Quicksand Fans

I did the math. 12938 Members. - 10,851 have 0 posts.

Some lurkers and many, many robots, I would guess.

I ran a board using this software many years ago and finally had to vet each new member manually to prevent the spam bots from suddenly posting randomly.

I used to clean out bogus members, but it's just not worth it. When spambots (different issue) start getting through the Q&A captcha, I update the questions. No big deal.

But the reality is that 95% of bulletin board members only lurk (and that's ok). The majority of posts are made by less than 2% of (real) members.

If I didn't have skin in the game, I would most likely be a lurker. And honestly, I don't understand how people get twisted up about these realities. Even collecting posted content (I have come to refer to it as harvesting) has been openly frowned upon - with a derogatory term for it. Again, this makes no sense to me.

This community started out by sharing stories, information and other content. It's been a prime directive ever since. Are we supposed to get together in a circle and sing Kumbaya? Seriously, if there's a higher purpose, let me know.

rhinodynamo wrote:I did the math. 12938 Members. - 10,851 have 0 posts.

Interesting but not a surprise when I alone account for over 3% of all posts. And the majority of those were made years ago.

dlodoski wrote:This community started out by sharing stories, information and other content. It's been a prime directive ever since. Are we supposed to get together in a circle and sing Kumbaya? Seriously, if there's a higher purpose, let me know.

I've been involved in numerous volunteer organizations over the last 5 decades. There's an unwritten law of 10%. No matter how many people are signed up, you'll only have about 10% who do ANYthing. And most of the work will be done by the same handful of people every time. It always tickles me in a very cynical way with one of the active people starts jumping up and down, asking "but HOW can we get them involved???"

There's wheat, and there's chaff. You literally cannot have one without the other, and the ratio is fixed at "disproportionate."

Duncan Edwards wrote: .....Interesting but not a surprise when I alone account for over 3% of all posts....

Lightweight.

Duncan Edwards wrote:

rhinodynamo wrote:I did the math. 12938 Members. - 10,851 have 0 posts.

Interesting but not a surprise when I alone account for over 3% of all posts. And the majority of those were made years ago.

I would have thought I was a lot more than 82 posts in my time here ... but this is 83.

QS

The unavoidable reality that most are lurkers is nevertheless a source of disappointment to those of us who are more interested in community, comararderie, and in person friendship!

If the admin removed all those empty and unused accounts there wouldn't be that many of on here, I guess its just a matter of thinning out dead profiles that haven't been used for some years and keeping other accounts active in the hope that someone might post. I only joined because I saw the UK map of muddy locations but as I found out there's No one in my area on here and those close by aren't interested in being social with anyone.

Id be happy to surrender and leave this site, I've noticed its more US based than europe

quicksander_2000 wrote:

Duncan Edwards wrote:

rhinodynamo wrote:I did the math. 12938 Members. - 10,851 have 0 posts.

Interesting but not a surprise when I alone account for over 3% of all posts. And the majority of those were made years ago.

I would have thought I was a lot more than 82 posts in my time here ... but this is 83.

QS

Up until now I was not even aware of the post counter in my profile. And guess what. This one is number 1000!