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I'd guess the lurk percentage (I assume you mean lurkers are people looking at the site who don't have accounts) may be lower than usual, because you can't subs
by arprocter 11y ago
I'd guess the lurk percentage (I assume you mean lurkers are people looking at the site who don't have accounts) may be lower than usual, because you can't subscribe to subreddits without an account
- moron4hire 11y agoLurker is usually defined by the fact that they don't participate. Whether or not they have an account isn't usually a factor, though obviously being non-participants they usually have little incentive to create an account. Up-vote buttons usually drag in a few percentage points more of lurkers into creating accounts. Generally speaking, the more of a continuum of ability to participate in a site that you have, and the easier it is to sign up for an account, the more you will capture non-registered users as registered users. This is why sites like Twitter, Pintrest, and Tumblr have found relative ease in gaining growth, compared to their general value proposition as compared to older, more traditional blogging platforms like Blogger or WordPress. Because they have completely streamlined the re-sharing type of participation, they target their sites explicitly at that 9% of users who participate but don't create, rather than the much smaller 1% of users who create content. Regardless, the emphasis of the 90-9-1 rule is on content creation and participation, not on the number of registered accounts. It even applies to largely account-less sites like 4chan.
- arprocter 11y agoIs there a time period for 90-9-1? Does signing up to reddit, posting a single meme I made and never posting again put me the 1?
- moron4hire 11y agoI think it makes you an outlier.