ok. At the present time there is 883 members in this forum and probably only about 100 that take part in conversation. Im just saying to all those lurkers out there to get your hand off the mouse and onto the keyboard. Trust me don’t be embarressed because your post is bad or something. And if it is that bad gilby will probably just delete.
Is it just me, or has there been a dramatic increase in posts lately?
Re: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
> Is it just me, or has there been a dramatic increase in posts lately?
Yes, there have been. I have been frequenting rec.sport.unicycling and
rec.juggling for about 3 years now. When I started there was a 3 or 4 to 1
ratio of posts on the juggling group to this one. Now that seems to have
reversed itself.
I work at 2 different computers at work and the one I’m on now I have not
used since this past Friday. There were 109 unread messages on rec.juggling
to 299 here.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Re: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
On Wed, 8 May 2002 02:15:10 -0500, GizmoDuck
<GizmoDuck.4bpby@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>Is it just me, or has there been a dramatic increase in posts lately?
There has been a steady (as opposed to dramatic) increase in posts.
Statistics for 2001 can be found on
www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/rsu2001.htm . A certain Erik who posts here
occasionally, is doing a more comprehensive study from 1994 to 2002.
His results are as yet unpublished but I have previewed some of his
data. The increase apparent through 2001 has roughly continued in
2002.
Erik, if you read this, how’s your report coming?
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:”
“Fernspah, tank, JITEM”
RE: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
> There has been a steady (as opposed to dramatic) increase in posts.
> Statistics for 2001 can be found on
> www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/rsu2001.htm .
These numbers should be related to the changes in our infrastructure,
especially the addition of the easy-to-use forums at Unicyclist.com.
From my point of view because I receive it all as email, traffic has
increased to about the limit of what I can process and I’m at the point of
wondering if all the forum traffic should be connected to the old
newsgroup…
JF
Re: RE: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
You may have to start descriminating; as the community grows, anyone who wishes to actualy ride will have to. Perhaps a little less attention payed to novelty lawn mowers is a more practicle solution than fissuring the forum from the news group? Gilby made mention of braciating the forum into subject topics; while this might offer you some relief, I can’t imagin it will be much- there already is a ‘just conversation’ section, and grass clipping technology never made it there…
Christopher
Re: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
Nah… I don’t delete anything except the spam.
To anyone who gets this stuff from anywhere other than the Unicyclist.com forum, you should really start getting it here. It is easy and you can just look at the things that strike your fancy.
Gilby is really doing a great job.
-David Kaplan
If you weren’t aware of this Unicyclist.com feature, here’s a link to the top ten posters on the newsgroup via this forum.
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/memberlist.php?s=&what=topposters&perpage=10
Bruce
Re: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
On Thu, 9 May 2002 13:42:43 -0500, UniDak
<UniDak.4efpo@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>
>To anyone who gets this stuff from anywhere other than the
>Unicyclist.com forum, you should really start getting it here. It is
>easy and you can just look at the things that strike your fancy.
>Gilby is really doing a great job.
I read via a news reader. It has the same two advantages you mention.
Plus I have all the posts on my own PC (if only for statistical
analysis!) and can read and write offline. Mind you I am still on a
dial-up connection.
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:”
“ISG, Competitor, bird dog”
>At the present time there is 883 members in this forum and >probably only about 100 that take part in conversation
Oh yeah I feel good! I’m number 86 in the list of most posts!
No more lurking for me!
Is it a competition, Homey? well thats one more for me. Hah
sweet! I didn’t realize I was slammed up in there so high on the list.
-gauss
Just because people are in the top10 posters doesnt mean they dont have a life. 
Just cus i’m in the top 90 doesn’t mean I DO have a life.
RE: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
> Perhaps a little less attention payed to novelty lawn mowers
> is a more practicle solution than fissuring the forum from
> the news group?
Sorry about the lawn mower thing. I had never heard of those and I was
fascinated. Plus there was the tenuous unicycling connection because of the
unicyclist-designers.
> Gilby made mention of braciating the forum into subject topics;
> while this might offer you some relief, I can’t imagin it will
> be much- there already is a ‘just conversation’
> section, and grass clipping technology never made it there…
This is why nothing major has been done yet; we haven’t come up with a way
to keep it open and yet not overwhelming. If people just used the Web-based
forums for the specific topic-based threads, they could live there and not
be connected to the more generalized newsgroup. But new topics have to get
in somewhere. Maybe they could be started on the newsgroup and then moved
into forum topic areas, but how to do this without people continuing to post
their “photos please” to the larger newsgroup?
So we’re thinking about it.
JF
Re: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
> > Gilby made mention of braciating the forum into subject topics;
> > while this might offer you some relief, I can’t imagin it will
> > be much- there already is a ‘just conversation’
> > section, and grass clipping technology never made it there…
>
> This is why nothing major has been done yet; we haven’t come up with a way
> to keep it open and yet not overwhelming. If people just used the
Web-based
> forums for the specific topic-based threads, they could live there and not
> be connected to the more generalized newsgroup. But new topics have to get
> in somewhere. Maybe they could be started on the newsgroup and then moved
> into forum topic areas, but how to do this without people continuing to
post
> their “photos please” to the larger newsgroup?
I guess this may well have been thought of already and discounted for a very
good reason… but I’m going to ask anyway. What about setting up new news
groups e.g. rec.sport.unicycling.tech and
rec.sport.unicycling.photo.requests 
?
I’d guess the excellent coding Gilby has done for handling rsu as it is at
the moment could be easily (relatively speaking mind you) modified to handle
these new groups and channel them accordingly for the corresponding web
fora. Then email addresses like rsutech@unicycling.org could be used for
mailing list users to direct their posts to the desired group without the
need for subject prefixes or the like.
I have no idea what it takes to get a new news group started so maybe it’s
simply too much work. There I go again - thinking from the hip.
Neil
News group dead?
Gilby has packed SO many features into the forum, I’m at a loss as to why anyone, aside from archiving, would want to use a news reader or mail client- but hey, to each their own. The preferences of the newsgroup croud are just as valid! I suppose browser refreshing and window management can be tedious. Still, there may be a limit to cross-platform compatability- or what is ‘reasonable’ (whatever that means…).
The Forum is a better tool; the group is about bringing people together, and The Forum has done a far better job of that than the news group ever did.
Christopher
RE: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
> Gilby has packed SO many features into the forum, I’m at a loss as to
> why anyone, aside from archiving, would want to use a news reader or
> mail client- but hey, to each their own.
For me, it’s for ease of filing the messages I save (Outlook), and as it’s a
faster and much more convenient way to handle mail. Not counting the heavy
volume.
> The Forum is a better tool; the group is about bringing
> people together, and The Forum has done a far better job
> of that than the news group ever did.
If this is an argument to disconnect it from rec.sport.unicycling, I think
I’m leaning in favor now.
JF
Re: RE: i am no longer a lurker. i am so proud.
I don’t think it sounded like one. Your mail client should have filtering capabilites- you have the ability NOW to block all transmissions from the forum. Just filter out any transmissions from @unicyclist.com. Of course, you’d still get responces from folks who use the newsgroup who don’t adhear to your point of view- but then, it would be their choice, yes?
Christopher