40,000 Member Milestone

[kgroneman]

From the forum home page today:

Threads: 123,504, Posts: 698,364, Members: 40,000

Another membership milestone of 40,000 members

[microchip8]

Nice, but I bet 90% of those are one-timers

[Tokugawa-Ieyasu]

Nice, but I bet 90% of those are one-timers

Just looked at the member list, and there are 19,420 (48.55%) zero post zombies
One-time single post members are 6,768 (16.92%).
Two-timers with two posts are 3,639 (9.10%).

Anyway, looks like you lost your bet

[Knurpht]

A village with 40000 inhabitants, only 10% active in social life, is still a 40000 inhabitant village.

Readers that joined may not have anything to post, yet they wanted to belong to the community. They might even be regular poster in other forums.....

[Tokugawa-Ieyasu]

A village with 40000 inhabitants, only 10% active in social life, is still a 40000 inhabitant village.

Readers that joined may not have anything to post, yet they wanted to belong to the community. They might even be regular poster in other forums.....

I don't see why you would want to register if you don't have anything to post? You can read anything as a guest just fine.
I just wanted to point out that I found it strange that there are so many people (about half of all members) who joined, just to disappear and never come back, without even doing a single post
Are there any freebies or other things associated with just joining?

[Knurpht]

You would be, you are surprised...

There's a lot of forums that don't allow you to read all posts unless you become a member. That's one.

Then there's people who feel they are a member of the community by signing up.

And there's a kind of people who feel they give support by just signing up.

[hendersj]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:06:02 +0000, Tokugawa-Ieyasu wrote:

> Are there any freebies or other
> things associated with just joining?

Searching without entering a captcha.

Remember as well that the login is the same as for www.novell.com - so if
someone was logged into the novell.com website and then visited the
forum, an account would be set up for them automatically on that first
visit, regardless of whether they posted or not.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator

[palladium]

microchip8 wrote:
> How come there's no German subforum

there is a *full* German forum..

go to http://forums.opensuse.org/
press Ctrl+f (in firefox)
type german
see: Deutsch (German) (External Link) <http://www.linux-club.de/>

it is (ironically) right above/over/before Hebrew..

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palladium

[microchip8]

microchip8 wrote:
> How come there's no German subforum

there is a *full* German forum..

go to http://forums.opensuse.org/
press Ctrl+f (in firefox)
type german
see: Deutsch (German) (External Link) <http://www.linux-club.de/>

it is (ironically) right above/over/before Hebrew..

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palladium

I was asking about a *native* German subforum on *this* forum, like the ones for Hungarian and now French users.... not some link pointing to some 3rd party forum

[john_hudson]

I was asking about a *native* German subforum on *this* forum, like the ones for Hungarian and now French users.... not some link pointing to some 3rd party forum

I understand but isn't re-use rather than re-invent a basic principle of Unix? If German speaking users are happy with what is on offer, why re-invent the wheel?