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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The other data shows that posts and comments are going up linearly (a little suspicious but OK), but I wonder how the modlog affects the data (meaning how is it captured and when). I made one comment to a honest post yesterday (hosted on a remote instance), which then the post was deleted by admins like so:

Removed Post Any app for call recording ? reason: Rule 2: Please use [email protected] for support questions.

So my comment shows in my history but cannot actually be accessed; was this comment counted? was that post counted? Was I counted as an active user yesterday if that was the only activity I did all day? Was the one person who upvoted my comment before the thread was deleted counted?

Lies, damn lies and statistics. :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah thats another good one. Its almost like it would be useful to see what each tracker would do in the following scenarios:

  1. Create a persona instance with a couple of accounts (like 3)

  2. See what each site says

  3. Create a post/ create comment/ upvote sample post.

  4. Ban an account (How many active users are now being counted? How many comments? Did that comment/post go away retroactively?)

  5. other such experiments....

  6. Let everyone know the results.

Wish I had more time.