[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Crap Dramatically Increases

Posted: 8/19/2006 7:38:09 AM EDT

I have noted that the use of the word "CRAP" has significantly increased of late. I set out to validate my observation.

A 3 month search of all board topics yielded 61 posts with crap in the title. That is a rate of 244 crap posts per year.

Next, I visited the archives and determined that over the last 5 years only 614 crap posts have been made. That is 122 crap posts per year.

This shows that the rate of crappy posts in the last 3 months is almost double the 5 year average.

Does this mean that ARFCOM is about to go down the crapper?

Posted: 8/19/2006 7:40:31 AM EDT

[#1]

Aww crap

Posted: 8/19/2006 7:40:36 AM EDT

[#2]

CRAP....I'm guilty of one of them.

Posted: 8/19/2006 7:42:10 AM EDT

[#3]

I wish you'd quit posting about crap like this.

Posted: 8/19/2006 7:47:20 AM EDT

[#4]

I am able to ascertain the exact meaning of this phenomena, you have too much time on your hands

Posted: 8/19/2006 7:49:58 AM EDT

[#5]

Did other words increase or just crap?

How do you know there wasn't just more activity in general?

Posted: 8/19/2006 7:59:35 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Did other words increase or just crap?

How do you know there wasn't just more activity in general?

This is a valid point, but I don't have any data that shows posts per year. I think that is pretty crappy in itself.

I could archive search in one year chunks to look for an increasing trend, but who has time to look up all that crap?

Posted: 8/19/2006 8:17:07 AM EDT

[#7]

One reason I'm glad my $h!t don't stink. $h!t that does stink is just crap.