> I began wondering what the ratio of original, thread-starting posts on the forum is to the response posts. It's pretty obvious that the responses are going to vastly outnumber the original posts, since we have a very healthy, interactive and vibrant forum here. I'm just curious what the actual ratio is.

As of this writing, to be obsoleted as soon as I post this message, the forum has 24065 messages in it. The threaded message index consists of 184 pages of 15 threads each, plus 4 threads currently on the 185th page. That's 2764 original messages.

24065 - 2764 makes 21305 responses.

That makes the ratio 11.5% original posts and 88.5% responses. It also means original posts have an average of 7.71 responses each.

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