Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Nearly there. Just a few more members...
It was to that affect I did this, Mal.Originally posted by Malenfant:
I've often done that sort of examination of the membership in the past... we may have nearly 7000 members but that clearly shows that there's only about 300 who have really contributed much to the board at all, and a hardcore of about 50 who do most of the talking.
Agreed. Correlation between log on, and member entry and current day would show some of these have not been back in quite some time. THAT said,Originally posted by ChrisR:
It might be informative to see how often members actually log on to the site and for how long, compared to number of posts. I find that because I only get chance to visit the site for a short period, I spend most of my time catching up reading interesting posts and very little time posting. That damned real life getting in the way of leisure again!!!!
Liam's totted it up a bit differently:It's quite interesting to look at the number of posts that people have made here (which you can look at in the directory).
For example, at the time of writing there are 5,614 registered members of Coti.
But out of that large number only:
1,592 of them have ever posted 1 or more posts (and 325 of those have only ever posted once in total).
632 of them have posted more than 10 posts here.
183 have posted more than 100 posts here.
21 have posted more than 1000 posts here.
That means that there are 4,022 members who either just spend all their time here lurking and reading posts (ie have never posted anything), or who signed up and then forgot about it and have never returned. I'd be kinda surprised if there are large numbers of people who read all the discusssions here and don't ever feel the urge to comment on them - that makes me wonder if most CotI subscribers are people who just don't ever read the board. Is there any way to see how many times people have visited the boards?
Just goes to show that despite there being so many members here, only about 3% - less than 200 people - contribute to most of the discussions. That's something to keep in mind when you do polls or when you say that everyone agrees with you
0 post = 4,876A-class, with 1000+ Posts: = 49
B-class, with 100-999 posts: = 256
C-class, with 10-99 posts: = 614
D-class, with 2-9 posts: = 780
E-class, with 1 (single) post: = 456
X-class, with 0 (zero) posts: = 4,876