Riddle wrote:....We have almost as many topics as members, a high number of posts compared to topics, and most members never post. So, how do these numbers end up happening? ...
Sorry for being on-topic.
If you sort the member's list after "last active", you'll see, that we actually have 7 pages of users, who have made a profile and never logged in with it.
(I've seen that on other fora too)
If you sort after "posts" you'll see that Jenny has twice as many posts as the nearest competitor, and that of 180 pages of members, the first 105 have no posts.
You can not say however, that "they make a profile and never come back", Some of the very old users (2006) with no posts, have still been around recently.
(I don't mind "lurkers". They do no harm, and some day they may have something to say)
Some time ago, we had quite a few bots making profiles, but it seems that we have fewer of those now.
Having to read, understand and answer a question is hard for the poor bots.
But some of the old, unused accounts are probably made by bots or sweat-shoppers.
We also have a vetting-procedure, where moderators must approve the first posts of new members. That cuts down the number of spammers seen by regular users.
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... other than to say "keep up the good work".
