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So Boards.ie just got it's 100,000th member...

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  • 14-12-2007 11:57pm
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    Tá Mé Gaeilge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭


    Never realised it was this big but it's a bit mad when you think about it- Boards.ie has more people in it than say Kilkenny!!! or Waterford? or 10 other counties of Ireland apparently???

    100,000 is a lot of people.

    Granted one third of these members have never posted a comment and two thirds haven't posted more than 5 comments but still they've all registered...
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    #2
    insafehands
    Registered Users Posts: 583 ✭✭✭insafehands


    I remember there was a thread ages ago about a boards.ie political party or something.

    Really is an interesting idea!


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    #3
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Yeah, Atari Jaguar reaches a full quota on the first count!


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    #4
    Karoma
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    "Members: 129,050"...


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    #5
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Is there any accurate info on how many active members there are?


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    #6
    Tá Mé Gaeilge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Tá Mé Gaeilge


    Karoma wrote: »
    "Members: 129,050"...

    Oh where are ya getting that? My bad if i;m wrong but i'm going from the members list which says 100027 and went over the 100,000 mark a few hours ago


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    #7
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,075 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Karoma wrote: »
    "Members: 129,050"...

    What about those with multiple personality disorders?


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    #8
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    That's account created rather than actual people using the site... I would imagine there are some people with duplicate accounts.

    Still impressive though :)


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    #9
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    Tá Mé Gaeilge wrote: »
    Oh where are ya getting that? My bad if i;m wrong but i'm going from the members list which says 100027 and went over the 100,000 mark a few hours ago

    stats on the bottom of the front page show that.


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    #10
    Karoma
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    What about those with multiple personality disorders?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/ - waaay down the bottom.
    It's like counting the population of a place, including the people buried there.


    (Moved to Feedback: It's the appropriate forum + admins are more likely to see it)


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    #11
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Is it that time again??

    We get this sort of thread a lot, there are several threads in feedback which cover the myriad of ways of cutting slicing and dicing our numbers. We're very open with our stats.

    My best guesstimate is that 30K people use the site reasonably regularly (every week or two). I'm not going to go through all the stats again as we had a thread reasonably recently where I did a break down of it.

    Amazingly about 1/4 of the people who try to get here fail the sign up process despited a million reminders to click the link we send them and to look in Junk folders for the mail. We even put that, in red, in the error screen they get. Still its by far and away the biggest single issue we have to deal with. Which we dont. We need less dumb people here.

    DeV.


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    #12
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    DeVore wrote: »
    Which we dont. We need less dumb people here.

    DeV.

    Dear gods yes!
    When can the culling begin ?


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    #13
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I remember when there was less than 40,000 members.


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    #14
    Tá Mé Gaeilge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Tá Mé Gaeilge


    So the members list says 100,039 and the Boards.ie statistics says Members: 129,067. Why the differance?

    Does the second figure count people who have been kicked out or left, if so have 29,028 people been kicked out? Or is this as DeVore said the amount of people who didn't click the link to fully create their account?


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    #15
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Jaysus I remember when the memberlist was just about 100 or so, god I am old !!


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    #16
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    DeVore wrote: »
    We need less dumb people here.

    DeV.

    when are you leaving?


    wacca wacca wacca :)

    alright, its nearly christmas and ive been in the sherry.


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    #17
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,632 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Dear gods yes!
    When can the culling begin ?

    wouldnt boards.ie be a boring place if everyone had a same opinion though? ;)


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    #18
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    faceman wrote: »
    wouldnt boards.ie be a boring place if everyone had a same opinion though? ;)

    NO!


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    #19
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,632 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    WhiteWashMan wrote: »
    NO!

    hypothetical example:

    Thread as follows:
    OP: Bertie is not a liar
    1) I agree
    2) oh yes i agree, he handled himself so well during the tribunal
    3) +1
    4) +1
    5) insert cat picture
    6) Thread locked, we've discussed all there is to discuss about this

    :p


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    #20
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    faceman wrote: »
    hypothetical example:

    Thread as follows:
    OP: Bertie is not a liar
    1) I agree
    2) oh yes i agree, he handled himself so well during the tribunal
    3) +1
    4) +1
    5) insert cat picture
    6) Thread locked, we've discussed all there is to discuss about this

    :p

    dude, you were spposed to just say no.

    youve completely ruined the joke now :(


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    #21
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,632 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    WhiteWashMan wrote: »
    dude, you were spposed to just say no.

    youve completely ruined the joke now :(

    oops, the penny just dropped. sorry dude, its early and im hungover. :(

    [/spanks himself]


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    #22
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,919 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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    #23
    Tá Mé Gaeilge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 127 ✭✭Tá Mé Gaeilge


    no- the one third that have never posted a comment is included in the two thirds....

    hate getting all mathematical but if you look at the members list ust over 30,000 have posted more than 5 comments, and just over 30,000 have never posted any comment at all


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    #24
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    On most message boards there is a 10:1 lurker:poster ratio. We actually have a higher proportion of posters here then usual. Something about all of them having an opinion or something ... :rolleyes: :)

    I dont mind opposing opinions, but dumb ones... euwwww! :)

    DeV.


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    #25
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Most people I know, in my class etc, just lurk, don't even have an account.
    I know they are on here when they go, '21 thousand posts, wtf.' :)


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    #26
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,104 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Most people I know, in my class etc, just lurk
    Pervs :eek:


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    #27
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    What's with the count at the bottom of each forum where it says X members and Y guests viewing? The number of members stated often is more than the number listed. For example, before this post I checked and it said 14 viewing this forum, 8 members and 6 guests, but there were only 6 members, including myself, named. Are there people out there with internet cloaking technology?


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    #28
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Yes, I do.
    http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40075-1.html


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    #29
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    in a word, yes. You can set yourself to be invisible and then are excluded from that list.

    DeV.


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    #30
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,104 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    If you change to invisible mode your name doesnt register on the list AFAIK


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    #31
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Thanks guys, didn't know that


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