Very interesting! Thanks!

Seems that almost every graph is climbing until November.
Might be due to the rising amount of election related clips that were posted towards that date?

Or can you see another reason for that in your stats?

looks to me like you've got a database chain tensioner failing on you there around October, you might need to replace a drive gear and get a set of new rails and make sure you guys check that MySQL has enough oil always

Is it weird that I spend a lot of time customizing my excel charts so they don't look like excel?

Wow, proof that behavior nazis and all these cliquey comment downvoters are actually harmful. You'll notice all the comment abuse by marking spam and downvoting leads to a drop off of activity.

I mean a few active users leaving are probably about 1000 votes a months

^ Yes, I'm sure the cause of the decline after Nov 4th was because of comment downvotes, not the end of the US Presidential election.

Hmmmm... Presidential election.... Holiday vacation..... You don't really need Scoob' and the Mystery Machine to figure this one out. C'mon joedirt, You run the election08 channel for chrissakes!

Yeah, it's definitely the election that was a high point followed by the quick holiday drop-off. The lack of activity on the site was very evident during the holidays.

I'm rather surprised by the huge jump in comment downvotes, even doubling from Sept to Oct. It's a little discouraging. I guess it was just a matter of time that the original sensitivity to the comment downvote wore off.

Nice to see our registrations are pretty consistent month to month.

I want to see the % videos that are made of cats and kittens graph

Lucky, you should re-run this with just grabbing the top15 users and see if they make up 1/2 of the votes/comments.

I'm guessing there is the 90/10 rule going on.

that would be interesting.

Also, in the interests of 'proper' stats, wonder if it wouldn't be sensible to 'normalize' the data by eliminating the sock puppets? Ah meh, we can do it in our heads.