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Data taken 8-30-08 @ 9am EST. I thought this would make for an interesting discussion. Having studied other forums where there were sites with nearly the same topic categories and similar layouts how does one site seemingly grow so much faster than the other? In no way am I attempting to alienate one site or another, these are purely some observations.

5G got a 3 month jump on C5. From a sociological standpoint it seems that there may be more chemistry on 5G than C5, again JMO? An empirical view would suggest that threads on C5 command more interest considering that 5G has 35 topic categories as where C5 has 24.

C5 having 1130 more members, roughly 31%, there are fewer threads started than 5G at 32% but, 41% more posts. What I see is a trend that perhaps the C5 threads hold members interests a bit more since there is less of them but more posts to them or, it may be a matter of there is just more rambling. Why is this? 5G offers a wider grouping of topic categories, has a larger proportion of threads yet again, fewer posts by 41% as compared to C5.

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5G 1-29-06
C5 4-29-06