For newbies, 1 post is jumping 200+ pages...

[trenzterra]

I looked into the top 10 posters section in the members list, I clicked the >> button and went all the way back. There was 200+ pages that people had 0 posts. Sometimes I wonder why they signup when they don't do anything?

It was on the 270+ page till I saw members with a post. I think those are members who post something and never come back, especially the Free Webspace forum.

So if you had a post, you will jump from 400+ page to the 270+ page. What a big jump...

So, what I want to know is why do people signup without posting? I'm confused about this part...

[Toefur]

That's funny... I did, and so then wondered the very same thing just before... I've no answer for it though... makes no sense, I tells ye!

[bigperm]

Maybe they are just reserving their sn in case they suddenly have something to say to us.

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by bigperm
Maybe they are just reserving their sn in case they suddenly have something to say to us. maybe...
I signed up because I had the urge. I was already at this forum about 2 weeks b4 i signed up.

[Theo]

some people don't know what they are doing. They are just surfing around the net, they make a search at a search engine with something like "I want my own website for free",finaly they get into this website, the click links around and at some point they see a button called "register" .. they think "oh if i click here maybe i will get a free website" the click, they register, the result is not what they thought it would be and they leave.

ok ... maybe not all the cases are like this, but I am sure some are :p

[Cyber]

some people just do it 'cuz they can. then they forget ALL about it.

[murat]

maybe they are ressellers and wont to sell the username ;)

[Bruce]

Some people register so they know when there are new posts. They read 'em, but they just don't reply.

[Epgs]

well whatever it is that is a huge number of people with 0 posts

[adizlaja]

Originally posted by Cyber
some people just do it 'cuz they can. then they forget ALL about it.

i agree..... i registered with geek/talk and forgot that i did until like 2-3 months later when i relized i had an account with them. it just happens that people sometimes forget.

[trenzterra]

yes. theres about 2000 people with 0 posts.

[Cyber]

thats pretty pathetic. maybe Peo should delete them?

[bigperm]

Originally posted by Cyber
thats pretty pathetic. maybe Peo should delete them? Why? That seems stupid to me.

[Cyber]

because no one ever used them. a waste of usernames. :biggrin2:

[adizlaja]

i don't think he should delete all of the "0 posts" members. he should delete the ones who signed up like more than 5 months ago and leave the other ones. the others might have forgoten that they have registered with fws (as i already said before) and might come back some other time (when they remember).;)

[bigperm]

Originally posted by Cyber
because no one ever used them. a waste of usernames. :biggrin2: There are plenty out there. Maybe if they are a year old or more I could see deleting them, but other than that I am against it.

[Cyber]

except the people with 0posts that registered in october & november 2000

[pertaining to the post b4 bigperm's]

[Canuckkev]

What I think would be more common is people with 1 maybe 2 posts, and then they never come back. There a few boards out there that I would fit into this category.

[DJsexie]

some people just do it 'cuz they can. then they forget ALL about it.

LOL:) That's what I usually do. Sometimes I just sign up for some clubs or forums(to post 1 thing) and then I would totally forget about it. By the time I want to get into that club or forum(after many decades), I would forget my password or even my username...oh man....that happens tome all the time..

So, now i had to keep a a record(on paper) of all the things I signed up for.