NHfree.com growth spike continues

[Dave Ridley]

1.6 joiners per day over the last 8 days.  I think this spike that started in august is becoming permanenet....up until aug 1 our historical average was 1 per day.  we are consistenly 50 to 300 percent above that ever since russell's arrest early august.

I think whoever was saying it was futile...had been proven wrong, if in fact this spike is still connected to his arrest,

[d_goddard]

We need a graph of users over time. Shouldn't be that hard. Any PHP/MySQL coders out there with a few hours on their hands?
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/
The O'Reilly book on PHP & MySQL is particularly good; in 2-3 days anyone starting from scratch can at least get thios feature 75% done I bet...

[Kat Kanning]

His arrest, Lauren's arrest, the stuff you do, Dada, the newspaper, political stuff....activity breeds interest.

[Russell Kanning]

People think the dada story is pretty funny in the paper.

[David]

I first heard about nh underground, maybe a year or two ago.  I think it was the Illegal Manicurist, that really turned me in your direction. 
The activism draws people.  Particularly the fence sitters who want to see if others are doing it and if it will work.   

[d_goddard]

Illegal Manicurist

He posts here as "Michael Fisher"

[mr.apathy]

1.6 joiners per day over the last 8 days.  I think this spike that started in august is becoming permanenet....up until aug 1 our historical average was 1 per day.  we are consistenly 50 to 300 percent above that ever since russell's arrest early august.

I think whoever was saying it was futile...had been proven wrong, if in fact this spike is still connected to his arrest,

Russel introduced me to this whole movement. Love or hate his tactics, he's the man.
(But, not "The Man")

[Dave Ridley]

RUSSELL:  "This is my way of stickin it to the man!"

RUSSELL'S ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:  "Uh but *you're* the man...so uh...you're sticking it to yourself?

RUSSELL:  "I'll get back to you on that."

[d_goddard]

so uh...you're sticking it to yourself?

hey man, it's the safest sex, ya know?

I also cannot resist an obligatory TooL quote:

So I've got some
Advice for you, little buddy.
Before you point your finger
You should know that
I'm the man,

If I'm the fuckin' man
Then you're the fuckin' man as well
So you can
Point that fuckin' finger up your ass.

[Dave Ridley]

ok, 3 months after it began, the NHfree.com growth spurt has finally come to a halt, tho of course it may be only a brief halt.   we are back down to our pre-outlaw-leafletter join rate of one a day.  That's been our join rate for two weeks now.

[error]

Even one a day is nothing to sneeze at.

This time next year, there's going to be a pretty good sized crowd here.

[KBCraig]

The most impressive thing is the spike of new movers. I've lost track of how many have moved this year, and most recently since summer. We've even had conflicting move-in parties.

Now, that is impressive! 

[d_goddard]

The most impressive thing is the spike of new movers.

From the number of people who signed F1K and commented that they'd move by end of 2008 whether 1K more do or not, I assume at least 150-200 more people will move by then.
Given that we're only at ~200 early-movers now, that means at least doubling the number of core activists.
Hopefully the Time story and other news (like KFP, the Liberty Forum, etc) also engage the many liberty-lovers already here in NH.

[Forastero]

Well, one things for sure, things are going to become interesting in NH pretty darn soon.

[Dreepa]

The most impressive thing is the spike of new movers.

From the number of people who signed F1K and commented that they'd move by end of 2008 whether 1K more do or not, I assume at least 150-200 more people will move by then.
Given that we're only at ~200 early-movers now, that means at least doubling the number of core activists.
Hopefully the Time story and other news (like KFP, the Liberty Forum, etc) also engage the many liberty-lovers already here in NH.

I think that we can get another 100+ movers in 2007.  Many are coming in Jan already.

500 more crazed activists will be just what is needed.  I also identified 3 more people today and pointed them at the NHLA.  I think that with this sweep that just happened we may find that we need to heavily recruit allies that are already in NH.