I see what you did there, Merle.
Interesting question, with (as we've seen) many possible answers.
twoshots wrote:
Apparently for people with ASDs verbally abusing each other is more interesting than getting laid, but nonsense socialization still dominates.
There are several ways to look at it besides total posts, of course. By number of threads, the top five are General Autism Discussion, Random Discussion, Getting to know each other, Love and Dating, and Members Only Discussion -- in that order.
By number of pages of topic (thread) titles, the picture looks like this:
1. General Autism Discussion (415 pages)
2. Random Discussion (212)
3. Getting to know each other (121)
4. Love and Dating (87)
5. Members Only Discussion (83)
6. The Haven (81)
7. Politics, Philosophy, and Religion (74)
8. News and Current Events (76)
9. Art, Writing, and Music (64)
10. Parents' Discussion (57)
11. Television, Film, and Video (55)
12. Computers, Math, Science, and Technology (49)
Equal 13th: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. and Social Skills and Making Friends (48 each)
15. Adult Autism Issues (44)
Equal 16th: Games and Video Games and WrongPlanet.net Discussion (35 each)
18. School and College Life (32)
19. Work and finding a Job (29)
Equal 20th: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation and Health, Fitness, and Sports (15 each)
22. Adolescent Autism Forum (14)
23. In-Depth Adult Life Discussion (13)
24. Women's Discussion (11)
25. Kids' Crater (10)
Equal Last: Stats and Español, Nederlands, Deutsch, Français (2 each)
Even this, however, does not give a completely accurate picture of it, since some subforums -- such as Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation -- have not been open for the same length of time as many of the others. Maybe the number of page views per forum per day? Beyond my limited computational skills, I'm afraid.