Scantlings

Just noticed we broke 200 members recently. I never would have guessed.

Cheers to you all for upholding a terrific community.

Soñadora wrote:Just noticed we broke 200 members recently. I never would have guessed.

Cheers to you all for upholding a terrific community.

Russians?

Orestes Munn wrote:

Soñadora wrote:Just noticed we broke 200 members recently. I never would have guessed.

Cheers to you all for upholding a terrific community.

Russians?

Soñadora wrote:

Orestes Munn wrote:

Soñadora wrote:Just noticed we broke 200 members recently. I never would have guessed.

Cheers to you all for upholding a terrific community.

Russians?

You think I make joke?

It's all those Bots who ask if you will send $24,345.41 to an account in Nigeria and then you will receive the $50,000,000,000.00 that is being held there under your name.

Seriously, this is a great group!!

So, who and where are the other 180? 99% of the activity here is about 20 people. Are the others just voyeurs?

Rob McAlpine wrote:So, who and where are the other 180? 99% of the activity here is about 20 people. Are the others just voyeurs?

Personal observation based on over 40 years of on-line life starting with The Well. Around 10% activity is "normal". There are lurkers for sure, but mostly folks sign up, read-n-post for a while and just fade away. Rick can probably see how many have zero posts and how many haven't posted in X-months, but it doesn't really matter.

That's an interesting observation and I'm with BV. I've run half a dozen BBSs and those numbers are about right. You have a core group of regulars. It's human nature. Go to any bar and you'll see the same thing.

I have started many more BBSs that died than have survived. If you put something together and there are only 2 or 3 people who visit, it will never last. There has to be a critical mass to keep it sustained and Scantlings has exceeded that critical mass so kudos to you guys!

They are building dossiers on us.

I'm starting to think Eric is a bot

Soñadora wrote:I'm starting to think Eric is a bot

Damn! Failed another Turing test.

Orestes Munn wrote:

Soñadora wrote:I'm starting to think Eric is a bot

Damn! Failed another Turing test.

Well, Susan and I met someone who CLAIMED to be Eric. But we did not check any ID.......

Orestes Munn wrote:

Soñadora wrote:I'm starting to think Eric is a bot

Damn! Failed another Turing test.

I've consistently failed the Turing test, so you're in good company. At least in my opinion. (not that it matters much)

I don't think I could pass as a 13 year old, maybe one day.

BeauV wrote:

Orestes Munn wrote:

Soñadora wrote:I'm starting to think Eric is a bot

Damn! Failed another Turing test.

I've consistently failed the Turing test, so you're in good company. At least in my opinion. (not that it matters much)

Come to think of it we never checked Beau's ID either........

He sure writes alot...

One of a few cruel things I did to my daughter (the little sister I never had) when she was very small and unbearably cute was to tell her that she wasn't real and existed only in my imagination. Even at age 5 or 6, she was bright enough to sense the metaphysical difficulty of proving existence, but she argued passionately and with every resource at her little disposal. I guess, in retrospect, I was toughening her up for academics and she tells the story with more exasperated affection than outright hatred.

I never checked Kim or Beau's ID eitber. Nor they mine.

Perhaps we need a secret handshake.

We're not going to get into exchanging precious bodily fluids here, are we?

Not even by mail.

Ish wrote:We're not going to get into exchanging precious bodily fluids here, are we?

Do Bots have bodily fluids?

Apparently.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z5sX4qC5HE[/youtube]

Joli wrote:He sure writes alot...

We bots can type like the wind

kimbottles wrote:

Ish wrote:We're not going to get into exchanging precious bodily fluids here, are we?

Do Bots have bodily fluids?

Only hydraulic oil.