Message Board Recap - May 2025

Welcome to the ninth edition of "Message Board Recap"! Here's some (hopefully) interesting stats about the Message Board for the month of May 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 100 threads were made during the month of May 2025, giving an average of 3.23 threads per day.

- The day with the most threads was May 5, with 9 threads.

- The day with the fewest threads was May 29, with no threads.

- A total of 54 unique users made at least one thread throughout the month, giving an average of 1.85 threads per user.

- Throughout the month, one user (Lexiconic) made 14 threads, one user (Lindwyrm) made 6 threads, one user (cathlete) made 5 threads,  two users made 4 threads each, and 49 made three or fewer threads each.

The top 6 thread creators made 36 threads in total, or 36% of all May 2025 threads.

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

66plus44isnot100, Amphi64, AnAmerican, angeliriarte, azerifactory, BooksNMore, cathlete, cskizz, Dimby, Dollyfroggy, Eherkk, EricDrozda, Fifi567, FlagFreak1415, Gabictfer, Gademotsili99, gsb, HeyItsRose18, Hinckford, HubertThePhoenix, Jax2TheMax333, Jeremy2011, js2354, JustJoshing, keykey9351onyt, krieger123, Lexiconic, Lindwyrm, lingonax, Lzm248887, Marjamjelly, Maxibon, mdr1200, NathanWInter, nations12345eat, NCFCquiz, nichster, paperdiego, Quizkid03, Quizmaster, rabble, Scythebrine, Syrext, TheBestVincent, thegoatisgoaty, TheHelloWorld, TheOfficialWheel, Thisisreal, toowise, torturedpoet21, TurkeyCookTime, unregistered, Vevangui, wsss

- All threads in May 2025 were liked 839 times in total, giving an average of 27.1 likes per day, 8.39 likes per thread, and 15.5 likes per unique user.

- The day with the most likes was May 5, with 97 likes.

- The day with the most likes per thread was May 23, with 15 likes and a single thread, averaging 15 likes per thread.

The top 6 like-getters received 328 likes in total, or 39.1% of all May 2025 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 May 31, 2025):

- All threads in May 2025 received 539 comments in total, giving an average of 17.4 comments per day, 5.39 comments per thread, and 9.98 comments per unique user.

- The day with the most comments was May 15, with 58 comments.

- The day with the most comments per thread was May 10, with 26 comments and 2 threads, averaging 13 comments per thread.

The top 6 comment-getters received 186 comments in total, or 34.5% of all MB comments in May 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 2 occasions;

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

Overall, "JetPunk" was correctly spelled on 2 out of 3 occasions, for a score of 67/100.

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

- 1 thread (1%) ended in an ellipsis "…";

- 25 threads (25%) ended in a question mark "?";

- 1 thread (1%) ended in a period / full stop ".";

- 2 threads (2%) ended in a right parenthesis ")";

- 7 threads (7%) ended in an exclamation mark "!";

- 64 threads (64%) 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 May 2025 contained 2,950 characters in total (including spaces), for an average of 29.5 chars per title.

- The thread with the longest title was "Test Your Knowledge on Countries Using the Imperial System!" by Lexiconic, with 59 chars in its title.

- Two threads are tied for the shortest: "Why?" by Jeremy2011 and "help" by unregistered. Both threads have only 4 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:

- 97 threads (97%) adhered to Sentence case by starting with a capital letter.

- Approximately 44 threads (44%) 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 May 2025. I hope you found it interesting. The next blog in this series will cover MB stats in the month of June 2025.

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