Hi, I´ve been on perlmonks now for 6 days and am thus a newbie. Have to admit, that I didn´t like the "community-thingie" that much, because I always had the impression (prejudice), that members of communities use it too much as a replacement for missing real relationships. I know .. I know...

Saying that, I now really have to admit, that I like this one. Not only one gets *tons* of useful informations, there is also a feeling of - mostly - really monastery-like athmosphere. Peace and composure. (Ok - I´ve read the posts about downvoting, and all that bad feelings attached to it, but I think this problem will solve itself. See chaotic relaxation. :-)) All in all it is fun to contribute.

Maybe my wish is somewhat specific and most definitedly it is because of my management background... anyway: it is my belief that these features would help PM to generate "shareholder value" :-)

Yes, this is about statistics (I haven´t been able to find nodes with the following informations):

• How many monks are there at PM
• What´s the distribution like (levels)?
• How´s the growth of members along the timeline?
  Same with *active* members.
• Hows the server doing (load, webstats)
• I even would like to know that "intimate" questions like offer plate statistics.
• No - I wouldn´t like to abandon anonymity of the voting system ;-)

Consider this - brothers. Probably I will be pointed to some node(s) containing (some of) these informations, but even then - please bear with me - take it as feedback, that this information wasn´t found after about 20 hours reading spent on PM.

Good hacking and have fun

Ciao

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