On Feb 06, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Thom McGrath wrote:
Just one other fact to point out. Aaron keeps touting the forums
have 4000+ members while the ML only has <1500. But how many of
those 4000 are *active* members? How many have posted in the last
week? How many are members of the ML and the forum? How many of the
4000 are experienced users? It's impossible to monitor the entire
nature of the community through the forum, which is what the
experts do. For the sake of this e-mail, I'm going to use "I"
instead of "the experts" simply to make a point here. With the
mailing list, e-mails are sent to me, asking for my help, which I
choose to give for free. As Dirk has already pointed out, it is
very arrogant to say "thank you for all your help, but we're not
going to ask you anymore, please come to us, hunt down questions to
answer, and continue to do it for free." If REAL Software really
wants me on their forum, either give me something in return or make
REALbasic such an outstandingly perfect tool that they do not need
user-to-user support anymore.
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Thom McGrath
The ZAZ Studios
<http://www.thezaz.com/> AIM: thezazstudios
This was posted in the forums on the thread regarding closing the
mailing list
dxGIOdx wrote:
You still dont get it, the people who give you those in depth
answers in ML will not be coming to the forum. So how are you
going to get those answers in the forum?
Aaron Ballman wrote :
From one of the nearly 4000 forums users.
Aaron Ballman wrote:
[...]I respond on behalf of the nearly 4000 kind souls who donate
their time and expertise to helping one another (just like I would
if I felt someone was bashing the 1500-or-so NUG users).
The number of the users that eventually will answer a question and
that donate their time and expertise to the RS Forums are not about
4,000.
At the time of this post there are about 3704 users:
- 2968 users with less than 10 posts (80.13%);
- 633 users with 10 to 100 posts (17.09%);
- 103 users with more than 100 posts (2.78%).
IMHO I think that the people that spend more time on RS Forums and
that eventually will answer a question are about 103 users and not
4000. Oh... and those 103 users are not correct - it's even less
because I'm included on that category (users with more than 100
posts) and I don't answer many questions here
Just a curiosity: 62.88% of the registered users posted 0 to 3
messages. 31.34% (1161) never posted a message.
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