Divining the demographics of our readers
In the interest of better serving you, the readers, I’ve endeavored to find out what the general age demographics on this site look like. This will help to, among other things, tune the average word length; I wouldn’t want to continue using huge words all the time if the majority of the readers are very young, for instance. And it will help to get an idea of how and when people are reading the blog; students will be reading it when they should be working in class and adults will be reading it when they should be working at work, for instance. That’s an important distinction. I kind of get the feeling that a lot of the readers here are older than the average gaming crowd, but I’d like to see some data to back that up before stating it as fact. Oh, and if anyone suffers from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, you might want to bring that to my attention in the comments.
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April 13th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
The way you write is the way you write. It’s actually very enjoyable to read as is. As far as changing it, what is the alternative? Writing like the average illiterate found on the forums? ;)
April 13th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
omg ya u totaly got it. c, my riting can change, so if only youth read this, i rite like they like
April 13th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
omg cyd wys ur blog is soooooooo mch bettar now.
Also, big words give me nightmares.
April 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
They’re not young, they’re ageically challenged. Political correctness people!
April 13th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I believe you mean chronotemporally challenged.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
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April 13th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Just wanted to say that this site is GREAT!
Keep up the GREAT work!!!
April 13th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Poll should be under 16, 17-21, and then 22-whatever, etc. to separate 18ies from 22ers. D:
IMO.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Yup, T2A, I didn’t realize how clustered the results would be. I guess I’ll re-run the poll in a week from now with narrower ranges at the low end, to get a better idea of exactly how old everyone is. Right now it’s looking like over half of the respondents are going into a single bin. Whoops.
April 13th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Why don’t you just put a field so people can type their age.
I’m 25, I don’t want to be in the same category as a 30 year old…
April 13th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Eh, don’t make me feel older with my 30 years than I already do (still love a good game of SupCom though) and this blog is a really nice read too! :)
April 13th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
I feel so… average! *sob*
Or not.