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July 26, 2006 at 4:07 am #148943drainMember
How can you tell how many members there are and does it count all registrations or does it remove people that were banned or got their account deleted? If i had to guess a time it’d be July 27th 3:30 Central time.
July 26, 2006 at 4:38 am #148919SpikeMemberdrain: The bottom of this page has all of our statistics. Total user registration is there. 😉
July 26, 2006 at 11:24 am #148939PolarBearNPRParticipantTigerblade wrote:i’d hate to be a killjoy, but i have to ask… how many of those thousands of members are active, even on a small scale?This is a real issue for BBB and many other forums as well. Again, from my experience elsewhere, some of the things we did to recruit and retain members who were *active* were very simple. When someone joined, we made sure to respond to their initial post with a welcome, hope to see you again soon, and a leading question that would get them to post again. Also, each board (forum) had a specific leader or two or three depending on how active that board was. Those leaders, noted at the top of each board, kept tabs on all folks who hadn’t posted in awhile, encouraging input in an area they had expressed interest. This was usually done via email, but often times a shout out from the board netted results as folks frequently lurked on their favorite boards and were just waiting for that personal invitation or mention. We also had informal leaders who, of their own accord would strike up a conversation based on similarities of interest or situation.
We also had monthly reports to send which included how many new threads, new posts, new members, most active threads, suggestions of members who might want to be community leaders (CL), as well as trouble that sometimes errupted. Fighting those fires was one of the biggest bothers for the CLs, but also helped retain folks who may have left because of a simple difference of opinion. Seeing things in print sometimes is worse than hearing it because it can be read again, and again, and again.
We also had a board especially for CLs where we discussed all sorts of things, from board frustrations to board joys to who was having a baby to whose kids were driving them nuts to suggestions . . . anything was fair there. Also the powers-that-be would keep us informed of changes to the board (we underwent two major overhauls during my tenure) and changes to policy, etc.
BBB is a wonderful site for specific information! If we invite folks to become our friends, they might seek us out for more than just IM advice and troubleshooting.
Just my humble opinion.
July 27, 2006 at 1:25 am #148927NessaParticipantOoo, looking at how many there is to go, and as of this post, only 11 new members to go before BBB hits 40,000! So close. 😛 Should reach it by late tonight or tomorrow morning!
July 27, 2006 at 2:04 am #148924MrEggsaladParticipantDavid wrote:July 27th, 8pmEST.I can tell you it will be pretty darn close to that one. He knew something…:p
July 27, 2006 at 2:19 am #148913TigerbladeParticipantheh, i dunno, only 8 more to go, i dont think that’ll hold out for a whole day.
i’m putting my bet on July 28th, 1:13am CST.
July 27, 2006 at 2:20 am #148916RabidKittenParticipantHeh, I don’t really have much to say on it, but the in relation to member personal post was pretty interesting *chuckles*
*looks at her post count* Yeah…I’ve been away for the past couple..days…week…whatnot. trying to get life in order really drains your online time *laughs*
July 27, 2006 at 2:20 am #148925MrEggsaladParticipantIf I could change, I would say July 28, 7:30 AM EST. Yup.
July 27, 2006 at 2:23 am #148920SpikeMemberPfft, if I could change? Tonight (er, should I say tomorrow?) between 12:00AM and 3:00AM cst.
July 27, 2006 at 3:03 am #148944drainMemberI see 7 left… I bet it happens tonight!
July 27, 2006 at 3:14 am #148928NessaParticipantTigerblade and MrEggsalad did you guys mean June 27 at those times? Because i’m still trying to figure out why’d you say it’d last another day if there is little left to go. *stays confused* :confused:
July 27, 2006 at 3:42 am #148945drainMemberAnyone wanna predict when BBB will surpass 50,000 members?
July 27, 2006 at 4:11 am #148914TigerbladeParticipanthatedjealousy wrote:Tigerblade and MrEggsalad did you guys mean June 27 at those times? Because i’m still trying to figure out why’d you say it’d last another day if there is little left to go. *stays confused* :confused:no, i put mine at *barely* July 28, CST. Seeing as right now it’s almost midnight and such. 1:13 in the AM.
July 27, 2006 at 4:15 am #148929NessaParticipantTigerblade wrote:no, i put mine at *barely* July 28, CST. Seeing as right now it’s almost midnight and such. 1:13 in the AM.Yes but today is July 26, so at midnight that turns into July 27. 1 am on July 28 is a whole different day from now? And with 3 more new members to go, yeah…
*still confused* 😮
July 27, 2006 at 5:00 am #148946drainMemberPartaaay!!! 40,000 has been reached. Just barely before the 27th.
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