[MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:25:20 -0500 
Dave Rickey <daver at mythicentertainment.com> wrote:

> Stretching the example farther: The lurker phenomenon.  In any
> public forum online, many more people participate passively than
> actively.  By passively, I mean that they read, but they don't
> post.  And by "many more", I mean by 20-50 to 1 poster/lurker
> ratios.  And activity attracts activity, the hardest part about
> getting a forum off the ground is attracting enough active posters
> to reach critical mass.

MUD-Dev, not that long ago, was 75%+ posters.  Membership is now
over 1,000.  The posting percentage is headed into the low single
digits.

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
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