will lose a lot of respect for this company. But then again, Beth is not alone on this.

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:48 pm

Post counts going down dramatically is nothing new here. Occasionally, the admins will purge posts older than X date. That's why I no longer have north of 40K posts....... They did the same with users a while back. Nuked anyone that hadn't been active for a year or three. (or more....) It reduces the load on the servers, so forum performance is better. Personally, I think it's a holdover from when the hardware wasn't as powerful as it is today, and is probably unnecessary.... But hey, what do I know.

» Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:26 pm

I didn't even know these forums were going away.

» Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:34 am

This is purely anecdotal, but my post count has never gone down when they purged old threads and accounts. It also didn't go down when we moved from the old "green forum" to this new location. My post count has only ever gone down once in 13 years: and that happened in early June when they added the Fallout 4 forum.

Take it for whatever it's worth. Other people may have had different experiences. :shrug: