Message Boards Membership Growth

bidask · November 16, 2006 11:39AM

Is the rate of growth on the coin message boards increasing or decreasing. Anybody know?

Bear · November 16, 2006 11:41AM

Overall, It feels a little lower

then it was.

cladking · November 16, 2006 11:46AM

I used to pay a lot more attention to it before I realized there are so many alts.

I believe the percentage growth slowed a little a year or so ago and has slowed
slightly more recently.

You can do the math by looking at membership numbers since Feb, '01 if you want.

Bear · November 16, 2006 11:49AM

The elimination of, you know what, seems

to have stopped the growth factor.

Shamika · November 16, 2006 12:09PM

Ignoring what's happened since the O.F. was eliminated, I think it's been pretty stable in the time I've been here. There are occasional spurts however.

dpoole · November 16, 2006 12:13PM

I've always suspected that active Board membership was the single best gauge out there of the state of numismatics.

If smoebody could figure out how to chart this thing, we'd have all the info we needed.

silverpop · November 16, 2006 12:13PM

Yeah the Cu membership has gone up a little since the OF closed

StampAlarm · November 16, 2006 12:21PM

I don't know why, but everytime I think of Alts I get the same feeling as when I think of coin doctors. Sombody is up to secretive no good.

Jerry

Bear · November 16, 2006 12:23PM

Hey, us alternate personalities

have feelings you know.

JRocco · November 16, 2006 12:23PM

<< I used to pay a lot more attention to it before I realized there are so many alts.

I believe the percentage growth slowed a little a year or so ago and has slowed
slightly more recently.

You can do the math by looking at membership numbers since Feb, '01 if you want. >>

Maybe I have my head in the sand cladking, but are alts really an issue? I can not really think of 1 case of 1 person having 2 sign-ons here....for what real reason???? to play good cop bad cop?????

Someone said in another thread cladking that Russ's alt had over 10,000 posts.....please tell me that that was a joke..................

GullibleNewb · November 16, 2006 12:49PM

I think there are a fair number of suspected alts that are indeed not alts. I get accused of being an alt all the time. Which my two real alts find very insulting.

cladking · November 16, 2006 12:54PM

<< 

<< I used to pay a lot more attention to it before I realized there are so many alts.

I believe the percentage growth slowed a little a year or so ago and has slowed
slightly more recently.

You can do the math by looking at membership numbers since Feb, '01 if you want. >>

Maybe I have my head in the sand cladking, but are alts really an issue? I can not really think of 1 case of 1 person having 2 sign-ons here....for what real reason???? to play good cop bad cop?????

Someone said in another thread cladking that Russ's alt had over 10,000 posts.....please tell me that that was a joke.................. >>

I have no problem with alts or with people who quit or are banned
and come back under another name. But this does mess up the num-
bers if you're trying to check them. Also bear in mind that if a hundred
members sign up and no one posts, it's not as meaningful as if ten sign
up and they all post.

You can get membership numbers on your browser if you click on the
profile. Mine is 5577.

BigE · November 16, 2006 1:04PM

DNA sampling should be mandatory to post-----------BigE

pharmer · November 16, 2006 1:25PM

Lots of newbies signing up all the time. What's that, membership shrinkage?

RegistryCoin · November 16, 2006 2:48PM

<< Someone said in another thread cladking that Russ's alt had over 10,000 posts.....please tell me that that was a joke.................. >>

Actually there are only about 12 active people in the membership. Most posts are Russ and his alts posting/discussing/conversing/argueing/etc., amongst himself. It is very entertaining for the other 11 of us.

mrearlygold · November 16, 2006 3:08PM

<< The elimination of, you know what, seems

to have stopped the growth factor. >>

Yes, that was a lot of fun at times and a place for mostly coin people to blow off some steam, share stories.

But now it's all gone.

Gone, gone, gone..........

Gone

Gone for good, gone for bad. Gone gone.

So gone.

mrearlygold · November 16, 2006 3:08PM

You know when it's gone, ........it's gone

cladking · November 16, 2006 3:15PM

<< 

<< The elimination of, you know what, seems

to have stopped the growth factor. >>

Yes, that was a lot of fun at times and a place for mostly coin people to blow off some steam, share stories.

But now it's all gone.

Gone, gone, gone..........

Gone

Gone for good, gone for bad. Gone gone.

So gone. >>

Is it really gone though? CoinKing left some wiggle room in his answer about its restoration. (I think the answer was "hell, no.", but everyone on the open forum knew you needed two periods at the end of a sentence when you're sure.

OK. Maybe it's really gone but the spirit will never die..

TwoSides2aCoin · November 16, 2006 3:35PM

I've had lots of discussions with newer members through private messages and I think the membership is growing, though they may not be posting. Many are just learning and prefer asking questions behind the scenes.
That's been my personal experience. I have had correspondence with registry builders through ebay who never post here, too. It's hard to guage from the message board scene.

Joe

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