Interesting Forums Stats

[Jamie French]

I like the cartoons as well... especially the 3D monster porn stuff, (petite fantasy girls, big hulking monsters)... gonna open up a whole new section of my website featuring original 3D cartoon content soon.

One reference to cartoons in five pages, they seem to be hugely popular. I don't get it, I see a cartoon and its as interesting as a paper bag, what's the fascination?

[Ecstatic]

I am sorry I had to die laughing at these stats...when hungangel men act so homophobic.

Yep, that's what I thought, Kelly! (And I've been here since 2004...hmm, what's that indicate?)

[Ecstatic]

where are all the "Am I gay?" threads?

Well I didn't attempt a statistical analysis of all threads on HA (now that would be interesting, but jeez, who has the time?). I just noticed some interesting factors in the top ten most viewed threads.

[Dino Velvet]

Let me be clear about my attitude regarding being "gay". It is one of the eternal questions that arises here - usually from newbies. The "am I gay" issue because they like transexuals. My perspective on it is that being gay is 100 per cent fine. Being straight is 100 per cent fine and so is enjoying the look, company and sexuality of transgendered girls. And finding them attractive and interesting as people. For me they are women. Which is why I said i found it depressing that so many visitors here seem (and I am not sure i really understand the statistics being offered) to be at the 'gay" end of the spectrum in seeming to prefer to view pictures of what are,, at best, either transexuals who have scarcely started their transition or rather more accurately effeminate gay men. That's cool too. Nothing wrong with liking them. But as i said I would have expected them to be a somewhat minority interest on this forum. I'd expect their enthusiasts to congregate elsewhere - and be regulars on sites such as gaydar. But there we are. Hungangels is a broad church.

Basically people arrive here in different ways. Some stomp in tracking through the mud and others back that ass up onto the board. Nothing wrong with being either, neither, or all three.

[Amy Gray]

Or indicative of HA bias?

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

The conclusions you appear to be drawing are flawed for the type of statistical analysis you're making. The most obvious issue is that you're examining total posts only while ignoring a number of other crucial factors. Here are some other points you'd have to account for.

• Age of thread - If one thread is 8 years old and has 3 million posts while another is a month old and has a million posts... well that's not a valid comparison.
  
• Performance throughout the thread's life - In the above example you might find that the three million post thread ALSO had a million posts in it's first month. You have to examine not just age but performance throughout it's life
  
• What posters are represented by those threads - You might have one thread with four million posts coming from four posters while another thread has a hundred thousand posts by a hundred thousand posters. Factoring in who posted and how much each of them posted is kind of critical before you can infer anything.
  
• The actual subject of the thread - For example, in your thailand streetwalker thread it appears that you assumed the thread was about streetwalking but couldn't it easily have been thai trans women? You might find that the title of the thread gives little indication as to the subject. Also, a thread about crossdressers might be consumed with off topic posts about peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches. You'll likely find that those threads actually have multiple topics all of which are unrelated to the OP.

Sorry, I know I'm taking it way too seriously but I could just see my statics professors throttling me if I didn't say anything. In short, the only thing you can infer from those threads is that hung angels has threads with a lot of posts... or possibly that I really like peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches.

[francisfkudrow]

Well I didn't attempt a statistical analysis of all threads on HA (now that would be interesting, but jeez, who has the time?). I just noticed some interesting factors in the top ten most viewed threads.

From what I can infer, while there are vast numbers of "am I gay" threads, no one of these threads can hope to make it into the views necessary to meet the threshold required for Ecstatic's study.

[Amy Gray]

From what I can infer, while there are vast numbers of "am I gay" threads, no one of these threads can hope to make it into the views necessary to meet the threshold required for Ecstatic's study.

*facepalms* I totally forgot to mention that. Frequency of the topic overall! There might (for argument sake) be 3 CD threads with a million votes each and ten million one post threads about guys asking if they're gay.

[Corran]

I always go straight to the pic of the day threads..

[nysprod]

He left out the "Shemales in Real Life" thread because it's on it's third iteration after the first two were deleted...together, they had millions of views.

[danthepoetman]

Helloez again! I've been around, pitching insightfully sarcastic comments here and there.

~BB~

Hmm? who are you exactly??