From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Cryptoengineer wrote or quoted:
>I've not used the chatbots much, and I had no idea you can use it like
>this.
These days, some people try to pass off AI-generated stuff
as their own, so I figured I'd flip that around for once as
kind of a joke - one I planned to clear up later - and said my
work came from a chatbot. Truth is, I actually ran the stats
myself with a little Python script I wrote.
>I've long wanted to make a chart of the number of active RASFW
>writers over time.
>
>'Active Writer' means someone who has contributed comments in
>a give year or month. Not original posters, since we used to
>have a major spam problem, which was almost always in the
>form of new threads.
It's possible that some of the sources I pulled my raw data
from already filtered out some spam, but here's a count with
counts of all the posts of a year in the second column and
counts of only the follow-ups in the third.
Year Count Follow
-up
count
2004 119265 116602
2005 112320 109625
2006 118100 114856
2007 118167 106506
2008 95188 92369
2009 95420 93208
2010 91185 89370
2011 81160 78803
2012 60961 59250
2013 46223 45074
2014 31743 30652
2015 28629 27809
2016 31216 30243
2017 22512 21306
2018 21340 20059
2019 23217 21746
2020 30471 28734
2021 24211 22829
2022 17209 15939
2023 10868 9698
2024 9369 8348
2025 7322 6349
2026 509 455 (So far, til around January 29, 2026)
Disclaimer: These stats might be off if there were any mistakes
in my data sources or the scripts I used to crunch the numbers.
FWIW, here's a bunch of words I picked out myself, with the
rank at the start of each line and the frequency at the end.
(I only included words that were written with a capital letter
in the post, just like you see them here.)
Rank Word Count
386 Earth 22201
1005 Science 7949
1013 Space 7867
1187 Mars 6703
1248 Moon 6340
1311 Wikipedia 6040
1400 Asimov 5638
1522 Dr 5151
1566 Trek 4991
1659 Fiction 4707
1677 Empire 4630
1679 Bush 4627
1685 Jesus 4608
1927 Niven 3953
1940 Books 3931
2004 Tolkien 3789
2102 X- 3592
2199 FTL 3419
2222 Bible 3369
2406 AI 3103
2434 Starmaker 3062
2576 Asimov's 2890
2588 Hugo 2874
2599 Lawrence 2863
2659 Heinlein's 2787
2721 Earth's 2709
2758 Potter 2664
2766 Magic 2650
2780 Evil 2636
2786 Isaac 2631
2894 Hollywood 2526
2920 NASA 2500
2941 Planet 2480
2949 Einstein 2473
3007 Doctor 2411
3323 Stories 2139
3327 Pratchett 2134
3622 Foundation 1944
3794 Ring 1843
3809 Shakespeare 1837
3918 Wells 1777
3933 Martian 1768
4063 Adams 1698
4256 Niven's 1608
4440 Pournelle 1537
4518 Bradbury 1501
4992 Starship 1336
4994 Oz 1336
5039 Newton 1324
5214 Chronicles 1273
5217 Nature 1273
5579 Tolkien's 1181
5634 FAQ 1167
5669 Rowling 1156
5878 Nebula 1110
5966 Apollo 1091
5981 Enterprise 1087
6004 Discworld 1083
6282 Radio 1026
6359 Berkeley 1011
6376 Gandalf 1008
6586 Troopers 963
6640 Jedi 950
6652 Lucas 947
6660 Saturn 947
6715 Orson 937
6778 Sturgeon 926
6822 Physics 919
6910 Buffy 904
6967 Twilight 894
7020 Forever 885
7044 Stranger 882
7151 Dilbert 862
7230 Pratchett's 847
7305 Singularity 837
7353 Armageddon 830
7468 Sherlock 815
7607 Galileo 797
7697 HTML 785
7753 Houston 777
7771 Massachusetts 775
8103 Joyce 734
8216 Relativity 721
8694 Matrix 663
9020 Einstein's 631
9241 ASCII 609
9314 Centauri 602
9506 Python 586
9597 Higgs 579
9708 Orwell 570
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