Percentage of PF members with fewer than 3 posts?

[zoki85]

I'm curious what is the percentage (aprox) of PF members posting just 1 or 2 posts and never* post again?
*Never means more than 1 year since last post

 

[phinds]

Yeah, I'm curious too. I suspect it's very high since "members" are kept on the books forever even if they posted once ten years ago.

 

[DaveC426913]

Why poke that bear? PF has 250,000+ members. Do you really want to know if only 1% of them post more than once a year?

 

[phinds]

Why poke that bear? PF has 250,000+ members. Do you really want to know if only 1% of them post more than once a year?

Huh? Last time I saw figures was a couple of years ago and it was more like 350,000 as I recall and should be a lot more now. I COULD, of course, be delusional. It happens.

 

[DaveC426913]

Huh? Last time I saw figures was a couple of years ago and it was more like 350,000 as I recall and should be a lot more now. I COULD, of course, be delusional. It happens.

Or it could be that, since it's been two years for me, my numbers are a little stale.

 

[phinds]

Or it could be that, since it's been two years for me, my numbers are a little stale.

Probably has something to do with time dilation. Have you been out gallivanting around near the speed of light again?

 

[DaveC426913]

Probably has something to do with time dilation. Have you been out gallivanting around near the speed of light again?

That would explain a few things. Everyone around me looks so old, but I still feel like I'm 18.

 

[mfb]

UserIDs are at 528,xxx now, but only 170,315 member profiles still exist.

We are at PostID 4,900,000 and most posts are from a small fraction of all users, so most of those 528,000 users never posted or just had 1-3 posts, but I don't have numbers. That is typical for internet forums.

You can test it yourself: generate a random number between 1 and 528,000, check the user profile ( https://www.physicsforums.com/members/a.123456/ ), see if it fits to whatever you want to look for. Repeat until you have enough data.

 

[zoki85]

You can test it yourself: generate a random number between 1 and 528,000, check the user profile ( https://www.physicsforums.com/members/a.123456/ ), see if it fits to whatever you want to look for. Repeat until you have enough data.

Yeah, I know. But I'm lazy to do it

 

[Orodruin]

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UserIDs are at 528,xxx now, but only 170,315 member profiles still exist.

We are at PostID 4,900,000 and most posts are from a small fraction of all users, so most of those 528,000 users never posted or just had 1-3 posts, but I don't have numbers. That is typical for internet forums.

You can test it yourself: generate a random number between 1 and 528,000, check the user profile ( https://www.physicsforums.com/members/a.123456/ ), see if it fits to whatever you want to look for. Repeat until you have enough data.

My default random number is one: https://www.physicsforums.com/members/a.1/

Community seems fine :p