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Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by happygeek Yay, the DaniWeb membership ticker just went over 900,000 :) Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by Narue Yay, 1 million members, with 999,000 of them being one-off posters, banned spammers, or lurkers who add no value. :icon_rolleyes: I fail to see the benefit of fluffing the member count with shit and then bragging about it. Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by Xlphos Got to be good for advertising though. - Hope I'm In that 1000. Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by jon.kiparsky No, it's not good for advertising because anyone even vaguely serious about advertising here is going to know without looking that the number is bogus, and that counting everyone who's ever created an account gets you a completely useless number. At best, they ignore it. If they're smart, they read that as a sign saying "we inflate our … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by VernonDozier Ditto Narue and Jon. One million members is a bad thing, not a good thing. As a side, but related note, I just got an e-mail from Dream in Code very similar to what Dani posted. Apparently they got hit by the same Google update. Relevant sections in red. If I recall correctly and I am interpreting correctly, Daniweb says that they cannot … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by Dani > We legally are not allowed to remove users from our database > It is a DaniWeb policy to not remove posts/threads that do not violate our rules, because doing so would break conversations and is unfair to the people who spent their time contributing to the threads, and for the web visitors who are following the threads Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by jon.kiparsky > We legally are not allowed to remove users from our database Hrm? On what grounds? Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng About the one million members wished, i am confident daniweb will achieve it soon. But out of the 1 million less than 10 000 are active that means they only post one time and quit daniweb. So what is the point Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by happygeek Blimey, sorry for being passionate about DaniWeb and getting excited about something :( Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng Its ok. I get what you mean. So it seems that you guys are setting a record of having a million members. Good luck in achieving that. I think you could achieved that in 2 - 3 years time Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by WaltP 2-3 years? Boy, you [I]are[/I] new here. Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng Yeah, you could say so WaltP. I join only this year and do not have much experiment. Do you mean that Daniweb could actually achieved 1 million members in a shorter time Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by WaltP Wouldn't surprise me. Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng Why, at this rate there are like only a hundred or less members a day joining daniweb. Maybe at the end of the year there would be 1 million members, is that what you are saying Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by VernonDozier 900,166 today. Supposedly 898,893 ten days ago. "Goal" is a million. I don't feel like doing the math, but it would be several years at this rate. However I think this slow rate is an anomoly (sp?). On the "plus" side, we have someone named "spoon licker" who just joined a few days ago, so let's make sure he's … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by jonsca [quote]Why, at this rate there are like only a hundred or less members a day[/quote] Wait until it becomes exam time at the universities. I couldn't quantify the surge, but there definitely is one. Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon I believe that number also includes all the spammers and porn posters and wouldn't be a bit surprised if they account for about half or more the total membership. Maybe Dani should just delete all those accounts and see what happens to the total membership. Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by happygeek To be fair, while we do have the same problems with spammers as any other large forum to suggest that more than half of the total historical membership is made up of them is pretty ridiculous... Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon Well, the proof is in the pudding. You may be right, but never know until the spam accounts are removed. Of all the new accounts created over the last month how many were spammers? That sample should be easy to determine. Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by jon.kiparsky [QUOTE]to suggest that more than half of the total historical membership is made up of them is pretty ridiculous[/QUOTE] How so? That's about what Wikipedia cites as a "conservative estimate" of the proportion of spam in email traffic worldwide, why would DaniWeb be any different? And why would it matter? The number of people who have … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng About the spam accounts, i am sure there are a pretty lot out there. Some posters will just put a smiley face there and say they agreed tot the previous poster suggestion. And i have calculated it is impossible to achieve 1 million members by the end of this year. Unless a miracle occurred and the half the world is having problems with their … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by VernonDozier >> And i have calculated it is impossible to achieve 1 million members by the end of this year. The site only started in 2002 or something, presumably with 0 members, and it's 90% there, so it might make it. 9 months is a long time. They'll need 400 new members a day, roughly, but like Jonsca said, wait till exam time comes. Whether it'… Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng Maybe 80% are not active members of daniweb, maybe they only have less than 5 post Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by jon.kiparsky The math still doesn't quite work - 80% of 800,000 is 640,000 - if we take off the million posts supposedly made by 20%, that leaves only 450,000 for the 80% to have made, and that's at today's posting totals. Using today's membership numbers (900,000, 80% = 720,000) the disparity is even greater. Gosh, something that's not quite right on … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng Maybe the guy fail his maths Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by jon.kiparsky Yeah, that could be. Or he's just making stuff up. (where'd he get the 80%/20% split, anyway?) Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by royng Yeah, maybe some random guy doing a research on daniweb but give false information to the media and public. Go and sue him Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon [QUOTE=jon.kiparsky]The math still doesn't quite work - 80% of 800,000 is 640,000 - if we take off the million posts supposedly made by 20%, that leaves only 450,000 for the 80% to have made, and that's at today's posting totals. Using today's membership numbers (900,000, 80% = 720,000) the disparity is even greater. Gosh, something that's not … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by jon.kiparsky AD, one of us is confused. I'm open to the possibility that it's me. What numbers do you think I'm mixing? As I see it, it's a simple grade school word problem. In short: (80% * 800,000) > (1.45 million - 1 million) In long: If there are 1.4 million posts, and 20% of Daniweb contributed 1 million of them, then .4 million of them were … Re: Marching to a million members 13 Years Ago by Ancient Dragon >>So if you have 1.4 million posts, and 20% of them come from 1 million people That's an incorrect assumption. 20% of the total post count (200,000) come from the top 35 or so members (see Total Members by Rank link)