Lovely Members more wanted

[nightshade]

If every one of our (current) 8555 members knows at least three people
who know at least three people who know...........well you can see where
this is going, why haven't we got more members? don't they speak to each
other?

[ollyk]

Originally Posted by nightshade

If every one of our (current) 8555 members knows at least three people
who know at least three people who know...........well you can see where
this is going, why haven't we got more members? don't they speak to each
other?

How many of these people are active on a regular basis? I must admit I have joined forums in the past because while being interested hasn't been quite enough, being able to press the 'NEW POSTS' button as a member has always swung it for me!

[goosey]

Straying off the theme a bit - sorry nightshade but my husband is a member here and can you believe it I don't know who he is!!! - honest . We have been together 26 years and he has great delight keeping his "secret" from me.

[Kymba]

Originally Posted by goosey

Straying off the theme a bit - sorry nightshade but my husband is a member here and can you believe it I don't know who he is!!! - honest . We have been together 26 years and he has great delight keeping his "secret" from me.

EEks thats really Scarey Goosey!!!
Cant you Torture him till he tells you??
That would drive me insane not knowing!! ( No I am not insane already I am just good at acting it )

[JeffH]

Originally Posted by ollyk

How many of these people are active on a regular basis? I must admit I have joined forums in the past because while being interested hasn't been quite enough, being able to press the 'NEW POSTS' button as a member has always swung it for me!

Here's an extract from a post I made on another thread recently -

"...although we now have some 8416 members, more than 6750 of them have only ever made 1 post on the site with more than 6200 having never made a single post at all!"

I got these stats from the members list having listed the members in order of posts made.

Surely the real question resulting from these stats is why do so many members apparently have so little to say?

Jeff

[Paul mabbott]

Sorry, no lovely members - you'll have to make do with me

Isn't this the general rule for e-fora? Indeed for most organisations (how many people attend their building society AGM, their Council meetings ... ? How many people vote?).
Isn'this the 1:10:90 rule?
1% of the members do 90% of the talking; 90% of the members contribute 1% of the debate?

A certain amount of this, presumably, is because people have to sign on to sites and thus nominally become members but decide they don't like it and never visit again. So a lot of 'sleeping' members would probably not regard themselves as members at all ... It's a general problem ....

Originally Posted by JeffH

Here's an extract from a post I made on another thread recently -

"...although we now have some 8416 members, more than 6750 of them have only ever made 1 post on the site with more than 6200 having never made a single post at all!"

I got these stats from the members list having listed the members in order of posts made.

Surely the real question resulting from these stats is why do so many members apparently have so little to say?

Jeff

[Kymba]

Personally I think the members who take the time to talk on here regularly are, Friendly, Helpful, Informative, Interesting and a lot of the time very Funny... And a lot have become Real friends ( well as real as they can be on a computor )
And this is what makes this a great Forum. So long may it continue..
Who needs Dull, Boring, Uninteresting people? (Not me )

[JeffH]

I'm sure you're right Paul. Still, as long as there's enough of us prepared to ask and to answer the questions I guess we shouldn't worry

Jeff

[Paul mabbott]

... and, of course, the more members (virtual or otherwise) that you have then the larger that 1% or 10% is in real terms ....

Originally Posted by JeffH

I'm sure you're right Paul. Still, as long as there's enough of us prepared to ask and to answer the questions I guess we shouldn't worry
Jeff

[eeyore]

plus of course a lot of our "membership" join so as to be able to view the pictures in the gallery full size and /or to post pictures - we have a suprising number of people who put pics in but never post on the forum

then of course there are those who join to ask one specific question , get it answered then disapear

and those who have left for whatever reason but havent been deleted

at the end of the day with regard to nightshades original post we are growing pretty quick , I would imagine that the jump from 0 to 1000 took a lot longer than the jump from 7000 to 8000 so it does seem that our membership is increasing at an increasing rate which must in part be due to members recomending us to theire freinds.

I guess eventually we will get to a maximum capacity where everyone who is interested has joined and there are no interested people left to recomend wab to who are not already members , but that ought to be a ways off yet