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[quote]Originally posted by Tracklayer only a couple of hundred (if that) ever actually create topics or comment on topics. Why is that ?.../quote] Well, I post little because so many threads are irrelevant. Lately, more and more threads fall inot a few categories that I find uninteresting: - self-congratulatory ("I bought a $500 engine!"; "I sold my hand-painted train mug on eBay for $200") or self promotional ("come buy my dreck on eBay"). Or both simultaneously. - "The hobby is dying because of _______ "(fill in the blank: UP; Horizon Hobbies; no Blue Box kits; eBay; MR mag; Wal-Mart) For pity's sake, give it a break - Stupid polls / inane questions ("Who likes trains?"; "Did John Henry get a bad deal from management?"; "How often do you eat"). Often these are posted by people who create new IDs and then spend a few days littering the forum with these wastes of time. - eBay anything - Posts related to the forum itself, not model railroading ("Look, I just reached 75 posts!" Followed by a tedious round of congratulations from others boosting their own phony post counts. "Look, I posted _and_ made the first reply". "Look, my posts are at the top of all three forums at once".) This last category, I think, are the kind of posts that kill a forum. Once the traffic becomes all inside jokes, sniping, and self-conscious post count inflation, the thing starts to whither away -- ike what's happened on the Atlas forum. At one point over there, a guy had two IDs and started a huge argument. With himself. Anyway, I promised myself I wouldn't contribute to one of these "about the forum itself" threads but I couldn't resist the downward pull of the lowest common denominator, I guess. Jon
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