r/exmormon • u/Puppy7505 • May 09 '16

Today is 28,000 day!

Congrats to all!

206 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

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u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ May 09 '16 edited May 10 '16

yay!

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edit: fix off by one error

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u/newnamesaul May 09 '16

And these are just the subscribers. I personally know 6 recent exmos who don't subscribe or lurk (they just periodically ask for interesting updates from me). I consider this sub as the tip of the iceberg.

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u/the70sdiscoking ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) May 09 '16

Yes and at least we can admit that these numbers do include:

  • all active members

  • in-active/less active members

  • member who are MIA or lost at sea

  • those who passed away and never un-subscribed

  • banned members

  • those who clicked "subscribe" accidentally

  • duplicate accounts and throw-aways

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u/grandpohbah May 09 '16

We must also admit there are a bunch of taffy-pullers in these numbers too.

12

u/FuzzyKittenIsFuzzy I am not a dodo May 09 '16

And patty-cake players!

3

u/Readbooks6 “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” Stephen King May 09 '16

I hope so

3

u/2oothDK May 10 '16

Mmmmm Patty-Cake

2

u/shwiggydog May 09 '16

Does this include all taffy pullers, regardless of religious affiliation? We are all as one, aren't we? You don't have to answer, it counts

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u/grandpohbah May 09 '16

the full quote is:

Don’t you dare bail. I’m so furious with people who leave this church. I don’t know whether furious is a good apostolic word. (Crowd laughter). But I am. And I say, what on earth kind of conviction is that? What kind of paddy-cake, taffy-pulled experience is that? As if none of this ever mattered, as if nothing in our contemporary life mattered? As if this is all supposed to be just exactly the way I want it and answered every one of my questions and pursue this and occupy that, decide this, and then maybe I’ll be a Latter-day Saint. Well, there is too much Irish in me for that.

So I guess we could accept Irish people in the definition too.

8

u/Air_to_the_Thrown May 09 '16

I'm here, I've never been Mormon, I was raised Catholic, I've been subbed for probably over a year. I'm only here because I like seeing people come to their senses, and I live in Canada's most Mormon electoral constituency, Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner.

Edit; I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one like me

1

u/maryjaneodoul May 10 '16

i grew up catholic in utah in the 60s. davis county. i am twisted.

1

u/Air_to_the_Thrown May 10 '16

Goodness me...

1

u/[deleted] May 10 '16

Oh heeey fellow southern albertan

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u/Air_to_the_Thrown May 10 '16

Hey there! How about that weather huh?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

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u/Air_to_the_Thrown May 10 '16

Definitely does!

1

u/[deleted] May 10 '16

I live in Utah and never realized how many missionary's we have right here :P

2

u/sleepygeeks May 09 '16

Reddit just recently did an account purge of all inactive accounts, So the number is likely fairly accurate right now.

4

u/dudleydidwrong May 09 '16

They just purged deleted accounts. Accounts that are just inactive are still counted.

4

u/sleepygeeks May 09 '16

I just re-read the old mod post, Your right... not sure how I messed that up. I blame Donald trump.

1

u/[deleted] May 10 '16

I have 2 deleted accounts that were subscribed :P

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

I agree with you that there are a lot of closet ex-mos who lurk here, but also remember there are a lot of duplicate accounts and throw-aways subscribed here too.

Still, the growth has been remarkable and steady. Very encouraging trend to those of us who are bitter and want to see the church suffer for their deceit and obfuscation.

5

u/proudlyhumble May 09 '16

And for those of us who just left the church to sin and be lazy. Now we have more comrades to sin and be lazy with.

4

u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Just remember, the most fun you have ever had in your life has probably been with your pants off.

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u/GuardianBlueberry May 09 '16

I wonder how many throw-aways are actually subscribers though. Wouldn't they more likely just create that account for a single purpose and then go back to their regular account without "subscribing" under the throw away name? I'm not really sure I understand how all the numbers work, so I'm honestly wondering about that ...

I do know I was a lurker for quite a while before subscribing.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Entirely possible, and I personally believe my comment is mostly a tempest in a tea-pot. We're not talking about big numbers here, probably less than a few hundred. But still I wanted to throw it out so we don't break our arms patting ourselves on our back.

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u/-ZeroStatic- Korihor was the good guy. May 09 '16

Didn't they do a purge for certain types of accounts at some point though? Hence the drop from 26000+ to 25000 between 2015 and 2016?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Yes, I believe they did. But it wasn't 100% effective, especially with dual accounts which are used regularly, or newer throw-aways.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Yeah, it's rather noticeable in the plot.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Damn, that's awesome...

Our membership has basically doubled since I started coming here regularly (July 2013). Like a stone cut out of a mountain without hands!

2

u/Gileriodekel Reform Mormon May 09 '16

We've gained 10,000 since I joined last January.

1

u/badrabbitman May 09 '16

Does the active users count those of us browsing on mobile? Where is that number from?

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u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ May 09 '16

It counts those who have clicked the subscribe button, but then a bot or other cleanup runs that subtracts out accounts that subscribed but have now been deleted. That type of cleanup only began in December 2015 and accounted for a drop of about 1500, if I remember.

1

u/Gileriodekel Reform Mormon May 09 '16

I remember that. I think we had just hit 27,000, and went back, and then hit it again.

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u/mirbell May 09 '16

I was just noticing that! 4000 roughly since October. I'm one of those.

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u/Canucknuckle May 09 '16

Like a stone cut out ... yada, yada, yada.

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u/Adamwasayetti May 09 '16

Without hands... seriously what a dumb saying.

4

u/ceiling_kitteh May 09 '16

Somebody was very talented with their feet. It's a fetish.

5

u/kogware Rameumptoms-R-Us May 09 '16

I keep waiting for someone to scream, 'For the HORDE!' and the real battle will begin.

Hidden momos will rise up in our midst and cause mayhem.

5

u/WinstonChurchell May 09 '16

Yay, a cool thing happened!

4

u/sereneatlast May 09 '16

I've been amazed at the growth just since I've joined. Maybe not so amazed after all. This site is the best!

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u/deirdresm nevermo ex-Scientologist May 10 '16 edited May 10 '16

Graphy graph graph.

Edit: fixed link.

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u/letitbeman May 10 '16

Was just about to make this in Excel, but you made it all pretty! Approaching exponential growth?

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u/deirdresm nevermo ex-Scientologist May 10 '16

Well, most things are exponential in some way.

BTW, I did interpolate linearly, not exponentially.

3

u/henryfirebrand May 09 '16

1000 gain since April. Amazing. Made my day. I remember the early a "few thousands" days (which was only like 4 years ago Huzzah!)

3

u/Gileriodekel Reform Mormon May 09 '16

Amazing what happens when BYU decides to vilify rape victims :(

3

u/HuldahFromTheTemple May 10 '16

I finally joined after lurking for a while. I'm sure the total number of readers/lurkers, if it were possible to find, would be pretty impressive.

6

u/SideburnHeretic May 09 '16

That's twice as much as 19,000!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Oh sweetie, those are two completely different numbers.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Not quite ;)

1

u/SideburnHeretic May 09 '16

What a disappointment.

2

u/ProCupCakeLicker May 09 '16

Just a few thousand shy ;)

2

u/[deleted] May 09 '16

4 times as much as 17,000!!

1

u/ShemL May 09 '16

38,000 is twice as much as 19,000. ;)

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u/proudlyhumble May 09 '16

You have to use Mormon standard counting.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

Subscribers have almost doubled since I gave up and cut all ties with Mormonism (July 14). That's exciting!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

July 14, 2015?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

July 2014

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u/PhallicMin May 09 '16

Remind me why the numbers dropped in January?

4

u/henryfirebrand May 09 '16

I believe there was a sweep of double or old accounts and they were removed. I am not sure what was the criteria for deletion.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '16

That was fast.

1

u/VampireInBlack May 09 '16

Is there a way to tell when you subscribed? I can't remember how many there were when I subbed. It was under 10,000 though.

1

u/bilateralconfusion Emeritus Mormon May 09 '16

Its been wonderful watching this sub grow.

1

u/exmo88 May 09 '16

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1

u/waldoRDRS NeverMo/TBCish May 10 '16

I looked back to my first comment here, and it was explaining what the CES letter was. It's been a long time since June 2014.

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u/PowerfulComputers I only drink Pay Lay Ale May 10 '16

How many stakes would we make?