This is the 13th attempt at a monthly look at - well, it started off as an analysis of Hide Rate statistics for the site, more or less to see if I could counter some of the prevalent meme that Community Moderation was a joke. I think I've done that, but I've also realized that it's a meme that is going to continue to blazon itself across some parts of the site, because, well, why not?
So I'm going to take a slightly different tack for a while, and see if I can find a format/theme that people are more interested in. And that doesn't keep me up until three in the morning on the first of every month, trying to make sure the statistics are "fresh".
DK was at #213 in rankings for all US sites, as of April 2nd, which puts us above Netflix, nbc, Disney, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. That's a serious audience, and it makes for serious attempts at Spam. To check the rankings for yourself, click through the stat at the top right hand of the QuantCast page - it is available at the bottom of this page under
Visits and Other Stats for Advertisers
Real numbers for participation
Note: none of this counts anything on Facebook
For March 24, 2015
27,228 active users (commenting/diarying) for the year ending March 24, 2015
3,181,629 comments
57,587 diaries by 6,707 diarists.
Compare to August 23, 2014: (last time I compiled the same stats)
Users who commented within the past year: 28,339
Comments: 3,134,194
Users who diaried within the past year: 7,406
Diaries: 61,090
Active users: down 4%
Comments: up 1.5%
Diarists: down 9.4%
Diaries: down 6%
So, the total number of users is down slightly, but overall site participation by those users has increased over that same time.
Site statistics. from Quantcast
Sept 1, 2014:
7,353,205 Unique Visitors
36,960,996 Page Views
April 1, 2015
10,229,476 Unique Visitors - up 39%
44,211,000 Page Views - up 16.4%
Tell me what you'd like to see in the next few months. I don't guarantee I'll get to it, but who knows?
I keep thinking of doing another major analysis of how Hide Rates are used - and I keep quailing at the sheer amount of drudge work it will take to do it properly. My feeling is that, in general, there's been an upgrade in the general classiness of moderation since I started this, but the last month or so has seen a falloff there, as the potential candidates for the 2016 elections continue to be coy about whether they're actually going to do anything. So I'll probably wait and see, until something gets me particularly ticked off.
Thanks for checking in.