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2020-04-01, 12:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Well, it took me 6 years after I started reading the comic to just make forum account.
Most of the time, by the moment Id read new comic and went to the forums, you guys had already discussed everything and explained to readers like me. :)Avatar made by Strawberries
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2020-04-01, 12:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
This thread is somehow both on-topic and off-topic in regards to the Order of the Stick, it's genuinely perplexing.
"When will I ever stop telling stories? Well, you see..."
That's what loyal teammates do for each other, isn't it? You know, when they're not busy getting new haircuts.
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2020-04-01, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Sounds like business as usual for this place.
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2020-04-01, 11:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
For whatever it's worth, the forums used to be much more active than they currently are (or, at least, the Order of the Stick section did, since that's mostly the part I look at). In the late 2000s and early 2010s, a new post could fall all the way off the front page in less than a day, whereas, checking the front page now, only the top 5 posts have replies from within the last 24 hours. I'm not sure if there were more posters or if the ones that were here were just more active, or more likely some combination of the two. I'm not sure when exactly that changed (I took a fairly extended hiatus from the forums myself) and I wouldn't want to speculate on the reasons why it did, but I wouldn't be surprised if the post volume back then was an order of magnitude greater than it is now.
Last edited by rgrekejin; 2020-04-01 at 11:41 PM.
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2020-04-02, 02:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-02, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Also, message boards in general were a much more popular medium back then, and they didn't have to compete with reddit and Facebook.
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2020-04-03, 04:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Anecdata point: I tend to read the comic and then browse the forum when I feel like reading more OotS but there isn't any new strips. I made an account a few years ago but forgot what email address I used. And then I made this account, to ask some question, but when I was done making it the question was already answered. I've been lurking for at least ten years though, maybe more.
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2020-04-04, 01:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Really difficult to say (obviously) but I wonder what counts as a "reader"
I imagine he permanently loses some readers every time he goes on hiatus, (the less dedicated fans simply stop checking for updates and forget about it.)
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2020-04-17, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
When it comes to free internet accounts, you never know if multiple accounts are secretly controlled by a single person. I have seen no evidence that there are more than two actual people using this forum: me and Peelee. All other accounts might just be Peelee's sockpuppets (of course I know I don't have any sockpuppet accounts!)
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2020-04-17, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
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2020-04-17, 07:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
I read it fairly often, what does that put us at?
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton (Bygone, bygone)
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn (Bygone, bygone)
Columnated ruins domino
My avatar was made by a very lovely chap by the name of smutmulch. That was very cool of them.
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2020-04-17, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-17, 09:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
For all I know, every profile on this board except mine could be run by the same person. So I only see proof that 3 people read it: My daughter, me, and at least 1 other person on this forum.
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2020-04-17, 09:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2020-04-17, 09:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
I can only know for sure one other person, who must really love fighting themself, because I have never managed to convince anyone to read this comic besides random strips I throw at them.
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2020-04-17, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Probably the best way to figure out is to take that 650k figure and compare the pageviews for a newish (lets say about 1 year old) forum thread to the pageviews for an average forum thread from that era. My suspicion is that readership is somewhat down (typically happens as things go on for decades), but no idea how much.
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2020-04-17, 09:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Semantics: if one person controls every account (except mine), then any designation of one of their accounts as the "main" and the others as "sockpuppets" is arbitrary.
Of course, there also seem to be posts going up at all hours of the day. So, if there is only one other user on this forum, then either you never sleep, or you write posts in advance and use a script to automatically upload them at different times, creating the illusion that you are always online.
And, given the high volume of posts on this forum, you either write really fast, or at least some of your posts are procedurally generated.
....which, now that I think about it, is starting to sound a lot like Reddit's r/SubredditSimulator.
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2020-04-17, 10:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, my post was dumb and semantic, but on the other hand, you, are... 137ben, and that is a... dumb name?
Of course, there also seem to be posts going up at all hours of the day. So, if there is only one other user on this forum, then either you never sleep, or you write posts in advance and use a script to automatically upload them at different times, creating the illusion that you are always online.
And, given the high volume of posts on this forum, you either write really fast, or at least some of your posts are procedurally generated.
....which, now that I think about it, is starting to sound a lot like Reddit's r/SubredditSimulator.Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2020-04-17, 10:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
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2020-04-17, 11:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2020-04-18, 01:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton (Bygone, bygone)
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn (Bygone, bygone)
Columnated ruins domino
My avatar was made by a very lovely chap by the name of smutmulch. That was very cool of them.
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2020-04-18, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-19, 03:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-20, 06:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-04-20, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
This thread is silly. Clearly OOTS has no readers, because nothing exists and ontological nihilism is true. All this talk about one or two or three readers is silly when the answer is obviously zero.
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2020-04-21, 01:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Originally Posted by A very wise manA diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton (Bygone, bygone)
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn (Bygone, bygone)
Columnated ruins domino
My avatar was made by a very lovely chap by the name of smutmulch. That was very cool of them.
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2020-04-21, 09:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Wait, that math doesn't work. If there's an infinite number of worlds, but not all of them are populated, it doesn't follow that therefore only a finite number are populated. If, say, 1 out of every 1,000,000 worlds is populated, but there's literally an infinite number of worlds, there would therefore be an infinite number of populated worlds as well, and the population of the universe is infinite. Therefore, the readership of OotS is infinite. QED.
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2020-04-21, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
Wait, that math doesn't work. If the population of the universe is infinite, and the world wide web is only on one planet, then the readership of a comic on the world wide web must be finite. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero, therefore the average readership of the comic is zero, and so the total readership must be zero. QED.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2020-04-21, 11:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
At this point I can't tell whether each of you is
A) Not getting that this is a H2G2 joke.
B) Not getting that it is a joke at all and the poor math is intentional.
B) Not getting that it is a joke and thinking the math is correct.
C) Getting that it is a joke and doubling down on the poor math.
D) Obi-Wan Kenobi.
E) Getting that it is a joke and thinking th emath is correct.
F) Any of the previous.Forum Wisdom
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2020-04-21, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How many people read Order of the Stick?
The answer is D) Obi-Wan Kenobi, and I will not be taking questions at this time.Real Answer: I didn't get that the bad math was intentional, or that it was a reference, but I did understand it was a joke, which I'm not sure where it falls in those answers.
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