Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4356266-20150720153630

For so long the Unterganger status "dormant" is applied on a subjective manner, without a concrete quantitative measurement. Therefore I'm proposing a formula to determine whether an Unterganger can be said to be dormant:

minimum dormancy period = 3 * average time elapsed between 2 parodies for the latest 5 parodies.

I feel that taking the average of time elapsed between 5 latest parodies would yield a consistent enough number to work with. A dormancy then sets in when the ganger hasn't uploaded any parody for three times that duration.

But there's also a "hiatus" status defined in the List of Untergangers! well, this complicates things, but maybe twice the duration might qualify for "hiatus". At any rate, I'm not sure whether it's worthwhile to edit a ganger's status to hiatus only to come a short while later to declare him "dormant", but I don't come up with hiatus... or that's what I remembered.

For a "retired" status I propose a duration 10 times longer than the average upload time gap.

At any rate, feel free to comment about this metric. I think the variables that matter here are: I have a feeling the dormancy coefficient could be set at 4 if we're really want to retain "hiatus". 
 * Number of parodies to average out the elapsed time
 * Coefficient (how many times) of that delay to declare a ganger hiatus/formant/retired.