Today I posted something to a thread ("Re: Password hacker killer") and found that the average positive moderation on almost all the nodes was quite high--extrordinarily high. It looks like the topic of security and password authentication is very popular. As such usually usually happen, this thought led to another, and then to another...

The question I ended up with is this: How could someone go about tracking the popularity (and perhaps activity) of particular topics posted at the Monastery? I would like to stop short of actually making changes to the site itself, but am more interested in ideas along the lines of data harvesting. I have my own ideas, but I would like to hear how others would approach the problem.

Looking forward to reading your thoughts.

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Allolex

Yes, the pun was intentional. Sorry.

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