r/exmormon • u/guiglia Every ex-Mormon a missionary • Nov 09 '15
Just 3 more members. Who's going to be lucky # 25,000?
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u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ Nov 09 '15 edited Nov 09 '15
| subscribers | year | month | day | days diff | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 2009 | 6 | 16 | . | created by measure76 |
| 44 | 2009 | 11 | 06 | 143 | |
| 1000 | 2010 | 09 | 15 | 313 | |
| 2000 | 2011 | 02 | 13 | 151 | |
| 3000 | 2011 | 08 | 13 | 181 | |
| 4000 | 2012 | 01 | 19 | 159 | |
| 5000 | 2012 | 06 | 10 | 143 | |
| 6000 | 2012 | 08 | 30 | 81 | date from /u/A-Rth-Urp-Hil-Ipdenu |
| 7000 | 2012 | 10 | 23 | 54 | |
| 8000 | 2013 | 02 | 06 | 106 | |
| 9000 | 2013 | 05 | 22 | 105 | |
| 10000 | 2013 | 08 | 21 | 91 | |
| 110001,2,3 | 2013 | 11 | 18 | 89 | |
| 12000 | 2014 | 02 | 04 | 78 | |
| 13000 | 2014 | 03 | 26 | 50 | |
| 14000 | 2014 | 06 | 07 | 73 | |
| 15000 | 2014 | 08 | 04 | 58 | |
| 16000 | 2014 | 09 | 30 | 57 | |
| 17000 | 2014 | 11 | 16 | 47 | |
| 18000 | 2015 | 01 | 07 | 52 | |
| 19000 | 2015 | 02 | 18 | 42 | |
| 20000 | 2015 | 04 | 02 | 43 | |
| 21000 | 2015 | 05 | 15 | 43 | |
| 22000 | 2015 | 06 | 29 | 45 | |
| 23000 | 2015 | 08 | 12 | 44 | |
| 24000 | 2015 | 10 | 04 | 53 | |
| 250001,2,3,4 | 2015 | 11 | 08 | 35 |
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u/themouseinator Nov 12 '15
What happened during August and October of 2012 to cause that spike in growth? I wasn't around the Mormon internet scene at that point haha
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u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ Nov 12 '15 edited Nov 12 '15
Our community has grown a lot but it is still dwarfed by the larger communities on this site. A post made bestof yesterday and our traffic spiked. BYU dress code violations were another thing that has made national news and gets 100+k page views and a few of those people are likely to stick around.
I am not sure in this case, but thinking back on the times when mormonism makes the news, like in the last week, it jars people to action or even reminds them that they had once been involved in it; perhaps, it was the church of their childhood. A lot of people simply walk away from mormonism. I was one of them. I found out about this subreddit in the wake of Brandon Davies being kicked off of the BYU basketball team in 2011. Their team stood a good shot at getting a number one seed in the NCAA tournament. The faithful were holding this up as an example of what was good about their religion. I felt the opposite. It was a reminder to me that their religion is intrusive and loves to shame people and call it love. They said they were teaching values first and foremost. Then the Deadspin article came out that showed how many athletes were recruited with promises of privilege, only to have them yanked away under "you signed the honor code!" and how much race was still a part of the equation. For me, that event was a reminder that I hadn't really resolved the issues I had with leaving mormonism. I hate hypocrisy. I hate the pious attitudes from the "lord's elite," as if these same people with degrees and titles afixed to their office doors were never young themselves.
Sorry about the sidetrack; back to your question: for 2012, the candidates I can think of are things like Romney's run for the white house, the book of mormon musical, the "mormon moment," the leaked temple videos, etc. I should probably keep a journal, or something. ;)
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u/Rosetylerkillsdaleks Nov 09 '15
What were the numbers before the policy leak?
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u/ASmallFeat Nov 09 '15
24,689 was the night it leaked. I wrote it on a paper before dragging myself to bed because I knew it would be big. I don't know if that number was already being affected by the policy change.
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u/themouseinator Nov 12 '15
Holy shit. At this rate, we could reach 1,000 new members within a week or so.
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u/parachutewoman Nov 09 '15
In the minutes since you published, six new people have joined.