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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3903880, member: 112&quot;]The number might be, and probably is, a good bit bigger than that. I say that because quite a few years ago, and I don&#039;t even remember how many it&#039;s been now, Peter deleted roughly 50,000 registered members from the rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the time the number of registered members that everybody can see on the bottom of the Index page under Forum Statistics -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1029057[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>- that number was well over 80,000. But Peter decided to do a cleanup of that number so it would be more accurate, more representative of actual active forum membership. In other words, he was aware of the same kind of thing that you&#039;re talking about Matt - that there were a whole lot of registered members who&#039;d never made a single post, and many others only rarely posted, and many others that hadn&#039;t even visited the site in almost forever. So this is what he did.</p><p><br /></p><p>He put together and sent out a mass email to every email address for every registered member - all 80 some thousand of them. Like I said, his goal was to determine actual active membership. So the email requested that active members, and that was defined as members who still visit the site and read what is posted, respond to the that email. There were somewhere over 35,000 responses from individual email addresses. So Peter changed the number of registered members that everybody sees to that 35,000 plus. So approximately 50k were removed from the rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if ya take that into account, that 30k number of yours would probably be a whole lot higher.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the truly interesting thing, to me anyways, is all those people who never register as members. But they still visit and read this site all the time. You can see those numbers down there too, near the Forum Statistics, where it says -</p><p><br /></p><p>Total: 339 (members: 51, guests: 247, robots: 41)</p><p><br /></p><p>- at every given moment. And the number of Guests varies from moment to moment but it&#039;s often 10 times the number of members currently visiting the site. So instead of there being 56,000 people who visit the site, it&#039;s somewhere in the neighborhood of up to 500,000. But like I said it varies, but if you watch it often enough you&#039;ll see what I&#039;m talking about. All of those people are never taken into account - but they&#039;re out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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