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Re: How do I know if a member is reading our content

 

Do lurkers increase the efforts of the 15-20 active posters? Would purging lurkers improve the list for posters? In general, I don't see the harm in people subscribing but not posting. In fact, I wish more people exercised restraint in posting, asking themselves whether everyone on the list needs to see what's about to be posted.? That would reduce the number of "Me too", "Yes, please post that" and "Thanks" posts -- which are mostly just noise.
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?A specialist group with a specialist interest seems a good place for aspiring and new specialists to learn about your specialized interests, which seems useful. I'm on many lists, some general and some specialized. Some are for fields where I worked for many years -- I mostly lurk on them but occasionally post answering/asking questions or commenting on discussions.
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On the many lists I own, I see the same ratio posters/subscribers as you describe -- and see nothing wrong with it. In fact, it's common across lists; it's the nature of communities -- 80/20 rule strikes again. Unless there's some reason to restrict what's posted to people actively posting -- why care about it?
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On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 08:49 AM, Barry wrote:

I consider on balance that it is my business to know who is just watching our group as opposed to being positively involved. We are not restricted in terms of numbers of members, because we are a specialist group with a specialist interest. We have only 160 members.
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Of those numbers maybe 15-20 hold it all together at most. The efforts of those to keep it going is therefore considerable. We see on average 100 posts per month. If I knew who the watchers were, as opposed to the contributors - I'd ask them to leave, its as simple as that. This being on the basis of it being wholly fair on those that contribute - who wants to talk to no-one - barry.
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