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    Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. rydrum2112 View Post
    Second- from an ethical/teacher of statistics/methodological perspective, I think your "graphs" are a big deceiving. If you add this & last years numbers to the LoonyBob original graph- you would get the proper perspective. At then end of 2008 posts were around 9k, and the months prior about 12k, if you added the 15k to that you will see a trend that looks like you have "bottomed out" and bounced back very slightly. Where as just showing us the graph of 11 and 12 looks like a huge increase.
    I know what you're saying. But an increase is an increase. It takes a lot more than a 50% increase to offset a 50% decrease. If we plotted the % change in posts over time rather than the raw numbers then you will see the huge increase for 2012 even if you showed 2006 on there. Yes it is still a fraction of what we were once at but it's pretty difficult to make up that kind of decline in a short time. The point is that we are on the rise and we increased our output by a sizable margin last year.
    Sure, my intention was not to disparage the "growth" in any way. But to just point out that the graph you showed had this enormous slope over the last few months- which does not seem realistic.

    Of-course if you showed just percent increase you will see large numbers, but as I teach in class- to be ethical you should always give all the info. [Saying some paper salesman had a 50% increase in sales sounds impressive until you learn he sold 2 reams last month and 3 this month.]

    From looking at the graphs I think the biggest conclusion you can draw is that you are no longer on the downswing and hopefully bouncing back. That is in itself something to be proud of accomplishing.

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    Fine, fine, I applied, if only because I know Del enjoys rejecting me. I have to give the old man something to be happy about now that he's married.

    I've been quite impressed with EoFF's activity over the latter half of the year. To be honest I was hoping to bring in some more FFXIV people with the news posts, but we've definitely made progress.

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    In my opinion I wrote one hell of an application

    Good luck to everyone who has applied and will apply in the coming days. We have a lot of equally deserving, hard workers here!

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    I love the applications so far! It's nice to see people with ideas. I really wanted to be an Editor but I'm trout for ideas. xP

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart View Post
    In my opinion I wrote one hell of an application
    Just out of interest I word counted my application and I counted 512. I'm not sure if that's large or small. I don't know how good my application is.


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    All applications have been of a good length. Don't worry about that.
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    Yeah, no worries about length. Just communicate what you want to communicate and demonstrate you speak English.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shlup View Post
    Yeah, no worries about length. Just communicate what you want to communicate and demonstrate you speak English.
    No, what I really worry about know is the content

    Edit: I'm such a worrywort.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
    Things are always sexier with FOA around.
    There's all the reason I need to apply right ther-

    Quote Originally Posted by Shlup View Post
    I love the applications so far! It's nice to see people with ideas. I really wanted to be an Editor but I'm trout for ideas. xP
    Wait, we have to have ideas? SCREW THIS I'M OUT
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tigmafuzz View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
    Things are always sexier with FOA around.
    There's all the reason I need to apply right ther-

    Quote Originally Posted by Shlup View Post
    I love the applications so far! It's nice to see people with ideas. I really wanted to be an Editor but I'm trout for ideas. xP
    Wait, we have to have ideas? SCREW THIS I'M OUT
    "I know how to find news topics," counts as an idea.

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    "Fire Shlup" also counts as an idea. Or at least I assume it does because it's the only idea I included in my application.

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    If Raistlin gets made an editor because we have no one else to pick from, you good people of EoFF will be held accountable.

    Having said that, we'd love to see more applicants submit their interests/qualifications!

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