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General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: Bengt_Phorqs on July 11, 2011, 09:51:27 AM

Title: 999 Members
Post by: Bengt_Phorqs on July 11, 2011, 09:51:27 AM: I see by the membership count we are at 999. Who's going to be number 1,000?
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: montmil on July 11, 2011, 10:05:22 AM: Wonder how many actual and active members we might have?

Monte
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: suecanada on July 11, 2011, 10:06:01 AM: Now that is just amazing! Just think of all the locations on earth now that we can visit and just maybe get a fine welcome and a wee place to rest!!!
The 1000th member should get a big welcome....no prizes like those ads that seem to pop-up up lately on this site lately...Walmart for one!
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: montmil on July 11, 2011, 10:23:52 AM: Quote
... like those ads that seem to pop-up up lately on this site lately...Walmart for one!

Sue, check your "Block Pop Up Windows" -that's what it's called on my Mac, and turn 'em off. I had that problemo also and it was a simple way to tell 'em adios.

Monte
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: Rob Valdez 79 R65 on July 11, 2011, 03:54:29 PM: Quote
The 1000th member should get a big welcome....no prizes like those ads that seem to pop-up up lately on this site lately...Walmart for one!
I have yet to see my first pop-up on this forum. Is it because I use Firefox? (on a PC)
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: trips on July 11, 2011, 10:20:47 PM: I never saw one either, and I also use Firefox.
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: Bob_Roller on July 11, 2011, 10:22:12 PM: I haven't had any issue with this site with pop-ups or spam, since September 2006, when we were spammed back to the stone age !!!

I went through our membership about a year ago when I had nothing to do a work one day, I came up with at best 35% active members .

My criteria, was logging on and making a posting within the last 6 months .

If you tightened up the requirement to 90 days, it dropped to the low to mid 20 percent range .
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: trolle on July 12, 2011, 07:22:20 AM: I once did a little research on a Danish forum and one of the results that came up was that there is a core of less than ten very active members keeping a forum alive. Around these ten there are 20-30 members who regularily post on the forum.

I imagine any forum of interest as a set of concentric circles with a very small core, a couple of rather narrow bands, and an outer band fading away in the distance. The criterium forming the bands is of course the activity of the members, and Bob's findings correspond with mine.

I haven't done any statistics on this forum yet but I am tempted to do so.

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Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: Bengt_Phorqs on July 12, 2011, 07:45:44 AM: Well, back to the primary focus of this thread, I see where number 1000 has signed on. Welcome aboard!
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: suecanada on July 12, 2011, 10:06:12 AM: Thank you for the pop-up advice...got it checked off in Firefox.

Welcome to the 1000th member!!! [smiley=clap.gif]
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: JPSpen on July 19, 2011, 06:19:20 PM: Yea ! I'm number 1000...

How fun... Everybody send me a dollar and I'll donate it all to the site..

John
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: montmil on July 19, 2011, 07:16:22 PM: Quote
Yea ! I'm number 1000...

How fun... Everybody send me a dollar and I'll donate it all to the site..

John

Doubt if that would be enough to pay off Bengt Phorqs' Shiner Beer tab at the licker store.

[smiley=beerchug.gif] Monte
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: Bengt_Phorqs on July 20, 2011, 07:37:51 AM: Quote
Doubt if that would be enough to pay off Bengt Phorqs' Shiner Beer tab at the licker store.

...and it may not be when you have friends that come over and slurp up all the Shiner in the coolerator and ignore the signature training beer that was purchased just for them!! [smiley=beerchug.gif] [smiley=beerchug.gif]

Welcome to the club JP, or have we already said that? ;D
Title: Re: 999 Members
Post by: Justin B. on July 21, 2011, 09:25:52 PM: Welcome aboard. I didn't know if we would ever recover and hit this milestone but it feels really good!