The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

Has anyone else noticed the number of new people registering but not actually posting, they could at least say hello

we are very close to hit 1000 members ..
still only around 50-60 are online on a regular basis in 24 hours

and you can count on your fingers how many cars are showing up when it comes to a meet
funny isn't it ?

I was thinkin along the same lines, Might be an idea to delete inactive profiles of over a year say for talks sake.
I've only been a member for a few months and already noticed it's the same names on the forum on a regular basis, the old hands so to speak

dont forget people move on , buy diferent cars , sell their FTOs and so on . there are still a few guys on here tho that are posting and dont own a mitsi but did, so FAIR PLAY to that bunch !

gary d wrote: Might be an idea to delete inactive profiles of over a year say for talks sake.

Can't see why we'd want or need to do this.

Well when you click into the members list there are numerous profiles for example that joined in 2003 and only ever made 7 posts etc, gives a false representation of the site. just thinking out aloud

what do you mean "gives a false representation of the site?" just curious.

In the members section it lists 959 users, when realisticly this figure would be for talks sake 100 of which as Seb said only 50 or 60 could be considered regulars.

those few are la crème

gary d wrote:In the members section it lists 959 users, when realisticly this figure would be for talks sake 100 of which as Seb said only 50 or 60 could be considered regulars.

Ah that happens on every site though, look at the Oz site, or the FTOOC, any of them have people that sign up cause they think they might use it and never actually do, or sign up and forget the site even exists. I'm signed up to another one in Oz, think its a seperate site for the NW members or something and I never used it, meant to use it cause I wanted to ask something but found what I wanted on another site so didnt bother.

colm_mcm wrote:

gary d wrote: Might be an idea to delete inactive profiles of over a year say for talks sake.

Can't see why we'd want or need to do this.

I'm in agreement. We discussed this a few years back and decided against the idea. On line forums by their nature have a lot of 'lurkers'.

CJ

I'd say 90% of people only sign up to a forum like this when they have a problem. They ask for advice, then vanish, never to be seen again. It's the nature of this sort of forum. still, it would not exist without the regular contributors.

Makes you kinda feel used