| fkusumot said: I'll respectfully disagree. The big draw for the site is the numbers, not the community. The ratio of members to lurkers is usually 20/80 or around there. The question is why aren't all the lurkers joining. I predict that measures to improve the community, i.e. post quality and the level of discussion, would improve lurker attach rate. As usual Sqrl we can agree on the shortcomings of a system in question. We seem to come to different conclusions on what to do about that. Thankfully that leads to discussion. |
We don't disagree that the numbers are the draw but what is the point of having a draw if people are frustrated by your system to the point that don't care to even try and participate ...particularly when this choice is made easy because they can just check the numbers and ignore the forums.
The point of the forum system is to entice the folks interested in the numbers to participate while discouraging spammers and trolls, I think we agree on that, yes?
Then isn't the logical reaction to impose restrictions that effect trolls and spammers but not legitimate users? Clearly not every measure is going to be transparent to the legitimate users but as many as possible should be, right?
My point is that the waiting period only annoys legit users and trolls gladly make fake accounts with legit sounding names and post away once the period is over. It doesn't really do anything but drive away legitimate users.
The question I have for you is this: What part of creating a fake yahoo email and then a fake username on this site sounds like it would discourage a person who is wasting their free time spamming and acting like a jackass on the internet?
@sinha,
have you been to other forums? this site is a sparkling gem of intelligence compared to 99.99% of other sites on the internet. Any lurker put off by the level of conversation here has likely never been to the rest of "teh internet". I call BS on that one, particularly when you consider all of the new users who sign up and introduce themselves along with a mention how much more peaceful this forum is than xxx forum.
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