Population explosion
 

Holy Cow! 2499 members.
If each one kicked in a buck a week, UT could afford to live in a style he'd like to become accustomed to. :lol:

Deserving as UT is, I'm betting the active membership is about 5% of that number, even on a very busy day.

most of them come in, post one or two two worders and 37 smilies, and are back to the chat rooms. I'm always amazed at how many members on the members list have 0 - 2 posts in months or years. Maybe they're lurkers. Does the membership remain active even if you never post? Or don't post in eons? Just wondering.
And yes UT does a super job. A job I'm not sure I would relish.

We have "42,093 Registered User(s)" at Thalia.com, where I am Administrator and Moderator, and if even 200 of them post I would be surprised. I would be grateful, actually :biggrinba

I've noticed lately that a lot of the new users (especially the younger ones) are evidently so used to chat rooms that nearly every thread becomes a yo-yo type conversation with two or more members, Veering miles off topic usually. It is becoming increasingly hard to post your input without one of the newbies reviewing and rebutting it . A new wave of kiddie internet therapists? Oh well.......

Is that so bad/new? Do only veterans have legitimate rights to "[veer] miles off topic" and "reviewing and rebutting" input?

Speaking for myself I would prefer to be told if I break the unwritten rules of a forum.

Its a little embarrassing to get a polite request (private or public) to move my O/T post to another thread, but I'd rather have that than find months later I'm slowly grating the nerves of the veterans......

I don't mind whether the threads stay on topic or evolve into conversation as I have no history here (yet?) but I'll play nice if I know what y'all prefer.

We don't have much in the way of unwritten rules. Well, there is, "Do not provoke TW, but if you do, you gotta deal with it."

We only have three actual written rules. It's been a while since I checked.

You can see 'em if you hit "register" at the top of the page.

Veering wildly off topic seems to be pretty common here in The Cellar. As long as it is either amusing or literate, no one seems to mind very much. It is kind of like living below a broken dam...you just go with the flow.

*ahem*


sorry.

:rolleyes: cock

I feel better now.

everybody feels better after a little 'cock'. :blush:

Oh, man, I'm lonely. :sniff:

That, I can help you with. :redface: