1. Subscribermwmiller
    RHP Member No.16
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    06 Feb '13 20:50
    Originally posted by johnnylongwoody
    Lots of those accounts are moribund.

    As for multiple users, well that's against the TOS isn't it?

    How do they combat that?
    Yes, many of those who opened an account are long gone, but at least we have an idea of how many have been opened so far. But it doesn't tell us how many active accounts are still in use, so that user ID number isn't overly useful.

    As far as having multiple accounts, yes that is against the TOS.

    Once admin finds someone using multiple accounts they can remove them or at least deactivate the account. The offender may be banned from the site as well.
  2. Standard memberGrampy Bobby
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    06 Feb '13 20:511 edit
    Originally posted by rookie54

    it's a well known fact, without any data supporting, that 90% of the folks that use a site for its main purpose spend little or no time at all chatting with the other denizens...
    hence, "119K Members who've never set foot in a forum"...

    as to the reason he/she may be alluding to an alleged membership drop, read between the lines of ponderable's po ant, a rube, a spy...
    sent to sow the seeds of dissension amongst the loyalists...

    *yawn*
    RHP Forum... Total Threads... Cumulative Total (2001 to February 1, 2013)

    1] General Forum = 37,303 /37,303

    2] Only Chess = 16,225 / 53,528

    3] Debates = 12,881 / 66,409

    4] Spirituality = 7,927[/b] / 74,336

    5] Help = 7,238 / 81,574

    6] Clans = 5,548 / 87,122

    7] Site Ideas = 4,625 / 91,714

    8] Posers and Puzzles = 3278 / 95,025

    9] Sports = 3,212 / 98,237

    10] Culture = 1,598 / 99,835

    11] Science = 1,359 / 101,194

    12] Announcements = 338 / 101,532

    13] Developers = 315 / 101,847

    14] Clubs = 168 / 103,015

    Forum Thread Average = 7,358 (103,015 /14)

    ...................................

    * Total of 103,015 Threads x Volume of Thread Readers and Posters = ???, ???, ???

    x 2 = Daily Eyeballs x 365 = $ignificant RHP Annual Advertising Revenues.

    Without a healthy revenue stream, marginal income dwindles.

    When marginal income dwindles, net profitability suffers.

    When net profitability suffers, over an extened period of time, site net worth goes south.

    When a site's net worth goes south, it's operational plug gets pulled.

    The day a site's operational plug gets pulled... things go dark.

    When things go dark, all the patzers and conversational denizens pack up their avatars

    and thumbs and go to the site employing the moderator who reported the demise.

    Cyberspace Free Enterprise @ it's Best!

    Questions?
    .
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    06 Feb '13 20:55
    Originally posted by Kewpie
    Looking at the OP's forum posting record I smell a hidden agenda here. Site membership and player statistics aren't exactly published in newspapers.
    Yes.
  4. Standard memberGrampy Bobby
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    06 Feb '13 21:301 edit
    Originally posted by Kewpie

    Looking at the OP's forum posting record I smell a hidden agenda here. Site membership and player statistics aren't exactly published in newspapers.
    You smell the footprints of a person who's been around since the beginnings of this site; a prudent person with a mere fifty pages of forum posts or a Grand Total of 750 works out to only 1-2 each week of the year, at best; obviously an eclectic person with a big picture point of view who has become engaged with activities at more than one internet chess site. Please help us understand how you "smell a hidden agenda".

    Edit: One of this member's earliest posts reminds me of one of our newest members... bigerjim:

    23 Jul '03 17:57
    "Is there a way to send private messages here? I don't see one."
    .
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    06 Feb '13 21:43
    Fight!
  6. Standard memberHandyAndy
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    06 Feb '13 21:48
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    One of this member's earliest posts reminds me of one of our newest members... bigerjim:

    23 Jul '03 17:57
    "Is there a way to send private messages here? I don't see one."
    Quick, send him a candle.
  7. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    07 Feb '13 01:09
    14,567 active users in the last 60 (I think or 90) days. The last page has 7 subs. The second to last page has 8 subs. The first 2 pages have 28 and 16 respectively. average of the 4 pages 14.75
    486 pages
    3402 subs@ 7 subs per page
    7168.5 subs@ 14.75 per page
  8. Subscribersonhouse
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    07 Feb '13 01:17
    Originally posted by ketchuplover
    on another site RHP has gone from 120K members to 40K members and most of those are free. He also stated the reason (for the membership drop) was at least partly due to forum bullying.

    The mod is from a site that rhymes with chesssphere.com
    Chessbeer?
  9. Standard memberHandyAndy
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    07 Feb '13 01:20
    Originally posted by ChessPraxis
    14,567 active users in the last 60 (I think or 90) days. The last page has 7 subs. The second to last page has 8 subs. The first 2 pages have 28 and 16 respectively. average of the 4 pages 14.75
    486 pages
    3402 subs@ 7 subs per page
    7168.5 subs@ 14.75 per page
    All of this is your fault.

    When things go dark, all the patzers and conversational denizens pack up their avatars
    and thumbs and go to the site employing the moderator who reported the demise. 😠
  10. Standard memberGrampy Bobby
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    07 Feb '13 01:44
    Originally posted by ChessPraxis

    14,567 active users in the last 60 (I think or 90) days. The last page has 7 subs. The second to last page has 8 subs. The first 2 pages have 28 and 16 respectively. average of the 4 pages 14.75
    486 pages
    3402 subs@ 7 subs per page
    7168.5 subs@ 14.75 per page
    (Page Two: Conclusion - ?)
  11. Standard memberGrampy Bobby
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    07 Feb '13 02:331 edit
    Originally posted by divegeester

    Fight!
    Knowing something's wrong without knowing why is still an essential survival skill.

    Weld it!
  12. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    07 Feb '13 02:42
    Originally posted by HandyAndy
    All of this is your fault.

    When things go dark, all the patzers and conversational denizens pack up their avatars
    and thumbs and go to the site employing the moderator who reported the demise. 😠
    Lots of luck, that site has so many glitches it is unreal. Try posting a contraction in that forum.
  13. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    07 Feb '13 02:43
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    (Page Two: Conclusion - ?)
    It would be much higher than the half done estimated sub number. 😛
  14. Standard memberGrampy Bobby
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    07 Feb '13 02:48
    Originally posted by ChessPraxis
    It would be much higher than the half done estimated sub number. 😛
    Estimate of demise overstated?
  15. Standard memberChessPraxis
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    07 Feb '13 02:521 edit
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    Estimate of demise overstated?
    One day in Feb 2005 the total player table was 5659 players, it's more than double that now.
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