2000 members!

[Birma]

I noticed this morning that Photoclubalpha achieved 2000 online members - woo hoo ! Time to break out the champagne, whisky, beer, wine, etc. and the Baklava of course . Congratualtions to dannycnl who appears to be member 2000.

[harveyzone]

I noticed this morning that Photoclubalpha achieved 2000 online members - woo hoo ! Time to break out the champagne, whisky, beer, wine, etc. and the Baklava of course . Congratualtions to dannycnl who appears to be member 2000.

Do they get a prize?
Sadly, over half have never posted - 1294 have 0 posts.

[David Kilpatrick]

No chicken counting here, quite a few new registrations have to be removed within hours or days due to spam. Member 2000 will only be 'validated' if we don't get spam...

David

[Birma]

Good point! We'll have to wait patiently to see what dannycnl does. Will they be a photo-enthusiast, or a spam-enthusiast ? Perhaps as Harveyzone says, better to count the number of posters.

[Dusty]

Count them? Heck I think I can name them! There really only seems be a few of us who post frequently. I'll bet the top 100 posters are 95% of the chatter!

Dusty

[UrsaMajor]

Count them? Heck I think I can name them! There really only seems be a few of us who post frequently. I'll bet the top 100 posters are 95% of the chatter!

I think that this has been true of every on-line forum I have followed for the last 30 years. Long ago, my rule-of-thumb assessment became that there were at least 50 lurkers for every individual who posted - and that was in a more-innocent era when most forums did not require registration to post.

With best wishes,
- Tom -

[pakodominguez]

Summary:
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participa ... ality.html

[Birma]

Summary:
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participa ... ality.html

I suspect this is the same in many endeavours - it often feels like this where I work . I think it can be quite intimidating for some people posting on forums; I know that I never really contributed to any forums I joined until this one, which has a good combination of 'heavy-weight' expert content, as well as being very friendly and open to 'lighter' contributions.

[Dr. Harout]

That makes us 2, Birma.