It's not uncommon, Mike. Many people join to look/watch/learn, and then only contribute rarely; which is quite acceptable & sorta supported & shown by the membership numbers that you found. But considering there's probably not quite yet 200,000 Spyder/Rykers out there in the whole world, we really aren't doing
too badly in attracting our share of them!
hyea:
If you want to see some more numbers, look on the Forum's front/index page (the one that lists all the Forum's sections/sub-forums &
not the Home page
) down the bottom of that there's a section called '
What's Going On?' In that, about 5 headings down, below the '
Today's Birthdays' listing (Happy Birthday
Startingnow! :dg2: ) you should be able to see '
Can-Am Spyder & Ryker Three Wheel Motorcycles Statistics' - and in that, you'll see that while we have almost
24,000 members listed, there's only
8,914 or so that are '
active'.... and that percentage of 'actives' is pretty much par for the course & this type of Forum.
Yeah, I know that there are some Forum's out there that might show (boast?
) that they have 100's of thousands of members, but often, when you really start digging into their membership lists, it doesn't take too much to realise they've actually only got a few thousand members who are truly active & have posted in recent months. :shocked: We did get up over 60,000 members a while back, but that was only because the 'ongoing clean-up' of all the spammers & hackers & dodgy registrations that are always trying it on hadn't been purged for a while due to other pressing & understandable priorities; but over the last couple of years there's been a concerted effort to weed out all those dodgy registrations & our membership list is a much better reflection of reality now. It is a bit of an effort to keep it like that tho, cos while we want to get rid of the dodgy records, we don't really want to dump any
legit members who just haven't posted in a while. :sour: So (please don't hold me to the time-frames cos it's all based on arbitrary dates not periods) if you don't post within 6 months you'll be dropped out of the active number count; if you haven't posted within the last 3 years your account will be re-classified within the 'members' listing; and if you still don't log-in/post for more than 5 years your registration will be archived....
BTW, many of those Forums that boast membership lists of over 100,000 members often
actually have
well over 90,000 dodgy &/or spurious 'members' that are simply dummy accounts that have been created by spambots &/or other dodgy types so that they can either start posting crap straight away, or be held in reserve for later so they can be 'activated' en masse at a moment's notice & then go on to cause havoc at will - and if &/or when
that happens, they basically just start posting & if left un-checked, can swamp the Platform & any Admin/Mods with heaps of garbage posts, porn, dodgy adverts, malware, and all sorts of other stuff you really don't want, pushing the legit members right off the Forum & eventually destroying it!! This
DOES & HAS happened, so we (the Mod/Admin Team) put a
LOT of effort into trying to keep those types of registrations out, and they rarely get thru to the posting stage here.... altho if you were very quick & happened to be looking at the right spot at exactly the right time, you may have seen a post or two & a thread that disappeared very quickly, cos we did get one earlier today.... gone now tho! :thumbup:
