Although I think someone posted that the number of PM's shown in your summary is both PM's you received AND PM's you sent. So perhaps my analysis below is off by a factor of 2.
So it appears there is a correlation between the number of years on CU and the number of PM's you have gotten (which is completely understandable).
On average most people seem to get between 500 and 2000 PM's a year. This is an incredible number, as it works out to between 2 and 6 PM's per day, every day, all year long.
One user got close to 6000 PM's PER YEAR for over 5 years (wow!) -- that works out to 16 PM's a day every day for 5+ years. Holy cow. There may be other posters on this thread that beat this number, I didn't go through all the posts that closely. But it's clear some are getting TONS and TONS of PMs. I had no idea there was so much PM traffic.
It almost seems like the CU PMs are being used like email. Or maybe this is more of a social networking website that I thought it was but it's isolated on the PM section.
It's an interesting study.
I did a quick look through of my PM's and found they generally fell in a few major categories:
1. I liked the coin you posted (where did you buy it and how much did you pay ... or what was the history)
2. I want to buy the coin you posted OR if you ever go to sell that coin, contact me!
3. "So and so" on the CU board was a REAL JERK for posting that to your thread or posting that about your post.
4. That coin you posted was doctored and PCGS should not have graded it (or was mis-graded by PCGS) and here's why
5. More detailed and esoteric numismatic discussion (or talking points) about a general topic I posted ... Educational, but too honest or controversial for public view.
It seems, from the quantity of Members reporting "Exactly 500 different member PM's", that the actual number of members you have exchanged PM's with is likely a greater number.
Although, I also think the CU Forum only stores the last 500 members you conversed with!
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I deleted a bunch when I first joined. I thought it was like most sites where you had to purge to keep from getting "full".
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almost twice as many pms compared to post
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Although I think someone posted that the number of PM's shown in your summary is both PM's you received AND PM's you sent. So perhaps my analysis below is off by a factor of 2.
So it appears there is a correlation between the number of years on CU and the number of PM's you have gotten (which is completely understandable).
On average most people seem to get between 500 and 2000 PM's a year. This is an incredible number, as it works out to between 2 and 6 PM's per day, every day, all year long.
One user got close to 6000 PM's PER YEAR for over 5 years (wow!) -- that works out to 16 PM's a day every day for 5+ years. Holy cow. There may be other posters on this thread that beat this number, I didn't go through all the posts that closely. But it's clear some are getting TONS and TONS of PMs. I had no idea there was so much PM traffic.
It almost seems like the CU PMs are being used like email. Or maybe this is more of a social networking website that I thought it was but it's isolated on the PM section.
It's an interesting study.
I did a quick look through of my PM's and found they generally fell in a few major categories:
1. I liked the coin you posted (where did you buy it and how much did you pay ... or what was the history)
2. I want to buy the coin you posted OR if you ever go to sell that coin, contact me!
3. "So and so" on the CU board was a REAL JERK for posting that to your thread or posting that about your post.
4. That coin you posted was doctored and PCGS should not have graded it (or was mis-graded by PCGS) and here's why
5. More detailed and esoteric numismatic discussion (or talking points) about a general topic I posted ... Educational, but too honest or controversial for public view.
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actual number of members you have exchanged PM's with is likely a greater number.
Although, I also think the CU Forum only stores the last 500 members you conversed with!
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...