Glastonbury Popularity

[jeffie]

I was just looking at the numbers of topics. replies posted etc at the top level of the forum. By any measure Glastonbury is by far and away the most popular (of course we all know that!).

Can anyone actually work out how much more popular though - broke my head trying to....

Alternatively, on a scale of 1 - 10, how sad am I for even thinking about this?

J

Edited December 17, 2009 by jeffie

[lee60]

12

[sifi]

I was just looking at the numbers of topics. replies posted etc at the top level of the forum. By any measure Glastonbury is by far and away the most popular (of course we all know that!).

Can anyone actually work out how much more popular though - broke my head trying to....

Alternatively, on a scale of 1 - 10, how sad am I for even thinking about this?

J

Edited December 17, 2009 by sifimaster

[jeffie]

Isn't it just a matter of looking at the forums index page - www.efestivals.co.uk/forums - and seeing how many posts / threads there are compared to the other festivals on the list. I think the oldest thread in each of them is the same since Neil archived old threads a while back?

Glasto has 339,233 replies to 13,187 topics. Assuming the first post isn't a reply, that means there are 352,420 posts in this forum. Reading has 103,770 replies to 3,768 topics, which means there are 107,538 posts in that forum. That means for every post in the Reading forum, there are 3.2 posts in the Glasto forum.

Does this help?

Edited December 17, 2009 by jeffie

[sifi]

Yes - now where's that Excel graph

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

A pie chart aswell man, don't forget the pie chart. mmmmm pies.

[jeffie]

Oh lovely. If you save the Excel sheet as a html page, it will create a gif image for the chart - which you can save to the images section of this board, or some other picture hosting site, and then post it here for all of us to marvel at.

[sifi]

Please tell me that you're joking......

Edited December 17, 2009 by sifimaster

[dan05delaney]

A pie chart aswell man, don't forget the pie chart. mmmmm pies.

[sifi]

/gallery/1256080724/gallery_2175_940_5612.jpg">Pie Chart ahoy

As we can see from the chart, Glasto is much more popular and better than all the other festivals.

So there.

[t0paz]

No, we're just more obsessive!

Plus, why come on the Reading board months before as the lineup is the only thing that counts there.

2 active topics since 19th Oct

[5co77ie]

/gallery/1256080724/gallery_2175_940_5612.jpg">Pie Chart ahoy

As we can see from the chart, Glasto is much more popular and better than all the other festivals.

So there.

[sifi]

But this chart doesn't include the posts in the other festivals and international festivals forums.

[Buddhafish]

Doesn't the number of attendees need to be considered? I.e. if Glastonbury has 3 times as many attendees than Reading, then shouldn't it have 3 times as many posts for them to be equally popular amongst it's attendees? Or something?

Edited December 17, 2009 by Buddhafish

[sifi]

Doesn't the number of attendees need to be considered? I.e. if Glastonbury has 3 times as many attendees than Reading, then shouldn't it have 3 times as many posts for them to be equally popular amongst it's attendees? Or something?

[jeffie]

I'm wondering if I should have asked this now

Next thing is Peter Snow will arrive!

[Felna]

I know. I only selected the larger festivals so I'm at least starting to compare like with like.

[sifi]

I think you also need to take into account other forums - the Isle of Wight Festival has a very successful forum so the efestivals one doesn't attract much attention, whereas Glastonbury doesn't have it's own so this forum is more active.

[jeffie]

I think you also need to take into account other forums - the Isle of Wight Festival has a very successful forum so the efestivals one doesn't attract much attention, whereas Glastonbury doesn't have it's own so this forum is more active.

[Ed209]

I was just looking at the numbers of topics. replies posted etc at the top level of the forum. By any measure Glastonbury is by far and away the most popular (of course we all know that!).

Can anyone actually work out how much more popular though - broke my head trying to....

Alternatively, on a scale of 1 - 10, how sad am I for even thinking about this?

J

[jeffie]

he he

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

11..

cannot believe no one else said that!

[Kyelo]

Not going to do the maths but a lot of people on here have their order wrong in my view.....

Efestivals Forum Popularity

Glastonbury

TITP

Reading & Leeds(2 festivals)

V(2 festivals)

Rockness(almost has the same amount of posts as Download, IOW & Sonisphere combined)

[worthyraver]

my sort of pie chart

[mikeb]

my sort of pie chart

Edited December 17, 2009 by mikeb