Are referrals not turned on?

 

Might be a good way to bring more people on to the site, and a bit of healthy competition too

referrals... what`s that about?

URL: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/misc.php?s=&action=faq&page=2#referrals

 

When refs are turned on, your profile includes a count of people you've directed here

oic! I brought a chap called Livewire here, he`s never posted (prolly shy), so maybe a waste of time, but yeah, that would be a neat addon when activated, on the proviso that they were active and beneficial to the site and not just there for the sake of it.

Sounds good

sure save me alot of time explaining things in my chatroom all the while

Could also lead to spamming and an increase in people who sign up and never post.

Yes, spamming is a risk but then everything we do brings that same risk.

 

People who don't post aren't really a big problem, are they?

 

It's just that I have noticed the rate at which new members join has declined quite a lot. In the admin tool set, is there any facility for watching sign-up trends?

ok, I have a question;

ya know when you add someone to your "buddies" or "ignore" list, do they get notification?

I tried adding myself, to my list to see what would happen, it doesn`t allow it, which makes sense because there`de be no purpose to such a function.

Just wondered

No, they don't.

 

You get no direct notification. A bit like real life, they only know if they look at their buddy list and you are on it.

Ah, I looked and found I lied.

Not only did you lie, it suggests that you have mannnnny missing memories

Yes, we monitor signup trends.

 

In October 2003, there were 78 new registrants, which makes that our third most active month ever.

 

In 2003, we have so far averaged 14.78 new users per week, while in 2002 we averaged 6.04 new users per week.

 

From January 1st, 2003 to June 31st, 2003, we averaged 12.7 new users per week, and from July 1st, 2003 until November 1st 2003, we averaged 17.67 new users per week.

 

So actually, we're seeing a constant increase in the signup rate.

Goodo!

 

I realised while you were off getting all that info that the reason I have noticed fewer new signups is because with the Orbitz style, new members are shown on the site front page and not on the forums index page. I check the latter more frequently than the former, so I wasn't using accurate data

sayo said: "site front page and not on the forums index page. I check the latter more frequently than the former"

 

I could have sworn I`de seen you on the "who`s Online" page more often than not tho

I'll put up more detailed statistics about signups and postcounts when we reach the 25,000 post milestone in a few days

Now you've pointed out that we're approaching that milestone, you might have some competition

 

YT: I mean that the latest member to join the site is shown on the page at http://www.scienceforums.net/ but not on the page at http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/

Well if I'm going to have competition, I'll just shut down the forum at 24,990 and post 9 junk posts then the 25,000th

 

 

And NSX has the "real" 25000th post (postid=25000), this is 25471...

I was yankin yer chain dude

there`s no way I could have seen you in there if I wasn`t there myself

I go in there for different reasons (or maybe the same, I dunno?)

but in there ya can see the most popular things looked at, and I`ve noticed a good many folks like to veiw the Printable versions of things too, so this site`s definately WAY COOL, if not exactly an Authority, certainly worthy of hard copies! )))

YT, I was talking about new members, not online status. Crazy ass mofo!

 

The views of printable threads are mainly due to spiders and robots I'm afraid.

Bummer

and here was me thinking we were dead popular too! LOL.

no wonder they always come as "Guest"s then!

It's easier when you can see the IP address / hostname

 

well someone make me a MOD then, then I can get that Irritating "delete post" thing to work instead of having to ask a mod to do it for me if I double post!

It would be worth it for that alone

as for IP`s ))))))

I`m saying nothing

fafalone said in post #5 :

Could also lead to spamming and an increase in people who sign up and never post.

 

I wonder how many of the originals here signed up because of jinx's persistant spamming all over the place.

 

He would post all over message boards "New science forums created by yale scientists" and in chatrooms "Click here for XXX!"

I just turned it on. I wonder if there is a built in leaderboard. I'll have to make one if theres not so we can all see. And there should be some sort of prize, whats a reasonable number?

DONE

 

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/referrer.php

 

= leading, btw.