Message Board Recap - April 2025

Welcome to the eighth edition of "Message Board Recap"! Here's some (hopefully) interesting stats about the Message Board for the month of April 2025. This will be similar in format to MasterRocket's September 2024 blog (which I'm treating as the first edition), but not exactly the same.

- A total of 123 threads were made during the month of April 2025, giving an average of 4.1 threads per day.

- The day with the most threads was April 8, with 8 threads.

- The days with the fewest threads were April 6, 15 and 30, with one thread each. Every single day in April 2025 saw at least one thread made.

- A total of 58 unique users made at least one thread throughout the month, giving an average of 2.12 threads per user.

- Throughout the month, one user (Syrext) made 36 threads (!), one user (azerifactory) made 7 threads, one user (Lindwyrm) made 5 threads,  two users made 4 threads each, and 53 made three or fewer threads each.

The top 6 thread creators made 59 threads in total, or 48.0% of all April 2025 threads.

Here's every JetPunker who made at least one thread during April 2025:

Amphi64, AntiMatter8192, azerifactory, baptistegorce, brubbysauce, bunbud, BusbyBabe, CA1EBYT6, Changeling, CommitNoob, cuotak, Cypress981, damee, DarthKnight, Dimby, Dontforget, Elboy, FlabberBapper, Gademotsili99, Garrey, Gekko0923, Hozi, HubertThePhoenix, JapisCool, Jeremy, jetpunkplayer192, Jilb, JohnGisMe, JoJaRo, jordibabot, kotsarevalexey29, Levisek27, Lindwyrm, Lojants, LonelyGold, Luke12, Marjamjelly, Maxibon, mjolnir, Neodymium, nichster, Nickelz, OBarbosa, PigKat, Quizmaster, rabble, SilverDog, SorryImBad, SuperiorSicilia, Syrext, thegoatisgoaty, Timmytron20000, Timti57, toowise, torturedpoet21, UG332, WierDooo, YoshiSoda

- All threads in April 2025 were liked 1,733 times in total, giving an average of 57.8 likes per day, 14.1 likes per thread, and 29.9 likes per unique user.

- The day with the most likes was April 8, with 190 likes.

- The day with the most likes per thread was April 6, with 67 likes and a single thread, averaging 67 likes per thread.

The top 6 like-getters received 912 likes in total, or 52.6% of all April 2025 likes.

Now let's look at the top 10 most-liked Message Board threads (all thread titles are exactly as they appear):

(Can someone please tell me in full what exactly happened to the MB in early April 2025? I know a lot of threads got deleted and stuff but it seems to me that the MB itself went down or something? I'm confused. Thanks.)

- All threads in April 2025 received 731 comments in total, giving an average of 24.4 comments per day, 5.94 comments per thread, and 12.6 comments per unique user.

- The day with the most comments was April 8, with 60 comments.

- The day with the most comments per thread was April 6, with 18 comments and a single thread, averaging 18 comments per thread.

The top 6 comment-getters received 332 comments in total, or 45.4% of all MB comments in April 2025.

Now let's look at the top 10 most commented threads (all thread titles are exactly as they appear):

Here's some other fun facts and stats that I think might be interesting.

The correct way to spell "JetPunk" is to either capitalize both the J and the P, or to capitalize neither. Here's a breakdown of how people did in thread titles:

✅ Both the J and the P were capitalized on 7 occasions;

✅ Neither the J nor the P was capitalized on 1 occasion;

❌ On another 1 occasion, the J was capitalized, but not the P.

Overall, "JetPunk" was correctly spelled on 8 out of 9 occasions, for a score of 89/100.

It seems, yet again, that there's always someone out there who can't get this simple spelling right. Please, just hold down Shift while you type that P. Easy peasy.

Here's a look into whether thread titles ended with a punctuation mark, and which ones:

- 21 threads (17.1%) ended in a question mark "?";

- 5 threads (4.1%) ended in a period / full stop ".";

- 3 threads (2.4%) ended in a right parenthesis ")";

- 3 threads (2.4%) ended in an exclamation mark "!";

- 91 threads (74.0%) did not end in a punctuation mark.

1. Length of Thread Titles

Have you noticed that some threads have much longer titles than others? Here's a look into the length of thread titles:

- All MB thread titles in April 2025 contained 3,358 characters in total (including spaces), for an average of 27.3 chars per title.

- Something interesting happened with the longest threads this month:

---- 1) Three threads are tied for the longest, namely: "Drop your favorite HTML for Quizzes, Blogs, or even posting in M" by JapisCool, "Municipalities of former Yugoslav countries quizzes taken for YT" by Hozi, and "Is there a way to swap the image after answering in a picture qu" by OBarbosa.

---- 2) All those threads have 64 characters in their titles, and two of them seem to have been cut off, suggesting that there might be a maximum character limit of 64 chars for MB thread titles.

- Two threads are tied for the shortest: "Hello" by SuperiorSicilia and "Polls" by Garrey. Both threads have only 5 chars in their titles.

2. Capitalization of Thread Titles

Even though they're technically "titles", not everyone on the MB adheres to Title Case in their thread titles. Here's a breakdown:

- 115 threads (93.5%) adhered to Sentence case by starting with a capital letter.

- Approximately 65 threads (52.8%) adhered to Title Case. Note that this is an "approximate" figure since there are slight variations in the exact rules of Title Case.

This wraps up all the stats I have for the MB in April 2025. I hope you found it interesting. The next blog in this series will cover MB stats in the month of May 2025.

That's all for this blog, and see you in the next one.