4,600 members

[Reid Welch]

Of course, not all are active. Some are lurkers; some have left or never participated.

I am member number five.


Suggestion: POLL


Where in the world do you live?
Some member here with the know-how (I'm only an idea person) could make a world map showing where our members reside.

What say?

Less than three years ago this was a new forum with only a few members.
Michael Brown, pro-bono creator; then Mathurin, who is still here and active,
and Bob McCree, Lesss, and soon enough I joined. Now we are BIG
and the ebike world listens, watches, responds to our needs.

Where do we live? I live in Miami: ebike heaven because it is flat and scenic both.

Cheers,
Reid

 

[Reid Welch]

It's freeware if you so choose. I've used Gadwin Print Screen (Free!) for eight full years.
It is tiny, reliable, versatile and as good a deal as Avast antivirus (also freeware!).

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

I wish I'd screenshot the original E.S.
Then host the image at imageshack.us or photobucket, etc.


HOW WE HAVE GROWN, and ethically, too!

 

[Reid Welch]

[youtube]jKYF-e6y_Q4[/youtube]

Nora Bayes was a singer of comedy / novelty songs and this is no exception.
The record is a bit scratchy, but the tune is worth a listen. Enjoy!

It's scratchy only because, A: it's played with a modern hi-fi pickup, and also, it's a Columbia:
these records are made of shellac with abrasive intermixed by which to hone the single-use needle to fit the groove.
Columbia used sand instead of clay, I think. Yet, on a period machine, properly transcribed, the sound (microphones were not yet in use)
is just fine.
The song is dandy and represents the wonder than was and is America. Jews welcome.

 

[swbluto]

HOW WE HAVE GROWN, and ethically, too![/b]

Huh?

 

[swbluto]

I was looking through the members list and I noticed how many 0-post users there were who clearly registered just to post a web-link to their website. So I sorted the entire member list by post count just to get an idea what kind of "active audience" there is. There's 50 members per page and I'll post a list of post-count thresholds and page numbers below so you can get an idea of what kind of active population endless sphere has.

Post-Count ............. Page number it changes to on(roughly # of users that have more than this many posts)
100 .............5 (250 users)
50 .............7 (350 users)
20 .............12 (600 users)
10 .............16 (800 users)
5 .............20 (1000 users)
2 .............26 (1300 users)
1 .............30 (1500 users)
0 .............38 (1900 users) - Basically, roughly 1900 users have made at least 1 post.

Total registered users: 93 pages (4630 users). So, roughly (4630-1900) = 2730 users have not made any posts. Out of these 0 post users, from a sample size of 4 pages (200 users), 39 users did not post a website link suggesting roughly 3/5-4/5 of the no-post users registered just to display their website. Compare that to almost 1/5th of the users with a post count above 100 posting website and you can infer the vast majority of 0 post users register just to advertise a web link. Interestingly, it seemed yahoo.de was a popular website among the 0 post users, many of whom who seemed to have randomly generated alphanumeric names.

 

[Link]

So how many if we ignore the spam accounts and peeps with 0 posts? :wink:

I count 1601 ATM just excluding the 0-post accounts. :?

From the 4k members thread. On the plus side, going by swbluto's math, we're gaining more active users per day than we used to.

 

[Reid Welch]

EVERY forum sports a HUGE preponderance of totally silent members.

When I became re-active last November after a two year lay-off, our member list stood at 3800 or so.

So there.


I don't care if only twenty different people post per day, ever and forever;
we are read by all the big wigs, and respected for our ethics and cleanliness*


*other than my jokes.

 

[ausGeoff]

Ahhh...

Just to upset your stats Reid, herewith my second post...

——Geoff.

 

[dual85]

Hello everyone! Been following along here and there. I prefer reading over writing; this may be my first : ). I recently upgraded the bike to 1 Kw, but it's still lead sled.

 

[Link]

Ahhh...

Just to upset your stats Reid, herewith my second post...

——Geoff.

Hello everyone! Been following along here and there. I prefer reading over writing; this may be my first : ).

Stop fuxxoring the stats. >:|