On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, March 30, 2018 at 7:44:40 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [...] >> Reddit's /ruby subreddit: 40,571 subscribers. >> >> Reddit's /python subreddit: 230,858 subscribers. > > Those numbers mean nothing unless you can prove all two- > hundred-thirty-odd thousand of them to be active, non- > tolling, non-socking, non-spaming accounts. > > Sure, i can imagine Python-list has an impressively large > number of registered users, however, on a daily basis there > are only 3-5 on-topic threads. And of those, the majority of > the posts are send by a hanful of regulars. > > IOWs: these "membership numbers" are not true metrics. > > I'd wager to say that only a couple hundred accounts out of > that 230,000 are active and legit python programmers (if > that).
How about this: at the time of posting, /r/ruby has 69 users here "now", which Reddit defines as having viewed the subreddit within the past 15 minutes. /r/python has 509 users here "now". Scale up to 30DA users and I"m sure the numbers look much larger than that for each. You really think that 90% of the active users are trolls? And yet the subreddit remains usable despite that allegedly terrible signal-to-noise ratio. Be realistic, dude. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
