If you go back to the founding of the support forums, you will find there is what amounts to a charter for the support organization. The bureaucrats and a few other roles stemmed from that. We were attempting to create an organization that was more than simply a support website. Being one of the people whose involvement tapered off, I have some empathy for others who got busy with other things.
All sites I know of have a certain amount of ebb and flow among the registered members, but even among the registered members, I suspect there was a large number who visited to research a question without stopping to log in. I known I do that. Wolf Tirelessly evading conventionality for 49 years, so you don’t have to. :-) On Aug 2, 2011 6:11 PM, "Manfred A. Reiter" <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/8/2 Rob Weir <[email protected]> > >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andy Brown <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> [...] > >> >> I poked around and found this page: >> >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Statistics >> >> This lists some additional roles (with counts) >> >> Administrators (26) >> Bureaucrats (4) >> Editors (20) >> Reviewers (5) >> >> Those are in addition to 35,020 User accounts. >> >> Curiously, it reports only 5 of the 35,020 users as having been active >> in the past 7 days. >> > > > did you poked around 1 year ago as well? > do you have an explanation, why these numbers are slowing down? > > with the statistic above you don't increase the credibility ... > > or > > http://www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de/Veroeffentl/Monatshefte/essay.asp?xYear=2004&xMonth=11&eNr=11 > > cheers > > M. > > > M.
