Is there a way to sift the vast data accumulated over the years in posts here to determine brand interest? For example how many posts, threads, views, etc are there by brand, and how do they rank in descending numerical order? Just curious what the results would be. And might be a useful data driven method of determining what brand-specific sub-forums might be justified as being of the most interest.Stanwade wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 5:58 pmMumbleypeg wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 3:37 pm The Brand-Specific forums here are somewhat indicative of the popularity of various brands among forum members. If you look at the number of topics, and number of posts in each brand you’ll find a wide disparity. viewforum.php?f=55
And frankly a curiosity, at least to me, is how a brand like Parker has a dedicated brand sub-forum with only 3 topics and a few posts, when for example a seminal American brand like Cattaraugus apparently doesn’t warrant a sub-forum yet has over 4400 posts (based on “search” results) and a single Cattaraugus thread in the Knife Lore forum is 50 pages long!
Bulldog brand seems to have a limited number of dedicated, avid fans.
Ken
Ken-- I wondered the same thing about Keen Kutters...
In some situations the data might not be pure - for example how to differentiate Case from Case Classics (I’d guesstimate a significant percentage of posts in the Case Classics sub-forum are in fact about Case, not Case Classics. But I doubt that would be significant as the data would likely still be relevant/representative.
Maybe aside from Bryan himself there is not anyone with data access and programming skills to determine?
Ken