 
Lowell
Board Administrator
Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2117
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 7:28 pm: |    |
Welcome to the 2005 DetroitYES Stats. Who are these forumers? Check it out.
By the Numbers: Top Posters
The Big Ten
9674 supersport
7984 goat
6331 jt1
5315 gannon
5297 itsjeff
5215 myers
5196 aiw
4630 the_aram
3676 jelk
3618 danny
The 2K+ Club
3394 rasputin
3334 skulker
3263 brian
3158 patrick
2926 jjaba
2921 lmichigan
2804 czar
2800 velma
2625 jmy8
2599 hamtramck_steve
2458 jams
2389 zulu_warrior
2268 ltorivia485
2226 mikem
2191 detroit_stylin
2172 track75
2114 metrodetguy
The Millenium Club [1K + posts]
atl_runner
barnesfoto
bindetroit
brasziz
bvos
cafe
carptrash
citylover
cletus
craigd
dabirch
dan
danindc
detroit_expat
dialh4hipster
dove7
eap
fnemecek
gistok
gogo
ilovedetroit
jmil
jsmyers
justin
kathleen
llyn
lurker
machoken
mackinaw
mcp001
merchantgander
ndavies
royce
rustic
_sj_
smogboy
the_rock
wcpo_intern
Fun Stats
When you sign up for the forum a few mandatory and voluntary questions are asked. Here are some of the results.
First Registered Forumer:
BetsieL - 10/11/2003 3:36
Gender:
Female 23.6%
Male 75.2%
Other 1.2%
Age:
Median age 31
Average Age 34
Youngest 13
Oldest 85
By Decades:
Under 20 4.6%
20's 37.9%
30's 26.4%
40's 16.8%
50's 11.2%
60's 2.5%
over 70 0.6%
Favorite Ruin
[Methodology for all of following: 5 or more nominations for mention, % = percentage of the total for the 5+ sites.]
MCS {Michigan Central RR Station] 23.7%
Tiger Stadium 7.2%
Book Cadillac 5.8%
GAR [Grand Army of the Republic Bldg.] 2.6%
Packard 2.5%
My House 2.4%
United Artist 2.0%
Brush Park 1.8%
Broderick 1.7%
Michigan Theater 1.6%
Grande Ballroom 1.4%
Statler 1.3%
Hudsons 1.3%
Lee Plaza 1.1%
DBC [Detroit Boat Club] 0.9%
Favorite Detroit Place
Belle Isle 35.1%
Comerica 10.3%
DIA [Detroit Institute of Arts] 9.3%
Riverfront 8.2%
Tiger Stadium 6.2%
Eastern Market 5.7%
Greektown 5.7%
Hart Plaza 5.7%
Campus Martius 5.2%
Magic Stick/majestic 5.2%
Downtown 3.6%
Favorite Eatery
Lafayette Coney 16.5%
Union Street 8.2%
Traffic Jam 7.1%
Cass Café 6.6%
Fishbones 6.0%
American Coney 4.4%
Carls Chop House 4.4%
Roma Café 4.4%
Small Plates 4.4%
Xochilmico 4.4%
Buddy's 3.8%
Mexican Village 3.8%
Pegasus 3.3%
Pizza Papolis 3.3%
Tunnel BBQ 3.3%
Atlas Bistro 2.7%
Café Detroit 2.7%
Jacoby's 2.7%
Rattlesnake Club 2.7%
Russell Street 2.7%
White Castle 2.2%
Where we are from:
Inside the D
Detroit 53.4%
Ann Arbor 3.6%
Royal Oak 3.3%
Ferndale 3.1%
Warren 2.9%
St. Clair Shores 2.2%
Dearborn 2.1%
Livonia 2.0%
Southfield 1.8%
The Pointes 1.6%
Hamtramck 1.6%
Troy 1.5%
Windsor 1.5%
Redford 1.4%
Birmingham 1.3%
The Bloomfields 1.2%
Clinton Township 1.2%
The Farmingtons 1.1%
Sterling Heights 0.9%
Berkley 0.8%
Shelby Township 0.8%
Westland 0.8%
Ypsilanti 0.8%
Allen Park 0.7%
Canton 0.7%
Northville 0.6%
The Rochesters 0.6%
Dearborn Heights 0.5%
Harper Woods 0.5%
Oak Park 0.5%
Columbus 0.4%
Fraser 0.4%
Harrison Township 0.4%
Madison Heights 0.4%
Pplymouth 0.4%
Pontiac 0.4%
Taylor 0.4%
Highland 0.3%
Macomb 0.3%
Southgate 0.3%
Trenton 0.3%
Wyandotte 0.3%
Highland Park 0.2%
Utica 0.2%
waterford 0.2%
Hazel Park 0.2%
Pleasant Ridge 0.2%
Beyond the D
New York 19.7%
Lansing 16.7%
Chicago 16.7%
San Francisco 11.4%
Los Angeles 11.4%
Grand Rapids 8.3%
Phoenix 5.3%
San Diego 4.5%
Cincinnati 4.5%
London 3.8%
Seattle 3.0%
Las Vegas 3.0%
Boston 3.0%
Portland 2.3%
Saginaw 1.5%
By State / Province:
MI 85.8%
CA 2.9%
ON 2.3%
OH 2.1%
IL 1.6%
NY 1.4%
FL 1.3%
GA 0.7%
WI 0.7%
TX 0.6%
VA 0.6%
By Country:
Canada 55.6%
UK 17.2%
Germany 9.1%
Australia 2.0%
Israel 2.0%
Finland 2.0%
Netherlands 2.0%
Switzerland 2.0%
India 1.0%
Thailand 1.0%
Lithuania 1.0%
Denmark 1.0%
Philippines 1.0%
Sweden 1.0%
Qatar 1.0%
Poland 1.0% |
Patrick
Member
Username: Patrick
Post Number: 3162
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 70.236.204.86
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 7:49 pm: | |
9000 posts?? That sure is a lot. SS, what do you do at work all day? |
Goat
Member
Username: Goat
Post Number: 7987
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 64.228.67.232
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 8:03 pm: | |
Most of the top posters are full of hot air anyway...
I like the demographic and regional breakdown. great stats Lowell.
BTW: White Castle should be near the top of best eateries by far.  |
Gistok
Member
Username: Gistok
Post Number: 1702
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 4.229.90.236
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 8:13 pm: | |
Can I get my 1999-2001 stats added to my 2004-2005?
Just how is it that the first registered forumer only go back to 2003? I was posting here as late as July 2001, and I remember Jjaba posting back then as well. Was there "posting without registering" back then? |
Lowell
Board Administrator
Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2118
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 66.167.58.137
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 8:30 pm: | |
Gistok I will have to turn that over the Hall of Fame veteran's committee for special consideration. |
Jimaz
Member
Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 18
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 68.2.191.57
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 8:59 pm: | |
It seems most other forums died off with the dotcom bust. Why is this one so active? Is it the photography? The theme of Detroit? Seriously. |
Supersport
Member
Username: Supersport
Post Number: 9687
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 69.246.37.236
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 9:10 pm: | |
Its peoples love for Detroit, plain and simple. How many other cities and regions do you see come to the defense of their city when talk show hosts, sports broadcasters, and venues mock them? I would have to say that it also has a lot to do with how blue collar this region is. Even the white collars in this region have blue collar ties. Their family likely migrated to this region for factory work of some sort. They grew up with the mentality that hard work pays off and offered a good lifestyle and they took pride in this.
Metro Detroit has its many problems, but lack of pride is not one of them. |
Jimaz
Member
Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 19
Registered: 12-2005
Posted From: 68.2.191.57
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 9:33 pm: | |
Yeah, SS, I think that's it.
I can't help contrasting it with Phoenix here. Everyone in Phoenix has allegiances elsewhere. There's a sense that if Phoenix ever suffered the blows that Detroit has survived, it would be abandoned to the desert overnight. In contrast, Detroit is tenacious, committed to persevere.
The photography is nice too. More snow photos, please!
Who's the 1.2% "other gender" in the stats?! |
Hamtramck_steve
Member
Username: Hamtramck_steve
Post Number: 2600
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 69.208.112.135
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 10:24 pm: | |
Gistok, there was indeed a time when you could post without being registered. A spat of ugliness led to the imposition of what felt to some at the time as a bit of fascism. "You can have your free speech, as long as we know who you are, etc."
Looking over the list, I feel a wee bit older. I was once in the top 10, but I slacked off in the past year. Almost everybody on the list ahead of me got here after me. |
Ddaydave
Member
Username: Ddaydave
Post Number: 219
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 67.149.185.244
| | Posted on Monday, January 02, 2006 - 10:46 pm: | |
I read stats list and after reading Favorite Eatery I got so hungary I went out and ate ..none of the restaurants on the list ..I went to Slows bar-b-que had the reason and the mac and cheese ..how the hell can mac and cheese be that good ..Dave |
Motorcitymayor2026
Member
Username: Motorcitymayor2026
Post Number: 317
Registered: 10-2005
Posted From: 71.10.63.140
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 1:22 am: | |
"Metro Detroit has its many problems, but lack of pride is not one of them."
hmm I would disagree. It seems this region has absolutely NO pride in its hometown, Detroit. In other regions your a New Yorker or a Bostonian or Chicagoan or whatever if u live anywhere in the metro region. Here, no one in the suburbs considers themselves 'Detroiters' and would likely view that as an insult.
sorry for threadjacking! |
Manrooter
Member
Username: Manrooter
Post Number: 375
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 68.42.168.211
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 1:59 am: | |
Man, have I been slacking. |
Dialh4hipster
Member
Username: Dialh4hipster
Post Number: 1257
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 208.54.15.129
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 3:23 am: | |
Those stats are cumulative, since the forum started, right? So just out of curiosity, is there any way to see what the posting stats are JUST for 2005? |
Erikd
Member
Username: Erikd
Post Number: 480
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 69.242.214.106
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 3:52 am: | |
Those stats only go back to October 2003. |
Monahan568
Member
Username: Monahan568
Post Number: 110
Registered: 04-2004
Posted From: 64.32.219.138
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 11:40 am: | |
HAHA i wonder who listed themselves as the "others" in the gender category?? thats funny stuff |
Gistok
Member
Username: Gistok
Post Number: 1704
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 4.229.3.109
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 2:53 pm: | |
It was probably Mellodrama..... "it" was in a class by itself.... tee-hee. |
Metrodetguy
Member
Username: Metrodetguy
Post Number: 2115
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 71.144.95.93
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 3:08 pm: | |
"Other" gender = "Ilovedetroit" |
Detroit_stylin
Member
Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 2198
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 66.202.227.12
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 3:30 pm: | |
Hell if we were to go back to the original formuers then I would be one of the first
I been posting since '98! |
Ghetto_butterfly
Member
Username: Ghetto_butterfly
Post Number: 573
Registered: 09-2004
Posted From: 68.60.139.186
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 9:22 pm: | |
Gistok - sounds to me like you and Mellodrama are having a secret "love" affair ... tee hee |
The_aram
Member
Username: The_aram
Post Number: 4631
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.43.31.87
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 9:33 pm: | |
I used to be #3 or #4. Now I've slipped to 8. Can't say I'm disappointed. |
Psip
Member
Username: Psip
Post Number: 747
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 69.246.13.131
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 11:21 pm: | |
I would like to see a stat on who got ban-o-lated with the least number of posts. |
Gistok
Member
Username: Gistok
Post Number: 1707
Registered: 08-2004
Posted From: 207.69.137.26
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:04 am: | |
G_B, no not really, I just have a bug up my butt about people who think they are better than everyone else. Acting it was one thing, but M_D actually came out and said it. And M_D enhanced "its" pretentions by always using Ad Hominem attacks against anyone who didn't agree with what "it" had to say. |
Jjaba
Member
Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 2935
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 192.220.139.6
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 4:03 pm: | |
The onliest reason this Forum is so successful is Lowell Boileau. jjaba has always been impressed with his leadership. He's the captain of this here ship.
jjaba, Proudly Westside. |
Doctors
Member
Username: Doctors
Post Number: 688
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 68.42.124.248
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 4:55 pm: | |
I have a question about the "other" catagory in the gender stats... |
Patrick
Member
Username: Patrick
Post Number: 3167
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 69.212.126.249
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 11:15 pm: | |
Being #14 is sweet. I am actually in the double digits. heh, thats what you get when your posts are 6 words long! |
Alexei289
Member
Username: Alexei289
Post Number: 959
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 68.61.183.223
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 3:11 am: | |
SHIIIITTTT>..
JUST missed the millenium club
!!  |
Bindetroit
Member
Username: Bindetroit
Post Number: 1242
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 69.246.117.31
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 12:09 pm: | |
Thanks Lowell. |
Dialh4hipster
Member
Username: Dialh4hipster
Post Number: 1263
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 68.250.205.35
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 9:45 pm: | |
The 2005 DetroitYes Stats have been published, but are they a reliable index of forumer participation for the last year?
We talked with experts who assert that the REAL story is not being told. Tune into our special investigative thread in the Detroit Connections section to see what we discovered. The results may surprise you.
Dialh4hipster reporting, Channel 7, Action News |
Gambling_man
Member
Username: Gambling_man
Post Number: 623
Registered: 11-2003
Posted From: 199.178.193.5
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 10:32 pm: | |
Supersport's accomplishments are astounding really, what with the new puppy and all, I'm suprised he finds time to eat.....much less drink. |
1honey
Member
Username: 1honey
Post Number: 58
Registered: 02-2005
Posted From: 208.39.170.90
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 1:24 pm: | |
That was cool Lowell, thanks.
I lost post number, still trying to figure that one. |
Designut
Member
Username: Designut
Post Number: 11
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Monday, June 26, 2006 - 5:57 pm: | |
(Message edited by Designut on June 26, 2006) |
