Message Board Recap - March 2026

Welcome to the 19th edition of "Message Board Recap"! Here's some (hopefully) interesting stats about the Message Board for the month of March 2026. 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 164 threads were made during the month of March 2026, for an average of 5.29 threads per day.

- The day with the most threads was March 16, with 10 threads.

- The days with the fewest threads were March 3, 7, 8, 17, 20 and 26, with 3 threads each.

- A total of 58 unique users made at least one thread throughout the month, for an average of 2.83 threads per user.

- Throughout the month, one user (Danny999) made 19 threads, one user (Capybarra) made 13 threads, one user (SteveTheEagle) made 10 threads, two users made 8 threads each, and 53 made six or fewer threads each.

The top 6 thread creators made 64 threads in total, or 39.0% of all March threads.

Here's every JetPunker who made at least one thread in March:

aestheticdirt, akjlddkjslfsd, AstroRaiden, azerifactory, Basaball, BautyArg, BooksNMore, Capybarra, Chinamaster, codeninjas29, Danny999, DarthKnight, Dimby, Dynniks, FreeStater, heyitsRen, HeyItsRose18, Hinckford, HubertThePhoenix, IFGroup, IridiumPingo, jbommer, jbro, Jeremy, KiloNova, Kingsfisher, lecoolgeoguy, LegoBuilderOne, Lindwyrm, LuckyCat, Lycopene87, Marjamjelly, MasterRocket, Maxibon, MeMeMe333, Monzal, NEGeo, Neodymium, Nevson64, OohAngelo, OvenBobat, PingasPootis, Pontiac, Ptcairn, quizlover77, Quizmaster, Simon1006, SpencerGT, SPVK, SteveTheEagle, Swatcat, Time123, tixxy, toowise, TwelvePointFont, Ushuaia, Wizzandy, zarodinu

- All threads in March 2026 were liked 903 times in total, for an average of 29.1 likes per day, 5.51 likes per thread, and 15.6 likes per unique user.

- The day with the most likes was March 24, with 63 likes.

- The day with the most likes per thread was March 17, with 29 likes and 3 threads, averaging 9.67 likes per thread.

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

The top 6 like-getters received 380 likes in total, or 42.1% of all March likes.

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

Here are the top 10 users with the most total likes year-to-date (through March 31):

Total likes year to date: 2,687

- All threads in March 2026 received 2,120 comments in total, for an average of 68.4 comments per day, 12.9 comments per thread, and 36.6 comments per unique user.

- The day with the most comments was March 11, with 190 comments.

- The day with the most comments per thread was March 15, with 139 comments and 5 threads, averaging 27.8 comments per thread.

The top 6 comment-getters received 1,002 comments in total, or 47.3% of all MB comments in March.

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

Here are the top 10 users with the most total comments year-to-date (through March 31):

Total comments year to date: 5,407

- Overall, MB threads in March 2026 had more comments than likes, with a like-to-comment ratio of 1:2.35.

- 41 threads (25%) had more likes than comments; 107 (65.2%) had more comments than likes; 16 (9.8%) had the same number of likes and comments.

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 11 occasions;

❌ On another 3 occasions, the J was capitalized, but not the P.

Overall, "JetPunk" was correctly spelled on 11 out of 14 occasions or 79% of the time.

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

- 1 thread (0.6%) ended in a right square bracket "]";

- 47 threads (28.7%) ended in a question mark "?";

- 3 threads (1.8%) ended in a period / full stop ".";

- 16 thread (9.8%) ended in a right parenthesis ")";

- 12 threads (7.3%) ended in an exclamation mark "!";

- 85 threads (51.8%) 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 March 2026 contained 5,344 characters in total (including spaces), for an average of 32.6 chars per title.

- The thread with the longest title was "Can you name all the countries in the World Lacrosse Association" by Lycopene87, with 64 chars in its title.

- The thread with the shortest title was "1000" by IridiumPingo, with only 4 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:

- 162 threads (98.8%) adhered to Sentence case by starting with a capital letter.

- Approximately 66 threads (40.2%) adhered to Title Case. Note that this is an "approximate" figure since there are slight variations in the exact rules of Title Case.

Here are the top 20 most common words that appeared in thread titles from March 2026:

(The phrase "word search" appeared 7 times)

Here are the top 20 most common words that appeared in thread titles in 2026 so far (through March 31):

(The phrase "word search" appeared 18 times)

This wraps up all the stats I have for the MB in March 2026. I hope you found it interesting. The next blog in this series will cover MB stats in the month of April 2026.

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