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)
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* 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.
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