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Permalink Reply by JonEdanger on July 12, 2012 at 11:27am

How many of them are left to post here (or even to lurk)?

I'll bite: How many?

Permalink Reply by KermitKebab on July 12, 2012 at 12:01pm

Very few.  Why you, Jon, have only been here a few months...

Permalink Reply by JonEdanger on July 12, 2012 at 1:45pm

Sorry. I thought you were going to provide an enlightening statistic.

Permalink Reply by Jack Bauer on July 12, 2012 at 1:56pm

Why would you have thought that?

JB

Permalink Reply by JonEdanger on July 12, 2012 at 2:07pm

*whispers*

I was being facetious.

*normal voice*

I started to launch into how, even though I've only actively posted for less than a year, I've been reading content on AOM for much longer. (I wish I could remember how long but can't). But I decided it wasn't worth it since he didn't have any statistics to back up his position anyway.

Permalink Reply by KermitKebab on July 12, 2012 at 3:10pm

*snickner*

Permalink Reply by Liam S. on July 12, 2012 at 12:46pm

You're speculating on why they never became active members, and projecting your own feelings onto someone else's behavior. For one thing, we have no idea how many of them would have been active members under other conditions to compare. My guess is, roughly the same percentage.

This is a common enough behavior on internet forums. There is a core of active members, that rarely fluctuates much - with a large group of transient newcomers and occasional visitors who had to become members in order to get a chance to win a bag, or other prize (or get one question answered)... and had little intention of joining the community proper. 

Permalink Reply by JonEdanger on July 12, 2012 at 2:08pm

Well said.

Permalink Reply by KermitKebab on July 13, 2012 at 5:30pm

In general I would agree.  Except that here on AoM, especially in the last few months, some members are so caught up in ego-gratifying displays of one-upmanship and insults (veiled or otherwise) that those who sincerely desire to have rational discussion and make well-thought-out contributions get lost in the ocean of insignificant and pointless debate or tsunamis of pseudo-intellectualism that geniune interchanges of ideas or meaningful opinions are really discouraged.  There are many people who have passed through this site (and some who are still here) who might have preferred that it be otherwise.  

Now, having said that small piece I await the sarcastic diatribes that will only prove me correct.

Permalink Reply by Liam S. on July 13, 2012 at 5:43pm

No sarcasm. You are still speculating, and again, I think those represent very small numbers of individuals overall.

Many might have preferred it otherwise. Many might prefer it as it is... we have no meaningful metrics by which to know the effect. Just suspicions and preconceptions of what we each personally want the site to be.

Clearly it is not what you want. Good for you for sticking around to try and change it. Please don't put your personal preferences onto unknown others and hold them up as evidence that the current tenor is somehow damaging the website or community without actual metrics or other data to demonstrate it. 

Permalink Reply by LShieldes on July 12, 2012 at 9:26am

Is it me or do we have 3 people arguing with each other over saying pretty much the same thing?

 

Getting visions in my head of the scene in Band of Brothers where they are brilliantly fighting over Sobel while on the ship

Permalink Reply by Shane on July 12, 2012 at 10:23am

What are you trying to say?

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