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WP reach 2000 members with TuDoDude, and is now (at my count) up to 2003!

Wooooo!

((Dunno, just thought this should be a thread))

HOORAY!! We love Wrongplanet!!

Woot woot!! !! !! ! Very cool! At the moment I'm seeing 2003 also.

it is 2004 now

2006 now!! !! ! Woohooo!! !

Once i ate over 9,000 kcals in one day.

I've always found this confusing,.. we have thousands of members who never post? where are they all

I don't know but that's a common thing on forums. I belong to one with apprx 10,000 members. Maybe 100 post regularly.

Some drop out. Some lurk. Some sign up to look around and decide WP doesn't fit their needs.

I like watching the stats on hits more. I think it represents activity levels better.

BeeBee

It makes me feel kind of paranoid because it feels like a small site, because there's only a few people actually talking, but...there's 2000 people watching? hmm, I'm not sure I like the thought of that many people reading my posts.

Thanks tom, now I'm kind of freaked out. Oh, and yay for 2000.

I would open up to you people all day for quite a while if I could!

2007

*looks around for Mr. Whipple*

Okay...commence squeezing!!

It is to bad that only a few truly do post.

Question is how we can get these ones to post too.

Any IDEAS.

Torture?

or

How about a competition where you win prizes just by posting? Ok, we'll have to get organized. Kevv729, you go get a porsche to give away, and I'll be the judge. Ok? Everybody... break...

You can't directly. Not everyone will post anyway. What you do to encourage posts from others is keep the place both interesting and a safe haven. If someone sees a post they find relevant, they'll read it. If they feel comfortable responding, figuring they won't get blasted or slammed for something they say, they might consider posting.

On another forum, I've got well over 2K posts in one year. I've been here a month and have less than 100. This is a tougher forum, but AS is a tougher characteristic. It's easy to be slammed here, or feel as though you've been slammed. We're not exactly the best at social interaction, and we don't alway interpret reactions very well. For example, someone can post something; another posts a terse response. Is the response simply someone being objectively direct, or was it intended to hurt? I'd bet in so many cases a concise response is seen as a hurtful slam.

It's always risky to post, but probably moreso here. That said, I still think this place is a safe haven for Aspies, given the general membership population, and the members who moderate.

Don't underestimate the lurkers. They're a part of this world too. They're reading, agreeing, disagreeing, finding ways to cope in the real world, finding a place where someone's finally saying something they've felt for a long time. That's a good thing too.