ForumList
The ForumList was a resource created by Dr-Spangle in 2007 to list the forums of nations and record statistics regarding their respective post counts.
The original ForumList was hosted on its own website and maintained by Dr-Spangle, who set up an automatic ForumCheck to be done at the beginning of every calendar month in which a forum's post count would be recorded, compared against its previous data for the monthly total of new posts, and the difference divided by the number of days since the previous check to calculate each nation's PPD (posts per day) average. The ForumCheck data quickly became an important quantitative factor for the MCS Council in determining the outcome of claim submissions and in judging whether a nation was inactive enough for a reduction or removal. However, Dr-Spangle's original iteration was not a resource used solely by the Micras Sector, due to the overlapping of the community with the MNN site, containing the GSO, at the time, and entries on the list were not limited to MCS members. The ForumList website also offered the ability for nations to upload cultural artefacts as digital files for more qualitative activity evidence, and included a number of other features such as voice recordings for the correct pronunciations of nations' names.
The ForumList website was updated up until September 2012, when it fell into disuse following Dr-Spangle's departure from the community. Due to the MCS's reliance on the ForumCheck's data over the approximately preceding five years, Administrator-General Craitman established the ForumList as a reduced resource on the Hub.mn forum and began to maintain a manual ForumCheck solely for MCS member nations. The inaugural manual check was made in February 2013, and Craitman would continue to run such checks on, or close to, the first of each calendar month thereafter.
Craitman's iteration of the ForumList lasted until a final ForumCheck on June 2020, over seven years later. In the preceding two years, the community had seen a marked shift in activity away from traditional message boards and onto the MicrasWiki, leading to quantitative post counts and PPD data effectively being redundant in judging claims. As a result, Craitman set-up the more subjective ActivityCheck, which would act as an unofficial replacement to the ForumCheck in collating activity data for MCS purposes, with much less stringent factors to determine levels of activity or even the point at which the MCS could process a forced reduction or removal request, thanks to the wiki's inbuilt ability to show data from any previous ninety-day period as opposed to the calendar months to which the ForumCheck adhered.
