by sandy82 » August 17th, 2005, 12:04 pm
Jerm,
I provide this information in a separate post so that it's not lost in the shuffle.
As of midday, Wednesday, August 17, MDT, SageMagnus was Member No. 11639 (UserName/Ascending) out of 15,413 registered site users. He registered on April 4, 2005. He has made no posts in any Forum. I haven't looked, but it's a safe bet that he has made no Journal entries either. I have no way of knowing how many file downloads he has made. He was smart enough not to say whether or not he had downloaded Train Enchanted Keyboard.
All of which brings me to my second point.
This site has 15,413 registered users. Only 638 have even one post. (Members List: Total Posts/Descending). That means over 95 percent have made no posts at all. Maybe there have been 14,800 file downloaders, as opposed to downloads, but I wouldn't bet the ranch on it.
No doubt, a significant number are under-agers and/or trouble-makers who were smart enough to pre-register under a variety of names before they got bounced and thus before anyone was looking for them. Mortal was not so smart. He signed up as Morta1 (Morta-One) several hours after he was bounced as Mortal.
Who are the rest of them?
I have two modest proposals. I don't care whom non-posting ArcaneTheGeomancer sends PMs to, but his total number of PMs would be interesting. Equally interesting would be the non-posters who receive PMs. How would anyone know who they were? On the other hand, if a known site user sends PMs to a supposedly unknown, non-posting user, the very fact should awaken someone's interest.
Of most interest would be an unknown user who sends one PM apiece in fairly rapid succession to 10 other unknown users...and then those 11 accounts are not used again.
The first proposal: How many PMs are sent and received by unknown, non-posting registered users? Perhaps the results could be displayed on Show Me Your Tits. Then, as with Playboy, regular SMYT visitors could claim they go for the data and not for the pics. :)
Next, until Google came along, hotmail used to drop users after 30 days of non-use. Yahoo mail would drop users after 90 days of non-use. Perhaps they still do. I'm sure both companies--and others--have reasons for such policies.
Second proposal: SageMagnus is a prime candidate for erasure. He's been a member for 4.5 months. He has never made a post. Nobody ever heard of him until he started writing irritating PMs. I would not be surprised to find that hundreds, perhaps thousands, fall into the same category.
What's the point of erasure, some may ask.
I borrow from an old saying. Hopefully it has the redeeming feature of having been written by Benjamin Franklin. In any event, its truth is somewhat obscured by the old-fashioned language.
If we get rid of idle hands, we lessen the risk of becoming an interloper's workshop.
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