Who are the members of the WritingForums and how often do they post.

[Plasticweld]

I am supposed to be writing something on leadership but just can't seem to find the right motivation, I am part of the CSBA which is a online Christian Motorcycle group.

I was thinking about the dynamics of who makes up an online group, I decided to look at this forum to gain some insight.


What I found after looking at almost 92 pages of names, about 8000 plus of members.

Most members will never make more than 20 posts. under 10 is the norm

Any member using their real name or some derivative of it will be more likely to have a much higher post count ( around 30 for an average) than someone who is using either a real bazar or overly creative name, the odder the name the fewer the posts.


If you fill out the about you section in your bio you are more likely to have a higher post count.

If you mention the word novel in your intro you are likely to have a post count under 30.

If you are in school chances are you will have less than 10 posts

If you are older and have written the past, you will be more active.

90 percent of all members have under 30 posts, about 5 percent or less have over, have over 50 posts.

If you have over 140 posts you are rare, over 250 you make up less than 1 percent of the membership.


I will go back no and try and write something about leadership...Bob

[No Cat No Cradle]

Damn, those are some numbers you got there! Pretty ones too.

Seeing this makes me want to keep going and fight the numbers game! I will be an exception because I am a special snow flake...like everyone else...

[InstituteMan]

Woo-hoo! I am in the top one percent (of posters by number of posts)!

[Ariel]

Wow. Where's that put me?

[Plasticweld]

Amsawtell, InstituteMan, this puts you in the addicts percentile. What I did find that the people who post here the most, had post counts after just a few months that are already into the hundreds. I looked at someone like A_Jones who joined the forum the same day I did and have more than double the post count and had over 250 in just three weeks or so. When you look at people here who have high post counts who are not mentors or part of the staff here, you become part of and even rarer breed.


If you have 810 posts since February of this year, you are an addict and this site owes your family an apology. If you have over 2599 post since Dec of 2012, this is your life :} and we probably owe you a metal of some kind.

I was surprised by what I found, I did not realize there were so many members, that posted so little. I did not realize that a relatively few writers, maybe 200 do the bulk of the talking here

[InstituteMan]

I'm not addicted. I can stop any time. [no, I can't]

[Kevin]

92 pages of names, 8000 members... I have a new respect for your meth-, meth-odical, method-o-logical, were you on meth?

[TKent]

I did an LOL but would like to upgrade it to LMAO!

92 pages of names, 8000 members... I have a new respect for your meth-, meth-odical, method-o-logical, were you on meth?

[Ariel]

Amsawtell, InstituteMan, this puts you in the addicts percentile. What I did find that the people who post here the most, had post counts after just a few months that are already into the hundreds. I looked at someone like A_Jones who joined the forum the same day I did and have more than double the post count and had over 250 in just three weeks or so. When you look at people here who have high post counts who are not mentors or part of the staff here, you become part of and even rarer breed.


If you have 810 posts since February of this year, you are an addict and this site owes your family an apology. If you have over 2599 post since Dec of 2012, this is your life :} and we probably owe you a metal of some kind.

I was surprised by what I found, I did not realize there were so many members, that posted so little. I did not realize that a relatively few writers, maybe 200 do the bulk of the talking here

I was a mentor for a little over six months. I still really care about the forum and want to see it doing well.

[No Cat No Cradle]

Is there any huge exceptions to said statistics, Plasticweld?