How many askvillers do you think are registered and how many do you think are actually actively using askville?

I am looking for a factual answer, but I'm really not sure if that number can be found. Asked by dwdrums 49 months ago Similar questions: askvillers registered actively askville Amazon > Askville.

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After thinking about this question for weeks, I think I can give a good answer. First of all you know that it is probably not possible to come up with an accurate number since we have no access to Askville database. I try my best to use what is available publicly to get a good estimate.

The first thing that we should notice is that there is an ID# associated to any screen name. For example your profile could be accessed via the following link. askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile... So your ID# would be 1539135.

Now, obviously no two ID#’s can be the same. Because otherwise you are going to get the same link and hence the same profile. I claim that this number is increasing.It means that the people who have registered earlier have smaller ID#.

Lets see if this claim is true or not. Let me find some very old members of Askville. From the front page click on "See More" to see the list of all questions.

Scan the questions to get to the VERY last page. Right now that page is Page # 6735.It can be found via the following link. askville.amazon.com/RequestsByFilter.do?... This list contains ALL questions, answered or unanswered.

So, we can get those who have been here for a long time. These are a few of them with their ID#: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile... http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=33665 http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=33822 http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=33838 Now, let’s look at some other pages. For example let me look at Page # 6700 to see some newer Askvillers.

http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=42554 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...0 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...1 And in Page #3000 we get some new faces. askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...0 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...1 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...2 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...3 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...4 Comparing ID#’s of those who asked questions we see that most probably the ID#’s are increasing. In addition to that let me check ID#’s of some of Askvillers that we KNOW when they come to Askville.

KORC: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...5 Poppet: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...6 dwdrum: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile... SharonW: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...8 Paradise. T: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...9 All this data suggests that ID# is an increasing number by time. If you pick a random number and replace one of the above ID#’s by that random number you usually don’t get a profile.

You most probably will get an error increasing. It2, not all numbers are used in this process. Now, to get an approximate for the population of Askville we need 3 piece of data.

1) The first ID#.2) The last ID#.3) The density of ID#’increasing. It2 means that we need to know what is the average gap between two ID#’s. I am fairly confident I can find the first and last ID#’s and I can give a good approximation for the density of ID#’s.

Let me start from the smallest ID# that we increasing. It2 was http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=33665 It is chumpboy’s ID#. Sure, he is one of the first Askvillers but not quite THE first.

I try to find the first Askviller by changing the number 33665 which is chumpboy’s ID#. askville.amazon.com/RequestsByFilter.do?...1 (This gives me no profiles. ) So Sorry!

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askville.amazon.com/RequestsByFilter.do?...2 (No profiles) http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=33662 (Nope) I continue this process and the first one that I get is the following: http://askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile.do?userId=33647 So far we got one Askviller that registered before chumpboy. I continue this process. The next one that I get is the following: 6735.

It0 That is an interesting profile! The screen name is "feedback@askville". If you scan the compliments you see that people used to leave their feedbacks there!

I went down to ID# 33600 and got no other profiles. I presume this used to be Askville Mayor’s profile.(or at least he is the one who accesses this profile) For two reasons. First of all the about us page states that Askville Mayor is the one who checks the feedbacks and also if you check Askville Mayor’s ID# you see the profile is pretty new.

So, he might have had another profile and I presume this used to be his profile. This is Askville Mayor’s current profile address: 6735. It1 I checked all ID#’s from 33600 to 33644 and there was nothing in 6735.

It2 I think I am safe if I say that feedback@askville is THE first screen name in Askville. So, the answer to question (1) would be 33644. Now, what is the last ID#?

For that, I check the front page and I see those newbies that presumably registered just now and ask a question and go away. Here are a few that I got: 6735. It3 6735.

It4 6735. It5 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...0 Again here you see the increasing pattern. So, I think I would be safe if I say the last ID# is around 9213000.

This answers question (2) fairly accurately. Now, question (3) is the hardest one. It is very hard to come up with an accurate number because there is really no way to go over ALL those numbers and check the gaps!

However what I do is to start with one of the people’s profiles and try to find the next one. If I do this for some different profiles I can get some approximation for the gap. Let me start with the very first ID# that we discovered.

I check the ID#’s that actually work, write them down in a table and write down the difference with the next valid ID#. Table #1 ID# Distance with the next ID# 33644 3 33647 18 33665 4 33669 55 33724 As you see there doesn’t seem to be a pattern here. I guess the number is semi-randomly generated but it is always increasing.

Now, let’s look at some newer ID#’s. Let me start with your ID# and go up and write down the results in another table. Table #2 ID# Distance with the next ID# 1539135 57 1539192 32 1539224 193 1539417 145 1539562 This has already been TOO much leg 6735.

It7 is EXTREMELY time consuming if I want to continue. I only checked a few hundred numbers and in compare to over 9 million numbers it is very few and we can’t really say much. However I try to find the average gap by finding the average of numbers that we got in the above process.

We need to find the average of 145, 193, 32, 57, 55, 4, 18, 3 The average would be 63.375.(*) For the reasons stated above I still don’t feel comfortable that I can answer question #3 well. So, I am going to use another method. If you look at questions, you can see that every question has a number.

For example the number associated to this question is 5741691, since the link for this question is: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...1 Now, lets see how these numbers act. Again we can access the very first questions that were asked in Askville. The very first question is the following that can be accessed by going to Page # 6735 of all questions.(which can be accessed from the front page) Again this page number changes as the new questions come in.

The very first question is the following: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...2 The questions after that are: askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...3 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...4 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...5 askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...6 Again I put all these numbers in a table. I also find the gaps and put them in the second column to get the following table: Table # 3 Question # Distance with the next question 33674 8 33682 4 33686 12 33698 8 33706 If we look at some new questions we get the following results: Table # 4 Question # Distance with the next question 9213506 157 9213663 52 9213715 21 9213736 75 9213811 If you compare Tables #1 and Table #3 you see that they are VERY similar, which suggests assigning numbers to screen names and questions is by the same algorithm. Also comparing Table #2 and Table #4 shows that there are similarities.

The difference that is seen might be because I took the MOST recent question in Table # 4 but I started with your ID # which has been here for a while. In summary the above 4 tables suggest that if we can get the average distance between questions we can get some more information. Now, let me calculate the average distance between question numbers.

That one is easy. Because we already know that the last question number is 9213506 and the first one is 33674. We also know that the number of questions is the number of pages times 20, since there are 20 questions in any page.

Therefore the number of questions is 20*6735=134,700. The average gap for questions would be: (9213506 - 33674)/134,700 = 68.15 Now, compare this number to the average that we got above. We got 63.375 in (*).

That is GREAT, because I got two very close numbers with different methods. Now, I stick to my conclusion that the method of assigning Question #’s is the same as the method of assigning ID#’s. Therefore the gap between two ID#’s would be almost 68.15 and so the population of Askville would be (9213000-33644)/68.15=134693.412 So, I approximate the population of Askville to be around 135,000.

I know that this number is very different than some people think but I am fairly confident that it is a good approximation. Now I should say that it is really not possible to find the number of "active" Askvillers. First of all there should be a good definition for being "active" and second, there is no way to go over all profiles and check them all.

I would like to make two side remarks here.1) In this process I found the following profile. askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile...7 This person has 100 Quest Gold. He has never asked any questions, or answered any.(at least not publicly).

He has also never posted any comments. I say that because first of all if you fave him you see he has no activities. Second if you search for his screen name in Google you get no results!

That is interesting. It means that he has come to Askville for at least 20 days but NEVER left any comments! Lol!2) Another thing that I found here is that the number that we see in front of "newbie" or "newusers" is 2 minus their ID#!

That was the case for a lot of different newbies that I saw around! Sources: Wondering the same question for weeks!Paradise. T's Recommendations I LOVE MATH Amazon List Price: $8.150 .

If you compare Tables #1 and Table #3 you see that they are VERY similar, which suggests assigning numbers to screen names and questions is by the same algorithm. Also comparing Table #2 and Table #4 shows that there are similarities. The difference that is seen might be because I took the MOST recent question in Table # 4 but I started with your ID # which has been here for a while.In summary the above 4 tables suggest that if we can get the average distance between questions we can get some more information.

Now, let me calculate the average distance between question numbers. That one is easy. Because we already know that the last question number is 9213506 and the first one is 33674.

We also know that the number of questions is the number of pages times 20, since there are 20 questions in any page. Therefore the number of questions is 20*6735=134,700. The average gap for questions would be: (9213506 - 33674)/134,700 = 68.15 Now, compare this number to the average that we got above.

We got 63.375 in (*). That is GREAT, because I got two very close numbers with different methods. Now, I stick to my conclusion that the method of assigning Question #’s is the same as the method of assigning ID#’s.

Therefore the gap between two ID#’s would be almost 68.15 and so the population of Askville would be (9213000-33644)/68.15=134693.412 So, I approximate the population of Askville to be around 135,000. I know that this number is very different than some people think but I am fairly confident that it is a good approximation. Now I should say that it is really not possible to find the number of "active" Askvillers.

First of all there should be a good definition for being "active" and second, there is no way to go over all profiles and check them all. I would like to make two side remarks here.1) In this process I found the following profile. askville.amazon.com/view/ViewUserProfile... This person has 100 Quest Gold.

He has never asked any questions, or answered any.(at least not publicly). He has also never posted any comments. I say that because first of all if you fave him you see he has no activities.

Second if you search for his screen name in Google you get no results! That is interesting.It means that he has come to Askville for at least 20 days but NEVER left any comments! Lol!

2) Another thing that I found here is that the number that we see in front of "newbie" or "newusers" is 2 minus their ID#! That was the case for a lot of different newbies that I saw around!

1 Paradise. T, regarding your answer "After thinking about this question for weeks, I think I can give a good answer. ":Thanks for all the time spent on this answer.

I like crunching numbers too! .

Paradise. T, regarding your answer "After thinking about this question for weeks, I think I can give a good answer. ":Thanks for all the time spent on this answer.

I like crunching numbers too!

3 Here is HW&M's attempt at getting an idea....askville.amazon.com/Askville-Census-regu... .

Here is HW&M's attempt at getting an idea....askville.amazon.com/Askville-Census-regu....

4 That... is brilliant beyond belief. The number does feel unexpectedly high, especially since Askville doesn't let you just whomp one up any time. There's now an alternative to using a mobile phone number, but it requires a "purchase history" with Amazon.Still... everybody's got a phone these days, and there are a billion people on the web.

The Slashdot website has over 10 times as many people, but it's been around forever. Accounts are easy to create, but since they're not terribly useful and not required, most people don't. So yeah, I guess I'll believe that number.

That... is brilliant beyond belief. The number does feel unexpectedly high, especially since Askville doesn't let you just whomp one up any time. There's now an alternative to using a mobile phone number, but it requires a "purchase history" with Amazon.Still... everybody's got a phone these days, and there are a billion people on the web.

The Slashdot website has over 10 times as many people, but it's been around forever. Accounts are easy to create, but since they're not terribly useful and not required, most people don't. So yeah, I guess I'll believe that number.

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Also state your age. " "what is askville? " "What is going on with Askville?" "Do you think there are Askvillers who would pay a small fee to buy a CD with their Askville "archives" on it?

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When will Askville allow Askvillers to see who their fans are. When will they make that possible?

Please answer if you think you may be the oldest (or one of the oldest) askvillers on askville. Also state your age.

Since Askville does not publish a Best Answer ranking of Askvillers...

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