[stands2reason]

Hey, I've been meaning to ask one of you guys this...


On the "Signups" page of the Daily Stats, I notice that certain events in recent history have resulted in periodic bursts of new signups. Big burst over the weeks of the 2000 election debacle, another in the weeks after 9/11. Completely understandable.

But then there's this for the week of March 25, 2002--

2002.03.25 - 51 41 49 49 34 257 72

a giant bump of signup activity on March 30. Do you guys know what happened on that date?

[Miss Marple]

The Iraq invasion was around March 20. Perhaps this was the fall of the regime.

[Admin Moderator]

Either one of two things. I remember a period of a couple days where the new sign-ups had a glitch with registering, (It was a 'John, this is funky' type thing) that might be the day where everyone was 'activated'. Or, heavy troll activity (doubt it, trolls aren't that coordinated). Hard to say, but if my memory is correct, I'd say the first.