Lurker registration thread

pict

pict

Joined
Jan 7, 2003
Messages
2,373
I'm always amazed at the high number of hits on many threads compared to the low number of responses. Why are we winding up with numbers like 50 replies and close to 3,000 views?

I'd personally like to hear form some of you folks out there. This is a great place to learn, but it is also a great place to post.

Come out of the dark, pull up a log. Mac
 
I don't post much, mainly because I find that a lot of guys here know more then I do so I read and learn, post when I have something to say and ask questions when I don't understand.

Ric
 
I kind of feel like I'm in the same boat as Ric. I have learned a LOT since I've been here though... :D
 
I had been lurking for a while i am not to good with computers but i am learning,i have learned alot just reading.i just learned to post photos and as i practice skills and travel i will share more
 
I don't post much because, often times I just don't have anything to say. Other times, what I've got to say has already been said by someone else, so unless there's utility in adding another vote for or against some idea, I just keep reading.
 
I always figure that a thread I'm interested in gets me looking at it approximately one time for each reply! Therefore, if you take the number of replies times the number of people posting in the thread, you will get a number of views for those that are active. So if you have 50 replies with 50 responders that's 2500 views. If the total is 3000 views, then there are approximately 500 views of 'lurkers', but if each of lurkers views the thread each time there is a response, we have 500/50=10 lurkers!

Now realistically, there are probably some members who read the thread, but don't reply, so they are not true lurkers.

Then of course, there are some people who reply more than once to the same thread, so that decreases the 50 responders.

So overall I'd guess my number of 10 lurkers on the above example thread would probably be close...

I've been on various forums for about 9 years and have hosted my own for over 5 years and this has been a fairly accurate way of figuring it out.
 
I'll post when there's something to say. Not too often does that happen tho. :rolleyes: Usually someone else has said what I think and there's no use repeating it. And it's easier to lurk than it is to log in too. And like others have said, there's lots of people who know more than I.
 
I think that if you select "Mark All Forums Read" from the Quick Links menu, it records that you've read the thread even when you haven't.

It just sets a flag that says you've read it so it stops showing up as new.

I use it all the time, I participate in very few forums.

And Pict... I wouldn't worry about people not reading your posts. :) They're easily some of the best posts around.
 
I lurk because i am an inhuman monster, disfigured by a technology mad society, just waiting for my moment to pounce...

wait, wait, that's the green goblin or any number of comic book villians...

I don't post much because i just started reading in this section and any good ideas i think of are usually posted before i see them...
 
Hi, my name is Chomo, and I'm a lurker. It has been 6 days since my last post. :)

Living in New Zealand brings a whole different perspective to Wilderness survival, and I read a lot of the posts here to see if they can provide useful insights (they do). I post infrequently because many of the situations and scenarios that are discussed here are ones that I do not have experience with. Bring it back to mountaineering or rain forest survival, and the flood gates might open! :D

while i am here, just a quick thanks to everyone for the great knowledge base that these forums provide.
 
I´ll continue lurking, learning and trying to improve my skills.


Jaime Orozco.
 
I think it's great that some of you guys have come out of the cold. Actually with posters from New Zealand and Mexico that expression hardly applies. Seriously I was just wondering what generates the high number of views on alot of the posts. plainsman gave a pretty good explaination and if I wasn't mathamatically illiterate I probably would have understood it.

It's always good to start a thread and see it gain intrest. I learn a lot here too. I haven't bought a piece of gear in a long time that I haven't bounced off the posters here. There's all sorts of good ideas out there but we'll never know unless they're posted. "There's much wisdom in the multitude of counsel." Like I used to tell my students back in another life as a teacher, "There's no such thing as a stupid question." Mac
 
In the immortal words of Bill Shakespeare;

Lend every man your ear, but few your voice.

I don't post unless I feel I have some degree of expertise on the subject.
For example, I am an expert lurker.
 
Pict,
I don't think there are stupid questions, but how many questions have allready been asked/answered. That is why I don't post a lot. I try to read the threads that are here before I ask a question that has been asked before.
And I also read more to get the info I'm looking for first. I never want to :footinmou

Jeff
 
Too many times when you have a different point of view, you get your head bitten off. :rolleyes:

Personally that doesn't bother me, but it does get tiresome.
 
been around for a long time, but i just recently bothered to go through the registration process and sign up for an account. until now my time was just spent reading and learning :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top