How many users were active last week?

We currently have 61,392 accounts on Steemit, but how many of them are active?

I have decided to look into the past 7 days of activity on the blockchain:

Start: 2016-08-07T00:00:00, Block #3859146
End:   2016-08-14T00:00:00, Block #4059780

Results

It turns out 13,083 users were active in the past week.
Every account that has written at least 1 blog post, or comment, or casted a vote is deemed active.

	Has Posted	Has Commented	Has Voted
Accounts	5,852	5,917	12,761

My Interpretation
It looks like we had about ~6k active authors and ~12.7k active readers last week.

To me, this is good news, as I have guesstimated the size of the author community to be between 2-3k - and we have double that.

I think active authors is a better metric than registered users, because they create value on a recurring basis, bring their own audiences over, and attract other authors. Furthermore, the more quality content we have, the better the search traffic. It all feeds back into more users and growth.

If you thought most of the 60k accounts are 'real', then this may come as a slight disappointment to you.
It is worth noting, that a chunk of the accounts are/were miners.
Furthermore, it seems like we are under the attack of cybersquatting. People are registering valuable names such as Hive account@samsung, Hive account@gap and Hive account@gym with hopes to be able to sell those names in the future.

Most Active Users

Here is the list of 50 most active writers in the last week.
You will see that the ones on the top of the list are mostly spammers.

	Author	Posts
1	taz	142
2	dog	134
3	lenar	102
4	yassinebentour	87
5	mxu111	69
6	stoneybrooks	69
7	trisnawati	66
8	stillsafe	64
9	wildchild	61
10	kasper	58
11	nkdk	58
12	erotic	55
13	runridefly	55
14	crowe	52
15	cryptocurrency1	52
16	jackgallenhall	47
17	lkong87	47
18	alexoz	44
19	cileremit	44
20	jeffreyahann	44
21	mrkuujo	43
22	allmonitors	40
23	matrixdweller	38
24	nigroll	38
25	rkpl	38
26	contentjunkie	37
27	villainblack	37
28	xntryk1	37
29	kevbonneau	35
30	dicov	34
31	heretickitten	34
32	illidans	34
33	wakeupnd	34
34	karenmckersie	33
35	tamara1989	33
36	alwaysfelicia	32
37	herzmeister	32
38	jamesart63	32
39	satire	32
40	aartijohn20	31
41	craig-grant	31
42	alexandre	30
43	laconicflow	30
44	dimon14	29
45	jpiper20	29
46	margot	29
47	nameles	29
48	skapaneas	29
49	arcaneinfo	28
50	colinsydes	28

And the top 50 commenters:

	Author	Comments
1	amihay	1786
2	cheetah	1011
3	alona	927
4	thecryptofiend	733
5	kaylinart	574
6	isaac.asimov	518
7	nameles	502
8	foxkoit	371
9	dwinblood	364
10	knozaki2015	353
11	acidyo	309
12	stellabelle	303
13	bendjmiller222	298
14	lukestokes	293
15	johnnyyash	287
16	robok	283
17	cryptos	268
18	veralynn	266
19	elyaque	263
20	freddy008	263
21	confucius	252
22	cryptobarry	251
23	jarvis	247
24	ciao	245
25	lillianjones	243
26	mammasitta	242
27	razvanelulmarin	242
28	sharon	239
29	allasyummyfood	237
30	condra	235
31	steemster1	234
32	michaellamden68	231
33	mrgrey	229
34	ace108	228
35	anonymint	226
36	klye	223
37	msjennifer	223
38	anca3drandom	221
39	bullionstackers	220
40	opheliafu	216
41	kbargold	215
42	clevecross	213
43	fabio	205
44	alexgr	200
45	sisterholics	197
46	felixxx	195
47	williambanks	195
48	ervin-lemark	193
49	voltarius	189
50	meesterboom	188

I am a bit annoyed with spammers skewing the leaderboards, but hopefully they will go away once they realize spam isn't profitable around here.

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Does editing a post 'bump' it?
I've noticed some people edit their posts a lot. A person I shall not name does edit their post 30-40 times after posting.
Does anyone know if editing a post has any effect on its position in steemit.com feed?

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