HEADPHONES Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 I was browsing detailing world and found it interesting that in 2006 there were only 200 members but now nearly 50,000. This leads me to wonder Who were the FOUNDING FATHERS of our beloved OC and how many of the original crew are still active members/owners? Quote
glrnet Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 see forum index, Chesterfield is our leader Quote
ChrisS Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 If you click 'Members' top right,you'll see the order of joining/founding. Quote
Chris`I Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 If you click 'Members' top right,you'll see the order of joining/founding. This. And there are a supprising amount of "hangers around" still here - *cough* Sarnie *cough* Quote
spursmaddave Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 If you click 'Members' top right,you'll see the order of joining/founding. Not too many still around from the first dozen or so pages But then it's a car forum and people move on, great spirit of togetherness on here though Quote
Neilp Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 What I notice about that list when looking through it is the amount of members who have joined, never posted and never came back. Can we not clear these names so we can free up the user names for people? Quote
WINKJ Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Pretty sure I was the main founder? No?.... Ok then Quote
Chesterfield Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Unfortunatley members have to be deleted one at a time trough the forums software I believe. They could possibly be removed using a simple job on the database, but I dont know what that would screw up if it wasnt done using the front end, depending on what was left behind. As per most forums, we just leave the member list alone. Out of the 50,000 detailing world members, how many are actually active? We did recently do a lookup on ours and found just over 1000 different members had been active (visited or posted) in the last 30 days. Which I dont think is a bad statistic. And yes, for my sins I had a slow night on New Years eve 2005. Check my joined date. Thats when the club was officially built and went live. Its actually pretty humbling to look back and see just how many people have been involved with the club over the now 6+ years. I hope its given some people some fun over time Quote
Ken Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 What I notice about that list when looking through it is the amount of members who have joined, never posted and never came back. I have noticed this before, the numbers are high. So why is this ? any know. Quote
Chris`I Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 What I notice about that list when looking through it is the amount of members who have joined, never posted and never came back. I have noticed this before, the numbers are high. So why is this ? any know. The vast majority sign up and lurk. They manage to get all the information they require and dont feel the need to post anything up. It can be a very scary place to venture onto if you're not used to the internet, especially with some of the characters we have on here Quote
spursmaddave Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 What I notice about that list when looking through it is the amount of members who have joined, never posted and never came back. I have noticed this before, the numbers are high. So why is this ? any know. The vast majority sign up and lurk. They manage to get all the information they require and dont feel the need to post anything up. It can be a very scary place to venture onto if you're not used to the internet, especially with some of the characters we have on here Totally agree there are some right nutters on here! Quote
geoff-r Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 I'm member 5093, wow I was late to the party. Quote
ATTAK Z Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 you may be a late entrant but some of your posts can only be described as 'THE BEST' Quote
rtbiscuit Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 i think Husky and i worked out a while back that 50% of the forums posts are made up by about the top 20-25 posters. Quote
Ian Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 i think Husky and i worked out a while back that 50% of the forums posts are made up by about the top 20-25 posters. Its only that low because Sarnie isn't around as much Quote
glrnet Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 6337 here I'm member 5093, wow I was late to the party. Quote
Ricey Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 you may be a late entrant but some of your posts can only be described as 'THE BEST' Story of my life......i was 22 before by balls dropped but once they got there they were also ossum Quote
bronzee Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 There are probably many that join, as with most forums, that join a forum, see what costs are involved and walk away deciding it's not viable. Quote
Ebized Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Still here oh bugger One of the other problems of deleting non-active members is that many have provided useful info in their posts/threads so that when you do a search you would draw a blank. Same thing when a member deletes their photobucket (or what-have-you) a/c and the pics disappear Quote
Chris`I Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Members have also been known to come back too and they'd be a bit ****ed if you've gone and deleted their account Quote
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