At 06:20 PM 3/25/2004 -0500, Ryan Caveney wrote:



>How many registered users does the site have, and how many people are on

>the mailing list?



In recent months there are usually around 100-120 people subscribed to

birthright-l. Of course, people come and go, and I`ve no way of knowing

how many of those accounts might be dead or otherwise inactive, though a

couple dozen folks have to subscribed under the "hidden" option so as not

to reveal their presence to the rest of the list. There are probably less

than two dozen listers who are "active contributors" meaning they post more

than once a month.



The home page of birthright.net says there are several thousand people who

have signed up and have access to the message boards (I`m having trouble

getting to that page at the moment for some reason, so I can`t give you an

exact number.) I`m sure a similarly large percentage of those are inactive

accounts. At a guess, there are probably about twice as many folks who

read the message boards and actively respond to the posts there as there

are active listers. There are a lot more transitory folks on the message

boards, however, who pop on and off irregularly, so that`s really hard to

put a number on.



In any case, if the implication is that we don`t have enough votes to be

very representative of the community for a final project, then you are, of

course, quite right. I don`t know what there is to do about that

though.... We`re not going to get a quorum. You can lead a gamer to

campaign material, but you can`t make him vote. I guess one could view the

number of votes being small as a tacit abstention from most folks, but in

the long run I don`t know that it would make any difference.



Gary