@ShawnC13 wrote:
I don't know of a way to find out who many active accounts there are with PM each month as it could fluctuate greatly. Just from the people, I know on PM from family and friends and their referrals I would be surprised if it was close to 1%
Up until a few years ago the Bravo Leaderboard was public, so accurate numbers for active users could be observed or calculated. While reasonably accurate Telus numbers (including Public Mobile numbers, as a category) could be extrapolated from marketing, shareholder reports, and various industry-observing pundits.
At the time, when I was curious enough to check and compare things, it seemed like Public Mobile had between 275,000 and 300,000 subscribers, like the PM Community had some 24,000 registered members (who may or may not have ever been subscribers), and about 1700 of these had received at least one Bravo in the previous 30 days.
I assumed that the vast majority of Community members were subscribers at some point, that many of these might no longer be with PM, that not very many would be bots and spammers (since the Mods and Oracles were very aggressive about nuking and banning that trash behind the scenes). And I assumed that all of those who were active were all PM subscribers, since it seems pointless to ask questions, answer questions, be helpful, and earn Community Rewards without an account.
At the time, PM was reeling from unanticipated response to a killer promo, drowning under a botched series of Koodo migration offers, drowning even more when Self-Serve was overwhelmed and the strained Telus number porting machinery broke down, and suffering from a lot of negative press by a horde of angry customers and CRTC/CCTS threats/complaints. So I recall things being a lot more active in these forums than usual, lol.
But if those numbers are roughly consistent each month and roughly representative of current trends then there's probably still about 1700(ish) active PM Community members every month. Then again, who can tell how Lucky/Public/Chatr have rescaled their equilibriums, how many (if any) Freedom/Shaw refugees have arrived after Rogers bought them out, what effect a couple years of covid has done to this corner of the internet, etc. All I know for certain is that there's a lot more shameless spammers around here than there used to be.
For a quick-and-dirty calculation ... find a user profile with a Top% badge, it'll say how many users received that badge this time around, just do the arithmetic. If 5 users earned Top 1% then there were probably 500 total active users.
