The statement, "Prior to hard fork 20 Steemit was making thousands of accounts per day," is misleading.
On it's face, that statement implies that 2000+ accounts were being created each and every day and then suddenly stopped at HF20.
Then you "clarified" it to mean "on average", and sure, if you take the entire life of the blockchain. But then, what are you saying? Steemit is still creating greater than 1000 per day, right now. Because average.
It's much more accurate to say, "Prior to hard fork 20 Steemit would regularly spike thousands of accounts in one day."
The fact it hasn't made thousands in months is skewing the average downward. I didn't know the exact number, I just knew it was over 1000 a day, it just didn't actually create accounts on a daily basis, they were done in spurts. So it obviously can't be specifically daily.
No, it's not. I did average because it was the quickest way to get an answer and they didn't make accounts on a daily basis, so to say one day they created 9K, another 1k, another 7k, and another 21K is kind of silly. Multiple days more than 20K accounts were created. The only way to make sense of it is to average it out. But it's obvious if you look at since HF20, these rules don't apply anymore. The amount of accounts created is much much lower.
Prior to hard fork 20, 5K-20K+ on a weekly basis was normal. After, 5k is the highest, and it only happened once and three times for 3k.
Also average works in favor of both directions, much of the bulk account creation was done in 2017 and early 2018, so averaging the entire time (post hf20, and 2016) actually brings the average way down. I'd say 2016 isn't even good data to work off and removing it would be more realistic of current times, which would bring the average well above 2,000.
Either way, I wasn't exact, but I wasn't far off at all and the point is still accurate. We created a ton of accounts prior to HF20 on a regular basis, after not so much.
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Another quick way to mislead would be to say that Steemit hasn't created more than 1000 per day accounts since May 27th, 2018, because average + cherry-picking right after that last May spike:
I wonder what happened in May?
(hint: nothing, I picked the perfect date range to make it average below 1,000/day)
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I wasn't trying to mislead anything, I was simply stating my observations. I didn't cherry pick jack, I just took a simple quick overview. In fact, I just pulled what data was available from SteemSQL and averaged it. Didn't try to make numbers fit any agenda because honestly, I don't even care. I made a statement that I still stand behind which accurately represents my observations.
Not sure the issue you have with my statement, I'm fine being wrong, but I don't just make shit up.
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