So where is everybody? Hello?

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By the time I want to post, the "good" answers and replies are already used up. That sucks... So therefore I'm not the guy that is posting a lot, even though I want to be...

 

So that leaves only the "bad" choises: sarcastic, humorous, spam, bored and indifferent.

*Below*

[ June 28, 2003, 11:09: Message edited by: Virne ]

 

Some sarcastic, humorous, spam;

Virne

Daephoon's reply,

Irony? Anyone?

Anyway, back on topic

1st Reg - To post something.

2nd Reg - To post two distinct articles on the same day in the same thread CS.

3rd Reg - Changed password, but as there is no confirmation box, I input a typoed password and I can't figure out what it was, so new reg required.

4th Reg - To check the results of a poll in which I had already voted.

5th Reg - To use different names such as this one.

6th Reg - Who knows?

IMHO,

The number of registered users isn't a measure of anything until the user has made over a hundred posts, and then 'Gem Greed' takes over and only one nick is used to feed the users spam addicton (Its not love. Its just a post count ).

Is anyone able to tally the number of users with over 100 posts?

(May the Divel take you (No, its not a typo).)

[ June 27, 2003, 04:40: Message edited by: Divel ]

 

Please understand that I am not complaining. I am just being brutally honest (with no thought for my own self interest), in order to stir the pot and see what comes to the surface. My list above was just to illustrate the way that I perceive things to be now. Whether or not I should care about a lost Login password depends upon the moderator's view of multiple usernames being held by one person, when their creation was due to a wish to add to the boards in an even more constructive fashion (as opposed to creating them with malicious intent).

(*IC: Divel gets out the biggest wooden spoon he can find.*)

(Ekhem) I know that abandoning a username was wrong. My point was that it is quicker (and less likely to make a person look like an incompetent fool) if a newbie re-registers and forgets about an old low-post-count Login Name than if they go to the bother of contacting a moderator. It’s not the right thing to do but most humans will choose to do something that is fast over something that is right, if they know that there will be minimal consequences.

*IC: A penitent Divel puts on his sack-cloth tunic, sits down and pours some ashes over his head.*

This thread (and others regarding the recycling of unused registered names such as Gandalf) are asking important questions about the high number of inactive registered Login Names (and the associated server load that comes with each registration) compared to the number of people who actually post anything. If the answers to those questions require the acceptance of some of the responsibility for the problem (if there actually is one) by the current users, then 'I am Spartacus!'

Multiple registrations are not, AFAIK, expressly against forum rules unless a person is banned. I think that this is a good thing. Someone who is registered as Uberdog Destroyer Of Worlds for the Roleplaying Forum might prefer to login as Maisy The Daisy to reveal his in-depth knowledge of flower arranging in the Whatnots Forum. There is nothing like a little schizophrenia to allow a person to see (and contribute to) an argument from all sides.

(Question for moderators: Are multiple Login Name registrations by the same person against the rules?)

The problem arises when these extra Login Names are forgotten and left behind. It means that new users can’t get the name that they want. They can’t use the same nick as they use for their email for example. IMHO The dead wood has to be pruned by the moderators (in the same way as it is currently done with Avatars). But if there is an old post made under a disused Login Name, can the Login Name be deleted? It would be good if it could be replaced with an identifying number instead of a name. The same paypal donation system could be used to entitle people to pick one of the fifty most popular D&D names like Bilbo, Sauron, Minsc etc.

[Geek Mode]

I expect the moderators are already aware of all this, and are currently working on an automated PM style reminder which includes a link to a CGI/Perl script that when clicked will stop an automatic six-monthly unused-login-name de-activation procedure from occurring? Or maybe they have real lives.

[/Geek Mode]

In fact this whole thread is in the domain of the moderators and it is really just my curiosity about current site statistics that is keeping me interested. (That, and an unhealthy attraction towards anything that vaguely resembles a self-destruct button).

'I am Spartacus! Hey, where did everybody go?'

I'm too honest for my own good, and too dishonest for anyone else's.

(That would make a good signature. Damn! Impure thoughts, I’d better go and get more ashes )

 

Sorry about the confusion, I've had some Dried Frog pills and I am now much more coherent.

Warning, more brutal honesty ahead.

Since the second registration for CS was really just a Flag Of Convenience I never needed to check the associated email account (more broken rules, more ashes). Therefore I eventually forgot the password to the email account. Hence the password link on the login page wasn't much use.

The moderators are probably thinking up the name of a brand new plaque as you read this.

The only reason I mention it is because it is another way that much-sought-after Publicly Displayed Names (PDNs) can become orphaned.


Some off topic irrelevant stuff

My post was confusing because I tend to inadvertently speak in riddles, or so I've been told. Smeagol would be a better PDN for me as he liked riddles, but this PDN has been taken for the duration of Sorcerers Place's (enevitable) world domination, by a member who never posts. Strangely, the Gollum PDN isn't taken, nobody wants to be thought of as being that creepy I suppose.

The big wooden spoon is for stirring things up.

Wearing sackcloth and covering yourself in ashes in public is an old Christian method of penance.

'I am Spartacus!' is from the 1960 Movie Spartacus with Kirk Douglas. It's the scene were all the gladiators and slaves stand up to take personal responsibility for their own actions.


No response regarding this post is neccessary, my medium Int and very low Wis explain away most of my early problems.

I'm still interested to hear about any other peoples views on the ratio of Registered Users to Current Posters. I think its interesting, but then I am very strange.

 

@ Divel

It is entirely possible you've overanalyzed this thing to death. I started this thread because I was just curious and found it funny that I didn't see 5000 people here on a regular basis, nothing more.

Ya think? Ritalin, anyone?

 

Its called mescalin. It is what makes you fly.

@JSBB
Polls are a recent feature here on these boards. Much more recent than 90% of those members with zero posts.

 

Either I need more coffee or this thread makes posting sound too hard. This is my "break" from work ... not "work". If it were "work", I'd work instead of "work" because work pays better than "work".

 

Well, *I* need more coffee to work my way through that little bit of double-speak!

 

you mean "work" Rallymama

 

Well, I can give a few reasons why I haven't posted much -- my wife wants to kill me! She says I don't spend enough time with her or pay enough attention to her. So, I'm trying to spend more time with her and that means less computer time for old Depaara.

 

Yeah, dude. 11th Commandment: Happy Wife = Happy Life.

 

Maybe some of them were French and searched a safer place ?

 

Well I'm more than a lurker than a poster, though I love to post. (hope that makes sense )

I also only reply to interesting threads, I dont give a flying......duck, for America Sucks threads

 

Been really busy with paper work now that the new semester has started so I can't even touch the computer....

 

Hey, that's exactly what I was going to say...

Twilight Zone theme...

 

I just occasionally pop in to let whoever cares know that I am still here, lurking as I have been for several years. I go on a posting spree every now and then, like recently.

So, hello everyone! I am still here.