250 Members!!!!

[Jason Tandro]

With the latest addition, hystericmoon, TerraEarth Forums now has 250 registered members!

However...

Only 45 members have made more than 50 posts.

Only 155 members have made more than 1 post.

Only 181 members have made any posts.

And only like, what, 20 of us are actually active?

[tay120n64]

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow.

[Yet One More Idiot]

Welcome to the future! Where almost all internet forums are ghost towns.

It's true - in most internet forums, the same thing happens. Out of however many members are currently registered to the forum, usually somewhere between 5-20% of them are active.

It follows the, I think the name of it is, The Pareto Principle (the 80-20 rule) - in this case being that 20% of the members produce 80% of the forum activity; well, more like 10% of the members and about 98% of the activity, but you get the drift.

[Freedan]

20 of us active? I don't know if there are that many. Maybe a dozen.

[Lenc]

Its always been a pretty small forum.. maybe 5 years ago there where about 25 active and 25 semi active.

[Mantaray]

how many people signed up and then never even logged in? i wanna know that :p

[EverPhoenix]

new members dont mean much unless they actually do something. as far as im concerned, really, dark_gaia was our latest joining member.

[Yet One More Idiot]

I'm the 20th highest poster on the board? Cool.

And yeah, I agree - new members only count if they sizably contribute. I don't get the point of people who register and then never even sign in.

I mean, looking at the 69 members who have no posts to their name, there's a whole bunch of 'em who registered back in 2005 and another lot from 2007.

On a couple of other forums I used to frequent, they actually instituted a minimum post-rate limit - which was entirely reasonable; failure to make at least ONE post in the first month results in instant deletion.

Just an idea..... ^.^;;;

[chicken]

Yomi's Evil Twin Intern wrote:

It follows the, I think the name of it is, The Pareto Principle (the 80-20 rule) - in this case being that 20% of the members produce 80% of the forum activity

[wise guy mode]
no, what you mean is the POWER-LAW-PRINCIPLE. the PARETO PRINCIPLE would say, that we have e.g. a cake and you cannot have more of the cake if i dont get less.
[/wise guy mode]

yea i never really got the point of registering in a forum when you dont really want to post stuff... support forums are something different, i have already done that once or twice because some of them need you to be registered to see KEY INFORMATION LIKE THE ACTUAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM YOU WERE GOOGLEING

[SoulBlazerFan]

Well I think it has something to do with the fallout of the last time the site wnet down- members like Aoiga who had a ton of posts lost those. If I remember correctly, I had almost over a thousand before the forum crash. It is also safe for me to assume we had 250 members before that crash, or close to that number.

[Miss Prime Blue]

I like it as a small community.

You can get to know people a lot better, and it's a lot cozier. =D

[psychokind]

I'm active. can't do more than that

[Jason Tandro]

As I've said before: I prefer the term "elite" to the term "small".

[Freedan]

Miss Prime Blue wrote:

I like it as a small community. You can get to know people a lot better, and it's a lot cozier. =D

Great idea.

Raini, wanna get cozy?

MPB, you're welcome too.

Deathpit, you stay 10 feet back at all times.

[Miss Prime Blue]

Freedan wrote:

Miss Prime Blue wrote: I like it as a small community. You can get to know people a lot better, and it's a lot cozier. =D Great idea. Raini, wanna get cozy? MPB, you're welcome too. Deathpit, you stay 10 feet back at all times.

Yay!

we can has cuddle party =D