i have what's called an "administrators page" when i boot up this forum on my browser. i don't know what pops up on your-all's browsers. but i thought it noteworthy to report something, because it strikes me as surprising.
back when i was on RST, somebody did a study for a graduate thesis or something, on how many people were reading RST. the figure turned out to be 17,000, and that was a guess, and i believe that was much higher than the true number. but still, the funny thing was, i don't think more than a couple of hundred people actually posted, whatever the true number of lurkers was, and the consensus was that the lurker number was probably an order of magnitude or two greater than the number of those who posted.
therefore, it occured to me that we'd have probably 75 or 150 people who'd actually register to post on this forum, and everybody else would just lurk. i thought maybe one day we'd hit 200 or even 250. there might be 20,000 people reading, mind you, but just a few who'd post.
as of today, just shy of three months since putting up this new forum, we've got just over 1100 who've registered to post (you can lurk without registering, of course). i find that a big surprise. i certainly can't remember 1100 different email addresses or user names. but they're there just the same.
i don't know if you get that list of registered posters on your browser or not, but it comes up on my admin screen whenever i log in. this is apropos of nothing, i just found it interesting.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
back when i was on RST, somebody did a study for a graduate thesis or something, on how many people were reading RST. the figure turned out to be 17,000, and that was a guess, and i believe that was much higher than the true number. but still, the funny thing was, i don't think more than a couple of hundred people actually posted, whatever the true number of lurkers was, and the consensus was that the lurker number was probably an order of magnitude or two greater than the number of those who posted.
therefore, it occured to me that we'd have probably 75 or 150 people who'd actually register to post on this forum, and everybody else would just lurk. i thought maybe one day we'd hit 200 or even 250. there might be 20,000 people reading, mind you, but just a few who'd post.
as of today, just shy of three months since putting up this new forum, we've got just over 1100 who've registered to post (you can lurk without registering, of course). i find that a big surprise. i certainly can't remember 1100 different email addresses or user names. but they're there just the same.
i don't know if you get that list of registered posters on your browser or not, but it comes up on my admin screen whenever i log in. this is apropos of nothing, i just found it interesting.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman