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Originally Posted by jkmccrann
Yep, still on the hobby horse with the poster numbers.
Hadn't checked on it for a while, but it definitely looks like things are on track to break 10,000 posters by June - as earlier predicted, the rate of about 1000 new members making their first post over about a 6 month period does seems to have picked up just a touch over the last 6 months - which is a good sign.
Looking at the numbers just now, there are 9287 BAUTers that have made at least 1 post (and haven't been chucked off the system for one reason or another).
713 new posters required to break the 10,000 poster mark.
9287/17737 = 52.36% of those who join make at least 1 post to the site.
(If a mod cruises through here and wants to change the title to 9000th poster - it wouldn't be a bad idea to reflect changing circumstances)
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Well, just checked in again and as well as going through
1 Million posts here recently, we are now nigh on approaching the
10,000th BAUT Poster I predicted by June, but it looks like it could occur in perhaps the last week of May.
As of today, there are
9887 BAUTers that have contributed at least 1 post to the board, out of
19774 BAUT members which, remarkably, is
exactly, exactly 50% of the total community members that have contributed a post.
9887/19774 = 50% of those who join make at least 1 post to the site.
Have to say I am a little amazed by the roundness of that figure, but there you go.
Given the previous ratio, it would appear that there are an accelerating number of members who join to browse through the forum without actually contributing. I have to admit I'd be interested to know similar statistics from other forums, but it looks likely to continue trending downwards, I guess - until there is some big event, something to really cause many of these so-called
lurkers out of the woodwork in some capacity.
So, within weeks we're likely to pass 2 more milestones on the board, possibly on the same day
20,000 BAUT Members
10,000 BAUT Posters
I'll be sure to mark the day this actually happens in some capacity.