{"id":995,"date":"2010-06-23T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2010-06-23T20:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:45:58","slug":"state-of-the-beans-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"State of the Beans Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The 2010 State of the Beans Address<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Delivered by Dr. Humphrey Bumfrey M.D.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Settle down, everyone, settle down. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>It is a great honour to be invited back here to Da Beans for another time, and to be asked to deliver my analysis of the current state of this fine web institution. Being a scientist with all sorts of clever gadgets and fancy equations out of books and that, I am incredibly clever, much more so than any of you, and therefore you have to listen to me and think I&#8217;m great.<\/p>\n<p>First to the trends in posting volumes here on Da Beans.<\/p>\n<p>After a steady, level second half of 2009, figures become erratic around the New Year 2010 period. This is down to a number of factors.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ian making many posts in December, each composed of thousands of deadly nanoposts.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone losing interest for a bit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have rubbed my stethoscope on Da Beans and given it some calpol, and I am pleased to say it has made a full recovery. Posting volumes are now back at normal pre-blowout levels and, as you can see from this graph, this is unlikely to be a temporary result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-996\" title=\"Graph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/graph-300x231.png\" alt=\"This is clearly a graph\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/graph-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/graph.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next we turn to comment levels and quality.<\/p>\n<p>It has been observed that there were &#8220;good old days&#8221; on Da Beans when posts were excellent and comments were both humourful and numberous. These things tend to change upwardly as well as downbound, but in general there are comments being made today that are as good, wholesome and nutritious as anything posted in 2006. It is easy to see the past through lead-lined glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I will leave you with a note of optimism for the future. I believe Da Beans has a bright future ahead of it, partly for the reasons outlined above, but mostly because Saint King has been told where to stick it.<\/p>\n<p>Goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 State of the Beans Address Delivered by Dr. Humphrey Bumfrey M.D. Settle down, everyone, settle down. Thank you. It is a great honour to be invited back here to Da Beans for another time, and to be asked to deliver my analysis of the current state of this fine web institution. Being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris","category-great","category-look-at-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}