It's all at the top in this forum

[Andrew Brunelle]

I just did some calculations, adding up the posts from the top 60 posters in this forum and found out the following:

0.9% of the forum (the top 60) account for 30.1% of the total posts

I find this amazing. There are so many people on this forum, and yet a very small amount account for such a high bulk of the posts. I'm sure this is the same on every forum, but it really amazes me how in life there are the ones at the top who put in the work and then there are the rest, the overwhelmingly more, that just do not participate as much. It should be interesting to see how these numbers change over the months. Me being a mathematical kind of guy, I will keep up to date on how the percentages take place. Anyone else interested in this stuff or is it just me?

Edit: It's not that I meant to say "It's all at the top," but more like saying a pretty large percentage is made by the roughly 1% of the people who post the most. I find it very impressive that this sort of correlation can be made and I am going to browse other forums to see if there is a certain pattern.

[{aspiring_to_clarity}]

I think Shamou probably accounts for 25% of all posts .

But there are probably a lot of people who signed up and never posted or just posted a couple of times. It is interesting, but I don't like math .

[Shamou]

The top poster in another forum that I participate in has 86,702 posts by herself... now, that a lot of postings...

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[Jill]

Originally Posted by Shamou

The top poster in another forum that I participate in has 86,702 posts by herself... now, that a lot of postings...

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And I thought I was bad with 23,626 posts in my forum!

[Dharma]

Jeebus people! Put the keyboard down for a while!

Andrew, I'm sure you've heard of the 80/20 rule? 20% of the people do 80% of the work. Here is seems a bit more extreme.

[Max Power]

Hey, if the top posters are basically running the show, where's my check for the revenue split??

C'mon Steve, show me the money

This is how most contributor websites work, look at digg, they have a million members, but it's said that only 10% ever post, mind you at 100,000 people that's a lot of posting. I just had a thought, maybe I don't get no money, because I'm not a top poster I better increase my output, if only I could find something interesting to say

Max

[Old Soul]

uhmmm I think I was post hogging a little bit hehehe!

[Iff]

Although I am usually interested in such percentages, in this forum, I think, doesn't really matter, who does the actual posting, but more emphasis is on the content. Nevertheless, I thank each and every one of the posters for taking your time and making this contribution to the community.

Andrew, for the best overview, check for the deviation from the standard 80/20 rule (that is, how many posters contribute 80% of the material, or how much material is contributed by the top 20% of posters).

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[openeyes]

Originally Posted by Dharma

Andrew, I'm sure you've heard of the 80/20 rule? 20% of the people do 80% of the work. Here is seems a bit more extreme.

Actually it correlates fairly well to other things:

"In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2001, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 33.4% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 51%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 84%, leaving only 16% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers). In terms of financial wealth, the top 1% of households had an even greater share: 39.7%."

Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power