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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 05, 2005 11:26 AM
Trouble is people come and go, they register to sell a film or find out something specific and then dissapear.
I understand it's the same with all forums, when a forum first gets going there is a brief period where 100% of registered members are active, this then reduces in coincidence with the increase of registered members and usually levels out to about 10% and as the forum ages and the number of registered members increases, the percentage of active members continues to reduce although there will be a point at which the actual figure for active members crosses over it and the active members slowly become more numerous as the percentage continues to reduce.
We seem to have passed the crucial crossover point within the past two or three months as the number of posts per day and the number of users has definitely increased significantly in that time, although the percentage of registered members posting regularly is well below the 10% that would give us 38, we're proabaly looking at between 5 and 7%.
Sorry, my degree was in Applied Social Sciences, and Statistical Analysis of social trends and the use of Statistics by the media always fascinated me .
Mike
-------------------- Auntie Em must have stopped wondering where I am by now...
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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm
Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted August 05, 2005 01:52 PM
In regard to the many members who don't seem to post: I wonder how old the inactive accounts are on average, and when they were last used? Some people may just have moved on (perhaps deciding that this place wasn't for them - if so, it is our duty to convince them otherwise ) but others may just plain have forgotten they ever registered here, or not be able to spend much time here, or be unable to even access the forum for whatever reason. Now here's my idea - I don't know if it's even possible, but what if we were to send a private message to ALL registered users at the same time, re-inviting them to the forum? If I'm not mistaken, the default setting in each user's profile is to receive an email copy of a private forum message so whoever's email address is still active (and correct) should receive the invitation. Perhaps Brad Miller can "rig" something up to do this? I'm not suggesting, of course, that we just spam everyone - it would be a one-time thing. What do you guys think?
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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted August 06, 2005 02:40 AM
Why thankyou Dan!
Actually, the fact that my Fathers paternal line haven't moved that far in so long probably isn't that unusual. Peckham is essentially a Sussex name and there are several place names around Sussex that have similar routes; Pyecombe, Patching, Patcham and East And West Peckham. Peccam was an Anglo-Saxon term that related to a settlement or Hamlet on a hill or rise.
There are other parts of the country where local names have been associated with the county for many hundreds of years and in many cases, like mine, back to the Doomsday book and beyond, so nearly 1000 years. Cornwall has many family names associated with it that begin with 'Tre', Trevelyn, etc. and in Yorkshire you have all the 'Thwaites' that can be traced back to the Vikings, I understand that 'Thwaite' was a Norse word for clearing, and you will stlll find in Yorkshire and Northumberland and Cumbria many people with names like Misselthwaite and Posselthwaite and such, their families might well have been associated with the Countys' for many hundreds of years if not back to and beyond the time of the Viking invasions!
Fascinating .
Mike
Sorry Dan, I've taken this a bit off topic...
-------------------- Auntie Em must have stopped wondering where I am by now...
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