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Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: pokeplayer984 on February 04, 2009, 01:38:20 AM: I take a look and see that we are currently at 286 members.

So, when do you think we'll reach 300 members?

I'd say sometime this year. :P:

Okay, you want me to be more specific? Fine! Before June. :DD

What do you guys think?
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Nick22 on February 04, 2009, 01:50:42 AM: we'll get there in the next couple months probably. we'll reack 150k posts this year as well..
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: lbt/cty_lover on February 04, 2009, 02:11:14 AM: What is this, Sparta?

We are the elite warriors of forums. We shall conquer all forums in our path. With less than 300 users, and even fewer active users.

I agree with Nick. We'll be there in about a month or two.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Mumbling on February 04, 2009, 03:55:36 AM: Most probably yea. Sad though that so many members join and don't tell anything about themselves.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Malte279 on February 04, 2009, 04:34:28 AM: I guess its a good guess to guess that we will reach number 300 some time after reaching 299 and before 301 :p
Note though that the number of active posters is considerably lower. Nevertheless the number of people with 100 or more posts has increased quite a bit throughout the last year.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on February 04, 2009, 04:50:04 AM: Only time will tell. Let's just hope that the next 14 members are active and make more than 1 post. :yes What good are members that post once and leave forever?
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Littlefoot1616 on February 04, 2009, 05:35:39 AM: As Malte said, just coz we hit another centurian figure doesn't directly correlate to the number of active posters. As cool as it would be to hit 300 (of which fact I have no doubt we will ;)) i would be nice to see 300 said posters actually writing something from time to time :D
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on February 04, 2009, 07:42:13 AM: It could be sometime this year, depending on how fast we get new members. But we'll get there when we do and not a moment sooner.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Petrie. on February 04, 2009, 12:26:42 PM: If I took out those who didn't validate their accounts (meaning they never responded to the email sent) then it would take longer. Seems we've gotten quite a bit of new blood as of late (must be some big LBT thing going on drawing them here) I'd say May.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Mumbling on February 04, 2009, 12:30:11 PM: Quote from: Petrie,Feb 4 2009 on 06:26 PM
If I took out those who didn't validate their accounts (meaning they never responded to the email sent) then it would take longer. Seems we've gotten quite a bit of new blood as of late (must be some big LBT thing going on drawing them here) I'd say May.
Maybe you should once.. All those who didn't validate since 2006 or so, I dont think they ever will.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Malte279 on February 05, 2009, 05:31:47 AM: Should do what?
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Petrie. on February 05, 2009, 08:11:46 AM: Remove those who never validated their accounts here (likely meaning they gave a false email address).
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Mumbling on February 05, 2009, 09:09:55 AM: Yes that's what I meant.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: LBTFan13 on February 05, 2009, 12:37:20 PM: Honestly, I would not be surprised if we reach 300 members before the summer starts. Hey if we're lucky, maybe those who are not as active will come back!
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on February 06, 2009, 12:14:34 AM: removing those who never have never validated within a reasonable say a week, month ect, may also free up some names also. But I guess that is something the admin would need to discuss for a while before making a final decision.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Malte279 on February 06, 2009, 04:49:17 PM: The non-validated accounts were deleted, but the number given at the bottom of the page was not corrected as a consequence. Right now we have 270 registered members (0 posters included).
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: pokeplayer984 on February 24, 2009, 01:55:37 PM: Quote from: Malte279,Feb 6 2009 on 01:49 PM
The non-validated accounts were deleted, but the number given at the bottom of the page was not corrected as a consequence. Right now we have 270 registered members (0 posters included).
I guess it combines registered and unregistered. I bet it even has the few banned members included, just in case you guys want to bring them back.

Come on though, we know what they did to deserve it. They're not coming back! ;)

Well, currently at 297 total. Only 3 left to go!

I'll change my prediction to March. :D
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Malte279 on February 24, 2009, 02:52:33 PM: I did a little counting.
If I have not miscounted (and the numbers may change right now while I type this) the GOF has 92 members of 100 or more posts (41 of whom have 1000 or more posts). There are 49 with 20 to 100 posts, 13 with 10 to 20, 61 with less than 10 posts and 63 who never ever posted a single time.
If we take 20 posts as a value from where we assume a member to be more likely than not to stay around (not exactly accurate as of course members with hundreds or thousands of posts have left too throughout the history of the GOF) we can assume that we have somewhat less than 140 active members.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on February 24, 2009, 03:08:41 PM: Makes since we'd have something like that. Some may come just to read, maybe post once in a great while, ect.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Nick22 on February 24, 2009, 03:29:14 PM: So roughly half our members are active.. thats actually a pretty good rate to have given our numbers..
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on February 24, 2009, 04:53:31 PM: It is? Is it average or not average?
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Nick22 on February 24, 2009, 05:03:12 PM: As you have an increase in members not all of them are going to be active. You're goiing to have turnover, some formerly active members may become less active or even leave. this forum is driven by the core group of members who have posted hundreds if not thousands of times. tHat includes you Kor, and DRake, And Serris, and Malte, and Aves, and on and on.. It is our activity that attracts new members and entices them to stay and become regulars themselves..
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Amaranthine on February 24, 2009, 09:28:20 PM: Quote from: lbt/cty_lover,Feb 3 2009 on 10:11 PM
What is this, Sparta?

We are the elite warriors of forums. We shall conquer all forums in our path. With less than 300 users, and even fewer active users.

:lol :lol :lol

"Madness? THIS IS THE GANG OF FIVE!!!!!" :lol

lolz I love doing that. That was an awesome movie btw, in my opinion.

But to get one topic, sure, I think it would happen eventually. Maybe I can get a certain friend of mine to become interested in LBT. *plots and rubs hands together*
BWAHAHAHA!
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on February 24, 2009, 11:28:47 PM: Quote from: Nick22,Feb 24 2009 on 03:03 PM
As you have an increase in members not all of them are going to be active. You're goiing to have turnover, some formerly active members may become less active or even leave. this forum is driven by the core group of members who have posted hundreds if not thousands of times. tHat includes you Kor, and DRake, And Serris, and Malte, and Aves, and on and on.. It is our activity that attracts new members and entices them to stay and become regulars themselves..
I didn't know things worked like that.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Nick22 on February 24, 2009, 11:49:52 PM: it doesn'ty always work like that, but it is the sustained output , in this case, that drives the board..
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on February 25, 2009, 01:02:38 AM: We haven't gotten a regular in quite a while. About 12 members if I remember correctly. That is to say that of the last 12 members that joined, only 1 posted more than 1 or 2 times. <_< It's depressing.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: The Great Valley Guardian on February 25, 2009, 03:27:26 AM: Quote
"Madness? THIS IS THE GANG OF FIVE!!!!!"

Now that is funny! :lol

Quote
We haven't gotten a regular in quite a while. About 12 members if I remember correctly. That is to say that of the last 12 members that joined, only 1 posted more than 1 or 2 times.

And yes LBTlover, you are right....that is rather depressing now that I've stopped and thought about it. :(
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Amaranthine on February 27, 2009, 08:57:55 PM: I'm not trying to sound as though I don't care for the GOF community. I actually do. I may not be as big of an LBT fan as the other person, but I do like it. Also, due to the fact that I can actually say I have a social life, (or I'm beginning to have one) in RL I'm just not here as much. And quite frankly, in some ways, I'm glad, because while the GOF forum helped me with some personal things, that's just want it was, a helper. Nothing more, nothing less.

This forum is a pretty active forum, even though it may not be as active as some other places, it's still very active, so I don't think the GOF is going to roll over and die anytime soon. :p
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: The Chronicler on March 02, 2009, 08:33:49 PM: I just wanted everyone to know that we now have exactly 300 registered members. B)
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on March 02, 2009, 08:37:05 PM: That is great news. Guess we hit that goal. Does that mean it's time for a wild party?
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: lbt/cty_lover on March 02, 2009, 08:42:49 PM: Alright! Now we wage war with Persia!

And a nice luncheon at the Hot Gates. In other words, yes, time for a wild party.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Ptyra on March 03, 2009, 08:25:42 PM: THIS-IS-SPARTA!!!
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: babidikrakenguard on March 03, 2009, 08:52:56 PM: It reached 300! :p
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: action9000 on March 03, 2009, 09:12:36 PM: *fireworks*
....okay, now what? :p
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on March 03, 2009, 09:54:27 PM: We wait to hit 500.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Petrie. on March 03, 2009, 09:58:12 PM: Should only take us to 2012 or something. :p
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Malte279 on March 04, 2009, 05:58:54 AM: Err... king Leonidas, your majesty? More than 160 of your 300 people actually never set out from Sparta to Thermopylae. Are we to celebrate for the roughly 130 anyway?

YOU BET, because they have done the work of 300! :p
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: The Chronicler on March 04, 2009, 08:41:39 PM: I've got an interesting question: Which do you think we will reach first; 500 members, or 250,000 posts? (we are currently at about 155,000 posts)
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on March 04, 2009, 08:46:00 PM: That is a good question. I'd guess the posts one first, but I'm likely wrong.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: The Chronicler on March 04, 2009, 08:55:03 PM: I originally wanted to say 500,000 posts, but I figured that would be too far away. After all, it took four years to reach 100,000.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: Kor on March 04, 2009, 11:13:14 PM: Did it take that long? Sounds like a long time to me.
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 04, 2009, 11:14:42 PM: You gotta remember that the more *active members you have, the faster the post count will rise. I'm sure it took so long because there were only 20 or so active members. :p
Title: When do you think we'll reach 300?
Post by: The Chronicler on March 05, 2009, 06:23:43 PM: It think it took three years to reach 50,000, while 100,000 took only one more year. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if we reached 250,000 before the end of this year, considering the increased activity in some sections, like the party room.