Forum.NHFree.com join rate

[dalebert]

Oh, I was completely confused. I thought he was talking about people signing the FSP pledge. My comments make no sense now. How long did I go back and forth with people while we were on two completely different topics? Ugh. 

I think it makes sense that the join rate would go down when you more clearly define the organization.

[Russell Kanning]

yea ... we have about 1 person per day sign up ... but most are not active or disappear later ... we have lots of lurkers though

the fsp has more than 10/week that sign up and some of them move each week ... most of them stay

[Dave Ridley]

join rate has spiked to 2 per day over the three days since the day since russell was arrested on the child support charge...so at least his forum is getting something out of it.

[J’raxis 270145]

At least one of those accounts belongs to someone else who left and came back. I'm also wondering, who is John Galt?

[Dave Ridley]

join rate is now 1.9 per day over last ten days,
that is i think fairly high for a post-political-ban join rate.

[David]

join rate is now 1.9 per day over last ten days,
that is i think fairly high for a post-political-ban join rate.

agree.
A smaller pool of people that might be interested in what we do usually results in lower results. 
The forum is now more focused, and that may actually drive up the join rate.  I assume the other forums will experiance this too.  They are more focused, just in a slightly different direction. 

[K. Darien Freeheart]

Not exactly trying to play devils' advocate here, but I take it political discussions have been banned from this forum?

I joined here because the number of people able to hold a conversation without resorting to penis jokes was pretty high. Not knocking the other forums, if that's their thing, but I don't find it entertaining. It was the atmoshphere, not so much the permitted topics, that attracted me here.

[dalebert]

Not exactly trying to play devils' advocate here, but I take it political discussions have been banned from this forum?

My take on it is it's more political planning that's not desired here. There are lots of forums that were formed specifically for that. It's almost impossible to avoid the subject of what the State is up to lately, but like, don't start topics to discuss who people should vote for for president or make plans for some rally for some politician. We might make fun of them here and talk about some bad policies. We certainly may talk about other actions in response to bad policies like protests, civil disobedience, media to inform and persuade the public, etc. It's the political planning and organizing that's frowned upon. Someone else correct me if that's not quite right.

[J’raxis 270145]

I joined here because the number of people able to hold a conversation without resorting to penis jokes was pretty high. Not knocking the other forums, if that's their thing, but I don't find it entertaining. It was the atmoshphere, not so much the permitted topics, that attracted me here.

FTL board?

[K. Darien Freeheart]

FTL board?

You said it, not me.

[J’raxis 270145]