250 Members!!!!

Jason Tandro · Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:20 pm

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 · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:22 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow.

Yet One More Idiot · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:11 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:43 pm Post subject:

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

Lenc · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:12 pm Post subject:

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

Mantaray · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:49 pm Post subject:

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

EverPhoenix · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:11 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:21 pm Post subject:

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 · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:46 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:11 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:23 am Post subject:

I like it as a small community.

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

psychokind · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:16 am Post subject:

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

Jason Tandro · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:08 am Post subject:

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

Freedan · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:28 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:32 am Post subject:

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