Who Posts?

[kelly]

Thanks to RHP who assembled this Data.    

Almost 1300 people have registered.

670 have no record of ever posting

375 have 10 threads on which they have posted

37 have posted on 200 threads

Other frequencies of posting:

300 = 17

400 = 09

10-500 = 392

500 = 01

600 = 03

700 = 06

800 = 03

900 = 02

> 1000 = 27

Are non-posters simply lurking?    

This seems to me to validate that we probably have a couple hundred regulars.

Should we be more aggressive about adding more members?

Comments?

[Mrious_be]

I won't go the aggresional way  
Isn't it possible to delete "users" who haven't been posting and/or visiting for let's say six months?
Maybe administration can send them email to ask if they want to "validate" their subscription?
If they don't answer on it, delete the subscription?

Just my thought offcourse.

[iain]

Kelly, I visit the site every weekday, but post very rarely.

Can't find many posts I can actually help out with, and what with there being so many knowledgeable folk here better equipped.

Does that make me a lurker

[beacher]

I guess that makes you a "lurker", Iain, but there is certainly no negative connotations to that term, here!  We're glad that you stop in, and hope that you're finding it helpful.  It's nice to hear from you. . .

[iain]

Aside from the nuggets of info that have helped directly, getting a preview of everyone's experience with OSX is really going to come in useful when the inevitable happens and I get an X capable machine.

Aside from that I kinda just like keeping track of all the OT stuff

[Gary S]

How do you be more aggressive?

I have alot of posts but I go through cycles.

I do try and stop by daily though and see if I can help.

   

What's a little strange about those numbers is that statisically, they don't seem to follow the bell curve. The numbers are skewed.  
 
 [ 04-25-2003, 03:19 PM: Message edited by: Gary S ]

[RobW]

Is it possible that the 670 who have never posted are really names just created by Bernie before he settled in on his official user name--Bernie??       Sorry, but somebody had to BIOB--and I was thinking that Harv might be busy!

[pendragon]

Good call RobW! I think you broke the code. And thanks for the help in watching the Bernmeister.    

Harv

[Gregg]

quote:Originally posted by kelly:
Should we be more aggressive about adding more members?
Comments?  

Whadya gonna do, start spammin' people?  

It's not like new members will send money. The TS community grows how, by members spreading the news? That's fine, 'cause it means we'll get more people like the ones we have; mature, polite, friendly, obsessed with Macs.

[kelly]

M_B. By aggressive I didn't mean hurt someone.  

There's no need to delete anyone.

We had considered sending out a "Hi how are you, be nice to

hear from you" to members that haven't posted.

But we don't want to be "Spammers" like Greg inferred.

There's lots of ways to promote membersship.

For myself, I've been content to go slow for the exact

same reasons that Greg mentions.

I do encourage people to post.

This is not an Exclusive Club.

There are no stupid questions.

[Kruser]

I check the fourm every AM & Pm 7 days a week. I would like to see this kind of study at Mac Fixit with it's 279,625 members. I've seen it jump 2000 in one day there. I don't think so!. i mentioned that and they thought i was nut's to keep track of these things. Probably SO.

[RHPConsult]

Iain

'Round these parts, we like lurkers, but we Love Learning Lurkers.

Thanks for posting. delighted have you here.

Just in case anyone's confused, there's no revenue associated with any of these numbers, 'cause there's no revenue associated with TechSurvivors. None. Never has been.

It exists today for exactly the same set of reasons as when it began, around midnight (PDT) on June 15, 2000 . . . to provide a pleasant, apolitical, polite place for Mac-sters to congregate and exchange ideas about their Macs, software and even, sometimes, the OT-stuff. . . . like, say, Ohio State football where, for tomorrow's spring game (the Champs play themselves) 85,000  tickets have been sold!

                                         

 Gary S

"Skewed" is right . .  . waaaay to the right . . . and you is one of the skewers!

   
 
 [ 04-25-2003, 10:04 PM: Message edited by: RHPConsult ]

[Bill]

Lurkers are just as much to a boards activity as posters.!.

Fact is over 75% of folks who visit either some sort of tech boards or whatever type are lurkers.

Why should one post a question if they can find the answer (perhaps) just by reading others replies on a similar subject/topic. Prime example is Kelly and his finding who-knows-what all over the internet.

Actually Lurkers are close to the highest complement a board could get.

They all have separate/individual reasons and quite frankly I don't care what they are.
It's none of my business nor anyone else's.

Yet

Anytime I see a board with that option were how many visited a thread crap I tend to shy away from posting (with very few exceptions).
Personally I couldn't care less whose reading my writings. I talk about anything under the sun all over the monitor and in the fantasy world called life.
NO. More the fact that those types of options/features in a board are invading the personal privacy door for individuals.

Face it. The internet is an informational highway. On the same side of the fence it is also a fun world if you chose.
Where does it say one has to 'join' a 'club' to get the information or laughs?

You ask how to bring the inactive members back on board.?.

The example above is one small example.

> Let the window lookers have their space.
Doesn't matter how the information/laughs are obtained. As long as it's available.

[Al]

IAWBill, lurkers are good and if they find what they want by searching or reading, then the board is doing it's job.

I am a member of two automotive related BB's and a non-member of another.  But I hardly have reason to post there because I usually find the answers I'm looking for by doing simple searches or reading through the daily posts and threads.  Exactly what happens here too, I don't post everyday to every thread, but read and learn by each persons questions and answers.  If I can't find what I am looking for, then I post a question.  Of course, if I can help with answers, I'll chime in when I can and add my 2 cents.
 
 [ 04-26-2003, 04:14 AM: Message edited by: Al ]

[Mrious_be]

quote:Originally posted by kelly:
M_B. By aggressive I didn't mean hurt someone.    

I guess i didn't really choose good words for it