# 11928 registered members? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 5, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636 "2001-01-05T21:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/1 "2001-01-05T21:59:53Z")
Wow. Do this many people really use this board? Does this count include all the banned members? And of that nearly 12 thousand, how many are actively posting? (say, once a week, even) Just curious. The number kinda blew me away. The community appears to be much smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/2 "2001-01-05T23:46:19Z")
In order: Yes; yes; very, very few. Less than 1/3 of those have more than 10 posts; many post once in GQ, get their question answered, and never post again; many just register and lurk without ever posting. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/3 "2001-01-05T23:49:16Z")
Most who register either don’t post at all or post only a few times. In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=929773#post929773) **Anthracite** looked at the post count of 112 posters chosen more-or-less at random. Only 7 out of 112 posters have a higher post count than you do. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/4 "2001-01-05T23:52:18Z")
This thread is better suited to About This Message Board. Off it goes. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/5 "2001-01-06T11:29:33Z")
The way I figure it, the higher that number gets, the better off our Fight for Ignorance becomes. However, I’m worried… eventually (in maybe, oh, a couple months) we’ll have the entire population of Earth signed onto the message boards… imagine the traffic problems! ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/6 "2001-01-08T00:41:03Z")
Hah! We’ll just shoot them all, especially those with less than 500 posts! ::::::::: Time to run :::::::: ---
**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/7 "2001-01-08T00:59:55Z")
I was going to object, until I noticed your count is lower than mine. But since the newbies outnumber anyone with more than 80 posts\*, we’d better not upset them. (\*951755 posts/11986 members = 79.4 average posts/member) ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/11928-registered-members/48636/8 "2001-01-08T15:25:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > \*\*This thread is better suited to About This Message Board. Off it goes. \*\* Sorry. I thought About This Message Board was more for _problems_ with the board.