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Poll: Do you lurk or do you post?
Curious about the ratio here, and the poll mechanism seemed like a good way to get an estimate. Wouldn't want to force lurkers to actually say something...
- tlrobinson 19y agoPresumably many lurkers don't have accounts thus won't vote in your poll...
- edw519 19y agoI have users who would request a report with the names of all lurkers who have not registered. (I tell them 6 months & $100K and they say never mind.)
- mechanical_fish 19y ago[/me restrains overwhelming urge to point out the fundamental errors in the design of this poll. :] [/me nourishes secret hope that the poll fad will die out soon.] So, let's see: If you comment, but almost never submit, I presume you are nonetheless a "poster". So, that's me. I sometimes feel guilty for not contributing more. Then I remember that if I were trolling the interwebs for interesting content I would be spending even more time not working, and I get over the guilt.
- davidw 19y agoI think it's good that people don't submit any old thing that comes to hand.
- ctkrohn 19y agoI'd also bet there are plenty of people (like myself) who only comment and very rarely post links.
- ngvrnd 19y agoI make no response.
- pg 19y agoOn a site like this the lurkers always greatly outnumber the posters. Over the past 24 hours we've probably had around 8000 unique visitors, of which 234 have posted links or made comments: > (let posters (table) ((afn (n) (let i (item n) (unless (> (days-since i!time) 1) (assert (posters i!by)) (self (- n 1))))) maxid*) (len posters)) 234 So 2.9% post and 97% lurk. The proportion of posters is actually higher than I would have predicted, based on what I remember about such numbers from Reddit.
- falsestprophet 19y agoWhat percentage of readers contribute by modding (is that the right word?) comments or submissions?
- dkokelley 19y agoOh my goodness can I really vote up both answers? It seems that way.
- thevoid 19y agoI've gone back to lurking having been rather swiftly shouted down by a group of identikit hivemiders determined to prove the negative cliches of programmers as petty, rude and emotionally retarded. Edit: ooooh, click your little down arrows, that'll show me... lol
- kajecounterhack 19y agoIts good this way, with more lurkers than posters. Why? Because very often lurkers don't have anything good to say, and those who have nothing good to say ought not to say anything. Unfortunately, there are those who don't abide by that, and thus we get those ugly trolls.
- sayhello 19y agoI lurk and once in 6 months I may make a comment. without clickpass, i wouldn't have made this post today