posted 04-20-1999 07:20 PM               

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Jeez, the newbie rush has begun!

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posted 04-21-1999 02:33 PM               

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5,231

Averaging about 30+ new people per day.

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posted 04-22-1999 07:48 PM               

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5271. 40 more since yesterday.

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posted 04-22-1999 09:47 PM               

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Holy cow!!!

(Did you know that in Davis there a cow with a hole in it?)

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posted 04-24-1999 10:21 PM               

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5334. Still averaging about 30/day.

Yeah, Jay, I heard about that cow. There's a hole in its side, so you can actually reach into its stomach! (Yecch!) It's used for studying bovine digestion.

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posted 04-24-1999 10:38 PM               

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Remember that nearly unbearable feeling of suspense you got during Aliens (Alien 2) when they knew that all the horrible, spitting, frothing aliens were just outside the door, and they were all showing up on the funny little gadgets as a big creeping green blob?

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posted 04-24-1999 10:44 PM               

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Yeah, they used to bring it out for Picnic Day, but some animal rights people protested, and it is no more. The cow is still used for classes, I'm sure, but not everyone can come up and reach inside of it.

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posted 04-26-1999 12:10 AM               

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5365. Still averaging about the same.

BTW, Jay is referring to the University of California at Davis (near Sacramento), which has the leading veterinary school in the world. Any vet who's worth a **** went to Davis.

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posted 04-26-1999 10:08 AM               

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Wow! You learn something new everyday, (and its not usually about Cows with Holes in them.)

Do you know, after reading this long Topic, I have finally discovered my true self.

"I am UK Sullustian, and I am an Ex-Lurker"

At last, I am free with myself....

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posted 04-26-1999 10:47 AM            

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With 30 newbies a day the council will be overflowing with them.

Oh yeah, I'm one of them.

But I was a lurker like UK Sullustian so does it still count?

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posted 04-26-1999 10:49 AM               

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jasman,

Spoken like a true California Valley Boy!
I was born in Marin, raised in Sacramento and live in San Francisco.

BTW, I once was looking at a job in the Clovis area. I used to work in optometry (I was gonna be a frame rep)

But, I have found my home at USF, so, no more Clovis for me

And I lurked for about two weeks before joining. Since joining (4.10) I've posted over 260 times and have had some very enlightening conversations. Especially in Misc.

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posted 04-26-1999 07:25 PM               

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I'd just like to make a comment on what jasman said a while back. Son of a Hutt, you make it sound like only ex-lurkers could be "intellegent" newbies. This is father from the truth. I agree wholeheartedly with what jasman said about

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Even uninformed people can act in an intelligent manner and post intelligent questions.

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I am one such person. As soon as I found the council I registered. And don't tell me that I was just a more informed newbie then the rest, in fact I: skimmed over the rules, didn't read the FAQ, ignored the misc forums, and didn't really look around to figure the place out: just jumped in and posted. I just used my brain to figure out smilies and italics, etc. And this kind of thinking is what all these newbies should have not 'I don't get it in the first two seconds I wanted to know. Let me put up a thread'. Now don't take this as me bashing, which I am definatly not. I'm just saying that it'd be a good idea for new people to "survay the scene" before hyperventilating from panic.

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posted 05-02-1999 02:40 PM               

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5650. That's an increase of 285 members in 6 days. That's an average of 47.5 new people per day! See? It's accelerating!

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posted 05-02-1999 03:23 PM               

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What? I didn't say that!

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posted 05-02-1999 04:04 PM               

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5658. That's 8 more in the past hour?

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posted 05-03-1999 03:14 AM               

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5690. That's 40 new members in about 12.5 hours. I think the main rush has definitely begun.

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posted 05-03-1999 03:51 AM               

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All these new people just go straight to Spoilers Allowed? How many of them even bother posting?

And how many people live in/near/between San Fran to Sacramento? Seems like quite a few...

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posted 05-03-1999 05:12 AM              

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Well, the theory goes that all the newbies (and most of the members) are all jasman anyways.

On behalf of my faithful Mookie Chewbacco, the studious Archivist, and the vile Darth Paul: adieu.

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posted 05-03-1999 05:49 AM            

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Well the ratio of people signing up per day to new names created by David are about the same. So about 20 new people a day, and 20 names created by David.

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posted 05-03-1999 12:23 PM            

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I don't have a problem with the newbies, because everything is going down hill, and it's just not the newbies.

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posted 05-03-1999 11:17 PM               

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They're registering faster than I can post!!!

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posted 05-05-1999 12:54 AM               

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5835. That's 145 more since last time I checked, which was less than two days ago. That's 72.5 new people per day.

I predict that by the end of this week, we'll be getting 100 new people per day.

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posted 05-05-1999 01:06 AM               

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Is there any way to delete the names of people who haven't posted for a certain amount of time? I'll bet that there are some people out there that registered, may have posted, then left, never to come back. If we got rid of them, it might help a little. Although it doesn't do much for the hundreds of newbies that are showing up every week.

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posted 05-05-1999 01:41 AM               

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Sure, there's a way to do it, but we'd have to do it manually and it would be very time-consuming. We would have to pull up a list of all the members, place checks in the "delete" boxes next to the names, click enter, and then wait for an hour for all that information to be processed.
(We can pull up 50 names at a time, so, we'd have to click "next 50" 118 times. It would take a couple of hours just to check the names)

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posted 05-05-1999 01:49 AM               

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Well, it sounds rather tedious, but with all the admins working together, it shouldn't take that long. But, just think, if you clean them out now, and every month or so, clean 'em out again, it won't be so difficult.

Here's a thought. Make PB do it. He's always bragging about his T3 and about how fast it is. He could do it in no time.

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posted 05-05-1999 01:55 AM               

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Ha! I can't even get him to do an update! Looks like I'll be doing it again. Maybe tomorrow night.

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posted 05-05-1999 02:01 AM               

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Well, I'll tell you what. I've nothing better to do, so tomorrow I could do a member update. I don't have all the admin functions that you have, but I can take people from the last list and update their totals.

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posted 08-16-1999 06:25 PM               

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I think it's interesting that in Mid-April, when we had 5,000 members, people were already complaining about the "newbie rush." We now have 12,681 members!

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posted 08-16-1999 06:35 PM               

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In the words of George Takei, "Oh my."

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posted 08-16-1999 10:40 PM               

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I wonder how many actually post regularly.

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posted 08-16-1999 10:44 PM               

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According to jasman, of all 12,000+ members, over 1/3 have never posted once.

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posted 08-16-1999 11:05 PM               

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Yes, there are literally thousands of members on the list who have registered over the past 13 months, with a total of zero posts. Very strange. At one point earlier this year I undertook the effort of deleting a few profiles with no posts, but the job was just too big.

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posted 10-29-1999 01:53 PM               

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I'm just saving this informative little thread from disappearing off the lists. So how many members are we up to now?

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posted 10-29-1999 02:08 PM               

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My guess is around 17-19000.

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posted 10-29-1999 02:18 PM               

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I know this is off-topic, but I thought it was awesome to hear my alma-marter mentioned a while back in this thread. Does that mean an Admin is a fellow alumni?

UC Davis, a very Star Wars friendly school. Somebody ought to start a thread inviting UC Davis folks to post.... maybe I should... nah... some other time.

But, uh, staying on topic, yeah, how many people are registered?

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posted 01-13-2000 10:30 AM               

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I'm bringing this up for two reasons:

1.It's pretty old.

2.I think we need an update on the number of registered members.

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posted 02-21-2000 01:13 AM               

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Can we see an update, please?

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posted 02-21-2000 01:27 AM               

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My guess for right now is 15,764. I feel it in my bones...

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posted 02-21-2000 01:32 AM               

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It's at least 20,000 now.

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posted 02-21-2000 01:40 AM               

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I'd say it's over 20,000 but I was wondering why the numbers aren't listed on the main page. I don't care if they are or not, but I was just wondering.

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