"::Tony, don't be coy about this. We both know you've been involved in a lot of the dispute about userboxes. Furthermore, I have no way of verifying that the users you are picking as ""active"" are users who are active to you, or are active in general. Using SQL would be a far better way. The other contentious point of your ""survey"" is that you designate ""contentious"" userboxes. You further define these as ""political, religious, or  polemical"". However, I'm not sure how you would be objectively defining these characteristics. This has been the subject of some discussion on the DRV subsection regarding userboxes. In order to convey an objective trend, you really need to have metrics. And in order to have metrics, you need something like SQL. You can't present ""evidence"" which is solely ""from what I've seen, the sky is blue."" A photo is required. ... aa:talk 

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