Countries are not determined by IPs, you simply select them in your profile; I also seriously doubt there are two people from the Vatican here. There will always be some bad data, but most of them are likely to be legit.

Yeah I know, I was just amused that DPRK was even on the list of where people said they were. I figure most are probably legit too.

<high five>
fun stuff.
Interesting, there are a whole lot more posters than I expected. I've seen, what? 4 or 5 other people from the Netherlands, but apparently there are 285?!

It would be interesting to also filter out those with only a few posts, might give a more faithful impression of `the community', since a lot of people post just a few times for help with a problem they have.

There is no censorship here, you can get all the violent versions!

*german-australia-brazil-highfive*

A little more data because I like to play around with the code I make.

Instead per user, one could make a per post - statistics. The results are:

395154 posts in total
from 145 unique countries
United States with 136657 posts (34.6%)
United Kingdom with 46895 posts (11.9%)
Canada with 30036 posts (7.6%)
Australia with 26034 posts (6.6%)
Poland with 19632 posts (5.0%)
Germany with 9854 posts (2.5%)
Norway with 9344 posts (2.4%)
Sweden with 7791 posts (2.0%)
Denmark with 7417 posts (1.9%)
Hungary with 7013 posts (1.8%)
Brazil with 6726 posts (1.7%)
Czech Republic with 5975 posts (1.5%)
Finland with 5548 posts (1.4%)
Netherlands with 5406 posts (1.4%)
France with 5396 posts (1.4%)
Ireland with 5288 posts (1.3%)
Singapore with 5065 posts (1.3%)
New Zealand with 4756 posts (1.2%)
Japan with 4675 posts (1.2%)
Italy with 4477 posts (1.1%)
Portugal with 3652 posts (0.9%)
Belgium with 3269 posts (0.8%)
Spain with 3133 posts (0.8%)
Macedonia with 2593 posts (0.7%)
Turkey with 2383 posts (0.6%)
Slovakia with 2062 posts (0.5%)
Indonesia with 2042 posts (0.5%)
Peru with 1965 posts (0.5%)
Isle of Man with 1868 posts (0.5%)
Switzerland with 1636 posts (0.4%)
Slovenia with 1508 posts (0.4%)
Romania with 1315 posts (0.3%)
Greece with 1254 posts (0.3%)
Russian Federation with 973 posts (0.2%)
South Africa with 912 posts (0.2%)
Croatia with 868 posts (0.2%)
Panama with 815 posts (0.2%)
Puerto Rico with 766 posts (0.2%)
Austria with 705 posts (0.2%)
Chile with 658 posts (0.2%)
Mexico with 593 posts (0.2%)
Lithuania with 503 posts (0.1%)
Argentina with 428 posts (0.1%)
India with 410 posts (0.1%)
Israel with 404 posts (0.1%)
Serbia with 375 posts (0.1%)
United Arab Emirates with 360 posts (0.1%)
Malaysia with 279 posts (0.1%)
Faroe Islands with 228 posts (0.1%)
Uruguay with 216 posts (0.1%)
Saudi Arabia with 184 posts (0.0%)
Iceland with 167 posts (0.0%)
Philippines with 160 posts (0.0%)
Estonia with 157 posts (0.0%)
Thailand with 156 posts (0.0%)
Latvia with 140 posts (0.0%)
Ukraine with 137 posts (0.0%)
Costa Rica with 134 posts (0.0%)
Western Sahara with 132 posts (0.0%)
Liechtenstein with 127 posts (0.0%)

By comparing with the previous results one can see that US or Germany community members are a little bit less chatty than UK / Canada / Australia / Norway on a per user basis.

However you can also search for the posters with the highest count of posts. Here is the list without names:

xxx from Australia with 11073 posts
xxx from Canada with 8915 posts
xxx from United Kingdom with 8423 posts
xxx from United States with 7265 posts
xxx from Denmark with 4537 posts
xxx from Canada with 4240 posts
xxx from United States with 4000 posts
xxx from Poland with 3989 posts
xxx from Singapore with 3951 posts
xxx from Sweden with 3919 posts
xxx from Japan with 3908 posts
xxx from United States with 3898 posts
xxx from United States with 3709 posts
xxx from United States with 3706 posts
xxx from Ireland with 3681 posts
xxx from United Kingdom with 3146 posts
xxx from United States with 2944 posts
xxx from Portugal with 2908 posts
xxx from Hungary with 2631 posts
xxx from Macedonia with 2585 posts

So, the 20 top posters roughly produce 20% of all posts. Of course this is only for fun and anyway says nothing about the length or quality or entertainment value of these posts. ;)

However, what I did is keeping a zip file of the downloaded html only snapshot so just in case, some monks mess terminally with GOG, we would have a backup. Compression ratio is awesome 98%.

Yay, game! Let's play.

Did I win?

haha lol that guess of usernames seems right :D i doubt on the guess on united states posters though

Very impressive!

You've got only 2 names wrong and from the 18 names that are right 15 are also in the right place. :)))

Just recently I discovered that there is even more information contained in the posts: the posting date and the community member registration date. Just for fun, I reran the analysis and produced the charts that come first to mind using the snapshot of the GOG forum that was beginning of march:

Number of newly registered active forum members for year/month of registration date
2008 Apr 2
2008 May 1
2008 Jun 4
2008 Jul 5
2008 Aug 11
2008 Sep 3422
2008 Oct 1068
2008 Nov 594
2008 Dec 780
2009 Jan 475
2009 Feb 358
2009 Mar 483
2009 Apr 428
2009 May 409
2009 Jun 410
2009 Jul 467
2009 Aug 394
2009 Sep 497
2009 Oct 318
2009 Nov 315
2009 Dec 547
2010 Jan 409
2010 Feb 484
2010 Mar 504
2010 Apr 564
2010 May 368
2010 Jun 346
2010 Jul 280
2010 Aug 326
2010 Sep 490
2010 Oct 525
2010 Nov 426
2010 Dec 390
2011 Jan 243
2011 Feb 183

New posts per month
2008 Jul 5
2008 Aug 48
2008 Sep 6627
2008 Oct 5510
2008 Nov 4518
2008 Dec 4731
2009 Jan 9035
2009 Feb 10215
2009 Mar 11062
2009 Apr 10112
2009 May 7929
2009 Jun 7869
2009 Jul 12033
2009 Aug 12240
2009 Sep 14555
2009 Oct 11741
2009 Nov 9626
2009 Dec 9496
2010 Jan 14289
2010 Feb 14298
2010 Mar 12550
2010 Apr 13733
2010 May 13484
2010 Jun 10986
2010 Jul 9766
2010 Aug 10511
2010 Sep 16112
2010 Oct 27401
2010 Nov 26831
2010 Dec 23929
2011 Jan 23478
2011 Feb 17487

Unique active posters per month
2008 Jul 4
2008 Aug 8
2008 Sep 1671
2008 Oct 976
2008 Nov 757
2008 Dec 784
2009 Jan 701
2009 Feb 785
2009 Mar 917
2009 Apr 931
2009 May 827
2009 Jun 840
2009 Jul 989
2009 Aug 977
2009 Sep 1238
2009 Oct 956
2009 Nov 870
2009 Dec 1035
2010 Jan 1307
2010 Feb 1309
2010 Mar 1298
2010 Apr 1555
2010 May 1482
2010 Jun 1797
2010 Jul 1290
2010 Aug 1036
2010 Sep 1879
2010 Oct 2413
2010 Nov 2003
2010 Dec 1891
2011 Jan 1581
2011 Feb 1425

@OP


You wish to know the real reason behind the multinational make-up of the GOG forums? It's simple:

I walked in and opened the door for my fellow Poles. Somehow some sneaksy Germans and their even sneaksier version, the Finns, walked in. Well once you get some Germans and Finns in here they're going to let some Norwegians, Danes, and even Swedes into the place!!! By God, who ordered Swedish!?!?! And don't even get me started on the Austrians and Belgians! Seriously, Belgians! I did not know such a nationality existed and there's two versions of them: French-speaking and Dutch-speaking ones!

I like they way you think... I did a quick and dirty graph of 'Unique active posters' ... should it be taken as a health chart of GoG Forums?