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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 3118691, member: 15199&quot;]It is difficult to show that member populations go int any specific direction. Here is a &#039;snapshot&#039; right off the home page&nbsp; </p><p>Total: 485 (members: 50, guests: 379, robots: 56)&nbsp;&nbsp; on line taken just a couple of minutes ago. There are 47,517 registered members.</p><p><br /></p><p>So Guests ( unregistered, non-posting lookie loos) are much more in numbers than members by a factor of 7X,&nbsp; even the robots out numbers the members. </p><p><br /></p><p>A long time ago I was on a different forum, where if you didn&#039;t post a certain number of time in a certain time period, you were deleted, not so here. I see posts from people absent for years and has the time to dive back in.</p><p><br /></p><p>No One ever has to POST in any thread.&nbsp; It is voluntary, and if you do not like the result in a certain thread , move on , or if it is against the rules , report it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some may feel , they HAVE to respond, and that is where problems often arise. No one HAS to reply</p><p><br /></p><p>You can always say Welcome,&nbsp; Ask about their collection, etc. etc.&nbsp; If they say &quot;what&#039;s it to you !!!&quot;,&nbsp;&nbsp; Just move on or answer politely, but otherwise REPORT it, so the Mods and Admin. can watch the thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes there are some posters on both sides of the conversation that could be much more polite, but the rules contain the limits that are enforced.&nbsp; Have a nice conversation. Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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