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On a site like this the lurkers always greatly outnumber the posters. Over the past 24 hours we've probably had around 8000 unique visitors, of which 234 have posted links or made comments:

  > (let posters (table)
      ((afn (n)
         (let i (item n) 
           (unless (> (days-since i!time) 1) 
             (assert (posters i!by))
             (self (- n 1)))))
        maxid*)
      (len posters))
  234
So 2.9% post and 97% lurk. The proportion of posters is actually higher than I would have predicted, based on what I remember about such numbers from Reddit.



What percentage of readers contribute by modding (is that the right word?) comments or submissions?




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