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[learnedax]

It has been said several times that I seem to post quite rarely to LJ (for someone who actually uses his journal), and wondering if that's true I did a quick sanity check on the numbers. In five years I've averaged 2.5 days between posts. Amongst people I consider very active users, 1.5-2.5 days seems to be the typical range, with a small set way over (like jpicon with 2.6 posts per day), but not necessarily with a corresponding perception of increase in usage.

So, open-endedly, with perhaps some sort of poll to come once I've isolated the key factors, what do you think drives your perception of usage? Volume of posts? Length of posts? Consistency of posting (I for instance seem to have large variance between peaks of activity and valleys of not using LJ much at all)? Interestingness of posts? Comment volume of posts?

What makes you think someone is a significant user? Do you consider yourself a very active user, and what affects that perception?

Comments

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

Another metric is looking at the archive calendar by month. Clumsy and time-consuming to do for any great number of people over any great period of time, but potentially useful for tracking trends of usage over time. For instance, you cite rufinia as the highest user you've tracked (and I would agree), but it might be useful to compare/contrast rufinia unemployed, with rufinia at old job and grad school, with rufinia at new job.

Me, I think of myself as posting about 2 out of every three days, and the age/posts metric bears that out, roughly. But a look at my calendar shows nearly one per day the past few months, and back in my first year (2004) sometimes less than one per week. (Of course, my current "nearly one per day" includes a lot of "[cute observation] Just sayin'," which isn't much of a post.)