Whoah!

[Morrus]

Maybe you could alter the display and count page for posters to automatically not count or display people who've made less than 2 posts. I suppose it could startle n00bs signing on and immediately checking to see where they exist in the grand scheme of things, and lose some dedicated lurkers (as well as allow a few of the machinegun sorts of rapid posting spammers int) but you'd probably end up with a more actual count of how many people are using ENWorld too.

Again, that's a bunch of coding effort to affect how many peoples' birthdays are displayed on one day of the year. Yes, of course we could do it. But why? Does it matter to anybody, other than causing a curiousity thread once a year?

 

[James Heard]

I wasn't thinking about it in terms of birthdays, I was thinking about it in terms of bing able to say "ENWorld has X amount of real members who visit X amount each day from X amount of distinct IPs." I also thought it would be a fairly easy filter to code in, which I fully allow might be ridiculous since I haven't touched anything at all resembling code in a decade and don't have the slightest clue. I thought real data on who your customers were was pretty much always useful though. *Shrug*

YMMV. I don't even go to ENWorld much on my birthday. I was pretty exclusively thinking about trying to correct the data somehow to try to figure out how many real people actually made some effort at participating vs the inflated figure of people just trying sell us all penis pills and investment tips.