Hi, All,
Just thought I’d recap the Blueboard stats for you so you can see how things are going on the board. Averages are since the inception of the board - September 1, 2003.
When the Blueboard started it had about 100 members and three months later it had 190 members (by the end of December). We had a massive influx of spammers registering in 2011 and 2012 - over 500 of them a day. (Every single one of which needed to be checked by hand by one of the five existing Administrators!) That’s when the SMF forum was changed from version 1 to version 2.0, which had much better spam blockers.
As of today:
There are 5,862 active Blueboard members and 4484 of those are current SCBWI members. :-)
At this moment there are 91 users on the message board, 16 of them are registered users, the rest are guests (unregistered people looking at just the open parts of the board). 7 of the registered users are Administrators and Moderators and 2 of the guests are spammers attempting to register. (They will not get through to the board, due to the diligence of the Administrators in checking the IP addresses of EVERY applicant against the Stop Spam Forum’s list of known spammers.)
There are 303,680 posts on 163 boards. (This Blueboard is BIG.) The average posts per day (since 2003) is just over 219. Average page views per day (since 2003) is 22,680.
To see the history of the board since it began, click on More Stats at the bottom of the board in the Forum Stats section of the board.
https://www.scbwi.org/boards/index.php?action=statsNote that page view totals are unavailable for the first year because the board didn’t begin counting them until 2004.