[Smitty]

Originally Posted by StarBuG

But this can't be how it is calculated because my trends are all negative.

The key is it does not relate to a true trend. The only way it could do that is if it went by a comparison to the average for the specific day in the month.

What this does do, and it's OK with me, is compare a given day in a month with the total monthly average. On my forum I put in a 'header' that reads: "'Trend' Numbers = Total 'New' so far this month compared to Monthly Average". I would have been more accurate, but it would have taken up too much room, if I had said: "'Trend' Numbers = Total 'New' so far this month compared to Monthly Average over the life time of the forum".

In my case it's even trickier because I started using vBulletin in August of 2001 and imported threads from UltimateBB going back to June of 1998. I also looked at my vBulletin stats in the admin control panel and somewhere along the way the stats got screwed up so according to the vBulletin admin panel my stats are only good from about March of 2003. That said I'm not sure how this hack computes the numbers, so on my board I look at the number as a 'relative' number.