Are you a Poster or a Viewer ?

Most Threads seem to have more people viewing them then actually posting comments .

So are you a poster or a viewer ?

If you tend to view threads more , Is there something that stops you joining in the topic ?

Does the count include people who aren't registered? i thought it did. Be good to get some of them involved.

The Galveston Giant wrote:Does the count include people who aren't registered? i thought it did. Be good to get some of them involved.

That's a good point , i aren't sure ? maybe a Admin could answer that ?

If you are a unregistered ' viewer ' reading this why not sign up , we are a friendly bunch ................. mostly

I tend to post a fair bit like you Kenny but also sometimes I just have a read and move on. If there's a war-of-words underway I'll try to avoid that and step in to try and quell things... otherwise I won't post if I don't know enough on the subject.

So I'm probably 75% post, 25% view. What about you?

Outside of American Football I'm pretty much just a viewer, there's always going to be more views than posts because you have to view the page twice to post on it once.

Viewer I think. I prefer reading to talking most of the time.

viewer in general. mostly on the boxing boards. there is a lot of knowledge there so i can't always add to it!

Bit of both really sometimes there's stuff I don't know enough to offer opinion or not show a huge interest in.

Kenny you sexy beast, you know i like to watch

Ratio of views to posts varies quite widely between different posts.... sometime it's 10:1

But it can be much bigger differential - for instance 13 posts to 670+ views on the off topic thread of what's the most interesting thing about you. But that could be due to 606v2 members being inherently modest (or perhaps accurate ) about how fascinating they are to other people...

Seems to be a lot of pervs on this thread as well

Does the viewing number not get automatically blown on a thread because you revisit a thread?

Example, you post a comment, and go back 7 times to read posts until you have something to say again.

So you may have contributed 2 or 3 posts on a thread, but went back 20 times to read comments?

Without having done any great research I would suggest that a ratio of about 10 views for every post is probably about a "par" score for participation.

Thought that thise thread would have got a better reaction myself

I've just popped in to have a quick look. And a post.

As the number of posts would suggest i post alot , but do tend to stick to certain threads unless of course i have an opinion on something then i will add to another thread.
I do however look around aswell so contribute to the views also

Another great thing about this site is the General Discussion/Off Topic section. You can't help but love the fact that one minute you are agreeing with a Man Utd fan in the football section, the next minute you are bickering with another poster over why you think 9/11 was an inside job, the minute after that you are ranking an 80's classic film and a minute after the minute after (!) you are co-writing a world class limerick. I highly doubt that life can get better!

Kenny. Make the cheque payable to the Freek...

Linebreaker wrote:I've just popped in to have a quick look. And a post.

The king lurker

Lurk and let de-lurk.

Linebreaker wrote:Lurk and let de-lurk.

I'm watching you Liney.

See, I have a pet name for you.

Be afraid...

Pray tell dear Freek.

"De-lurk" is a good name for a cabaret show, no?

God it feels great to be the only normal person on here

eirebilly wrote:God it feels great to be the only normal person on here

But are you normal Billy? Are you.....

You know i am Freek

Good man, now to convince breaker and Kenny of this new development

Good luck with that buddy!

Will never happen but i will do my best, if not i will sick Scary Viking Lady on to them

I think I swing both ways I do read a lot of things but don't comment - either because i don't want to get involved or I just think it's not my place to comment. I do also comment on a few things too.

I never thought of it like that Cari

A view to a post. Or 2 posts per view.

Depending how you look at it.

Too many viewers and not enough posting is my observation. Threads need posts to get things moving.

1:10 is about right for a board moving at a decent pace. From what I've seen a lot of threads here are more like 1:30. What are people afraid of?

I do my bit redressing the imbalance by posting when I don't really have a clue what I'm on about.

Galted wrote:I do my bit redressing the imbalance by posting when I don't really have a clue what I'm on about.

I have been doing that since i joined