How Times Have Changed!!

The SLN Geography Forum began on 7th Sept. 1999 when Chris Durbin posted the first message. A week later he replied to his own message. On 16th Sept. Kate Russell posted her first message - no-one replied! That same day, the first of the local Staffordshire teachers, Richard West, posted a message. Chris Durbin provided the only reply. On the 21st Sept. Kate had a second try - no-one replied!

It must have been a very frustrating time, trying to get the new Geography Forum off the ground. Six months later, there had been a total of 85 messages and by the end of the first 12 months this had risen to 159 messages. As you can see below, a single thread can now generate that number of messages in just a few days...

Top Ten Most Interesting Threads (do you remember them?)

1. Getting the media to label geography started by Daniel Raven-Ellison 250 replies (as of 24th July 2006)

2. You know you're a Geographer when started by Tony Cassidy 162 replies

3. Large earthquake hits Asia started by idmurray 160 replies

4. Quality Geography jokes started by Noel Jenkins 125 replies

5. Where are we from? started by Alan Parkinson 117 replies

6. Need Gregorian chant please help! started by Noel Jenkins 87 replies

7. Google Earth started by Alan Parkinson 78 replies

8. Edexcel B Synoptic started by Andrew Boardman 76 replies

9. A view from chez moi started by Paul Williams 76 replies

10. World Cup Resources started by Simon Turton 73 replies

(Chart updated 24/07/06 and subject to constant change)

The Least Popular Threads

Messages posted by littlemissunshine on 10th March 2005 and by kim on 12th January 2005 show up as having had -1 replies.....what is going on there?

The Top Ten Posters (do they talk this much in 'real' life?)

1. Littlemisssunshine   1837 messages (registered since Aug 2003)

2. ValVannet                  1687 messages (registered since Feb 2004)

3. Alan Parkinson          1608 messages (registered since Jan 2003)

4. idmurray                    1273 messages (registered since Oct 2003)

5. Rob Cha                      1222 messages (registered since June 2005)

6. GeoDave                    999 messages (registered since June 2003)

7. Chris Durbin               933 messages (registered since Sept 1999)

8. Tony Cassidy              987 messages (registered since Feb 2001)

9. helen                           811 messages (registered since May 2004)

10. Noel Jenkins             786 messages (registered since March 2000)

Rob Cha is easily the most talkative with an average of over 77 posts per month - good going Rob, you must be exhausted. He is followed by Val with an average of 50 per month and Littlemisssunshine with 48 per month.

Coming in close behind are: Kate Russell (528), goneunderground (378), Meg (334), chris.ellesse (352) Tom (333) and Allyson Taylor (304). There are a large number of people with over 100 messages posted.

(Chart compiled 24/07/06 and subject to constant change!!)

My Favourite SLN Forum Usernames (GeoDave)

1. littlemisssunshine

2. goneunderground

3. pog

4. skyandtweety

5. viking dave

6. geoggers

7. wellies

8. anticline

9. teardrop

10. daniel raven-ellison!!

and I just had to add to the list> aea_aa

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