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    Is Apolyton Retaining New Members?

    Is Apolyton Retaining New Members?

    It seems Apolyton is recruiting new members at an amazingly fast pace, faster than ever. And yet, the same 20-100 people seem to be the ones doing the vast majority of the posting.

    Are many of these newbies remaining with the site? Or are they being intimidated away by an ever increasingly self-referential group of 'quasi-elites?'

    I don't know the exact data numbers of remaining registerees who came in January, etc. but as far as I can see, with a few notable exceptions such as HongHu, they are posting quite seldomly.

    The trend seems to be 1 or 2 posters posting in the 1000's and the vast majority posting in the 0's and 1's as opposed to the elder days when 1 or 2 posted in the 1000's, and 20 posted in the 100's and 150 posted in the 50's and the rest posted in the 1's and 0's

    Now, of course, I might be mistaken, and the newbies might just be buried in the morass of 10-20 posters posting 20 times in every thread, but if anyone has any experiential or quantifiable data to oppose my statements with, I would please ask people to think about the possible reprecussions resulting from my claim.

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  • #2
    n00bs sux!



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    Eh... I'd say part of it is the lack of Civ stuff (even though we got RoN, this IS a Civ site first). The newbies came in droves during Civ3. And yes, it may also be a quasi-elite culture where any new person to the OT is 'welcomed' with:

    DL! DL!

    Which can't be all that welcoming.
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    • #3
      How new do you mean? I have only been here for one year....

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      • #4
        DL's rock by the way

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        • #5
          I've only been an active member in the last couple months...

          ...although I did join a year ago and I've lurked here occasionally since... 1999?

          Wow. I guess I'm not that new here, afterall!
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          • #6
            You will find any major sites will have roughly a third of their "members" having never posted even once, regardless of the culture of the place or friendliness of welcoming.

            And remember when you were new here? For me, the thought of posing was intimidating. I didn't post very much at all. My ppd after 5 days was 0.2

            Some of the new people will stay, many will leave. It is the nature of things.
            I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Skanky Burns
              You will find any major sites will have roughly a third of their "members" having never posted even once, regardless of the culture of the place or friendliness of welcoming.

              And remember when you were new here? For me, the thought of posing was intimidating. I didn't post very much at all. My ppd after 5 days was 0.2

              Some of the new people will stay, many will leave. It is the nature of things.
              The thought of posing was intimidating for me too

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              • #8
                some newbies just aren't qualified to be master spammers.

                But their opinion is welcome anytime. I think we retain some of them.

                The retention rate is probably the same as it has always been. Around 5% I'd say.

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                • #9
                  When I register some place new, I register to post

                  Last time I got to a 'new' forum (Which works ), I posted about 100 posts within the first 24 hours... slowly my PPD went down, and now I don't visit the site anymore...
                  This space is empty... or is it?

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                  • #10
                    I would love it to see the number of people that has joined since, say january 2004.........
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                    • #11
                      I mean: logged in, not joined in.
                      Formerly known as "CyberShy"
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                      • #12
                        Last I checked, 58% of CFC members have zero posts ...

                        Oddly, it was weeks from I started posting on OT and the first time anyone accused me of being a DL ...
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                        • #13
                          Most of them are DLs to boost referral counts.
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                          • #14
                            lots of ways to encourage people to get involved
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                            • #15
                              I think it was Locutus who had a nice chart on new members..........maybe he'll post it again.

                              I think you are right there may be less people joining now, but it's to be expected as the release of Civ3 was 2 and a half years ago now, and expansions don't bring as many new members.

                              Civ4 will bring many new members to the site.

                              I don't think there is evidence of what new posters there are having a lower chance of staying though.

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