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Members join, but don't post.
Topic Started: Oct 29 2005, 08:18 PM (7,224 Views)
Arcadia
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wat foo
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This happens to every single forum out there, here out of the 60,000+ members that have registered only about 200-700 of them actually are active, so unless you have a jaw-dropping forum don't expect every member to be active.
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mizzkira
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remember everyone, posting doesn't equal quality. think quality not quanitity. i have tons of members that come and don't post. they read and enjoy the board but don't participate that's fine cause the posts i do have are quality. Makes you feel a bit better huh?
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cvn-tv-dip
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A lot of people "join," but it's natural for every board to have 5% - 30% of people that join but don't post.

If you don't have enough people posting (in numbers) and you have too many people like I said above (in board percentage), then you need to do something.
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Dunno?
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JamesWC
October 30, 2005 03:06 AM
It's dissapointing. Thats why I plan fun activities and often send out monthly newsletters so all the members know what is going on and so those lurkers that joined can become active.

I do the same, but many members never take an interest!

My Statistics...

69 registered members - about 8 of which are active. The Dump seems to be the most interesting place - with 1423 views. (The Dump is where unwanted topics go on my forum).

It does do your head in sometimes when members aren't active. Members are active, but not enough as I & my team would like them to be. I tried the We Can Make The Difference campaign to get members active again, and also added a new rule, which made members active for about 4 days, and I was forced to change the rule because members disagreed with it. After that no member were active again, except only 8 who could be bothered.
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Lord Drakcos von Ravenwolf
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I have just under 200 forums on my board. We have something for everyone, and if it's not there, tell me and I'll create for my active members( As long as it doesn't violate IF ToS, I am Strict with those rules). I watch everyday. I have advertised to 100's of people. I have 20 members, of which only 3-5 are active. I did the meta thing, the search engine thing, the sig thing. My board is very complex, yet simple. I am sick of people going 'Wow, totally kewl, best forum out there.....' and not joining in and doing anything. I warned my Mods that I may shut it down. Shame, it's a whole new world just sitting there.

I like the 'My Places' idea. I have a My Place for one of my Leathercraft businesses, but haven't really taken advantage of it. It might work for my board here.
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Pulse_11
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I started my board 7 days ago and over 600 post and 26 members, on which only 10 of them are active, so 16 arent...
Hey its not a bad start for a 7 day old forum.. is it?
Still thinking though, before IF history.. how was this board like? Still coming up ey? So I guess around 10 % of members on my forums post and the rest 90 % don't.. Uhh-ohh....

Pulse
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Adkenar
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That's not bad at all for 7 days...that's more active people than I have, and I've been up for months now.
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Beowulf1976
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We have 24 members (extra 3 is me, my other half and our "test account")...

only 7 haven't posted... but 3 of those none posters were sitting in my "member validation waiting queue" for 3 days, til I remembered to check it :( (so realistically they've only joined today).

We've been up and running for 2 weeks tomorrow (official "launch" day).

My partner and I have agreed that if members haven't posted within a MONTH (28 days) of joining, we will remove them, if they still want to be there, they'll come back...

(they might have valid reasons, like their pc has blown up, they've lost their internet access or they've gone on holiday or, they might even have died)... so we give them 28 days...

It gives us true statistics then, and frees up usernames for others.

Bit harsh I know, but why join if they're not going to contribute?

The main purpose of our forum is for members to get together and share ideas and information regarding our subject matter.

There you go, my "two penneth" ;)
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Pats_rule
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I have about 270 Members at my forum, and only 15-20 are active, so that's pretty bad.
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Miclito
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I opened my board yesterday. And this is my status.

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Our members have made a total of 563 posts
We have 36 registered members
The newest member is Espalon
Most users ever online was 28 on Nov 12 2005, 03:40 AM
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Pulse_11
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Yesterday and already 36 and 563? That could contain Spam!!!
No offense... but if you opened it yesterday why is this
http://s14.invisionfree.com/CeroLito/index.php?act=Members

Lier! There are people who joined on the 8th and 6th I think. But 8th for sure!
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Gogf
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Lord Drakcos von Ravenwolf
November 13, 2005 12:53 PM
I have just under 200 forums on my board. We have something for everyone, and if it's not there, tell me and I'll create for my active members( As long as it doesn't violate IF ToS, I am Strict with those rules). I watch everyday. I have advertised to 100's of people. I have 20 members, of which only 3-5 are active. I did the meta thing, the search engine thing, the sig thing. My board is very complex, yet simple. I am sick of people going 'Wow, totally kewl, best forum out there.....' and not joining in and doing anything. I warned my Mods that I may shut it down. Shame, it's a whole new world just sitting there.

I like the 'My Places' idea. I have a My Place for one of my Leathercraft businesses, but haven't really taken advantage of it. It might work for my board here.

Your forum is probably too big and cumbersome for most people. Who would want to post when they can't even find the forum they want because it's lost in a sea of almost one hundred forums?

Cut down to just general stuff, and stop doing whatever any one member asks, and that should help.

Oh, and here is some more advice :).
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Miclito
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November 13, 2005 06:13 PM
Yesterday and already 36 and 563? That could contain Spam!!!
No offense... but if you opened it yesterday why is this
http://s14.invisionfree.com/CeroLito/index.php?act=Members

Lier! There are people who joined on the 8th and 6th I think. But 8th for sure!

:ermm: There is somthing called different time zones.
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I dont remmber any country with a time zone 5 days behind!
And ya right

http://s14.invisionfree.com/CeroLito/index.php?showuser=3
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Miclito
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OH Pulse you may misundertand me. I "opened" my board yesterday as in releasing it to the public, but "registered" my board on the 8th. It takes a while to get everything up, skin, forums, graphics etc. :)
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