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Robin Chapman comments on "User 10000" (9519)

Robin Chapman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:59:00 -0700

Qiaochu is right. We certainly have fewer that 10,000 actual users.
It's well known that, whether by accident or by malice, some users
have more than one user number.

Qiaochu Yuan comments on "User 10000" (9508)

Qiaochu Yuan — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:18:17 -0700

@Ryan: the "users" page defaults to only listing registered users, and Robin is counting all of them (that is, he is using id number). Note that "user number" is being used literally here; I do not think we can conclude that we have had 10000 distinct users, since many people had multiple unregistered accounts that had to be merged.

Ryan Budney comments on "User 10000" (9507)

Ryan Budney — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:55:46 -0700

I'm estimating we have 7700 users. On the "users" page there's a grid that's 7x5, and there's 220 pages of users.

Joseph O'Rourke comments on "User 10000" (9506)

Joseph O'Rourke — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:30:59 -0700

@Robin: Cool! But how did you determine the number of users? Interesting that the average # of questions per user is ~1.1....

Robin Chapman comments on "User 10000" (9505)

Robin Chapman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:12:19 -0700

We have just reached user no 10000.