How many people actually post on CotI

[Malenfant]

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

 

[mike wightman]

And I wonder how many people have more than one account, ehh EvilDoctor?

 

[Border Reiver]

Oops!
I'm way down here on page 16.
Must try harder.

 

[Malenfant]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
And I wonder how many people have more than one account, ehh EvilDoctor?

Well, I just had that one (Evil Dr Ganymede), which I haven't used since I started the Malenfant account (technically I should have those 695 posts added to my counter here, I guess - which would put my total post count well ahead of Trader Jim's and about 3 behind Jame's, so I'd be in third place for total posts )

 

[Malenfant]

Originally posted by Border Reiver:
Oops!
I'm way down here on page 16.
Must try harder.

That's the point though - there are over 280 pages of users there (with 20 users to a page)... and you're all the way up there on page 16 with 62 posts to your name!

(in fact, there are 5610 users listed there, not 5614 as shown on the forum homepage. I wonder what happened to the missing four...)

 

[mike wightman]

I wonder if there's anyone out there who maintains two or more accounts so that they can get involved in heated discussions or even argue with themselves just to keep things interesting?

or is it that I'm seeing conspiracies within conspiracies (well, it is the Traveller way of things )

 

[mike wightman]

..and as to the missing four...

 

[Malenfant]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
I wonder if there's anyone out there who maintains two or more accounts so that they can get involved in heated discussions or even argue with themselves just to keep things interesting?

I dare say there probably is, somewhere out there in "discussion board land". I doubt if there are any here though.

I stopped using the EDG account because I got pissed off at some people here and locked it up in a fit of pique . But then a couple of months later I came back and started another account (this one), still ended up getting into arguments, and just thought "sod it, I'm just gonna carry on and accept it as part of the dynamics here" .

I wonder if any other people have started an account and then closed it down and started another one months later though.

 

[Border Reiver]

I guess there's a few multiple accounts out there. In fact I'm sure I've got a second account out there when I first started and couldn't remember my password Doh!

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
I wonder if there's anyone out there who maintains two or more accounts so that they can get involved in heated discussions or even argue with themselves just to keep things interesting?

or is it that I'm seeing conspiracies within conspiracies (well, it is the Traveller way of things )

Great Evil minds thinking alike

I had considered this a couple times when I wanted to post "anonymously" for different reasons (to protect the innocent, yada yada

) but never followed through, yet

 

[daryen]

I will admit I have two accounts here. But, like Malenfant, when I created this account I stopped using the old account.

Unlike Malenfant, the reason I switch was because I used my "real" userid instead of my "Traveller" userid. I would have just kept the original account if I could have changed the userid, but the BBS won't let me do that.

I wish I could merge the accounts and keep my old CID. I moved back 100 or so with the second account. Failing that, I would gladly delete the old account, but I couldn't do that either.

 

[Captain Zoom]

Originally posted by Border Reiver:
Oops!
I'm way down here on page 16.
Must try harder.

Page 16! I'm on page 25!

 

[Captain Zoom]

Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Border Reiver:
Oops!
I'm way down here on page 16.
Must try harder.

Page 16! I'm on page 25! </font>[/QUOTE]My mistake! I'm on page 23!

 

[Ben W Bell]

Originally posted by daryen:
I will admit I have two accounts here. But, like Malenfant, when I created this account I stopped using the old account.

Unlike Malenfant, the reason I switch was because I used my "real" userid instead of my "Traveller" userid. I would have just kept the original account if I could have changed the userid, but the BBS won't let me do that.

I wish I could merge the accounts and keep my old CID. I moved back 100 or so with the second account. Failing that, I would gladly delete the old account, but I couldn't do that either.

Well my account is under my old name, but I was able to change my board handle and display name from BenBell to Ben W Bell.

 

[phil644441]

I have two because of complications logging in at work and at home (don't ask). No nefarious purpose though and they're obviously linked (Aristotle Kzin and Kzin Aquinas).

AK

 

[Spud]

Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Border Reiver:
Oops!
I'm way down here on page 16.
Must try harder.

Page 16! I'm on page 25! </font>[/QUOTE]My mistake! I'm on page 23! </font>[/QUOTE]Wannabe! Social Climber. _I_ am on page 17.

Seriously, I think I've been pulling my weight here, but I've only got 38 posts. To some extent I've been holding myself back (I seem to have a tendency to let my mouth get myself in trouble). Perhaps I should let myself go a bit?

 

[RandyT0001]

Originally posted by Malenfant:
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.

I suspect that most of the non-poste rs in the forum are people who signed up to the board primarily to find scores and scores, if not hundreds, of free adventures, campaigns, NPC's, etc. in the forum library. When such material was not found they basically left, never to return. I think many of them are younger D&D players (and some other D20 game s) who heard of Traveller and are used to finding more 'freebies' on a game company's web site.

 

[BrennanHawkwood]

Originally posted by Malenfant:
It's quite interesting to look at the number of posts that people have made here...

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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.

Very interesting...thanks for counting those...

And here I am sitting in the top 200 posters out of ~5000 and I was thinking that I was being rather quiet...

 

[Madarin Dude]

I did not know how many people posted here. I changed my account because I changed my e-mail. I used Zaphod before. I am only an occasional poster but I do like to read a good thread.

 

[BetterThanLife]

Damn! I am on Page 3. (At the top of page three but only 3.) Perhaps I should stop ignoring Malenfant more than half the time.