SA Footy

Wedgie wrote:Fridays off!

No pub till at least lunch time as I have to drop the daughter off at the airport, could be time for a film or two .

How's the website traffic going today, do I need to pull the puppet's strings again?

Way to go admin. Setting an excellent standard.

Booney wrote:

Wedgie wrote:Fridays off!

No pub till at least lunch time as I have to drop the daughter off at the airport, could be time for a film or two .

How's the website traffic going today, do I need to pull the puppet's strings again?

Way to go admin. Setting an excellent standard.

Absolutely, been promoting more traffic on the site since 2003, started with one member then!
We've come a long way since, very proud.

The site only started in 2005.

So you must've been talking to yourself for 2 years, which surprises none of us

Footy Chick wrote:The site only started in 2005.

So you must've been talking to yourself for 2 years, which surprises none of us

The groundwork started elsewhere earlier.

Wedgie wrote:

Footy Chick wrote:The site only started in 2005.

So you must've been talking to yourself for 2 years, which surprises none of us

The groundwork started elsewhere earlier.

Footy SA died a sudden death and you had this started a week after.

Good story but...

Footy Chick wrote:

Wedgie wrote:

Footy Chick wrote:The site only started in 2005.

So you must've been talking to yourself for 2 years, which surprises none of us

The groundwork started elsewhere earlier.

Footy SA died a sudden death and you had this started a week after.

Good story but...

Wasn't talking about Footysa, mind you FootySAs was far from a sudden death, they'd had issues for quite a while.

Serious question Wedgie, how is traffic on here compared to say the last couple of years.

I did a quick check and I’d say at least half of the top 40 posters on here (those with mote than 10,000 posts), either don’t post anymore or rarely post, I.e. less than say one post a week on average.

johntheclaret wrote:Serious question Wedgie, how is traffic on here compared to say the last couple of years.

I did a quick check and I’d say at least half of the top 40 posters on here (those with mote than 10,000 posts), either don’t post anymore or rarely post, I.e. less than say one post a week on average.

I dont know exact figures mate, its now on Diss's server now, when it used to be on my server I could check those stats pretty quickly and even see what parts of the world people posted from, it used to go up every year.
I'm rarely on a computer these days but if f I get some time later today Ill have a play and see what I can find out.

Wedgie wrote:

johntheclaret wrote:Serious question Wedgie, how is traffic on here compared to say the last couple of years.

I did a quick check and I’d say at least half of the top 40 posters on here (those with mote than 10,000 posts), either don’t post anymore or rarely post, I.e. less than say one post a week on average.

I dont know exact figures mate, its now on Diss's server now, when it used to be on my server I could check those stats pretty quickly and even see what parts of the world people posted from, it used to go up every year.
I'm rarely on a computer these days but if f I get some time later today Ill have a play and see what I can find out.

Had a look but admin panel doesnt have any stats, Diss would need to have a look in his servers cpanel to find figures, sorry mate.

Wedgie wrote:

Wedgie wrote:

johntheclaret wrote:Serious question Wedgie, how is traffic on here compared to say the last couple of years.

I did a quick check and I’d say at least half of the top 40 posters on here (those with mote than 10,000 posts), either don’t post anymore or rarely post, I.e. less than say one post a week on average.

I dont know exact figures mate, its now on Diss's server now, when it used to be on my server I could check those stats pretty quickly and even see what parts of the world people posted from, it used to go up every year.
I'm rarely on a computer these days but if f I get some time later today Ill have a play and see what I can find out.

Had a look but admin panel doesnt have any stats, Diss would need to have a look in his servers cpanel to find figures, sorry mate.

No worries, it was just a question in passing. Cheers anyway.

johntheclaret wrote:Serious question Wedgie, how is traffic on here compared to say the last couple of years.

I did a quick check and I’d say at least half of the top 40 posters on here (those with mote than 10,000 posts), either don’t post anymore or rarely post, I.e. less than say one post a week on average.

Blind Freddy could see that traffic is well down on what it used to be all across the board.


The ammo's board used to be an absolute mecca all week, every week, now it's a ghost town.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

johntheclaret wrote:Serious question Wedgie, how is traffic on here compared to say the last couple of years.

I did a quick check and I’d say at least half of the top 40 posters on here (those with mote than 10,000 posts), either don’t post anymore or rarely post, I.e. less than say one post a week on average.

Blind Freddy could see that traffic is well down on what it used to be all across the board.

The ammo's board used to be an absolute mecca all week, every week, now it's a ghost town.

Numbers will probably show it's not dropped off much. Unfortunately the server can't detect the quality of the posting, the quality of the posters or who it is that drives the negative side of the posting on here.

Lots of good posters have been lost to the site through various means, unfortunate, but I guess they grew tired of immaturity and inconsistency.

Quality has gone up big time, no nasty personal arguments on here like there used to be, usually just some fun these days.
Most posters gone have made the place a much better place and for every moron that left on the whole they've been replaced by 2-5 better posters.

I'm unsure about the numbers. Obviously the SANFL forum has gone backward big time since the AFL sides entered the comp but the AFL and General Discussion board as well as talk on other sports seems to be on the rise since the old days. Never really frequented the Ammos so couldn't comment on any changes in there.

I think the rise of Facebook has had a big influence to online forums but it hasn't been as noticable here as much as I've noticed it elsewhere.

Interesting observations from Boon & Wedgie. As a relative newbie I can't make comparisons to the "good old days" so is quality of posts/topics up or down?

Corona Man wrote:Interesting observations from Boon & Wedgie. As a relative newbie I can't make comparisons to the "good old days" so is quality of posts/topics up or down?

That depends if Crows or Port lose

Booney wrote:
Numbers will probably show it's not dropped off much. Unfortunately the server can't detect the quality of the posting, the quality of the posters or who it is that drives the negative side of the posting on here.

Lots of good posters have been lost to the site through various means, unfortunate, but I guess they grew tired of immaturity and inconsistency.

Dunno, I remember spending the first hour each day perusing the recently posted in threads, wrap it up in 5 or 10 minutes nowadays.

MW wrote:

Corona Man wrote:Interesting observations from Boon & Wedgie. As a relative newbie I can't make comparisons to the "good old days" so is quality of posts/topics up or down?

That depends if Crows or Port lose

True, and guilty as charged.

How about some of the broader topics, outside bagging each others teams?

Corona Man wrote:Interesting observations from Boon & Wedgie. As a relative newbie I can't make comparisons to the "good old days" so is quality of posts/topics up or down?

I can also say from moderating in the old days we had to regularly delete comments, quite often several daily, these days its lucky to be one a month. Hardly any bannings these days compared to the old days too, and the only ones these days are for people regisering under new names that had previous names banned.
Can't even remember the last banning because of behaviour. People in here these days are much more mature, in the old days there was even threats laid by people to other people.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Booney wrote:
Numbers will probably show it's not dropped off much. Unfortunately the server can't detect the quality of the posting, the quality of the posters or who it is that drives the negative side of the posting on here.

Lots of good posters have been lost to the site through various means, unfortunate, but I guess they grew tired of immaturity and inconsistency.

Dunno, I remember spending the first hour each day perusing the recently posted in threads, wrap it up in 5 or 10 minutes nowadays.

Yep, there's forums I could remove from my index and I wouldn't miss them.

Dont need the SANFL forum anymore