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To: Snowshoe who wrote (2473)	10/25/2013 8:23:30 PM
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The data in my previous post underscores the extent of political posting on SI. Within the overall declining trend, the number of annual posts tends to stabilize during U.S. presidential election years, and decline significantly in post-election years.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (2473)

11/8/2013 2:10:52 AM

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I've added up the total monthly posts on SI for January - October, 2013, based on the first post # of each month. As you can see, there was a big jump in October which likely reflects increased political posting due to the government shutdown and launch of the Healthcare.gov website. Based on this trend, I project a little under 700,000 posts for 2013, so the annual decline continues...

October	61,448
September	52,742
August	53,876
July	53,446
June	53,988
May	58,959
April	58,746
March	55,666
February	53,707
January	63,779

Note: I also compared the first 7 days since SI's banner ad roll out (Nov 1 - 7) to the previous week (Oct 25-31). Lo and behold, posts increased by 14% in the 7 days after the banner ads appeared! Could this be due to the ruckus over the banner ads, lifetime membership status dispute, banning of Dale Baker from this thread, etc? Or maybe people were clicking on pages to admire the tasteful banner ads? Believe it or nto, I actually saw one for Depend briefs! :o)

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1/1/2014 3:58:12 PM

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SI ANNUAL POST TALLY (1995-2013)

This table is based on year-to-year comparisons of the first post ID number for each year. I assume the large decline after presidential election years reflects a jump in political posts during the election campaigns. The average annual decline rate since 1/1/2000 is 12.4%...

Year	Post Count	Growth Rate

2013	671,367	-14.1%
2012	781,518	-1.5%
2011	793,208	-6.4%
2010	847,731	-8.2%
2009	923,102	-17.4%
2008	1,117,292	8.5%
2007	1,029,385	-8.5%
2006	1,125,231	1.1%
2005	1,113,044	-11.7%
2004	1,260,995	0.4%
2003	1,255,722	-18.5%
2002	1,540,033	-11.7%
2001	1,744,116	-34.7%
2000	2,671,284	-50.3%
1999	5,373,448	34.7%
1998	3,988,504	61.6%
1997	2,467,488	317.1%
1996	591,557	4706.7%
1995	12,307