Forum activity by year - Chart 2009-2022

[pawel7777]

However, it's really had some lasting effects on the forum, which even today we're still cleaning up. I'm determined to get to the bottom of it though. Definitely, showing signs of catching up, even if it's only the start. To be fair, most of the users spamming during this period have already been banned, but their posts still remain so it's just doing a little of the after cleaning.

Yeah, I can imagine that easily over a half of that 15.6 million posts in 2018 was pure garbage made just for the sake of "bounty campaigns". That's what you get when you combine ability to run ICO campaigns at virtually zero costs (paid in self issued tokens of no value) and hundreds of thousands of people from poor countries chasing "easy money".
The real damage was all the valuable members that had left and never came back as the forum was unbearable at times.

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[Hispo]

... But it doesn't really add up, as for most of 2018 the price was free falling and the enthusiasm couldn't be too high. Also, we didn't see any significant increase with the 2021 pump.

Any theories?

My personal theory is that the average person who discovered Bitcoin during the famous 2017 bullrun became excited and decided to participate here on the forum, later when the price started to go downhill that same people started to panic and vent around here.

Those who did not find this forum during the bull run eventually did during the price dump, searching for an explanation, consolation and even advice from the most veteran holders, who were here around that time too.

The most recent bullrun did not catch as much attention as that back in 2017, since there are more place on internet to discuss about Bitcoin, added to the fact people were also trying to speculate with other assets like Gold, Gamestop stocks, Nokia stocks, silver, etc.

Bitcoin was not the "novelty" it was in the eyes of the new investor years ago. Probably, some of them bought at the top and are still sore to this day, which may not let them to enter the Bitcoin market again.

[tranthidung]

Two helpful topics for you

• Forum's 2020-year-end report
• Time Series on monthly statistics of forum (new users, new topics, new posts)

The chart for forum daily impression count reveals a lot about forum activities with and without spam endemic as consequence of 2017 bull run and ICO wave, then impacts from merit system and enhanced merit system to reduce spam.

If you want to see more details, look at box plots.

[Ndabagi01]

Bitcoin Arena provided an excellent response. Without that explicit explanation, I would have assumed that most of the users who came here from 2017 to early 2018 were inspired by bitcoin after it reached its ATH.

Following that incident, they created a discussion section where they kept talking about how the bull run must have happened, whether relevant or irrelevant discussion, they kept interacting with each other, which must have resulted in those one liner posters. All thanks to the implementation of the merit system, which has significantly reduced the number of spammers.

[tread93]

I hopped onto this forum in 2018, I think that was just such an iconic year for crypto because so many people were curious and literally everyone and their mother couldn’t believe something like Bitcoin could run up to 20k in such a short time frame. I believe this left a rippling effect for basically all of 2018 all the way to the end of the bear market where it leveled out at around 3,500 per coin and started going back up from there. Great bar graph you got here! Thanks for sharing.