Quote from: MsDazzler on December 27, 2011, 11:54:40 AM
So that is an irony - people are lamenting other people who are long gone but you say they are still here, heh.
Where?
I said on the OTHER board they stayed. I didn't say anything about the population HERE in that regard.
I certainly miss several of the folks who were most active when I joined.
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Time for one of my patented rambling digressions into trivia, skip this bit if you like.
Looking at the member list, there were 36 embers (who haven't been deleted or something) of this board at the end of 2005
(I have no idea of there was a previous site which migrated here without carrying over membership dates, i'm just going by what's available)
One year later there were 100 members.
Of those original 36, 10 didn't even last long enough to reach 100 posts (no way to measure lurking without access to the admin panel) and 17 reached at least 500
Of that 100, 30 never reached 100 posts. Only 10 of the 74 who registered in 2006 reached 1,000 posts. 24 of the first 100 reached that level so far.
so the REALLY old school core membership is tiny - and one has to wonder how many of those 100 are still active at all. I'll bet it's shockingly low. I don't read every board here regularly, but there are only about a dozen of those names familiar to me.
200 more members joined in 2007, almost half of those (99) never reached 100 posts. Only 22 reached 1,000 posts.
I won't keep counting on that theme but the pattern is obvious, many join, few stay (maybe 10-15%) and even some of those drift away in time. It's like that for any board and that alone is not necessarily a sign of a "bad vibe" or whatever.
Ranked by post count, I've the 63rd most posts (out of 9,216 registered members in just over a year and a half. And I'm not remotely as prolific here as I am elsewhere. Only about 1/3 of those above me are names i instantly recognize so i assume a good many have moved on - some of the names I do recognize no longer post to any noticeable extent. I'm not QUITE obsessive enough to post on each name and seen when their last post was.
(another interesting bit of trivia, Masha is already #39 having registers in September, which is astonishing. the next newest one of the 38 above her was a full year - almost 14 months - earlier and the next "youngest" before that was almost 2 years older. i'm not quite sure what to make of that, lol)
By contrast, just below me at #69 is VeryGnawty who was here from the very start. Kind of anecdotal but basically the idea is that the core group really isn't very large even here.
There's probably just enough o the new members who "stick" for a few years to balance off the "old-timers" who fade away.
but there's nothing really wrong with missing those you don't get to interact with much anymore.
I particularly miss K8 myself.
Some other statistical trivia (which is virtually useless but I'm wasting time on it anyway):
of 9,216 registered members, only 3,793 have more than one post.
Of those 3,793, only 2,371 have as many as 10
Of those 2,371, only 1,673 reached 25
Of those 1,673, only 1,177 reached 50
of those 1,177 only 816 reached 100
of those 816 only 527 reached 200
of those 527, a mere 236 reached 500
and of those 236, only 116 reached 1,000
so out of 2,371 would bother to stay long enough to reach 10 posts, less than 5% stayed to reach 1,000, about 10% reached 500, about 22% reached 200.
there's probably some sophisticated pattern there I can't put my finger on.
