I posted this looking for ideas to reverse the slide rather than to
provide reasons or excuses for it. Who has such an idea?
If we require all members to post 3 times a a day we could get to the 2010
monthly total ! ;+)!
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Womer" <rickpic...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Where is everyone?
I found the list on the Pentax web site when Pentax owned it. Then in
1994 we went on sabbatical, and I could only get it through expensive
trans-Atlantic dial-up, so I unsubscribed. I looked for it a few times
after we got back, but couldn't find it. Then about 11 years ago I ran
into Mark! and Lisa at some airport where Lisa and I had been
attending the same meeting, and he gave me the new details.
I posted this looking for ideas to reverse the slide rather than to
provide reasons or excuses for it. Who has such an idea?
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>
wrote:
Only us oldsters know what Shel-like means.:-)
Paul via phone
On Mar 19, 2015, at 8:51 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm still here although my participation has fallen, mostly due to
lack of photo drives to generate anything thing to show.
I like hanging out here, mainly because no one ridicules me for post
process. I was hanging out at PF for a while in 2007-2008, but one of
their main contributors beat me up pretty bad for saying things like i
usually do some post processing. If i was a 'real' photographer i
would get it right in the camera. Some came to my defense but not a
lot. Seems trivial but the comments from him were almost Shel like, so
i pretty much gave that place up.
Dave
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Jack Davis <jdavi...@comcast.net>
wrote:
The general relationship with the digital age has become more routine.
Interest peaks have flattened.
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Walters" <apathy...@lyons-ryan.org>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 10:34:07 PM
Subject: Re: Where is everyone?
I think there are several reasons for the fall off in postings. The
web-based DP Review & Pentax Forums are easy to find for people
looking for info on their new cameras and for help with problems.
Also PDML has morphed into (mainly) a photo sharing list - nothing
wrong with that but there seems to be few gear-related postings except
when a new model is rumoured or released. Perhaps we're all so
familiar with our cameras that we don't need any assistance.
I'm not sure how to increase participation. I tried a number of
Pentax-related searches on Google - PDML, if it came up at all, was
well down the list.
Cheers
Brian
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
Quoting Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com>:
Lately I've noticed that the volume of PDML posts is way down. So,
being off this week and having some spare time, I did some research in
the archives.
In January 2015, there were 1234 posts from 52 members.
In January 2014, there were 2587 posts from 74 members.
In January 2013, there were 2667 posts from 70 members.
In January 2012, there were 3418 posts from 88 members.
In January 2011, there were 5091 posts from 109 members.
In January 2010, there were 4764 posts from 110 members.
So, in five years, active members are down by half, and the number of
posts is down by 3/4.
There is more competition than there used to be (especially, recently,
from Facebook), but IMHO the PDML remains the best (of many) photo
discussion venues I've used over the decades. It would be good to turn
around this decline.
How do we draw in new members? How do we keep both new and existing
members?
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