Reasons To Stay/Be Active On the Forum

I think we should start a list of reasons to stay active on the forum as I noticed there are at least a good 400-500 members that have not made a single post.

If you want the exact count it is 670 memebrs with 0 posts.

Well… You can’t force people to stay on the forum only encourage them. How did you work out 670 people haven’t ever posted :eh:

I looked in the memberlist and set the thing to total post in ascending order and eachg page has 50 people. So I kept going up till I got to page 14 and there were 20 people on page 14 that hadn’t posted. SO that totaled out to 670

Hethans. They aren’t worthy to be a part of these intensely intellectual conversations. They should be banned from any sort of involvement with the lucid dreaming community…

:roll:

I’ll admit. I only come here for the smilies.

lol.

Only for the smilies eh, now here’s an intersting one :wink:

I personally think one of the reasons of that, is all the “The BIG blah blah topic”… I think many people just stop posting, when they notice they have to post under one big topic… Is very hard to find responses to your own post if you post there, as you will have to read through the whole topic just to find replies to their post…

I think this is the same thing with readers, they have to read through the whole BIG threads if they are going to find something that is interesting to them… way to confusing. I often read a post if i find the title/header interesting for me. The forum was more active when those threads did not exist.

This is only my personal opinion, but i have talked to quite a few people that agree.

get rid of the 0post member i say.

Then we know how many people are actually active/have been. - While prooning members could be exhaustive for the admin who has to do it (would be more than happy) Will will of course save some space when backing up the forum. 600+ members must add a bit to the file size of the back up… justa thought.

There are currently 1613 members that have made 9 or less posts, most of them have been members for several months. ALso I agree with you Tomas about the BIG topics it is hard to get answers to your questions in those topics

Many people find it much fun to just follow this forum, read everything, and don’t ever post because they don’t want to. That’s just another way to be involved in a forum!

Then why bother becoming a member if you’re never going to post

To have the cookies remember which posts are new?
shrugs

I don´t mind

Im actually suprised sometimes, b/c sometimes people would be following the forum for a bit of time, and after a while they feel comfortable enough to join in. I’ve seen this case more then once, i guess its hard to state your opinon, if most people are thinking the same thing, or agreeing on the same line of an opinon. I guess it all starts of how people want there name to reflect on :eh: (that’s how i felt at first, wheni joined the forum)

670 -That’s alot of useless names :wink:

I have to agree that I don’t particularly like the big topics but I understand why they’re there and cope. Without them, the forums would be cluttered, they’re like a collection of the forum’s knowledge on the subject, if only they came in paperback. . . or had a big self hypnosis thread.

As for the zero post members, there aren’t always topics that you can contribute to, especially for poor lucid dreamers. Or they could be here for the smilies :tongue: , or the cookies :cookiemon:

I dont mind non posters either.Guess they have become members to read mainly or for whatever purpose and registered just in case one day they feel like writng.
Whats the deal about?:slight_smile:

I must be unusual, I joined the same day that I found the forum. As a new comer I found the big topics useful it collected all the information in one thread. Otherwise you would have to wade through many small threads some of which don’t really reveal the problem until you have read it.

I guess I’m the opposite of alot of people as I’ve only been here since the 23rd of December

I registered a couple of days after looking through the forum too. It seems that these non-posters make up a significant amount of our user total… So by keeping them, we can appear to be a community a lot bigger than we actually are, thereby persuading more people to join. That’s why we shouldn’t prune them out.

Not only that…
even one more person makes a difference for us all.He will say someone else,then another one ,another…more people will became familiar with the term “lucid dreaming” ,therefore there will be more noise about it,more shows,more investigations,more science experiments…spreading the word is one of the most important things if a comunnity wants to grow and develop.
Then again…swimming in our own sauce wouldnt be much progressive i guess

Good point. AFter all there hasn’t been that much research done on LDing

most of this is assuming that they are just “non-posters” many people do not sign up with their real email on forums and as we know ld4all require email activation.

Then there’s the people who joined and forgot bout us :cry:

and many things like that wonder how many of those 670 actually signed in after making the account?