Message Board Recap - December 2024

Welcome to the fourth edition of "Message Board Recap"! Here's some (hopefully) interesting stats about the Message Board for the month of December 2024. 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 60 threads were made during the month of December 2024, giving an average of 1.94 threads per day.

- The days with the most threads were December 3 and 27, with 5 threads each.

- The days with the fewest threads were December 6, 10, 13, 20 and 31, with no threads.

- A total of 42 unique users made at least one thread throughout the month, giving an average of 1.43 threads per user.

- Throughout the month, two users made 4 threads each, five users made 3 threads each, another two users made 2 threads each, and 33 made only one thread each.

The top 6 thread creators made 20 threads in total, or one-third of all December 2024 threads.

Here's every JetPunker who made at least one thread during December 2024:

Alex3813, Amphi64, arjaygee, bantqq1, bluehorizons, Brylee068249, Cheviot, Daniel1712, Dimby, donavin05, DubawntLake, Eherkk, hamid123, HubertThePhoenix, IFGroup, IStoleYourBagel, J00nyir, jack541, jordibabot, JunbriSkulldog, Junseong, katieeeeeeeeeeee, LACountrymaster, Levisek27, MayoInaLift, McKenzieFam, Muncie, Myles980, MyrmidonPantheon, Nevson64, Nialovestheworld, ooftownroad, queenofnerds, Quizmaster, rhager842, samy13, Sefrianna, SPVK, TheCubeIsBack, TheSinnohman, WilliamScott25, yourlovingfather

- All threads in December 2024 were liked 175 times in total, giving an average of 5.65 likes per day, 2.92 likes per thread, and 4.17 likes per unique user.

- The day with the most likes was December 24, with 24 likes.

- The day with the most likes per thread was December 21, with 18 likes and 2 threads, averaging 9 likes per thread.

The top 6 like-getters received 78 likes in total, or 44.6% of all December 2024 likes.

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

- All threads in December 2024 received 207 comments in total, giving an average of 6.68 comments per day, 3.45 comments per thread, and 4.93 comments per unique user.

- The days with the most comments were December 4, 11 and 30, with 20 comments each.

- The day with the most comments per thread was December 28, with 9 comments and a single thread, averaging 9 comments per thread.

(Non-exact figures are rounded to one decimal place)

The top 6 comment-getters received 92 comments in total, or 44.4% of all MB comments in December 2024.

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 1 occasion;

❌ On another 2 occasions, the J was capitalized, but not the P.

Come on, if you can capitalize the J, there's no reason you can't capitalize the P as well. Just hold down Shift while you type the P. It's that simple.

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

- 21 threads (35%) ended in a question mark "?";

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

- 1 thread (1.7%) ended in a right parenthesis ")";

- 6 threads (10%) ended in an exclamation mark "!";

- 29 threads (48.3%) 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 December 2024 contained 1,715 characters in total (including spaces), for an average of 28.6 chars per title.

- The thread with the longest title was "What is the weirdest coincidence regarding studio album titles?" by Junseong, with 63 chars in its title.

- The thread with the shortest title was "Playlists" by hamid123, with only 9 chars in its title.

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:

- 58 threads (96.7%) adhered to Sentence case by starting with a capital letter.

- Approximately 19 threads (31.7%) 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 December 2024. I hope you found it interesting. The next blog in this series will cover MB stats in the month of January 2025.

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