[dredmorbius]

Update on the votes/comments/mean values: turns out that the votes and comments counters were also bad, given my accumulator code (I'd thought this was a reporting issue). The story counts are legit however.

(I was counting "stories" as both "votes" and "comments", which is obvious on eyeballing the values. The difference between "++" and "+= votes / += comments". Sigh.)

Actual / corrected data:

2009

   Posts:  10,950  Sites:   1,129   Submitters:   1,440

  Class                 Stories    Votes   (mean) Comments  (mean)
          UNCLASSIFIED:     3741   208521   55.74    90426   24.17
                  blog:     1930   121329   62.86    53561   27.75
                   n/a:     1734    84356   48.65    89256   51.47
             tech news:     1118    58870   52.66    29115   26.04
          general news:      878    41661   47.45    25054   28.54
       corporate comm.:      450    30740   68.31    13541   30.09
         business news:      407    20064   49.30    11748   28.86
    academic / science:      337    16806   49.87     6951   20.63
           programming:      316    19170   60.66     7820   24.75
      general interest:      124     7081   57.10     3370   27.18

2022

   Posts:  10,950  Sites:   1,158   Submitters:   1,398

  Class                 Stories    Votes   (mean) Comments  (mean)
          UNCLASSIFIED:     4844  1440894  297.46   767619  158.47
           programming:     1146   308222  268.95   117139  102.22
                  blog:     1123   322989  287.61   202251  180.10
                   n/a:      864   334550  387.21   250608  290.06
    academic / science:      567   130608  230.35    73908  130.35
          general news:      444   158965  358.03   154772  348.59
       corporate comm.:      406   144991  357.12    85870  211.50
             tech news:      400   122049  305.12    92895  232.24
          social media:      252   124105  492.48    87830  348.53
      general interest:      222    53305  240.11    47007  211.74