CT usage statistics

This is a much bigger forum, it's probably easier to control smaller forums where the membership is under 200 and consists mainly of regular known posters. 

rogher, do you have a "program" to sort all these figures or do you sit there with a pen a paper ??, either way some interesting results.................

I am another who took the decision not to post as much a few months ago. I found an alternative forum where sensible debate isn't hijacked, where everyone can express their interesting opinions and thoughts without feeling stressed, either because they travel with a pet, or children, or choose to tour in a particular way or particular place. I am pleased to be able to say that a lot of very nice, very friendly fellow CT members have also decided to get involved. It would be lovely if a few more of those who value  this kind of forum chat came along and joined in. No one gives a hoot about how many "stars" other posters have, people are valued for the interesting, amusing and helpful information they decided to post. We have a lot of online fun, we share jokes, we share laughter, and to my knowledge no one derides anyone else or their choices to score points. A lot of us remain members of CT, and are looking forward to the new CT, and like me still swop ideas with a lot of the nice posters who are still around on CT. We haven't gone away, or been forced out, we are just waiting for the rebirth of what brought a lot of us together a long time ago.

TDA, very true, but that forum seems to pick and choose their members . i was refused entry ,but hey ho there is life other than forums

One forum is enough for me! 

I see we've had new members joining in recently which is good and I think a lot of us are looking forward to future developments on here. Incidentally I wish the the new temporary forum manager well when Ro goes off on maternity leave.

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TDA, very true, but that forum seems to pick and choose their members . i was refused entry ,but hey ho there is life other than forums

That isn't how it works HD, with all due respect. It is well managed, and has the kind of filter systems that hopefully will be available on here in the future. It is much smaller of course, it is only a year old, but new members  join almost every day, some only post very rarely, others post daily.

Brue, I agree with you, lovely to see lots of newish posters using CT. Just hope their early posts are not pounced on too quickly and that they get the help and interest they deserve.

TDA, very true, but that forum seems to pick and choose their members . i was refused entry ,but hey ho there is life other than forums

I was invited to join and refused. Its a strange world

Fascinating. Do tell more as you've made this claim elsewhere as well. 

It's not invitation only so this does sound very odd

I’ve been looking at the use of the forum over the first week of this year and compared it with the same week (1-7 Jan) last year.

It had become apparent that the amount of activity had declined and I wondered by how much.

In the first week of 2015, 794 different usernames were observed on CT. (There were a lot of kitchen spammers at the time, so they were removed from the count).

This year, there were 691 different usernames observed over the same period.

The number actually posting to the forum was 388, dropping to 356 this year, a fall of around 10%.

An average of 260 different users were seen on CT each day in 2015 whereas only 235 different users a day are seen just now.

Did you include all the user names in the review section Rogher or is that just in the discussion area?

TDA, very true, but that forum seems to pick and choose their members . i was refused entry ,but hey ho there is life other than forums

That isn't how it works HD, with all due respect. It is well managed, and has the kind of filter systems that hopefully will be available on here in the future. It is much smaller of course, it is only a year old, but new members  join almost every day, some only post very rarely, others post daily.

Brue, I agree with you, lovely to see lots of newish posters using CT. Just hope their early posts are not pounced on too quickly and that they get the help and interest they deserve.

What 'filter systems' would screen someone like Husky from being allowed to join a forum....?

ive joined numerous forum, including the one inthink you are referring to, i dont remember any vetting/screening of any kind.

normally, you supply an email address, user name, password, and, if you wish, a bit of 'info' highlighting your interests, location etc....

why would any of this preclude someone from joining, or is there more to this than meets the eye?....