For a long time, when a member of the staff thinks about "active members/users", most of the time they use the DQ status as a good indication of that. So with in mind, I am making some changes to what was the DQ algorithims to reflect that and some other issues to better reflect what I believe is really an active member.
Currently, under the old algorithms, we had about 375 users who met the visit rate freq. Only 245 who actually filled in the extra DQ fields in their profile to actually get their DQ status.
I believe we should be counting other people in that total of active users. We've had about 3 years of looking at usage patterns to what the real world looks like. We have several types of usage.
So, today I've changed the cycle times and made a few other minor changes that I thought appropriate.
The result is this:
You become eliglible for DQ after 30 days (to be increased to 60 or 90 when I can figure out how not screw existing DQ of less than those times)
and five posts
and maintain an average visit freq of at least once a week.
Fillin in the profile DQ fields
The max cycle time for visit freq will be 6 months instead of 60 days.
The expiration date of your DQ status is always 6 months after the last date you had the basic qualifications for DQ. You'll that change in your user block on the right. The experation date only changed every three months. Now ill change every day you are still DQ.
Comments, complaints, questions and suggestions.
Currently, under the old algorithms, we had about 375 users who met the visit rate freq. Only 245 who actually filled in the extra DQ fields in their profile to actually get their DQ status.
I believe we should be counting other people in that total of active users. We've had about 3 years of looking at usage patterns to what the real world looks like. We have several types of usage.
- Joins and then leaves pretty quick and rarely comes back. Most registrations
- Joins, stays active and stays forever. At best there are about 30-40 of those.
- Joins, get active, goes away or rarely vists and then comes back and becomes active. This happens on a cyclic basis.
So, today I've changed the cycle times and made a few other minor changes that I thought appropriate.
The result is this:
You become eliglible for DQ after 30 days (to be increased to 60 or 90 when I can figure out how not screw existing DQ of less than those times)
and five posts
and maintain an average visit freq of at least once a week.
Fillin in the profile DQ fields
The max cycle time for visit freq will be 6 months instead of 60 days.
The expiration date of your DQ status is always 6 months after the last date you had the basic qualifications for DQ. You'll that change in your user block on the right. The experation date only changed every three months. Now ill change every day you are still DQ.
Comments, complaints, questions and suggestions.
