New Comment System

[Fubster]

I believe everyone has noticed that comments have increased since the new comment system was implemented a week ago. Here are some statistics to quantify that. For all stats, I only looked at the week before and the week after the new system.


Comments per day, before:

Fri, Aug 08	Sat, Aug 09	Sun, Aug 10	Mon, Aug 11	Tue, Aug 12	Wed, Aug 13	Thu, Aug 14
18	42	23	34	20	32	57

Average 32/day


Comments per day, after:

Fri, Aug 15	Sat, Aug 16	Sun, Aug 17	Mon, Aug 18	Tue, Aug 19	Wed, Aug 20	Thu, Aug 21
848	666	671	500	772	725	674

Average 694/day


How often are members commenting?

	Before	After
Never	89%	22%
1%-15% of the time	6%	12%
15%-50% of the time	3%	22%
More than 50% of the time	2%	43%

How long are the comments the members are leaving?

	Before	After
Smiley only:	3%	11%
Single word comments:	15%	17%
2 word comments:	9%	21%
3-5 word comments:	46%	36%
6+ word comments:	27%	14%

[bazzah]

By Jove! I think we've cracked it!!! Remember tho, commenting is not mandatory! Only comment IF you want to! But if you do, the designers will love ya for it :P

[bobby_uk]

As soon as you click to view the cover it automatically adds 1 download to the download total whether you download the cover or not.

[bazzah]

As soon as you click on the watermarked image, you are downloading the full sized cover. Whether you save the cover or not is irrelevant, as it is counting the actual download.

[easylife]

Well done on finding a voluntary system that works.

[venome]

the stats speak for themselves.. congrats guys it works very well

[Demonology]

noticed a huge increase in comments and some comments were saying thanx i never knew how to comment before lol
so the changes have done alot for everyone on it... and i applaud the hard work to find a system that has been proved
to 100% work ....

fantastic guys

[Irrob]

Well Freaking Done fellas!!!

[ubl6612]

surprisingly successful. Though I'll leave the daily troll comment checks to Bazzah from now on.

[bobby_uk]

QUOTE(Bazzah @ Aug 22 2008, 04:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As soon as you click on the watermarked image, you are downloading the full sized cover. Whether you save the cover or not is irrelevant, as it is counting the actual download.

Downloading it to where ??? Cyberspace ??