*****KatKwery! - July 19 - sorry*****

Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

Do you think 15 posts in a thread should denote a hot thread when the average thread has almost that many posts? What do you think the number should be, if not? Before doing the math, what would you have guessed was the average number of posts per thread? Did you know where to go look to find the answer? And finally, did you need a calculator?

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Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

for being out yesterday! Meanwhile, glitch used siggy, Cocoa Cream used link, and Marianjela used imagine. We are going to start having slightly more harder words to use, like imagine. Many and total were not used.

Do you think 15 posts in a thread should denote a hot thread when the average thread has almost that many posts? What do you think the number should be, if not? Before doing the math, what would you have guessed was the average number of posts per thread? Did you know where to go look to find the answer? And finally, did you need a calculator?

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Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

Do you think 15 posts in a thread should denote a hot thread when the average thread has almost that many posts? What do you think the number should be, if not? Before doing the math, what would you have guessed was the average number of posts per thread? Did you know where to go look to find the answer? And finally, did you need a calculator?

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actually, i have no opinion on how many posts should categorize a thread as a hot thread... i'm not even really sure if it matters, anyway. i look at threads that interest me, not necessarily ones that are popular! i didn't even try to do the math!
like i said previously, this is what math does to me

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but if i had wanted to attempt it, i probably would've needed a calculator [other than the one i was born with!].

Originally Posted by Persi & Alley

for being out yesterday! Meanwhile, glitch used siggy, Cocoa Cream used link, and Marianjela used imagine. We are going to start having slightly more harder words to use, like imagine. Many and total were not used.

Do you think 15 posts in a thread should denote a hot thread when the average thread has almost that many posts? What do you think the number should be, if not? Before doing the math, what would you have guessed was the average number of posts per thread? Did you know where to go look to find the answer? And finally, did you need a calculator?

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

If it were a guessing question and not mathematical, I think I would have estimated higher. I was surprised when I figured it out to only be around 14. Realizing that 14 is the average number of posts, I definitely think that a "hot thread" should require more posts. Of the 30 threads in "The Cat Lounge" front page right now, 16 of them are HOT. Although, like a previous poster said, I never pay attention to the envelope colors anyway. I rely on the subject lines to grab my attention. That - and I use the mouse over technique.

My first thought when I read the KatKwiz was that we were going to have to count the number of posts from all the threads since inception.

Thank goodness it was a fleeting thought and I came to my senses quickly. Once I did, I knew exactly where to look; on the main forums page. I most definitely needed an abacus, adding machine, fingers and toes

. I may be a math major, but with numbers like 2,288,453 and 158,415, sorry... brain-batteries went dead. Gotta love the built-in convenience of a calculator on the computer!

By the way - thank you for the IMAGINE points! I love signing on and getting mail from you Lee

And I'm glad to see you back, I cant believe you are here after just having surgery (same-day or not!).

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