Stats for July are up!
Click here to view!. I'm just going to post the main stuff first...see if anyone finds the trend.
Top Posters July 2014
1. Wintermoot - 422 posts - 16.88%
2. Jonewest - 330 posts - 13.20%
3. Amalaya - 207 posts - 8.28%
4/5. Govinda/Polaris - 150 posts - 6.00%
6. 'Harry McClain' - 126 posts - 5.04%
7. Stacky - 100 posts - 4.00%
8. Weissreich - 97 posts - 3.88%
9. Stark - 90 posts - 3.60%
10. Prudii - 87 posts - 3.48%
Change in Posts/Day From May to June
* indicates new/returning members who had no posts last month.
+3.28 - Amalaya
+2.80 - Prudii*
+2.71 - Sapphiron*
+2.52 - Point Breeze*
+2.29 - The Black Hearted Rogue*
+1.80 - Leo the First*
+1.29 - Herr Beilschmidt*
+0.28 - Joe Bobs
+0.23 - 'Harry McClain'
+0.03 - Butterspring
-0.21 - Drexyl Nox
-0.33 - Charax Romanov
-0.48 - ORCA Bay
-0.51 - Chanku
-0.55 - Stacky
-0.63 - Govindia
-0.91 - The Golden Persian
-1.20 - Reon
-1.73 - Stark
-1.74 - Weissreich
-1.82 - Wintermoot
-2.76 - Denth Kasten
-2.89 - Polaris
-4.68 - Vidarr
-5.38 - Jonewest
As the month has gone by, I wondered why the infamous NationStates summer lull seemed to have minimal effect on our community, when I had watched it ravage Spiritus last July when I was president there. When I compiled the numbers, I got my answer: new and returning members. In fact, other than Amalaya
all members in the green zone either joined or returned this month, and they're the main reason Wintreath didn't fall victim to the summer lull this month at least. We were very lucky that so many people wanted to join our community and apparently enjoyed it enough to stick around.
Amalaya should also be commended for bucking the trend amongst existing members, and contributing to our region in many, many ways through her posts and more. And everyone...I know it was a trying month with vacations and trips going on.
But now we move on into August...traditionally, the summer lull lasts through late September, so we are hardly out of the woods yet. This month proves the importance of attracting new Citizens and members and not relying on a small cadre of super-posters for activity, even though it is also important that we keep building on our regional culture and activities to give both new and established members new things to do here on our forums. It's promising that we had such a good month when we should have had a pretty bad month, but we must continue to work to make sure we keep this up in the months ahead.