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LinkPizza posted...

You can't say anything. But 50 people voting in the poll could mean 50 people using the site and everyone votes in the poll. Or 50,000 people using the site and only 0.1% voting in the poll. So, unless you can provide percentages on how many people are voting in the poll that day, you can't really use the poll to determine the amount of users. And you definitely can't use it determine the rate that users are leaving since the percentage of people voting in the poll is probably different everyday. Not to mention users that leave for a few months before coming back. And like TyVulpine said, they could be users coming back all the time. Maybe 50 user left, but 30 came back. To you, it would only look like 20 left. There's could also be a drop or increase randomly due to different things. Like the start or end of summer. Or when a new system comes out or whatever...

I think you can say something. If you count a bunch of footprints in a forest, you can use that to say very many people visit the forest. If you can correlate it to other things like how many people are renting trailers, etc.

So if you don't see very many footprints in the forest, it's probably not because people are more careful not to leave footprints. It's most likely because less people are coming by.