Re^2: Perl Monks in numbers? (votes)

[tye]

Voting rose quickly from "none" to "peak" from Mar 2000 through Mar 2002. It stayed peaked throughout most of 2002 through most of 2005, oscillating between 100k and 120k votes per month (following a yearly cycle with the lower rates in Nov-Feb). The last quartermonth of 2005 saw voting drop quickly to 85k/month where it stayed nice and flat through all of 2006. 2007 through Q1 2011 showed a slower and quite steady decline to the much lower 35k..40k votes/month, where it has stayed steady for the last 1.5 years.

I won't upload a chart, but I'll include the data:

2000                  525   3569  11031  21723  31980  35004  31433  3
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2001  57461  58675  71846  80941  89784  89013  91248  92271  94036 10
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2002 100283  88447 113706 120175 119547 113342 116958 113182 116599 11
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2003 107332  98688 111977 107375 113970 114910 116168 113409 113712 11
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2004 108969 100709 115276 114338 118820 117338 119052 121557 113411 11
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2005 111093 103553 112393 109760 116478 119071 115881 118417 113277 11
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2006  88325  81318  88661  83215  90909  81624  84878  84079  80981  9
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2007  87456  83349  81856  77867  78312  73532  72657  77517  71006  8
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2008  74551  70427  70340  71158  66696  65064  70694  67761  61746  6
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2009  70023  59379  66919  62461  57645  59752  62968  57689  54037  5
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2010  50680  45899  51566  52362  44953  44402  43512  50080  47118  4
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2011  49448  42279  43737  39089  38284  33996  37847  39631  38055  3
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2012  35981  37876  38556  37209  34865  36492  35673  39266  35986  3
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